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“Fortunately, and this is going to sound really rough, old people get older and eventually go away,” he says. Hmph!

According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the average age of a gamer in Linden Labs Second Life is 33. Im 44 and in a Battlefield 2 clan that regularly kicks ass in tournaments. Ninety percent of our clan members are in their mid-to-!ate 30s, and we’re growing all the time. I work for an ISP that supplies broadband to rural communities; we’ve sold accounts to more than a few people – car salesmen, firefighters, retired factory workers, and one grandma – who all wanted high-speed Internet access simply to be able to play World of WarCraft. Mr. Pitchford said, “Older generations are out of the equation.” I agree .. if he”s referring to the Donkey Kong and Mario crowd. I forsook consoles from the start, and not because of age being an issue – but because Ive always been a PC fan.

Mr Pitchford claims the industry present scope and future motivate him. Let it motivate him on down the hall to a console.

If you had noticed.. digital cameras have become ubiquitous. First, there’s the astonishing collapse of the traditional film camera market. According to recent surveys, more than 90 percent of all cameras sold are now digital. Big-name camera companies are either exiting the film business (Kodak, Nikon) or exiting the camera business altogether (Konica Minolta). Popular digital cameras are sony, olympus, canon, casio and a bunch of others who have changed their business from film cameras to the digital camera market

Digital cameras with a resolution of 5 or 6 megapixel are not uncommon and there is a race for bringing out the cameras with the highest picture quality in terms of megapixels and it seems to be over soon enough in the compact camera market.

There is speculation about what the picture quality of a digital camera would be in years to come. We’ll have to see if there is a static limit set by the hardware or the sensor which a digital camera usually contains. Cell phones are now including a digital camera and it is very convenient to have a cellphone with a camera. Sony, nokia, samsung are a few brands which produce cell phones with cameras.

Image stabilizing, wireless support, robust software, better batteries are the problems of modern digital cameras and companies are trying hard to improve the quality of their products.

There is a relief for photographers amateurs and professionals alike. The storage capacity of a digital camera has increased tremendously with the usage of flash cards and NAND memories which offer memory storage upto 16gb in the years to come. Cameras are become more and more compact and sophisticated. We’ll have to see how advanced they would be in a couple of years.