@JumpyLuweegee actually they didn't. They stated that they wouldn't change their used game policy. This meaning that third party publishers can restrict the resale of games through online passes (battlefield 3). However, what xbox has implemented is far different. They have a system where you can only lend a game you own to only ONE person and said game has to connect every hour while it's being lent. It's a completely different beast.

@amaneuvering Then where would your credibility have been?

@bezza2011 @Jamievrcade I thought of another scenario haha. Let's go back to that large dome but now it has an obstacle course inside of it. The obstacle course is ordinary enough but with the VR helment it can send you to a completely different world where these obstacles become objects that you can interact with and even use to hide from enemies. Hell, you could even use them to get from one end of the building to the other while fighting off aliens as a sort of workout program. Video games could change from a lazy mans pastime to an active mans one. Who really can say.

@bezza2011 @Jamievrcade I have this sort of futuristic vision for VR of this caliber. Imagine. You're in a large dome building (maybe the size of a football field) you have set up motion tracking points on your body and teams of 5 with 2 teams. Imagine the type of immersion you could achieve?! Goodbye to laser tag, hello VR. Or, another scenerio. You go to the arcade(pretty much an archaic statement nowadays) and step onto this Treadmill like machine, only it moves in 360 degrees. You place a band around your waste to keep your body stationary allowing your legs to move freely and begin playing a game. The possibilities are really only limited by your imagination.

@Saketume @Double-Ego Actually, most manufacturing companies use lead-less solder. It's required by most companies to meet the ever looming demands of their local environmental policies. Anyways, it was less about the solder being used and more on the quality of said lead-less solder (They most certainly are not the same) also because the PS3 was one of the biggest users of the BGA Chip (Ball Grid Array), at the time, it had issues. The constant heating and cooling process heated the buffer area AKA the solder between the PCB material and the chip itself. The only problem is that the heat coefficients of the PCB material and that of the solder and Silicon chip itself where so different that it actually flexed the solder and eventually it cracked; this in turn caused lack of connections.

@anigmha I agree with this statement. Hopefully, like the wii controller, you can turn down the volume or even completely mute the sound coming from the controller

@Random_Virus @kswhite609 Social Engineering is still one of the top ways to access forbidden information or even sensitive information. To stop that you have to develop a well trained staff and hope the company you leave your info to practices these safety procedures. It's just a step in the right direction to make people safer. It might not protect against the more clever hackers but the lower rate ones or the beginners it might keep out. Protection is always one step behind the best known hack. Doesn't mean we shouldn't protect against well known worse hacks.

@Random_Virus The way this two step verification usually works is by sending a password to your cell, you then confirm the password seen on your cell by typing it into your xbox. This allows them to verify it's your device; from that point on then they register that PARTICULAR device as the one you use. If in a case they steal your password they would notice an unregistered xbox or pc accessing the account and lock the account. To which you would have to reopen it with your cell you receive passwords on.

@thorn3000 The issue isn't really freedom of speech [also it applies everywhere, I think what your talking about is the releasing of sensitive data. I had to sign a form of non disclosure for my employment since they have prototyped product.] He didn't do that. He merely stated his opinion on how people were acting towards a rumor of "always online". Employees not able to express their own personal opinions on their own personal accounts seems a bit too controlling if you ask me. You find that him being fired over such a simplistic issue is rational? A simple apology along with maybe a week without pay would be more than sufficient. Also to take such an outlandish approach as a Walmart greeter calling people fat as comparable as to what this person did is a prepubescent argument. Let's stay within the realms of realistic kind sir. :)

@thorn3000 I think what's sad is the majority find it completely justifiable for someone exercising their freedom of speech to be terminated from their job. Was it insensitive? yes. Inappropriate? hardly. You have people employed at the top level of their companies blatantly operating in that moral gray area everyday and nobody says "boo". I think what you're beginning to see is a community of younger kids who don't know how to make a voice for themselves so they take the route of a small child who is just learning to talk to get their way...They scream, yell and generally make the most noise. It'll will be interesting if any of them are thrust into a similar situation at work and see how miniscule their input was to have such a drastic outcome.