Umm, how can I put this? A socialist worker IS a Communist. Or rather, Communism is a subtype of socialism.

I love how you think assimilating long and complicated words into your verbiose comments makes you appear intelligent. It almost discombobulates me (did you see what I did there ;))

@Cruithne:
Okay now that's just twisted.

@Galvanise_:
Part of you doesn't die when you see her picture in the paper 10 years after her death? After seeing her picture in the paper at least 1-30 times EVERY year since she died?

You have stronger sensibilities than I do then. I just wish they'd let her rest in peace rather than drudging her up every time they need a quick trashy tabloid article.

Plus there's much worse drains on our tax funds that are more disagreeable. I'd much rather see those tackled first.

@Galvanise_:
It doesn't really, it's still a harsh joke but if you lived here you'd be so sick and tired of Diana that you'd start to make cracks like that too. It's been just over 10 years since she died, I'd estimate that there's been more media coverage of her AFTER she died than while she was alive. That's how bad it is, even if she's dead she'll live for freaking ever in the tabloids.

Sony and Microsoft are actually far more guilty of doing this. It's actually even worse doing it with a console due to the higher price point. Least if a new handheld revision comes out by trading in your old one you can upgrade for a reasonable amount.

That is of course, if he outlives the Queen and cmon lets face it. She's gonna rule forever.

Depressing that Runescape is even classed as an MMO when it's really just a depressingly bad browser based game. Even worse is that it has more subscribers than FFXI.

As for the topic at hand, it's just telling us what we knew all along that our brains are more advanced than any computer on the planet. Only problem is I can't get solitaire to run on mine. =(

6) Nintendo loves to combat piracy
The existing DS' GBA cartridge slot has been exploited by hackers who use flash memory cards through the slot to run pirated games - an easy way to get around the small DS card slot. A new model DS (rumoured to feature internal storage in place of the slot) would get around this problem - very attractive for Nintendo, who have always had a big thing against piracy. Remember the tiny Gamecube disks?

Not that slot 1 only flashcards haven't been around for a good long while already so that makes this point null and void.

Honestly if you actually read the article it sounds like they've just gotten their points confused. Most of their argument seems to support a new handheld altogether coming out rather than a new hardware revision. This seems a lot more sensible but I figure the DS has at least another 1-2 years in it yet.

The Game Boy Colour only ever had one hardware spec so this goes against that argument. Arguments 5-7 are just incredibly unlikely, increasing the specs would just annoy people as they'd be forced to buy the new one just to make use of anything that made use of the increased power. Short of switching away from a cartridge medium there's not much they could do with a redesign to combat piracy. Downloadable GBA games is just a silly idea as it'd require a significant change to the hardware so you'd actually have somewhere to save them.

But honestly the real reason that there's going to be no DS redesign any time soon is that there's just no point. There's really nothing that they could improve on, all the improvements to the hardware were made with the Lite so there's little point doing much more with it. IF Nintendo do push out another redesign it's going to be later rather than sooner.

@AstrayPenguin:
Yeah, I have a feeling I should have called this out earlier too.

There just aren't enough bad puns in the world.

I wish I had more of these models though, my MG Freedom and my 1/144 HG BuCUE are lonely.

None of these are a factor with the Wiimote, it's not heavy or unbalanced and you don't have to worry about hitting anything else (unless someone is standing a little too close). With a "weapon" that light and easy to wield any untrained person with decent reactions could go against an AI.

Still if fan works step over the line in Japan, they will crack the whip. I know of a good few Japanese fan games that have been shot down.

The whole situation is a very delicate balance that could collapse at any time. It's definitely not legal though.

TRANSFORMERS! PEOPLE IN DISGUISE!