Hey, I like Google and everything, but this isn't very exciting. My HTPC has been doing these things (and more) for years. Perhaps I'd been just a little more interested if I could easily run this as a platform on my existing hardware.
The big theme at GDC this year was social platforms, with the evangelists insisting that hardcore gaming is going away forever within 5 years. 5 years ago, these same guys were using absolutes to describe the total decline of PC gaming. Nobody said a word about Facebook.
The only prediction worth putting stock into is that the future will continue to become more unpredictable.
Agreed. Why not do what everyone else does about this and just ignore it, pretending its not there? Do you really have to come out and decry it?
Idiots!
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Hey, I like Google and everything, but this isn't very exciting. My HTPC has been doing these things (and more) for years. Perhaps I'd been just a little more interested if I could easily run this as a platform on my existing hardware.
Nah, I see nothing wrong with the way we get our energy now. Nothing at all...
Clearly, once they've finished, they plan to destroy the entire world so that they can claim to have truly archived all human knowledge, forever.
Shit yeah!
The big theme at GDC this year was social platforms, with the evangelists insisting that hardcore gaming is going away forever within 5 years. 5 years ago, these same guys were using absolutes to describe the total decline of PC gaming. Nobody said a word about Facebook. The only prediction worth putting stock into is that the future will continue to become more unpredictable.
Agreed. Why not do what everyone else does about this and just ignore it, pretending its not there? Do you really have to come out and decry it? Idiots!
Turns out Bladerunner wasn't too far off.
You beat me to both of those jokes.