My bedroom turned itself into a camera obscura once, I cast my eye at the bright spot on the wall where the light had gotten through the curtains and realised I could see the sunspots on the sun!

No, the submitter sees where it's going, look at Nvidia's Tegra 4 and with MS and Sony going for a surprisingly underpowered chip (1.6Ghz rather than the 3.6Ghz that the chip can run at) whilst mobile phones which cost as much as a console and can be plugged into a TV and have far less draconian DRM systems, and are a lot more open than PS or Xbox and can now play back HD1080 and are fully portable etc, and have you even looked at the 3d games available for android - that's now, mobile phones are getting more powerful on an almost monthly basis.

So yes, mobiles are a far bigger market than consoles and the 3d game aspect has barely started.

Couple of examples of Tegra3 / android games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpzkCTe76Bc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U2r3yKg0Ng

No, but the chip they selected can run at 3.6Ghz and they're running it at only 1.6Ghz, the math speaks for itself. My processor will wipe the floor with this chip even though the console is not even out yet.

The physical copy is cheaper than that off of amazon in the UK, maybe you need to look harder.

Or just remove the ability to plea bargain, it has nothing to do with justice and seems to be mostly an American thing.

You are going for the wrong comparison, the correct comparison is:

Solar, up to 20% efficient at converting free energy (light).
Gasoline..it's not free, it's getting more and more expensive to get it out of the ground and the higher quality stuff is starting to run out right now.

And I don't know why we keep getting articles about efficiency when it is obviously cost, ROI time and subsidies that really matter.

Finally, the faked moon landings will be shown for what they are and we can find out what kind of cheese the moon is really made of.

Save money, get fit, avoid lateness, be lazy, just cycle to work and back, simple solution. And eat lots of fruit'n'veg and cut down on salt, sugar and sat'fat if you have to, good health isn't complicated.

"All this "loading" takes large amounts of RAM so the OS starts paging"

Why on earth would you run a PC without enough memory, I've turned my paging file off for years, it never paged when I had 4GB, I've got 16GB now. The last time my computer slowed due to paging is probably over a decade ago.

Put 2GB in for ~$14 and turn that monstrosity called swap off.

90% of the cases on that slashvertisement site looked like a bunch of 90's fugly rejects... and the flash, gah, make it stop.

I wouldn't pay $40 for one of those.

'I get 3 weeks of vacation, and 5 sick days. The 3 weeks of vacation, I had to work here for 10 years to get.'

UK, 1st year of job, minion work, 5 weeks holiday, I got paid in full for the 5 weeks i was sick, and 9 bank holidays on top. People expect you to take your holidays, management take long holidays.

So glad I don't live in USA.

The games are not particularly improving in any way and the 2011 games are going cheap and have been bug-fixed and the DLCs are often all thrown in for free, So, what are the best 20 games of 2011, that is honestly what I'd prefer to know.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/09/burma-ethnic-tensions-escalate

You can cross Buddhists off your list of 'holier than thou's, harder to say about Pagans, not many about these days.