I stuck with the now sadly discontinued songbird.

No miss, I wrote to the shakespeare estate asking for permission to do a paper on romeo and juliet but their lawyers haven't gotten back to me yet.

Except spying on diplomats is also illegal.

There are a few subtle differences between this scenario and cracking the nazin transmissions.

I saw that your window was poorly secured so I broke in and took all your stuff. I am leaving this note so that you know how risky it is leaving your house unsecured. This isn't a very good neighborhood you really should buy an alarm and better locks. I hope this letter find you well. You're welcome The NSA.

XtremeShred, Fatbusterone, Buffadrine2000. Additionally they should only market it using annoying popup ads and late night television.

I'm sorry. I'll just take my things and be going.

How much did they lose on the Zune? How much do they stand to lose if they can't find a way to make the XboxOne competitive? Maybe it's time to reassess their business model.

it's a feature

Well that just saved me the equivalent of whatever the new console would cost. Thanks microsoft for making purchasing decisions easier.

They could only be connected to other particles that existed in their lifetime and then they would have to perform a good deed before being able to connect to a different particle. Oh boy

Also lots of problems with DX11 implementation.

Why stop there? Have a separate camera, a separate music player too. What a wonderful future that will be where instead of one device capable of doing lots of things we have lots of individual devices dedicated to a single purpose.

Man wonders what lies just beyond the horizon. Man develops ability to travel beyond horizon. Man annihilates whatever was over there.

Yet another 'end of the era of.......' article. How many times have PC's, consoles, TV's etc been declared dead on Slashdot? Not long till the next cloaking device article.