Honestly I thought they shut that thing down years ago. I stopped using it when it was completely taken over by bots and became impossible to find good paying jobs, but for a while I made some nice beer money on the side from it.

They've had 13 years to get a certified replacement.

This was my very first thought reading the article also, there's zero reason to continue using physical floppies on devices that require them when more reliable systems are available.

Let's just hope they don't replace it with something even more annoying.

This is just vapourware, we've been hearing that the Mammoth can be resurrect using Elephant surrogates for years. I would love to see Mammoths roaming around, but I'll believe it when I see it.

Sonic is available on the 3DS - Sonic Generations is awesome :)

Nintendo aren't going anywhere. They know their target audience and have become very proficient at leveraging them = casual players, the type of people who just want to turn it on now and again and have fun. Hardcore gamers will stick with the PS3 and XBox - which is fine.

Where they are failing is in the complete lack of online content, sure we have Netflix but what about Hulu, Amazon, Pandora, etc. etc? Nintendo's own online content is limited to a couple of poorly made News and Weather channels and some stupid Votes channel that nobody cares about (Japan does have a movie rental option I believe). It could be so much better with little effort.

They failed because they refused to innovate, expecting that they would continue on customer loyalty alone. It hasn't happened.

NASA should poor money into commercial ventures such as SpaceX, including technology and resource sharing. The only we we're going to push forward with space exploration is if it can become profitable. It's sad, but true.

Most of my home systems are 1998 vintage, a couple from 2000. My laptop is less than a year old, but the kids had one from 1999 until the motherboard finally gave up the ghost.

The oldest system is a 1994 P75 that is still going strong 16 years later with its original hardware. The only thing I've added is an NE2000 ISA network card. Grin.

All I can say about H1N1 is, I wish all Flus were this mild. Typically my 3 kids get the flu and are sick for a week (they're asthmatic so it just settles nicely in their chest). They all managed to get over it within 3 days. My wife and I both got it with the same outcome.

So... a whole lot of media hype about nothing really. Surprise, surprise!

I wonder how many people died with "regular" flu this year and didn't get a ton of media hype?

I gladly help, because I know the next time my car needs maintenance I know one of mechanically inclined family members will return the favour. Or if I need electrical work done, or plumbing, or any one of the many other skills I don't posses. Failing that, the next time my wife and I want a date they can watch my kids for me.

Sure, it can be a nuisance sometimes, but they probably feel the same way when I ask them for the umpteenth time to look at my truck.

...considering I spent the first 21 years of my life in Europe. My excuse is lack of finances. I've got a very long list of countries I intend to visit before I die, which hopefully won't be for a while :)

I've travelled Britain extensively, and a fairly large chunk of the Eastern US. Egypt is at the top of my list, then I'll start working on the others as money permits. I want my kids to experience as many other cultures as possible so they have a greater appreciation of the world around them.