The Enforcers call it "PAX Prime".

@VincentGrey: See: the Guitar Hero franchise. The people who made the series such a big success had left, but that didn't stop Activision from selling millions of copies of its sequels. Brand counts for an awful lot— especially for people who don't bother to read gaming news.

"Most mention these days that the average age of gamers is quite high, but they do not mention that most of those gamers do not play ''mature'' games." [citation needed]

Is price even on most people's radar as an issue with the iPad? To me, it just seems like a device in search of a raison d'être. It's too big to be as portable as a iPod Touch or iPhone; its screen and battery life are ill suited to serious ebook use; and if you're at home, you might as well use a laptop for your…

@DeeJayQueue: This doesn't really get around this problem. Bad code doesn't always make itself immediately apparent, and you can be made part of a bot net just as easily (if not more so) from a malicious web site as you can by downloading a trojan.

I think it's a pretty device, and an impressive feat of engineering. That being said, I don't really think it fits the niche it's trying to fill all that well. It's too big and awkward to be used like an iPod, and too limited to be as useful as a laptop. So what role does it fill?

Now if only it weren't butt ugly...

I don't really think those ads are FOR you, Owen. They're to manipulate your significant other into nagging for a hunk of carbon.

I think you got it backwards in the title. Shouldn't you switch TO audio FROM visual alerts?

Even if they had an equivalent to the ESRB's M rating, the law would still be stupid. How can you say you live in a free and democratic country if you ban the sale of games based on a rating? It's a clear case of government censorship. If it was outright illegal like, say, child pornography or a snuff film, I could…

This functionality also come built into Tab Mix Plus

@Anunnaki: I guess I'm trying to convince you that this sort of thing sets a bad precedent, and cracks the door open for abuse in the future. This should be their problem, not the user's. If keys are being sold in markets they're not supposed to, then their complaint should be with the reseller, not with users who…

@Anunnaki: Your argument rests solely on the assurance that Valve— an entity whose primary purpose is to make money— will always act in your best interest. Valve admittedly has some of the least offensive DRM out there, but it is, nonetheless, DRM. They hold all the cards, and you're left hoping that they'll…

@Anunnaki: Oh, and if you want to see how arbitrary a big company can get when locking you out of your stuff, take a look at Amazon. They locked a guy out of all the e-books on his Kindle because he returned too many items ([www.engadget.com]).

@Anunnaki: What do you mean Steam is Valve? It's a distribution channel. People would definitely be pissed if they shut it down, but they could definitely continue making games without it. Regardless, my argument still stands— you're making a bet that 10 years from now if you decide to break out your copy of…

@Anunnaki: Microsoft didn't go out of business, but can you play your (ironically named) PlaysForSure music now? Wal-Mart's not out of business either, but any music bought from their online store is gone. Gambling whether or not you can use a product you bought in the future is a shitty deal, no matter how safe the…

@Anunnaki: Shady as these copies may be, it's still disturbing to see this happen. Banning cut-rate foreign keys may seem ok to you, but what happens when they start using other more arbitrary reasons to ban your product key? What happens when Steam eventually shuts down? The games you bought will just vanish.

This seems like a branding and 3rd-party relations fuckup to me. First off, you've got a major Wii release that doesn't even look like a Wii game. Secondly, Nintendo is clearly showing favoritism towards its first-party. "Mario is so awesome, his box gets a different color! No, 3rd parties, only Nintendo can do these…

@Lukasz Fabis: Unauthorized tethering is no longer available in 3.1.2 unless you jailbreak your phone. If you jailbreak, you can use blacksn0w or patch your CommCenter file. #tethering

@theeasycure: Not true. UltraSn0w and blacksn0w patch the baseband's RAM only. Unload the daemon and reboot, and your phone will be back to its carrier locked state. #tethering