I dunno, when I look at the Xbox360 controller in my hands on a Windows 7 PC playing Borderlands on my bigscreen HDTV in my living room, I kind of think Microsoft might have actually pulled off the one thing we never imagined, convergence.

1. You should definitely learn to configure your graphics card. You can force 4:3 for games that demand it. Yes you get black bars, but it's better than stretched screen. I haven't run into a computer game that required 4:3 though in years, widescreen monitors have been the norm for longer than widescreen HD screens.

2. You should buy an Xbox360 controller then. I have tons of games right now that all use it and play just like their console counterparts.

Computers now are converging to be their own consoles. Video cards support widescreen HDTV formats and simple connections through HDMI for audio and video. More games support both keyboard and controller. I consider what Microsoft has pushed onto this console and PC generation a great thing. It means that in the near future, there will be room for both the hardcore PC gamer and casual gamer to pick what level of hardware they want to deal with and play all games.

Jailbreak and go install VLC from Cydia.

It is a proper OS, so says my Jailbroken iPad.

And don't give me Android crap, it requires rooting (which might as well be called Jailbreaking) too.

Hell, I'm at a point where I wonder why they bother with the dock connector, they could just as easily have dropped in an induction charger with magnetic response and forced syncing over wireless network or bluetooth.

I don't want any ports including headphone port (as soon as Sennheiser gets off their butts and develops a nice overear bluetooth headset).

I'm actually dreaming of a point where the iPad doesn't have ANY buttons or ports. That is the ultimate goal in my opinion.

WTF slashdot, I typed that in during a long wait for the preview. When the preview finally came up it hadn't cut off the last paragraph.

Anyway:

At the time it was well worth the trip, we got to demo an OS X build which was just released, met a handful of people from around the country, met a few work recruiters, got to see the kinds of projects other schools worked on and generally got to unwind. The part that was nice was seeing the other projects. What I learned is that most departments are driven by the focus of the professors and specifically your department chair. In our case we had spent a lot of time on AI and Game Theory. I just assumed that was what you do as a CS student as there is a lot of CS theory built in and a lot of room to test the stuff you had learned the two or three years leading up to that. If I had gone on to continued education, this would have given me a very good field to see what schools are studying in other fields.

I was part of a Joint publication for two CS papers my last year of college with the CCSC (though I remember the S being for Small Colleges, though that may have changed since 2001). My small college reimbursed all of our travel and room expenses.

At the time it was well worth the trip, we got to demo an OS

Um, no. Jobs has welcomed Adobe's attempt to produce a build of flash that wouldn't cripple the iPad and made sense for the interface.

I do believe Adobe has yet to come up with such build, instead they decided to launch an anti campaign. Seems to me that Adobe knows it's impossible and knows that Flash is flawed.

If you felt that 99% of the time there was only one path, you didn't give the game a chance, or you didn't bother to try to look for a different direction. You failed, not the game design.

The only time the game felt like it was on rails like that were the many (not all) of the fight scenes. You weren't supposed to fight, they gave you the tools if something got between you and your target you had a chance to eliminate it, but at it's core it was a runners game and you were supposed to run, not fight. And in most of those "guard" scenes of the game, there was a clear goal, but the way of getting there could have been through one set of stairs or jumping down from a high ledge or using scaffolding to get up and around. The environment allowed for a free reign of options even if you were stuck in a box corridor with the goal at the other end.

Agreed.

Sony just guaranteed I won't buy anything from them EVER AGAIN.

The current generation AppleTV has Bluetooth for input and 8GB of flash that are inaccessable currently.

What Apple didn't have was a large base of apps that don't require touch screen and many of the other hardware expectations of the current iOS devices.

Introduction of the Mac Appstore fixes that and readies the AppleTV to become a portal for those Apps to be put onto an iOS device. You have to look at it from a very high level looking down at the synergies between the computers and their iOS devices. The overarching plan is to make development for any of them just as easy as the next and make Applications readily available across all devices. I expect that to be a huge focus for LION and this year's WWDC.

YES!

What people don't see is the walled gardens have been there for quite awhile. Trying to blame this on Apple is ridiculous to say the least. At a minimum though, Apple's developer program costs are very light. We know as well that the door for 3rd party tools has been opened, it's only a matter of time before we have a copy of Eclipse or some development environment that is cheap and robust and available on multiple platforms for free. That will lower the entry costs to developing greatly.

Hopefully this will push console development costs down, or maybe Apple will make a beefy AppleTV gaming edition and rise to the top.

I really grow tired of these "if I had a mouse and keyboard" statements.

And while you're struggling with the controller on Halo, I'm smoking you left and right. You shouldn't get to chose your input device when the game is designed for a specific platform. I'm sorry you can't just point and click your way through a game while the rest of us adapted per game and system. Get better with the controller and get over it.

AppleTV + iPod touch can be had for $200. That's in line with today's consoles.... and guess what, you get a portable game system at that price point that you don't with the current consoles.

Because a notebook is not a tablet.

Your armrest argument doesn't hold up in all of the other places that I use my tablet without burning my legs or resting precariously.