I'm not very sure about how every game only needs two buttons, lets take Monster Hunter Tri (an awesome game) as an example With wii remote: A: attack, interact B: evade joystick: move Well, that's good so far. Z: different attack/block/aim with weapon; without weapon run faster C: Choose items to be used, choose ammo with bowgun. Alternate camera control. (Altough I think it's inferior so I never use it) D-pad: camera control, together with C: choose item/ammo. Navigate in menus. +: sheathe/unsheathe weapon -: kick/tackle (underwater)/reload (bowgun) home: bring up the wii menu 1; use item, same thing as holding C and press a. 2;bring up menu Swing remote: attack. Same thing as A for melee, swinging the weapon in front of you for bowgun. It's impossible to have camera control with a NES brick, so you have to always have the camera behind you. (Which will make it a hassle, but workable) a; attack, interact b; evade? start: menu select: It would have to be sheathe/unsheathe unless one moves around with the weapon all the time. It is always possible to press several buttons at once, or have one button as a modifier button, but that would be very clumsy. Now what should one do with all remaining actions? Remove them? I don't want to play with a bowgun without scope aim, reload and melee attack. kicking/tackling is out of the question, even though they are of great use for greatsword when starting combos (or so I heard), and saving friends who are stunned/asleep. itemusing would have to be moved to the menu, making movement while selecting it impossible, so it will be impossible to use items unless you run away from the monster. Also, it would be impossible to change between ammo in battle, making the (over) complicated ammo system boring and dull. Blocking and having other than a single attack is out of the question. Sprinting will be impossible. Reloading the bowgun is also scrapped, booooring. Melee attack with the bowgun is also scrapped. Unless bringing up the menu pauses the game, which would fuck up online play and make the game less blood-pumping, it will be impossible to pause the game. What we have left is a boring, dull monster hunter that nobody wants. 4 button plus D-pad might work for simple games (bit.trip, mario games) but for anything remotely realistic you almost have to have more buttons. I still love simple games, I have played bit.trip until my eyes bled, and dr.mario is awesome if you don't have much time, but I cannot play them for hours straight. My vote? Standard controller, I like how the wii did it, with the possibility to remove the nunchuk and play it as a NES controller, for the games that don't require as many buttons, or use it as a pointer for mouse/touch -like capabilites. You also have the classic controller for button mashers and backwards compatibility. Then there's accesories like the wheel and crossbow for racing games and ... links crossbow training. This covers almost everything, excepts for text-adventures (and FPS, it can be tiring to hold the arm steady for hours) and that's why the wii have USB ports... Go Wii!

ps aux | wc -l : 80 set - /proc/[0-9]*; echo $# : 77 killing as much as I dare/can: set - /proc/[0-9]*; echo $# : 50 I wonder what I should vote...

http://www.guru-board.com/ An extremely configurable keyboard that's planned to come in Q4 2010. It's got clicky/tactile switches, with/without pointing stick, and possibility to change the hardware layout (and possible to switch between a few) so that eg you can have dvorak without messing up with options on the computer. It's pretty hyped, but if it doesn't come out too expensive I really want one.

You can change it back easily in ubuntu, although base-10 is the default.

It's no use to have a controller without a console. duh.

Wow, I didn't knew clippy could do password cracking!

That website doesn't say very much unless you cough up money. I'm happy that the only thing it got correct was which city I live in, and some IP adresses. It didn't even get my real name correct! Although it might have helped a bit that I don't live in the states.

Please, please, follow the example of ... ehh ... whomever and give us a linux version! Don't think it will happen though :(

I'm checking my gmail account for several times a day, and when people started talking about buzz and gmail I couldn't get it together. Then I rememberd that I got a branded gmail, archlinux.us. I'm just hoping that it isn't allowed even though I ain't seeing it.

I think this is a great idea. If one have a system where you pay a set amount of money for each click on a website one might stop for a split second and think if it's really worth it, and if you can afford it. With this you know you are going to pay a set amount of money each month, so you don't lose anything on pressing a button somewhere.

I wonder if it's gonna be possible to put linux/linux on it. Or I mean, I wonder how long time it will take before somebody releases a howto.

Everybody knows that it's excellent to look at women through thick glasses!

I don't even have a girfriend! How the hell am I supposed to get laid!

I got one of these, and I were very surprised that it was covered here! I certainly don't think the case is very sturdy, a few millimetres plastic was easy to crack, and I've done that. I've got some evil pixels on the screen too after dropping it once. I got mine with ubuntu, but I managed to thrash X and have not taken my time to fix it, I use it on daily basis exclusively with vim, but being the CLI junky I am I almost like it more that way than with a gui. I carry it around for all my lessons in school and I'm very happy that I bought it. A little weird thing with it is that the usb ports are upside down, no clue if that's a feature or something stupid =p A big downside for me was that it is i586, something I didn't think off when buying it, meaning that distros such as Arch Linux won't run on it natively.

The ads that I hate the most are those that stand out a lot. If you read a nice text-only story and there is a big fat flashing banner on the side it can easily make it almost impossible to focus on reading. The only thing I can do then is to hold up my hand and cover the ad, or use an adblocker, which isn't available at my web browser.