I can see it now...

ME:
Hey, I'm trying to get some sleep. I have a meeting at Gimodo HQ in the AM. Please stop nudging my seat back.

Guy behind me:
Sorry buddy, I just got the BFG and the captain of the plane and I are in a duel to the death.

LMFAO i was on an 11 hour flight on american airlines, and the seatback TVs had touchscreens and the remotes had game controllers. but there were no games, so it was kinda a waste of a game controller.
...not to mention i'd swing the remote around like i was playing Wii or something, and he yelled at me when he realized there were STILL no games.

That would be awesome to have, but Virgin America is probably going to be VERY expensive, especially since it's just starting out. It kinda sucks that you have to pay extra for food. Also, the Doom seemed pretty laggy when he was playing it.

Help, I'm in a nutshell!

You have to pay extra for food on pretty much all flights these days, except for longer ones. I think what they mean is that you can order real food on top of the free peanuts and half can of soda that most airlines now give you. I think this is very cool, but have to agree with PocketLint, someone poking the back of the seat would get annoying. At least they have the keyboard to minimize this a little.

Dude, the chicken entree is grayed out. That happens when they are sold out. So STOP poking the screen.

Or

Dude, I'm trying to get some sleep here. What the heck does the angle of my seat back have to do with the raid in EQ and the fact that your guildies can't start until you bring up your enchanter.

Wow, touchscreen?! Things sure have advanced since my virgin Virgin Atlantic flight; back then it was the good ole Mario Kart with a broken controller.

I'm on this flight, sitting next to, what has to be the oldest grandma in America, who was napping the whole flight away.

I pick up the seat back Wii controller and played me some tennis to pass the time away.

The strap breaks and the controller ends up lodging in the back of the head of the undercover air marshal who was seated a few rows ahead of us.

I was like.. OMG what am I gonna do..

So I did what any Gizmodo user would do. I put the broken wrist strap on the one hand of granny, put my can of jolt in her hand and pretended to be catching some zzzzzzzzs.

I literally was shocked when we landed and fro some reason they tackled her on the runway ramp.

So, now the flight you bought for cheap at $500 will cost you $1000 after you watch a movie, eat a turkey sub, and frag some demons? That sucks. Oh, yeah, 3000 songs? That's really a piddly amount.

hey, stop complaining. its alot better than anything we have had here in the USA. Especially on a two hour flight from STL to the east coast

"I can't wait to start a dialogue back and forth with you." Who is this guy, my girlfriend's therapist?

The guy really sucks at Doom. Shooting around in a circle and he couldn't even hit the barrel to blow it up?

So will they have XPlane or Flight Sim X in that? If they do, will there be a button for paging the pilot so he can give me tips? That would be cool, or maybe not.

That wireless USB keyboard is pretty sweet.

Yes, that wired USB keyboard is pretty sweet. I just hope the cutlery is sharp enough for me to be able to relocate it to my Car PC.

How on earth are they getting Doom on there? Isn't it still under copyright?

NOW COLUMBINE WILL HAPPEN ON THE PLANES!!!

Emirates has these in all classes, bar the food ordering. Movies, phone, sms, email, music, games, and it seems to be running Linux as far as I can tell. They've even got them on short-haul 1 hour flight routes!

I'm pretty sure doom is under copywrite, and i'm pretty sure they still sell it in stores. I a fan port to linux does not negate this. Id is going to be on them, i'll bet.

Also, the framerate kind of sucked. Is linux really a good platform for games? I have Ubuntu on my second partition, and it seems good for avoiding malware. I tried installing a few games on it once, but it was a pain in the ass, with mediocre results. My compters awsome graphics capbalilites seemed crippled by a Linux OS.

Yeah what happens after I recline my seat back to relax. Does the Screen Detach or fold into an angle will the front passenger seat is reclined? I think that needs to be a concern.

I enjoy flying on 777's since they have the seat back screens and you can adjust the angle of the screen. 747's are getting long in the tooth. As for the gaming...I don't need to hear some fool crying and cursing because he's getting fragged.

The custom food idea is good, although I choose vegitarian when flying. I don't need that brick of lasagna setting in my gut for nine hours.

The music idea is nice and adding other quiz games would be good as well. Something like Sudoku, or Trivial Pursuit.

The bad frame rate isn't because of Linux it's probably because of their hardware. That being said Linux isn't exactly the best OS for games but in this case it's just not the limitation.

Yes, Doom is still under copyright (but remember, the first episode was freely available as shareware back in the day), but the engine has been re-written to run under Linux. If I'm not mistaken, the engine's source code is also now under GPL, along with that for Quake and Quake II. Now, remember, engine != game content, so yes, they probably have to pay for the mission packs (Episodes 1-3 and the others; Doom II, Final Doom, Yoghurt Flavored Demons of Death Doom, etc.). One thing, though is that (as few here seem to know) iD software has been pretty supportive to the Linux community as far as supplying games to play. I'm not sure about Quake 1-3, but I do know for a fact that Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was made available to play on Linux, as well as Doom 3 and Quake 4. So, as long as Virgin is paying for its .wad files, iD really has no ground to stand on as far as anything "legal" goes.

Just my $0.02.

BRAVO!

"You'll be taken to a list construct" - Exactly how is that different from a list? Lame pseudo-technical marketing speak may be the reason Virgin isn't just part of his job title.