Bet one eurocrat got angry about the roaming charges because he used his private phone in Brussels.

For less computer savvy people facebook et al IS the internet.

It is just idiot proof. Consoles are also built to be used by people that aren't exactly cumputer literate. The user has to be able to play a game without much thinking. It will take at least a decade till this model will fade. Turn the console on, put in disc play game, a console just can't afford to be more complicated than that with the current market situation.

The so called 7 Cores are pretty specialized sub units. With the lack of good middleware and development kits at the PS3 release, the platform is just now after years starting to get somewhat used

there are more phones besides the full featured smartphone. Apple mostly caters to the upper market segment, while Android can be can also be used in middle and maybe even lower market segments (Just look at the Xpressmusic). Sheer volume will put Android before Apple and WinMobile.

I am German, those extra expensive "service" numbers are usually 0900 numbers, is that the same system in the USA ?

Nintendo Wii buyers aren't core gamers.

Since SC4 controls come from an arcade design I'd rather play keyboard only than keyboard and mouse. At the EVO 09 SFII THDR Tournament there was a player with a button only controller, right hand area somewhat mimicking the arrow keys.
Oh and SC4 played with a console controller relies heavily on macro buttons since it isn't possible to properly hit facebuttons simoultanously that are on the opposite side of each others (A and Y on a 360 Controllerfor example), and the SC4 control scheme relies on these combinations a LOT.

Consumer grade optical media degrade when stored. Planning to exceed 15 years is a huge gamble

Having trouble making a good conversion from pad to keyboard is one thing, but not being able to remap the keys is just stupid.

Another thing with RAID arrays that have quiete a few drives is, you have no method of correcting a flipped bit. You need at least RAID6 to correct these errors. With such vast amounts of data, a flipped bit isn't that unlikely.

The Thinkpad SL series ist your average walmart consumer notebook, theres almost nothing left of the original thinkpad glory in that one.

"A little more speed" ? how a bout a lot more speed ? Putting the OS on a quality SSD gave lots of people immense performance gains.

A few nice features added but easily outweighted by too much crap that only pissed off the end user.

The originality of the first 2 Thief titles will never be possible when the game is dunbed down for the console generation.
Just look at Bioshock which was supposed to be the spiritual successor of the beloved System Shock series.
Another victim of the consoles is Deus Ex 2 which I consider a sibling title of Thief 3, same studio, same problems due to console restraints.