Because, y'know, this doesn't totally happen every other month.

From my experience, a big part is not needing a wiimote. It also tracks movement extremely well. I'm a rather portly gentleman who tends to wear loose flappy clothes, and it has no trouble dropping a skeleton overlay over my limbs.

I can't see using it in something delicate like surgery, though. I do notice a definite bit of lag with the kinect that the wii doesn't get, but I digress. It's a much more complex piece of equipment, and far more worthy than I originally deemed it upon learning I wasn't going to be finding an xbox that didn't come bundled with it. It's worth having, if only to hold for when some decent open source software gets release.

Not to mention it's the same price as a wii, but offers beaucoup options for those of us who don't enjoy only wiimote gaming.

Duh.

While in the IRC channel during the beginning of Operation Payback, I was informed that the bank they attacked (postfinance.ch) was incapable of online banking for several hours thanks to them. Since then, I've heard claims of rendering online banking unusable for as long as 10 hours.

Take that with a grain of salt, he may have just been a jackass trying to up morale.

Hi there! I was just like you once, just like all my friends! I too one expressed hate, discontent, rage, and much more at motion picture adaptations of video games, but not anymore. You can learn to enjoy the movies just like I can, with my patented One-Step RealityKick System.

Simply bend over, place your head between your legs...and realize that it's a fuckin' movie, not a video game. Enjoy it for what it is. As I understand it, the RE films have sucked donkey balls in comparison to the games. On the other hand, I find the films enjoyable. Of course they're not the same as the games, what would be the point then? If you're a fan, then you've played the games already. Let them have their new plots that don't follow the game. The fun isn't in seeing X kill Y with Z gun just like in Game A, it's in seeing X from Game A have a new adventure. It's the same for films adapted from books, comics, etc.

FWIW, no amount of detachment will make the Dragon Ball Z movie not make you want to kill yourself. Just a heads up. Even my incredible system has its limits.

Is it just me, or is there no one on slashdot who actually *has* cable tv? Everytime I see anything related to comcast or other networks, I usually take it for a given that there'll be a liberal amount of comments that are just rehashes of "Between the individual network sites, hulu, and netflix, I haven't missed a thing (other than a lot of commercials) by not having cable for the last couple years."

Denied. When Fallout 3 was released, I paid full price and still torrented it. Full price for the collector's edition, mind you. This allowed me to keep the box unopened, while still enjoying the game. Granted, I bought the game first, but there's others that I've torrented first and bought later. For example Borderlands, The Witcher, NFS Undercover, and Lego Batman. I'm not saying it's try before I buy, however. I'm on a fixed income, so I can't afford a lot of games. Since I only play computer games, I always torrent first, and only purchase after I've made sure it'll run on my hardware. Thanks to this practice, I'm able to have a thanksgiving dinner this month instead of spending it just eating ramen, as I torrented rather than purchased Fallout: New Vegas. Had I gone ahead and purchased the version I originally intended to (the CE, as I did with FO3) I would now have 70 less dollars of that fixed income, and a game that did not work at all.

The way I see it, whether your backups are legal or not - just pick up a second console, don't connect it to XBL. Granted, the only X360 I've owned was not hacked, so I don't know much about this, but it seems simple enough. Sure, it's a few hundred bucks, but new games will run you 50 to 60 bucks. So get yourself some (legal, mind you. Yep, definitely legal) backups of 5-10 games and it's paid for itself.

Now when China's decided it's time to wipe us off the earth, all they have to do is dig a few really deep holes.

I support this. I also can't imagine how people text when driving...The last time I went on a trip, I took a burner, and I found it impossible to even read a text while driving, let alone go to the trouble of actually replying. I think I'd be safer if I were drunk and getting roadhead.

Skype has done this to me since I first began using it, 3 years or so ago. I have a bit of an obsession with not having anything update automatically, so it's been very bothering having to use it (90% of the people I talk to online use skype exclusively).

My school had a pretty simple system. You had a choice of a meal or a salad bar. The meal got you a choice of Main A or B, Side A or B, and then you had a small choice of little desserts - cupcakes, etc. The main course choice was one item that changed daily, or a hamburger. (More like soyburger.) The side choice was one "healthy" choice which changed daily - broccoli and cheese, jello with fruit, corn, etc; then you had your staple french fries. It was a simple setup, and easy enough to keep track of. A person either usually got the circulating items 99% of the time, or a burger and fries 99% of the time, or a salad/baked potato 99% of the time. You were also allowed to purchase everything a la carte, all items cost $1 that way. The meal purchasing was $1.75, or $1 for a baked potato and toppings from the salad bar. You had the options of paying cash, or purchasing a "lunch card". You paid $10 on monday and got a little paper card, and it had 5 spaces on it. Each time you got the basic lunch, they punched a hole in one of the spaces. If you were on a free or reduced-lunch system, they had a big book full of names, and they would scan the appropriate barcode. It worked fine, and there certainly weren't problems with it. The lunch ladies would make polite, helpful suggestions during the junior high lunch hour, but during the other two lunch hours, they shushed and let the high schoolers make their own choices. And it worked. My graduating class had all of 3 overweight people, and *I* was the only one considered "obsese". I'd like to point out that my weight was solely from eating at home - I had anxiety issues and wouldn't even go into the school lunchroom. Therefore, I have doubts about this entire system in the first place. Using the book of barcodes and pictures was the only system throughout elementary school, and that was perfect then as well. Memorizing PINs just seems like a useless idea, no matter the grade of the student.

My god, there's more than one page...I don't think I want to know anymore. I..I want my mommy.

Question: What's this Black Hat version of Firefox? From the sound of it, I'm assuming it's a version that's tested for security by the...darker-helmed of the userbase.

I never claimed to know anything about terrorism. I'm just conjecturing based on what I've been taught by the media. It's the american way!