If I don't switch the numbers around on New Year's, I'm liable to forget until quite awhile later.

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Similarly, don't be too polite or subtle about things. Politeness easily ends up going overboard and hiding the problem, and as they say, "On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle". Use a big blunt object to hammer the point in, because you can't really depend on people getting your point otherwise.

I don't think Capcom knows what to do with Mega Man since they fired Keiji Inafune. Re-releases of old titles are still coming, but there's no sign of anything new since Mega Man Legends 3 was axed midway through development.

The 3DS was profitable at $250, but it sold slowly so Nintendo reacted by cutting the price to spur sales and put 3rd party developers at ease. They're not going to make the same mistake twice, so launching the WiiU cheap at a temporary loss is a good way to keep sales brisk until component prices fall.

Considering Gamestop alone has ~250k people on the wait list for the console, I think its chances are pretty good.

They're not going to buy Nokia. Microsoft will let Nokia take all the arrows in the back, then scavenge their corpse for useful patents before launching Windows Phone 9 hardware of their own.

So long as the companies providing you internet are also in the business of providing content, there's always going to be a limit to how much competing content they'll allow over that internet connection. This manifests as bandwidth caps that only cap services other than the internet provider's.

I swap things around because different distros have different maintenance windows and different degrees of "cutting edge" software versions. Machines I don't want to touch very often get slow-updating server-style distros. Machines I want to experiment with might get the shiniest desktop-oriented distro.

I wouldn't want to swap out OSes every week, but it's nice to try out new stuff every few months and enjoy that new OS smell.

I use something very similar but without the salt. The problem is that Slashdot and other sites limit passwords to fewer than the 28 characters of base64-encoded SHA1 hash. This is annoying because the password fields don't always have a limit, so I need to track that separately.

Haha. No. The Wii/DS generation was extremely profitable for Nintendo and far more successful than the Gamecube/GBA generation before it. Now the 3DS hardware is profitable again and Wii U hardware is supposedly profitable right from the start, so Nintendo's prospects are pretty good.

Sony, on the other hand, is in serious trouble. If anyone's getting out of the console business, they'll be first to go.

Best Buy and Target have already stopped taking orders for both the deluxe and regular systems, and Gamestop has sold out of the deluxe systems. So it's already eerily similar to the Wii's pre-launch situation, and that console was very hard to find for months.

So no, there's little evidence that a rocky start is in store.

Linux could have the best and most intuitive UI in the world, and it would make no difference in its desktop market penetration.

People use UIs to get to their applications. And so long as Linux applications are also available on Windows and Mac OS X, there isn't going to be a "killer app" that gets people to stick with Linux on their desktops in favor of an OS that runs a lot of other stuff too.

Microsoft has already thrown Nokia under the bus once when they denied the Lumia an upgrade path to Windows 8. So rather than rescue this dying company (and all its debts) with a buyout, they'll just wait for Nokia to crash and burn before picking up the useful pieces at fire sale prices.

Modern GUIs still have windows and scrollbars and buttons, just as a modern car has a steering wheel and pedals. That hasn't stopped some car makers from screwing up the shifters and radio knobs from one model to the next, just as OS makers do.

One would hope these mistakes will lead us to better interfaces than before, but there's bound to be some setbacks along the way.

You're quite right. I should've noticed it wasn't a Famicom cartridge earlier, but only saw the picture and read the description more thoroughly after my post.