Maybe, like Apple's previous poster child Firewire, it will be freaking awesome but have absolutely no uptake in the consumer market, leading its own champions to drop support for it (see 5G iPod, recent Macbooks)

well I guess you have no summer then...

by "natives" are you referring to the Maori people? Because they're not native to New Zealand

Sonic Adventure
Sega Rally 2
Virtua Fighter 3
Dead or Alive 2
Soul Calibur
Resident Evil: Code Veronica
Powerstone
Head Hunter
Phantasy Star Online
Skies of Arcadia

That's just a handful I can think of off the top of my head. The hype for the DC was ridiculous at the time for a console.

get yourself a copy of Far Cry or Crysis. They both come with world editors so you can see what it's like. Basically, it's a bit like that Terragen program, where you draw a greyscale map and it then generates a 3D world from it.

...only a bit more complicated...

No, he's talking about the huge controller that came with the machine at launch. That fucker was enormous.

Incredibly comfortable though...

all those macros are lost once the power is turned off. The only way to save them is to enter them into the driver software in the OS. This indicated to me that any RAM onboard is not flash. I did think before I posted.

I feel somewhat obliged to point out that the Sony PSP is vulnerable to a battery hack. If you put in a certain battery, you can then downgrade the system's firmware and play pirated games etc

I'm curious too. I'd be surprised if my Logitech G15 keyboard had read/write memory (all the programs for it run on the OS), so just why the hell does Apple feel the need to make a keyboard with that?

I'm giving up the opportunity to mod what will undoubtedly be a trollfest in this article's comments so I can post this.

I think that this is a positive sign from Microsoft. For years they've been going on about how the GPL is a virus and communist and will be the death of us all.
Now they've released code under it. It doesn't matter that they had to, it matters that they did it. They undoubtedly had a team of lawyers looking at their options before doing this. If they were of the viro-communist mindset toward the GPL before this, they certainly aren't now. The lawyers must have told Microsoft that if they decided to play the "GPL is invalid" card, it would have been a very long and hard battle for defeat.

Or a better media player. iTunes on Windows is superior only to Quicktime on Windows. Both are (in terms of usability) inferior to... well, pretty much everything else.

Believe it or not, there is actually a valid reason for contacts. Here in Australia, the Nokia N97 costs $1100 out of contract (and I hear a similar price for the iPhone 3GS). Not that many people can afford to drop that kind of money on a new phone.
Of course, it is a little ludicrous that the iPod Touch is a fraction of the total cost of an iPhone, given that there's not a lot of difference between the two. Perhaps anti-contract laws would force the price of handsets down, but I doubt it.

Having said that though, there is a lot that needs fixing about the US cellular network, from what I gather. Are you really charged to receive calls and SMSes over there? If so, that's crazy shit.

from that article;

The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the disintegration was masked. Our final conclusions are:

• the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
• the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
• the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure

can you imagine just how much money companies like Atari, Sega and Nintendo would be if this sort of thing were getting started in video games?
If the publishers (and back then, the console manufacturer was the publisher) all got a cut of the profits each time the game was resold? They'd all be swamped with the income from eBay alone!

Of course, we must also consider the opposite side of the scale - if by law, the publishers always had to have a cut of the money when the game was resold, then I suspect there would have been a lot less places willing to specialise in games, or at least accept used ones. It would become virtually impossible to discover games from previous generations.

I'd like to see a car analogy here, but it needs to involve the car's transmission diff