drifter84

Great post! I’m with you here on everything. I cut the cord and have signed up for multiple subscriptions for streaming services.

However, I do go a step further. If a company or show does not have a streaming outlet (a la netflix or south park studios), I will go and pirate. If they ever put their stuff online without me having to go through a middleman, I will give them my money. Until these companies wake up and come into the new century, they don’t deserve my money.

Just like our current interactions were once prototypes, the new interaction ideas are just in prototype form waiting for the future.

We obviously have gesture IO with Kinect and voice IO is moving along with multiple OSes. There have also been prototypes built using mind control and VR, just not widespread implementation. As much as I think of project glass as an asinine marketing scheme, it at least shows that we have people thinking about that paradigm as well.

Trust me, the dream is still alive.

It works great on WP7. I rarely go to the website these days.

Why? Stupid things are usually fun. Fun things are usually cool.

Has anyone here ever bought a complete system from newegg? I know they sell them, but I have never known anyone to buy one from them. I guess you must be a mythical creature to buy one, like a normal person visiting Narnia.

I have everything setup to where I rarely use anything but my media center remote and a gamepad. Even my password is remote friendly. The only time I use a mouse is to start Steam and choose my game. The only time I use my keyboard is to search netflix (can still use remote, but I just type infinitely faster). I have a central server that integrates my stuff directly in WMC.

In short, everything you said plus it makes for a hell of a great gaming console.

I thought the same thing about Zune. If you are in the MS ecosystem, it is phenomenal. To be fair, they didn’t include Sony’s Qriosity service either.