Dang. Posting to correct accidental downmod. Was aiming for Insightful and missed. Seriously Slashdot, why do I have to lose 5 mods because you can't leave the dropdown active?

It was just a cam, but it was paired with software that did the motion recognition (usually poorly unless you had floodlights in the room). EyeToy compatible games touted motion control with just the EyeToy and your living room. Pity it was so bad at actually detecting accurate motion. I tried mine with DDR and with the EyeToy sampler disc and I failed to get any real accuracy out of it. Then again, I paid a whopping $10 for the EyeToy yoga bundle on clearance.

I wound up using it as my Skype cam as I didn't have any other webcams and I didn't really want to sink more money into hardware I used rarely.

obFuturama: [FRY] But that's not why people watch TV. Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared.

See? Even Fry knew why we're stuck with these things, and he's a thousand years in the future!

You sound like me! Bought a 60-gig back-compat PS3 at launch and killed it in 2009 or so with excessive Final Fantasy XI and GT Prologue usage. Had to pay $150 for a replacement. Then the Linux removal, PSN mega-hack/outage and other shenanigans. Then in December, the replacement PS3 died.

By this time, I'm hearing about the potential for restricting used/rental games, new DRM schemes, and general "we'll make what we want and you'll buy it regardless of quality" mindsets. It's really put me off console gaming overall. Here it is 3 months on, and even with a small stack of Christmas gift games I *really* want to try, I haven't bothered buying a new PS3.

I've finally moved FFXI off the PS2 onto a laptop so there's the end of my PS2 gaming. My son's Vita and its infuriating memory card activation system means I won't buy one of those, unless they go bargain bin and I don't have a suitable portable gaming solution by then.

Oh well, that's more money in the budget for other entertainment...

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Ugh. Posting to undo mod. Aimed for Insightful and missed by /that/ much...

I hope its name isn't Daniel.

When Joe Kittinger jumped for Excelsior in the '50s and '60s, he was testing the feasibilty high-altitude escape systems. He succeeded, and in the process, set some very impressive and rather durable records. Stratos was a not-very-subtle ad-funded stunt show. There's real science being done but I have little doubt that it's ultimately in service to the sponsor (also Austrian).

Whether or not Red Bull spent two years and who knows how much, why isn't this still one of the coolest things to happen in some time? Watching him stand there with the curvature of Earth below him is one of those things that makes me jealous. And there are some things being tested - newer versions of the high-alt suits and maybe more.

However, I'm a little annoyed about people thinking that now astronauts and such can use suits like Felix's to escape bad situations in space. Felix jumped more or less straight down with almost no lateral velocity. Someone BASE-jumping from ISS may pull some staggering free-fall numbers (greater height for 9.8 (m/s)^2) but those won't likely compare to the 11,000 mph they're already moving parallel with the surface just to maintain orbit. Toasty!

and a large reason for that is so I get to choose the niggers that rape my wife at the show

Power bottom?

Jon "Maddog" Hall comes out.

The first of what is sure to be a deluge of Free Software comings-out. Tight butts, hard dicks, and splashing cum.

Your comment reminds me of "The Feeling of Power" by Isaac Asimov. Except there it was the computers what were too large and, once sufficiently capable, people that were installed to effect gains in miniaturization and computing efficiency!