I'm not excited about the "next" generation of cards because they'll be able to maintain a solid framerate at higher resolutions (I haven't been for almost ten years), I'm excited because they'll contain more and faster programmable shader units. That's where the magic sauce happens, and the more shader power you have the more awesome stuff you can do. And as other people pointed out, they're incredibly useful for a wide range of applications outside of pure graphics processing.

70 years? After 48 hours without sleep I make tons of mistakes, stare blankly at whatever I'm trying to work on for minutes at a time, and start seeing imaginary things darting around in my peripheral vision. Nope, much like Windows 95, daily reboots are necessary for reliable operation.

What do you mean, how would it work? The problem is these damn kids these days. No imagination whatsoever. Inform is the answer! With text based games (and I mean *text language*, none of this fancy-pants nethack/zzt/libaa hoolaballoo!) the sky is the limit. We've had the capability to make rich game experiences far beyond what graphics cards will ever be able to pump out, for decades now I tells ya! Anyone remember IF Quake? And they called it a joke! Ha! Now, granted I haven't seen IF Tetris or IF parcheesi yet, but given a sudden surge in interest... Yes, Gentlemen, this could work!