Same in the west. Not only Google pays Mozilla and Apple to set their browsers default search engine to Google(let alone Chrome and Android influences) but they also got so integrated in society(To verb "to google" instead of "to search" being a primary example) that most people don't even bother searching for alternatives.

I've been living in Japan since 2006 and never experienced this. Google Japan will return Japanese sites. It doesn't matter if I write in Kanji, Kana or any western Alphabet. My only complaint is when I'm looking for information in English(mostly programming stuff), I need to manually set up my Google settings to english both for language and locale, otherwise I will still get Japanese pages(and now that they decide to auto translate everything things got even worse). But for the average Japanese, I see no problem at all.

AVGN is a reviewer, he is safe. He only shows a very small fraction of the games therefore making it fair use. Let's Play basically show the entire game as movie with some nerd talking in the background.
Personally, I'm curious on what they are going to do here in Japan. I've been what japanese Let's Play videos (aka Jikkyopurei) since 2006 on nicovideo. And Nintendo in Japan is much more strict then in America when comes to copyright and trademarks(second only to Disney which rules their content with an iron fist).

Don't like to do that but I will quote myself from a similar topic from just a couple of days ago:

Software can be patented if the patent system was more adequate. If you don't want software patents then I don't want hardware patents either.

Well, I HATE this software argument about patents as, to be honest, EVERYTHING can be described as mathematics. From mechanical systems to genetic code, from electrical designs to source code. You can name anything: I can write it down either as mathematical model using a set of formulas or using a array of numbers. If mechanical designs and electronic systems can be patented so can be software.
The problem with the current patent system, in particular in the US, is that it is a lousy version of an idea from the 19th century. It doesn't take in consideration how fast technology improves, barely acknowledges the immense variety of new tech fields and how their are interconnected and it's filled with abused double standards.
How to solve this problem this problem? Modernize it and make it more strict(only absolutely novel tech for a much more limited time with very specific implementations). Is that perfect? NO. But a business is much more than just inventing stuff; use marketing, funding, quality, support and be secretive to overcome the copycats.

Until Apple has a similar app to substitute their Palm Desktop crappy clone, alongside a real file explorer, the ability to instal alternative appstores and a better "desktop" that is not just a grid of icons that makes me remember something from windows 95 era, all that without jailbreaking, their iDevices will never see my money.
Is that really too much to ask? I just don't see the downsides. The average joe will still use only the apple defaults and so will be the apple loyalists so they won't be losing their precious moneystream. And on top of that they'll get great publicity from the more "geeky"(I hate this word) audience.

Until I see unwanted Alien contamination I would refrain from saying that.

Exactly. Plus they still have 8 million subscribers. That is still almost an order of magnitude more than any MMO I've heard of.

FFTs will allow the analysis of all frequencies up to half the sampling frequency using a single algorithm per execution. A processing method using IIR filters can only be used for a single band/filter. If whistles were the sole application I would agree with you(heck, I'm just a 27 old recently graduated from my PhD course and I think I could do that using only analog components). But the developer himself talks about other applications that could use other sounds. Instead of implementing and executing different IIRs for every single application, using a single FFT is far more productive. Plus, we're in the second decade of the 21st century. Unless there is explicit need to do so or you're a passionate about optimization, our hardware can handle "bloat".

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Anyway, opensource or licence/patent free commercial artificial limbs, while technically possible, I believe are practically impossible at lest for now. Legislation(FDA, etc) on this tech is the harshest and from my experience as a medical engineer they don't like any time of user customization (and for valid reasons, for MOST of the time). You might be able to build your own from scratch or buy compatible parts from some unlicensed(or pirate) vendor in the future, but most likely it will void all warranty and insurance you have on the prosthetic device.

Define "Drone".
It's the same discussion between Robots and modern mechatronical Vehicles/Machines.

Nah, Disney is a pretty damn Evil Empire on its own. EA licencing deal is more like an alliance with the Mandalorians.

Well at least your coworkers use a keyboard. I see my co-workers typing all the time on their ipads WITHOUT a freaking keyboard! And they aren't even standing up(I have to say tablets a quite useful in this situation) and their PCs are just a few inches away from them. Well I'm quite guilty myself as well but at least I use a Transformer Pad (an old TF101) with it's complimentary keyboard.

I agree with Bill Gates on this one, but logic doesn't apply on the mainstream market. Unless MS has a marketing strategy that reconvinces the mainstream crowd that keyboards are "cool" they'll lose the battle to iPads and even Android Tablets. I agree that tablets are great, maybe even better than standard PCs, for the average Joe and grandmother's media consumption/internet browsing but for the workplace, even if you just wrte word documents all the day long, a classic PC is better. What pisses me off is that tablet users still prefer an iPad to work with. I can't comprehend how people can work without a file browser with integrated packaging capabilities and the lack of true multitasking. Use at least a Nexus 10 or a Transformer Pad or a Surface Pro.

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Superman can win the fight but he will never be as bad ass.

You totally missed my point!
I'm NOT talking about how all these accessories improve gaming. As a dedicated gamer myself I know first hand how these accessories can improve the experience from both a gameplay and immersion point of view.
I'm talking about BUSINESS. Steering wheels et al. can be as good as you can imagine, without support, platform integration, marketing, exclusive content etc, all these accessories will be a niche market. Being a good product alone does not guarantee success.
As quick example take peripherals like the Wii Fit, Kinect or even the PS Move with the anything else. They all sell by the tens of millions. I've never heard of a 3rd party peripheral capable of that.