Be good to quote your sources: here's one for example: http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/People/Michael_Richardson/billsatan.html

I think your goal of playing co-op or combative games with her is a huge stretch for two reasons:

1) Your wife isn't a gamer now
2) Not every gamer likes co-op games or combative ones.

You may be able to introduce her to gaming and get her started, and if you do manage to do that, she's going to need time to discover which genres she enjoys. Your experience will help her there, since you can introduce her to a little bit of everything. At the end of the day, even IF she does pick up gaming, you might have to be happy that she finds a genre of games she likes and plays them, while you get to enjoy yours.

By the way: While I'm posting this my wife has been hogging the 360 all morning. I love it, and it's one of the reasons we're together in the first place; we've both been avid gamers since the 80s. Even though we both put in roughly the same amount of time gaming, it's very rare we play together, co-op or otherwise. Keep that in mind.

s/Skype/Micro'soft/g With all of the preparation's being made to usher in Skype in place of WLM, it's not a surprising move.

Not that your point isn't well taken, but either you're using a different definition of "world" or "density," or something happened to Japan, Mexico, South Korea and India (and possibly the Philippines) since this morning that hasn't been making the news.

I doubt you'll get hacked after having dropped it in the toilet, and if you do you have some rather unfortunate luck.

Both Xbox links referencing their console making use of similar DRM schemes date back to January, yet Sony just dreamed this up?

They got really bored of hating Microsoft?

Best Buy made it on there, after all.

Wish I could vote you up, sir. People don't understand that posting photos to facebook is publishing, and that they should be subjected to the same restrictions placed on professionals.

Considering there's already enough food to go around, and it doesn't, do you honestly think the replicators would make the rounds?

I'd blame it more on the breed of "VB 6 for dummies" "developers" that also emerged around that time, that had no clue what a mess they were making.

It's not about posting their own idiocy on the internet themselves. It's about others doing it without your consent. You know the people I'm talking about, the ones who refuse to put the camera away at a party, when everyone has had a little too much to drink, and then at first chance post them to facebook and tag everyone they can. Where's the "Allow people to tag me in photos" privacy option?

Someone who is security conscious enough to use this service, is also probably bright enough to actually secure their smartphone with a PIN.

None of my previous phones, besides a Blackberry, allowed you to do much of anything, and worse, the providers locked them down to the point that they were practically useless even if software was available for them. It took specialized software to unlock them just to install apps, or prevent annoying "trust this app" prompts. Apple seems a step ahead to me, or they did at that point in time.

Sidewalks are public property too, does the government have the right to say when and how you can walk on them?

They say you can't drive your car, motorcycle or bike on them. So it seems they have the right.