Consoles don't come close to what I have on my PC and have never been an option. I loathe all things made by Apple, so that's also never an option. Linux, as far as I know, still required you to use a command-line-interface sometimes, (no thanks, I had enough in the 90's) or mess with klunky configuration files. If I could switch to Linux with full software compatibility, I might, but that'll probably never happen.

If an author wants to upload a book to Apple's iBookstore, they can only do it from a mac. Furthermore, you can't even link to books in the ibookstore from the world wide web, unlike books for Kindle or Nook, whose bookstores are easily accessed from the web. When it comes to ebooks, Apple is a private system, segregated from the web. I wouldn't be surprised it they tried to take this further in the future and have their own private Apple-branded Internet for Apple fanboys alone where they'll never have to read a message like this one.

I wish there was filter on slashdot that would let me skip past the initial flurry of posts on every article made by clowns trying too hard to be funny.

I published a geeky sci-fi novel a few months ago and so far the vast majority of sales have been for the Kindle edition. It might be because the paper version costs 5x what the digital version costs. I don't know if it's the added convenience or the lower price, but to me, digital books seem to be the future, and the change is happening faster than most people expected.

I can see by his picture that he's an old dude and by his statements he seems pretty out of touch with this century. Someone who works for the old dude should inform him that every bit of DLC ever released, like any software, is made available by pirates immediately, so that people with pirated copies of games can easily 'complete' them with the missing DLC bits. Horse armor for Oblivion, Dragon Age expansion areas, new towns and dress-up clothes for The Sims3...these are just some examples. All DLC gets pirated, What this man plans to do, really, is just annoy the paying customers who expect to get a full game when they pay for it. If he really wanted to improve gamers experience and build goodwill, he should go the opposite route and abolish DLC for his games, releasing new content at intervals for free, like they did last century before DLC-for-money caught on. As usual, he should look at what Valve is doing. They are doing it (mostly) right, and always have.

You mean no American politicians want to spend money on the space program. Personally, I'd like to see our military and NASA budgets switched. I would have said the same thing 30 years ago, and had it been done, we'd have anti-gravity and flying cars by now.

That's a really weak analogy. That's all I have to say.

I love PC gaming, but I think it's biggest weakness right now is the confusion created by video card manufacturers that makes it a major research project to decipher which codename/model number is actually good. If they would adopt a simple system of making their cards according to their actual capabilities, like CPUs do, for the most part, they could eliminate the confusion. But I think they actually like the confusion they create. The latest nvidia cards have a wide range, with numbers and names ending in GT, GTX, GTS...the biggest sellers now are in the 200 series, but there are also 300, and 400 series cards out, with GT and GTX versions, and some other random letter codes. They've been doing this a long long time. They should get their act together and stop trying to mislead consumers with confusing model names before some regulatory agency forces them to do it.

I saw about 10 seconds of this video before realizing it was just some obnoxious kid acting stupid and turned it off. Thanks, internets, for making this kid a sensation. Get ready for a tsunami of copycat obnoxious kid videos as parents encourage their kids to act stupid for the camera, so they can buy a new house with the money youtube pays them.

I had never heard of Bebo until that video surfaces of the US Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff. He had linked to the video he posted on his Bebo page. I've heard of Bebo a few times since then, and it always reminds me of that puppy killing video. They should sue him for hurting their reputation even more than being owned by AOL did, at least in my mind. I can't be the only one.