Are you sure you connected the Wii properly? The packaged video cable sucks. With a component cable, the picture quality goes way up - it looks quite nice on my 720p projector. (A cheap 3rd party cable will do, the Nintendo cable is horribly overpriced...)

Are you sure it's a laser? Wouldn't a diffuse light source (like a simple IR LED) be more suited? After all, you want to illuminate the whole scene with IR, not just a spot with the laser...

Please cite your source... it's the first time I've heard this claim. I'd be genuinely interested. Anyway, I don't think the AI stuff from the Milo demo really pertains to the Natal technology very much.

Even in a pitch black room, it will at least capture the depth image (and a monochrome camera image) - which I imagine is all that's needed for "controller input". So it can still differentiate between two people - dude on the left, dude on the right - and track their movement if they switch positions. No colors though, so any "scanning" functions as in the Milo demo won't work.

But really, who would want to play in a pitch black room (except Doom)? It's bad for the eyes.

I also think the cartoon graphics were a step backwards. Might be because the first two game's graphics were so coarse, imagination had to fill in, so to speak. And imagination usually does a very good job of it.

Maybe there's some overlap, but some at least is not there. Avsim.com had a lot of stuff for the free space flight simulator Orbiter which isn't on Avsim.su.

The content wasn't wiped out by incompetence, but by an asshole hacker. Please make that distinction.

The data seems to have been safe against anything BUT intentional, malicious violence. Whoever did this deserves some violence coming their way.

I don't understand why they are targeting the law firm. Okay, you might not like lawyers, and it may suck to have lost the trial to them, but it's the record companies that sued them, not the law firm. They were just doing their jobs. The recording industry, on the other hand, will be completely unaffected.

This doesn't seem right.

Everything else aside: This is not cowardice, but the only responsible course of action for a military. If you fight an enemy "fairly", you'll end up with equal casualties on both sides, thus abusing the soldier's trust in their superiors. In war, you don't fight fairly, you minimize your own losses. It's not pretty, but a moral necessity.

People need to understand that sometimes, those detail sliders aren't meant to be cranked all the way up on current hardware. They're there to "future-proof" the game, so that it can still look pretty 2 or 5 years down the road. Wing Commander 4 did it for example.

Of course, it's not a huge incentive for developers to future-proof a game when all they get for it is a forum-bashing like "omg the game sux i can't get 50 fps on my 1337 rig".

I'd love to have two small, fast SSDs in my desktop in a RAID-0 as a system volume. That should noticeably reduce boot and program startup times.

As soon as they are not outrageously expensive any more, I'll buy a few...