In reply to all the nay-saying below, the point isn't just to predict the songs of birds. Through being able the predict the songs, they hope to begin to learn more about the basis of complex language, through mapping the neural pathways responsible for birdsong.

@subtlescalpel ▚▛▜▝▟▚: 4.8 as shown in your screenshot looks pretty illegible by my standards. Can I make out the letters if I try hard? Yes. But much slower and less consistently than the subject of this article.

I'm sorta torn about this. Part of me feels like it was actually an amazing ad at first, and a few visits from MS's marketing department later it comes out looking a little disfigured.

Maybe I'd use facebook mail, if all my email usage consisted of nothing more than inane social banter.

@This is not the commentor you were looking for...: Havn't you heard? 'First Sale' rights are dead, and publishers are doing everything in their power to gimp your ability to resell or loan out the physical games you own. I'm not talking about Steam, I'm talking about the one-time use codes they're locking game…

"But there's a reason Steam is so dominant: it's the only service that's doing things right."

Giclée? Shame. That design *begs* to screen-printed, or at least offset printed using a nice spot color.

@Dogen: don't hate on the 'corn, yo. It doesn't have to go down this way.

Eh, the loss of ad revenue due to the blurring of the line between online and broadcast content is really only a temporary problem.

@siwex80: Really?

So my comment was going to be about how the only thing they should have changed is the hand at the end should have thrown up the horns before disappearing.

@scarbrtj: I have a feeling it's because the marketing department assumed (quite possibly correctly) that most people arn't so hot with fractions, and that the comparison between 16:9 and 21:9 is more intuitive. "Oh, its wider than 16:9"

@wætherman: It's about more than just hard drives though. Intel is developing it as a sort of universal interface. So instead of having sata, usb, firewire, and hdmi, it'd all just be lightpeak. The same cable connects your internal drives as your external drives and your computer to your TV.

@Clixx13: If my memory serves me, the downloading isn't actually a problem. If memory doesn't serve me properly, it's still the distribution part of p2p that they're suing you for, that's why the damages are so insanely high.

@Arggh! there goes a...snake a snake!: Indeed. Loved that game, wonder where they could take it with modern hardware. Streets of Sim City for similar reasons.

@ericlaw02: True that.

@Chris Bautista: Yeah... I mean, maybe a guitar with firewire output could be nice, or one with automatic tuners, but lights? Onboard effects? Why? And certainly not all of that in one completely ridiculous guitar.

@tomsomething: I'd still call it being over sensitive, but ok. Vegans can now be offended. This comment thread was started by a vegetarian though.

@Lindsay Funke (is LVeg in Disguise): I think maybe the problem stems from you being overly sensitive to the point that you get defensive in the comments of a blog post that doesn't make fun of vegans or vegetarians at all. It's just lightheartedly pointing out how many seemingly innocuous products are made from cows…

Why are we still giving this kid the attention he so desperately craves to validate his existence as pop culture's misbehaved class clown?