This is sounds like a reasonable proxy for "one Mario game, one Zelda game, and one minigame collection is all that will support two of the tablet controllers over the lifetime of the system".

None of my Nintendo hardware has ever broken, except a few of my NES cartridges (I overheated SMB3). Of course, none of my other hardware either, except one RROD, so maybe I'm not representative.

The new controller has a big touch/video screen in it...it's half a tablet. Of course it costs more than a stack of buttons.

I should have looked for this article first...Michael Pachter at Wedbush Securities quoted a price of 300$ at most at launch, and ideally 250$. Maybe 400$ is including one of the new tablet things...in which case they're only way overpriced, not ridiculously overpriced.

173$ for the handheld bit, plus 400$ for the console? Did they not notice the problems Sony had launching the PS3 at 600$? It doesn't sound like the premium/not premium difference will account for more than 50$ in the end price.

I'm ok with them storing maps on iPads in lieu of not storing paper maps on the plane. I was going to get a little concerned about them storing extra pilots in attache cases. I mean, coach class seats are pretty small, but an attache case...

Not sure if serious...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=unobtainium

Maybe he meant TFA?

I understand and agree with what you're saying...I just think that "different ways to say something" is shallow and trivial compared to actually having new ideas. Requiring novel expression as a tool to force students to develop as writers works really well, and banning plagiarism as immoral is correct, but there is no connection between the two: learning to write a phrase that sounds only half a bad as the perfected one you found in a review does not improve your knowledge of the subject or skills at anything other than writing. Developing writing is great, but not generally the point of the assignments in question.

The thing that's always bothered me about the "analyzing information for yourself" bit is that the paper subjects are in well-studied fields, such that any analysis you might do has already been done anyway. A half-competent researcher will then find that analysis, and they are stuck with ONLY literature review as an option, because someone else already wrote down an analysis the way they were going to analyze it!

Actually, looking at the timestamps, it was some sort of timestamp/database issue...the story nominally posted at 9:26 EST, but no posts at all show up until 9:48, at which point there are quite a few. You're right that the West Coast folks were blissfully snoozing.

I love how long this post has gone without replies (25 minutes, unless there's some sort of database lag I don't see). I guess that's a damning indictment of the US telecom industry and their pricing practices...

This was basically what we did in my CS101 and 102 classes: code up a system to store student records and class grades in C++. Students are objects! Put them in a vector! Put them in a list! Make your own list container class! (No, I am not seriously suggesting you use that software, of course...)

I'll second that these are depressing. I didn't particularly like them besides, but they were definitely depressing.