"Xbox lets you download to your console, play offline and buy games with a free silver account. Sooo... you're full of shit." you can't play indie games offline "Xbox Indie Zone lets you post free or pay games. You can price your games however you please" I've never seen an XBLIG that wasnt $1, $5, or $3

hey ANONYMOUS COWARD.... XBLIG USED to require gold. sorry i didnt notice the change, whenever it happened. The rest of the stuff you spewed had nothing to do with what i said and didnt address the rest of my points but way to be an incredible dick about it

incorrect, and thank you for proving my point that Xbox has failed to properly promote INDIE games, as in XBLIG, which require you to be SIGNED IN to a gold account to play

Because Wii U does it RIGHT by allowing devs to set their own prices and by actually promoting the content and not require some BS yearly subscription to be able to buy/play indie titles... and not forcing you to be connected to the internet to play them... and, well, a bunch of things they are doing right

Wii U IS ALREADY doing 1080p 60hz on Batman. Way to be an ignorant moron. yeah and go ahead and compare consoles to PC again. Idiot.

This. ~This post brought to you by my lack of mod points~

Nintendo's target market WAS Young, and casual gamers, and you are taking for granted that being a hardcore gamer means that you must want the best graphics, and it's just wrong. Games used to be HARD. HARD HARD HARD, like not meant to be finished by most people. and FUN. because back then they didnt have excellent graphics to prop themselves up on (thus having to focus on FUN) and couldnt fit 40 hours of pretty easy content on their media (thus being HARD to extend the life of the game) IMO true hardcore gamers care about gameplay more than anything. With the Wii U specifically, Nintendo is actually opening up their target audience to include mature (Zombi U, Arkham City, COD:BO2) while games like Mighty Switch Force! Hyper-Drive Edition and Nano-Force NEO will appear to hardcore gamers looking for a challenge. Don't take for granted that the tablet is a gimmick. Zombi U was unfortunately misunderstood and is an awesome game that makes great use of the tablet, and even ports like Batman and BO2 make excellent use of the tablet controller to provide functionality in a way that can't happen on other systems. On top of that and despite all the fears leading up to launch, Nintendo actually knocked the online aspect out of the park as Miiverse is incredible and much better than I've seen on any other console. And yes, Devs don't figure out how to properly utilize console hardware right away. 1080p@60fps is plenty for me, now bring on the FUN because that's all I care about

OP is trying to understand the German liability laws for parents, not make a moral comparison between the two

No, No they cannot. They can figure out who has it if someone logs into iTunes, but an IP does not identify a person.

What people are tracking and reporting serials? and disabling and finding the device are pretty mutually exclusive. As others have pointed out, Apple will likely prefer making money from app sales on these devices, while some insurance company covers the monetary loss of the hardware.

How is that a conspiracy theory? It's pretty basic understanding that everything gets more advanced or acceptible by genrations because of the kids that grew up with (insert concept here) to be adults. It's plainly visible in music, 'morals', technological advances, and many other things, including what kind of surveillance we allow ourselves to be subjected to.

I'm stupid why? Because I understand that there is a (huge) difference between Electronic tracking of every movement throughout the day vs pen and paper attendance taking? Excuse me for pointing out the flaw in your logic

This is how surveillance states gain ground in leaps and bounds over generations. Kids that are GPS tracked by their parents get used to being GPS tracked by authority and as adults, don't mind it or are less likely to *actually* fight it from a state/national authority. Same logic here, with RFID chip tracking.

i think OP in this thread meant he's tired of people patenting things and commercializing them when they start with a technology like 3d printing that is designed for openness. But i could be wrong too

Gee, if only corporate networks had places to store documents.... or if only computer files could be moved before something was done to the computer. That's a rough one.

The quality of questions on slashdot lately is abysmal. You really need a slashdot answer to tell you to reinstall windows and reformat the drive in the process? or to nuke the drive with any easily-googable drive erasing tool and reinstall windows?