The WiiMote is still horribly misused. I have a Wii, and after my initial wow factor with motion controls, constantly making jerk off motions to do stuff got old. And while I used to postulate about how great motion controls would be with my friends, I never really thought about the accessibility side of things. Because of work video games are often what I do when I'm sick or something along those lines. It sucks having to move all over the place just to do what used to be doable with a standard controller. I'm not saying it doesn't have its uses, but it often does make me second guess using it.

Yeah, well that requires a custom protocol. Exposing it as a file system is the most flexible and easy way.

I believe the garbage collector runs the whole time in the background. So as long as you don't fill up the filesystem you will probably be alright.

FTP, NFS, or Samba are fairly irrelevant. This is not a network connection. This is a device hooked up over USB. The logical and best way to expose this is as a disk, and the filesystem that Windows supports best is FAT. They are only doing this for Windows compatibility.

NILFS2 is made for SSD, but Btrfs isn't. NILFS2, because of how it stores files, should have a good read performance advantage due to their being no penalty for random access on SSD, and if I'm not mistaken its write speed should be fast on just about anything.

They still did it. And over a piece of open source software. They can say what they want, but they were obviously testing the waters.

Interesting. Irrelevant to my point that M$ is not afraid to sue.

I believe the issue is that the ECMA standard doesn't state the terms that patents pertaining to the standard are licensed. And no one seems to be able to contact Microsoft to find out what the terms are.

EDIT: I mean to say "on anything besides Windows" instead of "on anything besides Linux", btw.

That is a very shallow analysis. If I recall correctly Microsoft successfully sued TomTom for violating FAT patents in the Linux kernel on their devices. Furthermore, yes, if Microsoft took a litigious stance on .Net, then Mono would just get rid of the offending code. Thereby, breaking every single program written that depends on that feature. And M$ (yes M$) could do that over and over again, effectively killing the ecosystem on anything besides Linux. Stallman is 100% correct in his opinion here. Mono is good to run shit written in .Net. But don't rely on it as a platform in a free ecosystem. It is unadvisable in the long run.

So you are saying you don't like money?

Gravity?

Excellent post.

Haha, so adding something else will replace the two existing competitors. Give me a break.

This has nothing to do with C. C is nothing without specific libraries. If interfacing with this system is slow, then that system is slow.