I tried phone-based GPS that relied on a live internet connection to provide maps and routing. I won't go back. When you need it most, lost, in an area with spotty cell / data coverage, your gps goes black. I would love one with maps and routes stored permanently but with internet based updating of maps / poi's / route logic (served as periodic updates while you sleep). And internet for real time traffic. Too many times while on a gps-blackberry, my data link would fail and leave me hanging in an unknown place. I would then have to focus on driving to an area with better data coverage so I could get my directions, then jot them down, then return on my journey through the dead zone.

Microsoft should beat them at their own game, and make the same commercial

The PC would be played by a sensible, handsome 30-something year old guy in a shirt and slacks. Someone like the guy who plays Dexter.

The Mac would be played by a multiple-pierced weirdo Gen Y slacker bozo.

The PC guy would say "PC's run all my company's software. And when I'm at home, I can connect to work, and continue to be productive. Plus it runs pretty much every piece of software and game ever invented. The fact that they cost about 1/2 as much as a Mac is the icing on the cake."

The Mac guy would go, "Hey man, why you hasslin me. You just can't deal with how 'of the moment' I am. See? The Mac. The Toussled Hair? The quarter-sized hole in my earlobe? I'm on the edge man, and you just can't deal with this" (he would do a little amateur tai chi at this point).

The PC guy would end it saying, "Is that patouli? What stinks in here? Will someone get this hippy out of the studio?"

Yes - The Cubeecraft is the real story here. I love those things and so don't my kids. Go buy a ream of cardstock, an exacto knife and self-healing cutting pad, and have a ball.
+1 on bananazune

I still think 3D as a movie gimmick, while neato, is a dead end. Imagine this. You buy a ticket for $15, walk into an IMAX (or IMAX-sized) theater, and watch the superbowl on a humongous screen in super-hi-def 3D. The entire presentation is delivered via a static camera from an angle to capture the entire field (occasionally overlays for replays). A true "you are there" experience.

Or a U2 concert (normally hundreds) from the same perspective.

At smaller sizes, it's a cute gimmick. at IMAX, it's a-freaking-mazing.

Think about the kinds of things that benefit from a "you are there" experience. events you can't attend - like sports or an expensive ballet or concert, or a videogame with e first-person-perspective (shooters and racers). that's where the technology provides more than gimmickery. And it all falls apart at less than 60" or so.

Serious Same 2 (actually that was a typo, but perhaps a Freudian Typo) was actually pretty good, though there was a bit of "where the eff am I supposed to go know?!" to it.

There's always room for a serious sam game - I'd like to see them do something really cool with all those next-gen shaders, and not have that "filthy" look of most games today.

This keyboard is a beautiful solution for a programmable universal remote. Perfect in fact

For many years their business plan consisted almost entirely on creating very confusing rental windows (5 evenings, not nights, evenings, except with new releases which were 3 evenings, not nights, evenings), and rake in the resultant late fees. That, and editing NC-17, and unrated movies. Imagine the world's biggest video store not having the official versions of David Cronenberg's Crash, Requiem for a Dream, Showgirls. Really quite lame.

And, man o man, did it take them a long time to get on the DVD bandwagon. No tears here.

I'm not at all underwhelmed. I'm actually fully whelmed.

Has anyone played a wii game on dolphin? what specs are required?

Also, while I think they may have lost a segment of their audience by not supporting 720p, at a minimum, they sort-of made up for it with 480p-widescreen for pretty much all games. They're at least admitting that most tv's are wide nowadays.

I think this is the coup de grace:
(from the gog website)
"All games are Vista and XP compatible. Thanks to our handsome programming team, the classics are now Windows Vista and Windows XP compatible."