My mind is racing with all of the creative and fun software possibilities that this type of hardware can enable. The video showed some great examples. At $70, its within a reasonable price point to take off.
The only thing I'd be concerned about is arm strain that results from holding your hands in the air like that. After a few minutes, its probably pretty uncomfortable. Does this work even if you rest your elbows on the desk? I assume it would, but the question of arm strain and comfort is the only thing I wonder about.
His nerds for days comment is quite frankly, bizarre, agreed. I feel a bit sorry for him actually though. My bet is that he was probably abused as a kid and has some real issues. If he wasn't in love with lulz so much, rather than creating some shock porn sites he'd probably join the TSA or something to get his rocks off in controlling and damaging other people.
As somebody interested in peoples' motivations though, this seems puzzling. Outside of the modest burst of media attention he gets for doing it, I don't see a reason why he would add addresses to his site's pictures. The idea of mapping personally identifying information about people to certain unique numbers or addresses isn't a new concept as http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and other sites use numbers and things of that nature to link peoples' identities. But I think that inviting people to list an address is probably crossing one bridge too far.
I think your point here is valid - if backup options are restricted via DRM, then the company does have at the least a moral obligation to provide re-downloads. Companies like Barnes and Noble that probably have very thin margins would do well to enact business practices that gain them long-term customers.
IE hate is well deserved. How many hundreds of thousands or millions of productive hours have been lost due to incompabilities, bugs, etc?
That being said, Microsoft is full of talented people and they do create some fantastic products. IE is slowly getting to a more respectable point and hating on it so harshly seems juvenile.
The only thing I'd be concerned about is arm strain that results from holding your hands in the air like that. After a few minutes, its probably pretty uncomfortable. Does this work even if you rest your elbows on the desk? I assume it would, but the question of arm strain and comfort is the only thing I wonder about.