causality (777677) says: "I think a big part of the problem is that right now, most people who have any choice at all have a choice between two monopolies: telco and cable. Your idea would provide that missing "third option". An agile competitor with minimal infrastructure costs, license costs, and other barriers to entry might just provide the innovation and options that are sorely missing from the monopolies." Yeah America really fumbled the ball on that one, falling far behind due to corruption and greed. Sounds pretty bad for you guys, until you come to where I live, America's hat, Canada. There are even fewer corporations that completely dominate the phone, cell phone, satellite, cable, DSL and broadband industry are given the power to govern themselves and (cell phones in particular) contracts are outrageously expensive and restricting. You'd best make sure you're damn well financially stable before you get a cell in Canada.

Google is notorious for keeping most of it's apps in the Beta stages because if it works, it's considered a fantastic app and when some hacker finds a huge security flaw in it or something of that nature, Google can just throw up their hands and say "Hey, it's still in Beta".

Well I think that pretty much rules out that Sony and Intel will ever work on anything together, ever again. I'd be really disappointed if Sony picked up Intel though because I love Intel but I also love the 360.

It's not exactly the same. I'm more talking about the chip they put on your debt and credit cards that was supposed to eventually replace the stripe but so far even places that have a scanner for it, there doesn't seem to be any way to use it. If you stick it in, nothing happens. I've never seen one work anywhere. Useless.

It's human nature to survive. Hell it's the nature of all living things. Even if you know it's futile you'll do anything to get even just a few more hours of life even if that life was miserable after a nuclear fallout.

You'll have to have a damn good way of playing video games without a mouse before I'll even consider it.

I'd have to agree with MikeV. If someone told me ice falls and avalanches were the main cause of death on Everest, I would've laughed in their face.

Microsoft has a huge lead right now and while they are trying to fight back, they just aren't doing a very good job. The American auto industry did the same thing, they ruled the auto industry and now they're grasping at straws just to stay afloat. Is it possible to see Microsoft take a similar downturn? Not anytime in the near future but I wouldn't scratch it out as impossible.

I think that's very cool. Just looking at the headline I thought it was talking about iGoogle and how they have mini programs for customizing the webpage. This is much better news. It certainly makes sense too and I'm sure that Google will be the first one to come out with it as all the other search engines (with the exception of Dogpile) just can't seem to get it right. I tried using Windows Live for awhile just because it was convenient to have my e-mail displayed on my home page but I found myself going back to Google countless times because Live couldn't even get close to what I was looking for. I imagine they'll start doing this process through the username itself. As in, you have to be an iGoogle or Gmail user who is logged in all the time to have access to these features. I can see how that would be a pain for some people but I'm always logged in anyway, (but I don't use Gmail) not to mention that it would read your search no matter which computer you were on so long as you're logged in. Go Google! They aren't going anywhere but up, I've also heard they're looking to get in on the cellular communications market.

Replying to B5 geek, Doom 3 certainly was not my favorite game but it did quite well and the fact that you couldn't hold your flashlight and a weapon at the same time was placed in the game like that on purpose to add a sense of strategy and additional frights as things jump out of the darkness or you could shine your flashlight into the corner and see it jump out as you struggle for your weapon. Thief is not a survival horror game at all and I can't say I've ever played Alone in the Dark. Personally I don't think survival horror games are going extinct, just because of the slew of them being released right now.