@ddhboy: Come on, Microsoft Entertainment invested $375 million into Rare; they're not broke. They spent $40M just on marketing for Halo 3, including everything from action figures to soft drinks to full-scale drivable warthogs.
MS wouldn't be making movies, it'd be making investments. Jackson et all would do the making part, with Microsoft's money.
@ILLKnOwLeDgE: It's clearly not for you.
@Cochese: Tanooki Suit Epic: Yeah, call me when that 17 Gpixel "sensor" can output more than 1.4 frames an hour...
@gnark1ll420: It's got nothing to do with Xbox Live Gold.
@Wwhat: Jokes I enjoy. Complaints are pretty distinct, and not so funny.
@gelatinous_d: Here's an obvious practical result from research that "counts the number of meteors that hit the earth": We get a much better understanding of how likely it is that a species-killer will hit us.
Old theories + new observations = new, improved theories = ever-increasing knowledge = science.
@PATRICK SWAYZE 2.0: The smartarse comments from the Aussie marine throughout Halo: CE (and the others) are probably the best/funniest background audio I've heard from any game. Every now and then he comes out with something completely new, despite a dozen replays, and cracks me up all over again.
@Nigra: Popular misconception (thanks to Jobs' RDF). Most people can't distinguish pixels on a 300+ ppi display like Retina at a viewing distance of 30+ cm or so.
@A.Jaswal: Microsoft already released tablets with a "real Windows" on it. Didn't turn out too well.
It's racing games that are 90% of the appeal of stereo 3D gaming, for me.
Don't blame Mellencamp. No doubt he asked his publishers why his sales have been dropping, and they told him it was all that nasty internet's fault, it's destroying all their livelihood and will ruin the future.
@grassisgreen: I think you might be surprised by how much further we've come than you think.
@DaveExile: ... Sopwith Camels?
@Denver: This is just a learning phase. We ultimately just want to make smarter tools, not necessarily an exact simulation of a human brain.
@aMatic: In his books, RK says technology curves that start out exponential eventually level off, in what he calls an "S-curve".
PZ Myers makes a lot of spot-on points - with one major problem: Kurzweil never claimed that we could reverse-engineer a brain from DNA. So his whole rant, while otherwise accurate, is completely mis-aimed.
@CVDon: I tend to agree with you on that. "Popular" futurism has little relevance to actual AI research, but I still feel it has its place. And who knows, in some cases reality eventually does follow scifi.