I for one welcome this fresh approach to duping. Long may it continue. Long may it continue.

Delays in the implementation, immature software, half-eaten staff,

Unfavorable reviews to the original classic

Another interesting tidbit is that Nintendo is not believed to have any method to repair this kind of brick at a factory, short of replacing the entire motherboard."

Citation please

Have you been in a coma for the last 5 years? Its all about works out of the box now, the infrastructure is utterly irrelevant apart from a small minority. Its all about what your imagination can build on top of it now and how quickly you can get it on app store.

Microsoft announced the facility back in 2007, but in the meantime Google has disclosed that it built its own container-filled data center in late 2005. Google also holds a patent for a data center container design."

Patents should be utterly irrelevant around here, unless there are as many suspect, different rules for Google and Apple.
That aside fair play, these container systems make a lot of sense and are a pretty logical progression. They are cheaper to run and its no secret that companies have no loyalty and after the initial sunk cost its pretty cheap to up and leave unless the tax breaks etc keep coming. Always a useful bargaining stick. Sys admins can also consider their profession vastly more accessible commodity.
Interesting though that Microsoft are beginning to sell themselves by being more open about what they are doing and where they see the future.

I lost my leg and an eye in a drunken shark fight. It was pissed and I was winning but a couple of his pack buddies jumped in and long story short I lost some body parts.

Several doctors told me that was it, that I had to learn to live with it cope with the disability and move on with my life. I said no and went to a chiropracter who changed my life completely. He gave me a wooden leg and a seeing eye parrot with 40/40 vision.

This not an anecdote, it was front page national enquirer news.

e.g prove there is no god

Babel fish.

I think you will find the EU are doing more than blinking their eyes in Apples direction recently on the anti-competive front

It fits better with the new Britain's Got Talent naming conventions.

Windows users are spoiled for choice with games. Maybe a lot them feel there are better alternatives to this game while linux users don't have that same level of choice.

I am guessing that using the XBox as a parallel programming platform is pretty easy on your game disks.

I have always though OSS has had a culture of 'someone elses fault' ie OSS is never wrong, the blame lies elsewhere but this takes it to a whole new level.