Could be useful in college. Solution for the economy: take the American military budget down from it's current 1 trillion dollars to its post-cold war state, and instead of doing what effectively means getting people to dig up holes and then fill them back in in terms of the economy, fund more and more public works projects, build more wind-power farms, fund more science fund more adult education, more professional education, whether it be vocational or improvement things (language courses, computer courses, home ec courses, whatever), funnel more money into education so that class sizes can be smaller, being a teacher is desirable for more than kids in the Teach For America program. Christ, what would you do with 700 billion dollars?

Fix America, the world economy will follow.

Here's one way for the American government to fix the recession--keep on shoveling money into shovel-ready projects! NIH has a lot, try them. Public works works too--basically, keep on keeping on. Also, prize please.

"ZOMG t3h MS MONOPOLIES . . ."

There have been reports that people are actually switching away from the OLPC project because they don't support MS. As long as they can get out the computers, they don't really care which OS they carry. OS wars are for people who possess computers. The real value of the OLPC is that it is cheap or free (give one get one) for countries that can't really afford great computers.

In my opinion, OLPC started out with linux because it was free, not because it's not MS. XP is decently robust, and there is a vibrant open source community for it. They can still put on all of their programs, like python, and connect 4, and all of that junk, even with carrying XP, and it will also be able to support MS only software, losing the linux only software.

Go cry about the microsoft monopoly to the people who already have computers, e.g. each other--I one hundred percent guarantee you that someone who had never had a computer would take a tangible microsoft computer over a non-existent linux computer any day of the week.

The scene with the one dude who was half blind going back and telling them that all the men were dead--you could tell he was going to be stabbed to death with pins.

Gotta be pretty stupid if he's using an account that he's associated with. Nothing is totally secure, and the gov't has around 400 million hackers working for them. (Hackers the size of donuts.)

"I'm so sick of hearing all you girls talk about "Sony's days being numbered". Seriously, who's paying you to say this crap. Sony owns almost half of the market right now and are making a system that does everything the Xbox360 does without having to buy all the extra add-ons. If you own a 360, take a second and add up all the money you have put into it. I bet its over $600. If not then wait til you buy that super sick HD-DVD addon that they are releasing for $200. You've been owned."

*yawn* WOW! EXPENSIVE STUFF! AND IT'S SLIGHTLY CHEAPER! Look, talk to the average blue collar worker. Let's say he loves the environment. Is he going to buy an on-sale hybrid car, for only two-thirds of the price? No. He's going to get some used, four year old sedan, even though it eats up gas like anything, because it's all he can afford. The average guy in the united states makes something like forty thousand dollars, and Nintendo has begun to figure out how to tap into this humongous well. The "Average Joe" well. Look at the way that Nintendo has been marketing the DS. It has a kind of urban feel, to attract, well, the urban market. Marketing works so well in Urban settings because fads come and go all the time in cities, but this is one thing that it doesn't matter if the fad goes. You've already bought a DS. It's too late. And who's going to get the PSP? Avid gamers of playstation, aka the middle and upper class. Try actually talking to the people who work at the places where you fuel your addictions, like gamestop. Nintendo has been the only company not losing money for months, because the gamecube is a nice, simple design, cheap to manufacture, and because people are buying it, and because the DS is an equally good design, relatively cheap to manufacture, and they're SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES. Who the hell is sony marketing the psp to? Squirrels with nuts? No, of course not. Weirdos, aka gamers. People who are already in the industry, who they want to keep. The people they don't need to market to. Their strategy is just absurd.

Look, here's what's happening. Microsoft and Sony are squabbling over this one acre of land that already has some farming equipment on it, because it has the equipment. Nintendo just took a look around, and realized that there are greener pastures for miles around, and is running out to stake its claim.

Hmm, in a completely unrelated comment, I know that a lot of my friends, as well as myself, are thinking less and less of graphics. They've reached a threshold, and it looks really pretty, but gameplay isn't getting any better anymore. Nintendo has a solution for that. They experimented with that stupid Donkey Kong game with the bongos, and with the DS, and now they're going to try out this remote thing with the wii. I think it looks like fun. (Besides, the madden for wii is going to be amazing. I don't personally like sports games, but I know an amazing amount of sales come from Madden, and being able to actually pass the ball with the wiimote is going to be a huge hit.)

No, I'm betting that next come tanks that shoot anything that moves, and can upgrade their weapons depending upon the size of the enemy (e.g. against a tank some kind of missile or tank armor piercing bullets, and against individuals a machine gun.)

I'm pretty sure that this is going to happen because the Army has significantly greater funds than pervs.