Posted 11/12/2008 at 05:42:04am

The gaming industry is starting to seem like it's replaying the music industry's greatest hits.  The "used" argument has been played out already - twice.  Once in the 80s involving cassettes and again in the 90s with CDs (probably before that with other media as well).  The music industry lost both battles (obviously). I see no difference between a used game and a used CD.  This will pass on and be forgotten just like used music.

Posted 10/27/2008 at 05:29:20am

I hope they are able to mount a come back. Not only I'm a AMD fan, but without AMD, Intel would be allowed to go almost completely unchecked by competition and that only can only mean higher prices.  AMD's a strong company, though.  I have every faith they'll gain some ground in '09.

Posted 09/19/2008 at 06:34:30am

Intriguing, but the USB connection looks a bit flimsy

Posted 08/25/2008 at 05:37:57am

This may be a stupid question, but is their patent for the functionality of the keys itself (which doesn't seem possible considering the dozens if not hundreds of manufacturers out there) or is it for how the functionality applies to MS apps?? Is there a difference?  In my experience, the keys don't behave the same way in every application.  

Posted 08/25/2008 at 05:27:54am

It seems that levels of potential interference would be easy enough to test, at least on a small/medium scale.  Take any number locations - half urban (for the stadium/church crowd) and half semi-rural - and open and test interference over the course of say 3-6 months.  Pretty straight forward.