Meanwhile MS is preparing to launch the most in-depth consumer profiling operation in history. Just wait for Xbox 720 - then you'll see a whole new level of targeted advertising.

No, they don't. When somebody talks about X Kelvin in the context of lighting they usually mean CCT: a spectrum that has a similar hue as a black body at that temperature. Its color rendering could still suck.

Good post. I believe of those options #1 is the most likely; the surveillance society will be perfected soon and it will be too late to revolt when killbots are patrolling the streets.

There is one more possibility under capitalism, though: service jobs and entertainment. The kinds of jobs where people can compete with robots - because they can elicit emotional responses that robots can't. Prostitutes and gladiators are canonical examples... so if you're starving you can always go to the Arena and duke it out with another pencil neck for a hot meal!

Oh, the humanity! HOWEVER did our ancestors COPE with 8 pixel fonts?! Imagine being able to see individual PIXELS on screen - it's horrible, just horrible!

If 1200 lines is okay then you should be fine with 1080p, after all resolution is a non-issue. I use a cheap 42" LCD TV as monitor and wouldn't go back to anything smaller.

You mean aliens that are real are... in reality? Gulp.

Has anybody noticed the missing verb syndrome? It seemingly appeared a few months ago and is everywhere now. I swear it's fucking making me dyslexic and I'm now re-reading sentences just to make sure I didn't miss a verb.

It won't. The GPU might just cut it but it has an incredibly wimpy CPU, not even on par with X360.

It's the other way around, I'm afraid. The Wii U will receive X360/PS3 ports at 1080p and when those two become irrelevant it will be effectively abandoned by 3rd party developers.

Will it help us design better human centipedes?

It can work for us, too... we just have to prevent J. J. Abrams from rebooting us back to capitalism.

A mouse is superior to a pad in the sense that it's faster and more accurate. That doesn't, however, make it better for gaming. In fact, a mouse is unrealistically fast and accurate for FPS games - gameplay easily devolves into pixel hunting. I prefer a pad myself as I like firefights to last more than a microsecond. Also, using a mouse makes me feel like I'm playing the Office suite or something.

Yes, exactly. Many people think improvements in next gen, for example in graphics, will be incremental, much like the advantage PC games now have over consoles. What I'm expecting instead is a full-on revolution once the money starts flowing in. Well, at least if M$/$ony don't skimp on power. If there's some kind of saturation threshold for gaming awesomeness, then I don't think we're anywhere near that point.

Even more useful? Learning to learn to learn.

That's right mate, flavors of learning to learn come and go but learning to learn to learn lasts you a lifetime.

Ah, yes, Robert Rector. That misty-eyed social activist superhero fighting poverty on the streets... where it matters.

No, wait, he's actually at the Heritage Foundation.

As if anybody needed permission for that. Spore the next Sims? Self-delusion to the max! My guess is they playtested the thing and found nobody could make heads or tails of it. Spore is essentially a tech demo for procedural content generation algorithms.