The 'kids' that Nintendo are targeting are plenty sufficed with the 'deep' experience Temple Run gives them on their touchscreen, anywhere and everywhere. Nintendo have to realize that their target demographic are adults who grew up with Nintendo and want their children to dicover the joys too. This is what they are facing, the 'customers' they want have moved on. Also, the Wii is cannibalizing those WiiU sales. They are in the same place Sony were in in 2005. Coming off the previous gen with a wildy successful console that's still on the market and still selling like hotcakes.

^^ this. So absolutely true. Kids under the age of 10 have almost no interest in consoles at all. The iPad with its plethora of freemium games gives them more to play with than a console. The goalposts have indeed moves and the console makers ad game makers targeting kids have to realize that. This is a fickle market.

Thanks for that.

There are actually two aluminum smelters in Iceland.

This has been on the cards for about two years now. Construction at the site stopped last month because politicians wouldn't dare go on with the project because of public opposition. One of the top stakeholders in Verne Global is one Bjorgolfur Thor Bjorgolfsson, former owner of failed bank Landsbanki, whose high-interest Icesave savings accounts failed spectacularly and have kicked off the biggest firestorm in the republics' short history. Also, the bandwidth is not a problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_Connect (goes to US/CANADA) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DANICE (goes to EU) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARICE-1 (goes to EU) These are the fiber cables we have. As you can read, we have lots of unlit fiber there.

I absolutely agree with this

Perhaps the answer lies in DSL repeaters. We are starting to use them here in Iceland to serve rural homes that are between 5-10 km from the DSLAM. The plan is that these homes will be able to get 2 Mbps down/512 up which is way better than crappy old ISDN. I've seen DSL, throttled back to 512 kbps down on lines that were over 15 km long so it's not unheard of to see DSL on such long lines.

The big problem with Docs is that it isn't really secure. If it's gonna be cloud computing all the way, then I as a user have to be sure that my docs aren't gonna be intercepted by a MITM or a cross-site scripting flaw. I use the Writely part of it at work as a quick repository for info I need quickly, but the company firewall recently blocked it and I when I asked why I was given links to posts from security researchers exposing big time cross site scripting flaws with it that made me rethink how I use it. Other than that, OO all the way for me!