The problem is that the expensive part of the game is usually the engine+art assets. Once you have those, the level design is usually the cheap bit. Making a 5 hour game is still cheaper than a 40 hour game, but not by as much as you'd think...

It's interesting that the two highest voted comments here both assume that this is looking at the patient's DNA, whereas the article seems (to me) to be saying that it's looking for the DNA of specific diseases - in order to tell you if you have them.

So next time you're feeling under the weather you can put a few drops of blood into the device and it'll tell you whether you have a cold or smallpox, without you having to trek to the Doctor and possibly waste both time and money.

I'm looking forward to all of the "Use both of my eyes? Why would I want to do that? I also prefer my games in black and white, and with subtitles held up between scenes rather than hearing the dialogue. Also, I have live musicians sit next to me on the bus and play the game music." comments.

Because the researchers raise your second point themselves:
"More research is also needed to determine if these findings apply over the long-term, Weis said.
"It could be that the novelty of video games wears off after four or six or eight months, and they basically don't play as much as they did when they first got the system," he said."

You agreed to pay for content X. Then they offer you access to content Y for an extra sum. When they wrote Y, and how they deliver it to you is _none of your business_.

Ability to read it later.

Yup, absolutely. HDMI is fast becoming the standard interconnect for video to all displays. And it does sound too - what's not to like?

They could always do what they did with the component cable (which is what I currently use) and price it higher. That way only those people that care would spend the extra cash.

An HDMI cable. Every other device connected to the TV has one, but the Wii insists on converting to analogue and back again. I can't think of any reason why this would be terribly expensive or difficult to do. They wouldn't even need to support higher resolutions - just the same ones over HDMI.

5 years? The HTC Dream was the first Android phone - and that was available in October 2008!

Not the programmer's fault.

If it wasn't properly specified and it wasn't properly tested then it's the fault of management for not making sure that processes were followed.

Mistakes happen - if they aren't picked up then it's the fault of the process.

Security expert wants a more secure system. Freedom experts want a free system. Unsurprisingly these two views clash - because they are designing things for different use cases.

Thank goodness I won't have to worry about relatives with MS Works any more!

But then static languages have to duplicate the template code for each type that it handles.
That's not how Generics are handled in .Net - the code is duplicated for value types, but the same code is re-used for reference types.