Oh Please, please, please, please, please! I just got finished making a panorama that was 9 FEET wide and I would have loved to have a gigapan instead of spending hours manually putting the frames together! PLEASE!

My big question is this: Can you program a macro to go directly to play a movie? I have "auto run" turned off because i have enough downloaded content that it annoys me when i start up the system I have to quit out of whatever disk. The down side is my wife hates the XMB. So ideally I could macro a simple "play movie" function for her... but is this possible?

I used to work at amazon, and while far from a perfect company I can tell you they don't shut down accounts randomly or for small infractions. I'm not familiar enough with the way the Kindle works to know what he lost when they turned off his account, but I can say that in my experience, it took quite a bit of abuse just to raise a customer up to the level of scrutiny, much less actually having their account shut down. Obviously I'm not sure what this guys specific circumstances are, but I'm inclined to give amazon the benefit of the doubt on this one because, at least when I worked there, shutting down accounts what not something that was done lightly.

i suppose the goatse level would be too far.

I want to build my walk to work. Dodge the pan-handler, jump over the junkie, watch out of the broken bottles from the bar fight the night before! That car's running the red light! Oh noooo's not the used needles! Don't get hit by the moron txt'ing and not looking where he's going. Make it through the construction zone that pushes you into traffic. Don't fall into the pit of used Jimmy Hats in the alley, ewww!

Please, help me bring the grime of baltimore to life!

Thanks!

Do I feel abandoned? Yes! How could I not? It isn't even so much that Nintendo didn't announce a new Mario or Zelda. With their E3 appearance they seemed to signal to the 3rd parties that it was ok to keep on making "party" games and to forget the narrative. I don't even really need them to make a new Zelda or Mario, but what I do need from them is to look to the 3rd parties and say "Hey, go forth and develop for our system." They could do it by courting and/or developing a proper storage solution. But from their public announcements so far it seems that they have no interest beyond what has (unfortunately) become their bread and butter - Party Games.

Furthermore, after seeing all the great things going on with the PS3 I do feel left out. Rock Band and Guitar Hero for instance have great and reasonably priced add on songs that extend the life of the games far beyond what is currently possible with the Wii versions. In fact, when seeing the difference, the Wii versions look like a rip-off. I think gamers are, now and more so in the future, not buying games for the data on the disk, but for the expandability potential. Something Nintendo seems unbelievably blind to.

Nintendo seems to be very focused on the short game at a time when Microsoft and Sony are very much playing the long game. We are disposable, we are short term investments for Nintendo.

I don't feel abandoned. I have been.

Well, i haven't been keeping up with the jonses, I'm just now looking to upgrade from my original 300D. While i wanted to stay with Canon i was beginning to be tempted by Nikon's D80. The $300 lower price for the body (compared to the 30D) with a somewhat better feature set was starting to test my resolve. So say what you like, but for some this could come as a significant upgrade.