Actually, let me summarize this for you: this guy releases a relatively inoffensive app that looks well-made, albeit perhaps not appealing to many gamers. You then tell us that the very existence of this app is threatening to you because it promotes something you don't believe in. I would say you've probably told us more about your antipathy towards religion than made a coherent argument as to why this game shouldn't be on XBLI.

And, no, I'm not Christian, but if the Jews, Hindus, Muslims, or whatever want to write their own little apps, more power to them. This is the sort of stuff that actually makes consoles look good to the masses, and we need more of that.

Just to chime in with the crowd, this thing isn't going to solve anything. Even _ethernet_ transfers don't run at anything resembling 100mbps.

We need a series 4 box stat. If it could do the sling-thing, it might even sell, too.

Too bad, just bought a MSNDirect-enabled weather clock. Guess it'll be just a clock in a couple years. Oh well.

Worked pretty nice, too... them's the breaks.

I forsee H&K getting pissy about this. They recently cracked down on a .22LR clone of the MP-5 because it looked too similar.

I also heard that using a ReadyBoost drive helps with that problem. Something to try before sinking the cash into a good SSD.

What's the resolution? 480x320 or 800x480?

This might be the phone to get me off Windows Mobile. I'm willing to believe, Sprint. Just sell it to me for a decent price.

Best self-contradiction ever:

"We ask Robbie about Pink and if a Microsoft phone is in the company's future: "I don't see that." Robbie was pretty vehement that making a piece of hardware for mobile space isn't really in the company's plans. "Apple demonstrated that the end to end experience worked, so we did that with the Zune." He says he doesn't think it makes sense for the scale of the mobile market."

So, you believe Apple when it comes to the success of end-to-end services, but you somehow manage to disbelieve the stunning success of the iPhone with your next breath? Look, it's obvious that a Zune phone is something the market wants. It's something that could provide Microsoft with a huge opportunity to integrate its online offerings into a mobile device. The very idea that the "scale" of the market is what prevents this is completely incoherent reasoning - the mobile market is huge, and that makes it way easier to get your foot in the door.

Please tell me there was some sort of epic misquote here. *sigh*

Well, I'm sure they're glad that their mock campaign pictures with the player throwing the lever to gas some Jews didn't get released!

This will just accelerate the move to bandwidth caps.