As much as I love video games, there's something a little more primal about pinball games. Video pinball though lacks some of that tangibility. Done properly it's great, of course — there are some awesome video pinball tables out there — but it just lacks that certain something of playing some real…

Love the desktop version. I do want to get an iPad, but this just makes me want to get one more. I wonder if they'll do an iPhone version?

@Tony Prince: Who's "we?" I want easy and fast access to my bookmarks and tabs. I never use frameless. It just puts an extra level between me and the browser functions.

I'm not entirely sure why this constitutes cult-like behaviour. I'm quite far removed from a Mac fanboy — I own one out of necessity, and it's a decent enough platform, but it has a lot of maturing to do before it's good enough and gains the support it needs to replace my Windows machine.

@HackBerry: Technology tends to do that — but it's still great looking back at some of the terrible tech we had that we thought was just awesome at the time. I bought my dad his first digital back around the turn of the century — a little 1.2MP Kodak point-and-shoot. The pictures were dark, it had almost zero…

@HackBerry: I used to have a Disc camera many, many moons ago. They were handy, but the image quality was crap. Incredibly grainy and the colours tended to be on the washed out side. The iPhone 4 is miles better than that little thing.

@eyjafjallajökull: There's a difference? Because whenever he opens his manhole all I hear is an incoherent drone periodically interrupted by his foot.

Those are some brilliant retro-futurist designs; he's got the styling down to a T, and the side of humour just makes them all the more enjoyable. I'd hang these on my wall...

@Lex Steers: True enough. But I still tend to think that a well-designed, streamlined system purpose-built with relatively frequent line changes in mind would be more efficient and save more in the long run. Though I suppose then that the sheer number of possible things being built would lead to an impractically…

@eyjafjallajökull: Incessant, brain-twaddling droning will do that to a brain ... eventually.

These were not what I thought these would be before I read the title. I have a filthy mind.

@Wwhat: Well, in the case of Imagic it may have been simply that the tech wasn't as reliable back then, given that this was back in 1982/83. I don't really know why modern organisations don't automate most of their stuff too, but it could very well be an economy thing. They might very well be able to automate…

@Tito151: In Imagic's case it was just good business; getting a bum cart would just piss people off. Watching that assembly line in action though made me glad I didn't work in that factory; just the guy who tested the carts, he had a pile coming along a conveyor and his time to shove, flick on, flick off, remove and…

@evolver311: Which is why I mentioned that this was probably a sanitized, approved "tour" of this one particular facility, not unlike the sanitized, approved "tour" of the worker camps in North Korea. (Though I'm quite certain conditions are far better in China than the DPRK)

I don't watch soccer. I haven't followed the world cup. Yet I already want every single vuvuzela on the face of the Earth filled with crude oil, shoved up Tony Hayward's sphincter, and lit on fire while the entire US team takes turns firing penalty shots at his crotch.

@mrtraver: True, this was more or less what I was getting at with the use of netbooks and other portables. I suppose my real issue with this service is the idea that even if you "buy" (rent indefinitely) a game for what's pretty much the price of a physical incarnation of same, you don't really own it. It is tied…

Doesn't sound so bad for factory work. I've done some time in an environment like that. I shrink-wrapped rolls of wallpaper when I was 16. Slide a roll between two sheets of heat wrap, bring down the sealer. A soldering iron duct-taped to the arm punctured a hole to allow air to escape. I burned myself on it at…

I just don't see this taking off, not for desktop PCs anyway. For starters, the visual quality stinks. IT's fine if you're going to play it on your TV and don't own a game console, but for desktop computers? Not so much. But more importantly, if I'm going to pay full pop to "permanently rent" a game, why the hell…

@thefastest: Uh ... what? I didnt't even address you, nor was I talking specifically about whether you can or cannot see the pixels at 12", I was addressing Gigglebox's hyperbole. Perhaps you should pay closer attention to whose post you click the reply button under.

@Gigglebox: I'm no fanboy; I have a Mac mainly for development, and iPhones both for that and because I like them. And while I agree that there are plenty of frothing Mac fanboys, that's hardly anything new. 25 years ago the very same zealots existed, only they owned Commodores and Ataris, and if they weren't drawn…