The Scopes trial started pretty much this way too

After all, an insane percentage of the modern world's digital infrastructure is powered by Unix/Linux.

I'm pretty sure this is a response to that mega security flaw addon that Microsoft forced into Firefox a while back. Current add-on devs probably won't be affected because they are almost always installed via firefox's own addon installation method. (Just rolls off the tongue, don't it?)

what on earth are you talking about?

Video games are a VISUAL FREAKING MEDIUM!!!!!!!!! This would be like suing an orchestra because you are deaf!!! I sincerely hope that this case gets laughed out of court.

I remember back when I was trying to make the full switch to linux, and I updated my kernel and drivers and to my surprise my video card had decent drivers out of the box. I went onto the local irc channel to ask if anyone knew anything about it out of curiosity. I think my question was worded something like, "Yea I was impressed, I didn't have to jump through the usual hoops to get my video card working fully this time. It was as easy as when I install Windows." I suddenly found myself being berated by both the chatters and the IRC mod at the time. The one comment that sticks out in my mind was, "You deserve to use Windows." All I was doing was asking a simple damn question, in praise of my latest linux install working out of the box! I can't help but think that this same bigoted mindset helped to doom this fairly admirable project, because after attempting to deal with people such as this, it's not even a stretch for me to imagine some linux flavor's project manager going, "Why would we want to impliment a universal standard with Windows? Micro$oft should just do what we do. Windows is a crappy operating system anyway and if you are trying to enable it's use then you deserve it too."

Actually, a quick glance through the article itself has raised a few flags personally. For example the security company chides microsoft's pricing of the new OS, calling it an unnecessary expense right now.

It seems innocuous, but I start to wave a big red flag as soon as a security adviser starts tacking on extraneous bits of subjective information to what should be an objective report.

Besides, who the hell is Rescuecom, and why are they receiving calls about windows 7 beta users?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't using XP considered by more than a few to be a security risk because of long unpatched vulnerabilities? Besides, wasn't the whole open beta phase supposed take care of that awkward phase anyway?

By the way, who the hell is Rescuecom?

OR the DM could have a Narritive menu that allows them to alter results and specify effects to their choosing as such things happen...

You know, like a DM does in real life with a pencil

Seriously, what investment would this be slowing? The Telcos already don't give a crap about the networks, that's how this whole disaster got started in the first place! They didn't want to upgrade, in order to artificially stimulate demand and thus profits. Cause and effect; This group fails at it.

1.) I never stated that the Skype on the DSi would have an impact on the iPhone.

2.) As far as the success of gaming on the iPhone, last I heard it's quickly become a haven of shovelware.

Yes the iPhone is a powerful all-in-one portable device. Yes I can see the benefits of that. No I don't think that makes it the golden bullet portable gaming revolution that the Wall Street Journal would like to think it is, because the fact remains that the people in the gaming industry who get paid to make the type of games that actually turn significant profits don't see it that way. I'm sorry, they don't! Want proof? Name three game development companies that make iPhone versions of their main franchises in-house. Off the top of my head, I can only think of two; ID Software who last I heard had plans for Quake on the iPhone, and Pop-Cap Games, who only make the snack-size time wasters that thrive on the iPhone anyway. Damn near every other game developer licenses out their properties to a third-party, who in turn tend to make lackluster mobile versions of these franchises that are quickly forgotten in a week. Does that mean that the iPhone can never compete in the handheld market? No, it doesn't. Does that mean that cell phones can never join in the handheld market? No, it doesn't. It does mean however that they aren't anywhere close to being actually competitive.

You want the gaming community to take the iPhone seriously, you are going to need to show a game that's more worthwhile than the 5 minutes you fiddle with Lemonade Tycoon at the bus stop. The iPhone NEEDS a game with the same type of impact and gameplay quality as something like Mario Kart, Final Fantasy Tactics, Sonic the Hedgehog, so on and so on. iPhone games are still in the Peggle era right now. You want to compete with the handheld gaming industry, as opposed to the shovelware festival that is the iPhone app store, then you need to be holding yourself to the same standards as Nintendo, Sony, and those developers who make the grade A titles that define the experiences for the DS and the PSP.

Simply having a ton of snack-size freeware games doesn't cut it.

wrong context. but consider back during the Ma Bell era when phone service was stupidly expensive for everyone and you had no choice in the matter at all. a bill by actual usage plan probably made sense to alot of americans financially.

Except that noone seriously considers the iPhone a serious gaming device, especially not the gaming community. Just because Apple wants it to be one doesn't make it one.

And to be honest, I think it's far more plausible that Nintendo would get Skype onto the DSi than the iPhone ever becoming a legitimate threat to Nintendo's portable marketshare.

You may be a part of the homebrew community, but you don't seem to understand that one simple fact about it.

Why do they hack devices? The same reason the first man climbed Mount Everest. Because it was there. And once one person opens a crack you can be sure that others will help force it wider.

On one final note though, if Nintendo were to create a sanctioned Homebrew Channel it would probably be the smartest move they would have made in the last 5 years.

Portable game systems are now competing with cell phones

No, they aren't. Go read an NPD sales chart and try to claim that the DS has seen any loss of market share to the iPhone. And by the way, who are you to declare that handheld systems only interest 8th graders? Last I checked I'm 22, I still like my Game Boy Advance, and I want to get a PSP.