Hell... I may be a programmer and not a suit, but when my sales are faltering, consumer opinion of me is well down, new technologies stand poised to eliminate me altogether and the economy is on the skids, I probably wouldn't introduce technology that makes my product harder to use and less accessible.
Whoa there - this is a *network*, not the real world. I'm talking about the network being constructed with your chosen laws built-in, not tacked on top. Since this is a big computer system, you can set it up so that it works the way you want it to, with limits that are built in.
The real world requires laws like "this is the speed limit" whereas computer systems can be set up so that "it is impossible to break this speed limit" within that system. Where rules cannot be woven into the fabric of the system, only then should laws be added.
I don't like Acceptable Usage Policies. I see them and think "these guys haven't built their network properly". I want their network to let me do whatever the hell i want, and restrict me automatically through technical means, not allow me to overload everything, THEN tell me I've been bad.
I'd like to see bandwidth restriction based on current overall usage too, rather than times of the day, ports, or locations around campus. If no-one is using the 10Mbit link, I should be able to use it! When things get busy, my pr0n downloads should be throttled back.
"There are compelling national interests that require us to complete the siting process and move forward with the development of a repository as Congress mandated 20 years ago"
So 20 years ago, Congress stimulated nuclear power investment by making wild promises about how they would solve everyone's waste problems with this central storage facility. Of course, they completely underestimated the technical difficulty of the task, and no magical safe storage method was discovered in the intervening two decades. Now the government is pushing the project ahead ANYWAY, despite serious technical problems and unresolved questions.
I really wish someone had shown some guts 20 years ago and said "how about we hold off until we're sure we can deal with the waste"...
The "potential video versions of services like Napster" are already here: Kazaa, Morpheus, Neo Modus, and countless others. Even so, the suits seem under the impression that eliminating any or all of these services will fix their content problems.
Ordinary users now have an ever-increasing array of high-bandwidth transfer mediums at their disposal: ftp, IRC, ICQ, email, web hosting, CD-Rs, tape drives, removable hard drives, laptops... you think the new iMac's DVD burner is going to be used for home movies?:)
Ordinary users still have freedom to choose what code their machines run, which means content is in enemy territory. It can be unlocked, transferred to a new format, edited, or even just played.
Content providers need to address these underlying problems, not the latest Napster clones. This will mean locking down media, data, networks, protocols, OSes, apps, BIOSes, hardware, the whole lot. Pretty doubtful, methinks.
..."spend their waking hours in trancelike states, staring at lights, rocking, making high-pitched squeaks, and flapping their hands, repetitively stimulating ("stimming") their miswired nervous systems."
Hell, I know adults who pay good money to get into these states. Lucky damn autistic geek kids.
From my experience with marketroids and web server logs, I'm not sure they actually *want* to know people's likes and dislikes. They actually get quite shocked with hard evidence contrary to their own beliefs, immediately claiming that the "server must be broken" or "we're being hacked". Some even go as far as removing links to sections of the site that they think are overly popular, to "direct traffic back to the more important part of the site". With this system:
"Sir, the latest tracker results say that people are 92% more likely to change channels when the Microsoft flying-through-the-air XP ads are on!"
"WHAT?! That's impossible... hmmm, can we pay for the other channels to be blank while our ads are on?"
It's akin to letting the new kid in school return the footballs to the equipment shed, as opposed to the troublemaker who's stolen everything he could get his hands on. We've been burnt before by these guys. If they can get away with it, they will.
I've been looking at upgrading to dual Athlons for the last while, and was considering running XPs in one of the new MPX motherboards, rather than paying extra for the MP Athlons. Everything I'd read pointed at them working just as well, so way pay more?
Then I see in the Bapco Sysmark test that the dual Duron setup hung in the same place each time - this is the first real evidence I've seen that running non-MP CPUs might be a bad idea... good to know.
The state of Victoria needs about 7600MW of power. The proposed convection tower's *peak* output is 200MW. For comparison, the two gas power stations I have data on (I work for an energy company here in the UK) are 600MW and 850MW. It seems like the tower is playing in the right ballpark, although it really is completely dependent on its mean output, not its peak.
BTW, the gas power stations produce power extremely close to their capacity, 24 hours a day. Power is expensive to store, so you really try and avoid overproduction. If the tower's output varies wildly over a 24-hour period, or even seasonally, this will be a disadvantage.
Still, it's a pretty damn cool idea - a zero emissions power station with no requirements for supply lines, *and* it's already been prototyped in Manzanares. I wonder if a *smaller* tower might be a better idea (cheaper, less of an eyesore), using the principles of micropower to build a robust, distributed network of smaller-scale power stations, rather than fewer, giant power stations.
Damn, distributed network? This is sounding like the internet power grid...
I really wish these guys would realise that all their products suck. Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Realplayer, I hate them all. They're bloated, slow, annoying, buggy, badly-designed pieces of crap. The only reason I haven't blown them away is the whole exclusive delivery scam these guys are trying to pull. The Star Wars trailer comes out, it's only in Quicktime, and there's no way to convert it to something less obnoxious. If I had a choice, I'd get one of my Mac buddies to convert it into DivX, or MPEG2, or something, and watch it without the pain.
What floors me is that these exclusive releases are then used as "proof" for the popularity of the format. That's like having a beauty contest with only one contestant! If they wanted to be fair (which they don't, of course), they would provide it in a wide range of formats, and see which one is the most popular. But no, it's all about the monopoly.
Of course, let's not even start with Media Player resurrecting itself or Quicktime hijacking my mp3 associations or Realplayer leaking memory and spamming me with ads. It's a nightmare, but at least I can still watch the Lord of the Rings trailers... mmmmmm....
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You're right - US cities are built around the automobile. Large arterial highways carrying cars large distances at large speeds (well, that's the theory). Cities sprawl - everything feels BIG. It's very American.
Here in London, it's pretty pointless to own a car, unless you use it to get out of the city. The city is flat, space is at a premium, and walking is actually a viable option, if you've got the time. 3 million people endure the horrors of the London Underground (hot, smelly, crowded, frequently broken) every day, simply because there aren't any alternatives. Segway might just work here, since Londoners are typically businesspeople, and won't do that nasty physically active stuff, like riding bikes.
As an example, I walked to work once or twice during Tube strikes this year, and it took about an hour. If I could Segway it in 20 mins, this would be *faster* than the tube, and hugely more enjoyable. All I'd need is covered pathways to keep the rain off and I'd be set.
The server being the bottleneck does sometimes happen, particularly with high-volume websites. If hits are coming in faster than the server can process them, they queue up. CPU usage skyrockets, free memory shrinks, the server starts to thrash, and it often spirals down into a state where it refuses new connections until it's processed the ones it has. This is why you often see HTTP 1.1 / Server Too Busy errors - the server has been swamped. Not the link.
Tuning a web server is also a bit of an art - most default settings don't take full advantage of the hardware, they throw out Too Busy messages before the CPU/memory is full utilised. Parameters such as queues and worker threads need to be increased to accept more connections. Of course, this can lead to overtuning, where the parameters are set too ambitiously, the server bites off more than it can chew, and chokes.
Modern web servers on modern hardware can serve a frightening number of flat html pages per second - the real problems stem from poorly optimised dynamic code, usually to do with databases. Sure it's cute to have the site navigation automatically generate from a database query, but it's insanely inefficient. It'll work great under normal light loads, but when you get linked from Slashdot, you're dead.
I suspect a rugby ball microcam would produce pictures akin to a running washing machine filled with 30 burly blokes & mud... but other types of cams & tech might work better, maybe.
I remember the XFL used a few innovative ideas (apart from those pneumatic cheerleaders), such as padded cameramen in the middle of the field, or cameras on cables above the field, or cameras in the lockerroom... ARGH! Maybe not that one. Rugby referees are now miked, can talk to their touch judges (sideline refs), and can call for TV ref to assist if things are too close to call. I think all these improvements are good, but as long as they add polish to the game, not change it.
People said the XFL in-your-face angles made it confusing, and annoying. The same has been said about coverage for competitive computer gaming, where the best spectator view is often NOT that of the player. This is why Valve created their spectator mode for Counter-Strike, so you could sit back "in the stands" and watch the teams work.
...BBQ (ugh, low-tech... microwave it)
on a sunny (it burns! it burns!)
weekend (can't make it... working),
chugging a few cold ones (jolt, right?)
and maybe talking shop ("then I deleted his files & posted pics to alt.naughty.sailors.in.moms.clothing")
wives (left for guy in marketing with Porsche)
and girlfriends (maybe for now, but will learn soon enough)
preparing salads (no damn rabbit food, gimme a pizza)
kids (get lost until you've hacked my firewall, kid)
running (run? you mean... strafe jumping?)
round the garden (overgrown, neglected, wild & scarey)
You know, I'd be annoyed with Apple for preventing people linking to the trailer directly, and once again requiring an upgrade to quicktime pro for the hi-res version... if the trailer wasn't so drenched in schmaltz that I nearly physically barfed.
But... I suppose I better swallow hard a few times, take a sip of water and make the suggestion that we put the trailers on various P2P networks... post filenames, and once you've got the trailer... share it, please?
A much bigger threat to Microsoft than Linux is market stagnation. 90% market share means you have to look to other markets for customers (Xbox, keyboards, mice, Pocket PC), try and sell your product over again to the same people (XP), or change to a rental structure (.NET).
Having salespeople trying to win business in the fractionally tiny sliver of the leftover 10% of the market "people who are migrating from unix to linux" is freaking lame - what about the rather hefty and lucrative segment "people who aren't migrating to XP because it doesn't offer anything compelling"?
Microsoft should be spending its billions generating new demand, not trying to take its 90% market share to 92.5%. Where are the golden oldies, like voice recognition, speech synthesis, handwriting recognition, not to mention all the crazy stuff that no-one's dreamed up yet? Where are the VR interfaces, massive dataset visualisers, database filesystems, all built to smash my machine into whimpering shards and only run on XP(tm)?
The only killer app driving upgrades seems to be games, and MS seems to be further stagnating that by shifting games like Halo to the XBox. If a PC version of "uber-Halo" required a P4 2Ghz & Windows XP, gamers from here to Osaka would be selling their livers to get on board, economic downturn or no.
Hang on... that article says "we'd caution against taking them as gospel", and that's coming from The Register, a site that has been... uh... less than correct on some issues in the past.
Plus, the reports are from Adobe, who make Photoshop... an extremely Mac-optimised piece of software usually held up by the Mac brigade whenever they attempt comparative benchmarks.
Look, I *want* to believe that the G5 makes great coffee, gives fantastic backrubs, cures cancer and runs faster than every P4. I do. I've just heard all these lines before, with the G4.
I agree - scheduling groundbreaking projects is a nightmare. Usually, the only time you'll get an accurate timeline is when the project is done, and putting "no freaking idea, no-one's ever attempted this before" in your budget is pretty much going to torpedo your funding.
This is the edge - some of the most insanely complex, mind-bustingly difficult science in on the planet, with devastating penalties for failure. The entire Mars Climate Orbiter mission failed utterly because of a simple metric conversion error - rigid budgets are going to just add to the difficulty.
We'll either see more mission failures (prompting another round of budget cuts, nice one) or a scaling-back of missions to simple, straightforward, budgetable and LAME projects, like launching weather balloons.
These guys just don't learn... Linux isn't about market share - it's about making a good OS! Linus and Alan Cox don't get up in the morning and think of ways to cut into Microsoft's pie, they try and improve the existing Linux system. Woz said it in his recent interview... he cut his hacker teeth building computers that competed against their previous versions, always improving.
As for Wininformant, yay well done. You caught the fact that a Linux win wasn't actually a Microsoft loss. Here's some more news for you: WE DON'T CARE.
Holy crap, that Roboguard demo is... 173MB? Maybe they should put a size warning on that one, although my work's currently paying for my bandwidth, meh.
1) Watch WTC terrorism events and repercussions on TV
2) Realise there'll be big money in the video surveillance market
3) Create video surveillance company, but don't have any products
4) Post an Ask Slashdot for free technical advice
5) Create surveillance product
6) Make serious bank!
This is kinda odd, considering Powerful Dumb People's usually fruity reactions to violence in videogames.
Since the media loves blaming games for bad behaviour, will this be touted as a "government-sponsored murder simulator" by Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman and his ilk?
Then there's the kneejerk reaction that creating a game that teaches people effective command of groups of soldiers might be assisting terrorism...
All complete rubbish of course, but dont be surprised to see people frothing about it sometime soon.
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Hell... I may be a programmer and not a suit, but when my sales are faltering, consumer opinion of me is well down, new technologies stand poised to eliminate me altogether and the economy is on the skids, I probably wouldn't introduce technology that makes my product harder to use and less accessible.
Are these guys trying to go out of business?
Whoa there - this is a *network*, not the real world. I'm talking about the network being constructed with your chosen laws built-in, not tacked on top. Since this is a big computer system, you can set it up so that it works the way you want it to, with limits that are built in.
The real world requires laws like "this is the speed limit" whereas computer systems can be set up so that "it is impossible to break this speed limit" within that system. Where rules cannot be woven into the fabric of the system, only then should laws be added.
I don't like Acceptable Usage Policies. I see them and think "these guys haven't built their network properly". I want their network to let me do whatever the hell i want, and restrict me automatically through technical means, not allow me to overload everything, THEN tell me I've been bad.
I'd like to see bandwidth restriction based on current overall usage too, rather than times of the day, ports, or locations around campus. If no-one is using the 10Mbit link, I should be able to use it! When things get busy, my pr0n downloads should be throttled back.
"There are compelling national interests that require us to complete the siting process and move forward with the development of a repository as Congress mandated 20 years ago"
So 20 years ago, Congress stimulated nuclear power investment by making wild promises about how they would solve everyone's waste problems with this central storage facility. Of course, they completely underestimated the technical difficulty of the task, and no magical safe storage method was discovered in the intervening two decades. Now the government is pushing the project ahead ANYWAY, despite serious technical problems and unresolved questions.
I really wish someone had shown some guts 20 years ago and said "how about we hold off until we're sure we can deal with the waste"...
- Ordinary users now have an ever-increasing array of high-bandwidth transfer mediums at their disposal: ftp, IRC, ICQ, email, web hosting, CD-Rs, tape drives, removable hard drives, laptops... you think the new iMac's DVD burner is going to be used for home movies?
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- Ordinary users still have freedom to choose what code their machines run, which means content is in enemy territory. It can be unlocked, transferred to a new format, edited, or even just played.
Content providers need to address these underlying problems, not the latest Napster clones. This will mean locking down media, data, networks, protocols, OSes, apps, BIOSes, hardware, the whole lot. Pretty doubtful, methinks...."spend their waking hours in trancelike states, staring at lights, rocking, making high-pitched squeaks, and flapping their hands, repetitively stimulating ("stimming") their miswired nervous systems."
Hell, I know adults who pay good money to get into these states. Lucky damn autistic geek kids.
From my experience with marketroids and web server logs, I'm not sure they actually *want* to know people's likes and dislikes. They actually get quite shocked with hard evidence contrary to their own beliefs, immediately claiming that the "server must be broken" or "we're being hacked". Some even go as far as removing links to sections of the site that they think are overly popular, to "direct traffic back to the more important part of the site". With this system:
"Sir, the latest tracker results say that people are 92% more likely to change channels when the Microsoft flying-through-the-air XP ads are on!"
"WHAT?! That's impossible... hmmm, can we pay for the other channels to be blank while our ads are on?"
It's akin to letting the new kid in school return the footballs to the equipment shed, as opposed to the troublemaker who's stolen everything he could get his hands on. We've been burnt before by these guys. If they can get away with it, they will.
Wow, someone who has actually braved the waters already... what motherboard are you using, the Tiger MP?
I've been looking at upgrading to dual Athlons for the last while, and was considering running XPs in one of the new MPX motherboards, rather than paying extra for the MP Athlons. Everything I'd read pointed at them working just as well, so way pay more?
Then I see in the Bapco Sysmark test that the dual Duron setup hung in the same place each time - this is the first real evidence I've seen that running non-MP CPUs might be a bad idea... good to know.
Meh, kinda dinky to tack this on my own post... but I found a picture of the Manzanares prototype tower - warning though, big picture (390K).
The state of Victoria needs about 7600MW of power. The proposed convection tower's *peak* output is 200MW. For comparison, the two gas power stations I have data on (I work for an energy company here in the UK) are 600MW and 850MW. It seems like the tower is playing in the right ballpark, although it really is completely dependent on its mean output, not its peak.
BTW, the gas power stations produce power extremely close to their capacity, 24 hours a day. Power is expensive to store, so you really try and avoid overproduction. If the tower's output varies wildly over a 24-hour period, or even seasonally, this will be a disadvantage.
Still, it's a pretty damn cool idea - a zero emissions power station with no requirements for supply lines, *and* it's already been prototyped in Manzanares. I wonder if a *smaller* tower might be a better idea (cheaper, less of an eyesore), using the principles of micropower to build a robust, distributed network of smaller-scale power stations, rather than fewer, giant power stations.
Damn, distributed network? This is sounding like the internet power grid...
Jeez... suits...
I really wish these guys would realise that all their products suck. Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Realplayer, I hate them all. They're bloated, slow, annoying, buggy, badly-designed pieces of crap. The only reason I haven't blown them away is the whole exclusive delivery scam these guys are trying to pull. The Star Wars trailer comes out, it's only in Quicktime, and there's no way to convert it to something less obnoxious. If I had a choice, I'd get one of my Mac buddies to convert it into DivX, or MPEG2, or something, and watch it without the pain.
What floors me is that these exclusive releases are then used as "proof" for the popularity of the format. That's like having a beauty contest with only one contestant! If they wanted to be fair (which they don't, of course), they would provide it in a wide range of formats, and see which one is the most popular. But no, it's all about the monopoly.
Of course, let's not even start with Media Player resurrecting itself or Quicktime hijacking my mp3 associations or Realplayer leaking memory and spamming me with ads. It's a nightmare, but at least I can still watch the Lord of the Rings trailers... mmmmmm....
You're right - US cities are built around the automobile. Large arterial highways carrying cars large distances at large speeds (well, that's the theory). Cities sprawl - everything feels BIG. It's very American.
Here in London, it's pretty pointless to own a car, unless you use it to get out of the city. The city is flat, space is at a premium, and walking is actually a viable option, if you've got the time. 3 million people endure the horrors of the London Underground (hot, smelly, crowded, frequently broken) every day, simply because there aren't any alternatives. Segway might just work here, since Londoners are typically businesspeople, and won't do that nasty physically active stuff, like riding bikes.
As an example, I walked to work once or twice during Tube strikes this year, and it took about an hour. If I could Segway it in 20 mins, this would be *faster* than the tube, and hugely more enjoyable. All I'd need is covered pathways to keep the rain off and I'd be set.
The server being the bottleneck does sometimes happen, particularly with high-volume websites. If hits are coming in faster than the server can process them, they queue up. CPU usage skyrockets, free memory shrinks, the server starts to thrash, and it often spirals down into a state where it refuses new connections until it's processed the ones it has. This is why you often see HTTP 1.1 / Server Too Busy errors - the server has been swamped. Not the link.
Tuning a web server is also a bit of an art - most default settings don't take full advantage of the hardware, they throw out Too Busy messages before the CPU/memory is full utilised. Parameters such as queues and worker threads need to be increased to accept more connections. Of course, this can lead to overtuning, where the parameters are set too ambitiously, the server bites off more than it can chew, and chokes.
Modern web servers on modern hardware can serve a frightening number of flat html pages per second - the real problems stem from poorly optimised dynamic code, usually to do with databases. Sure it's cute to have the site navigation automatically generate from a database query, but it's insanely inefficient. It'll work great under normal light loads, but when you get linked from Slashdot, you're dead.
I suspect a rugby ball microcam would produce pictures akin to a running washing machine filled with 30 burly blokes & mud... but other types of cams & tech might work better, maybe.
I remember the XFL used a few innovative ideas (apart from those pneumatic cheerleaders), such as padded cameramen in the middle of the field, or cameras on cables above the field, or cameras in the lockerroom... ARGH! Maybe not that one. Rugby referees are now miked, can talk to their touch judges (sideline refs), and can call for TV ref to assist if things are too close to call. I think all these improvements are good, but as long as they add polish to the game, not change it.
People said the XFL in-your-face angles made it confusing, and annoying. The same has been said about coverage for competitive computer gaming, where the best spectator view is often NOT that of the player. This is why Valve created their spectator mode for Counter-Strike, so you could sit back "in the stands" and watch the teams work.
shut up man
...BBQ (ugh, low-tech... microwave it)
on a sunny (it burns! it burns!)
weekend (can't make it... working),
chugging a few cold ones (jolt, right?)
and maybe talking shop ("then I deleted his files & posted pics to alt.naughty.sailors.in.moms.clothing")
wives (left for guy in marketing with Porsche)
and girlfriends (maybe for now, but will learn soon enough)
preparing salads (no damn rabbit food, gimme a pizza)
kids (get lost until you've hacked my firewall, kid)
running (run? you mean... strafe jumping?)
round the garden (overgrown, neglected, wild & scarey)
You know, I'd be annoyed with Apple for preventing people linking to the trailer directly, and once again requiring an upgrade to quicktime pro for the hi-res version... if the trailer wasn't so drenched in schmaltz that I nearly physically barfed.
But... I suppose I better swallow hard a few times, take a sip of water and make the suggestion that we put the trailers on various P2P networks... post filenames, and once you've got the trailer... share it, please?
shut up man
A much bigger threat to Microsoft than Linux is market stagnation. 90% market share means you have to look to other markets for customers (Xbox, keyboards, mice, Pocket PC), try and sell your product over again to the same people (XP), or change to a rental structure (.NET).
Having salespeople trying to win business in the fractionally tiny sliver of the leftover 10% of the market "people who are migrating from unix to linux" is freaking lame - what about the rather hefty and lucrative segment "people who aren't migrating to XP because it doesn't offer anything compelling"?
Microsoft should be spending its billions generating new demand, not trying to take its 90% market share to 92.5%. Where are the golden oldies, like voice recognition, speech synthesis, handwriting recognition, not to mention all the crazy stuff that no-one's dreamed up yet? Where are the VR interfaces, massive dataset visualisers, database filesystems, all built to smash my machine into whimpering shards and only run on XP(tm)?
The only killer app driving upgrades seems to be games, and MS seems to be further stagnating that by shifting games like Halo to the XBox. If a PC version of "uber-Halo" required a P4 2Ghz & Windows XP, gamers from here to Osaka would be selling their livers to get on board, economic downturn or no.
So Linux? A tiny dot in comparison.
shut up man
Hang on... that article says "we'd caution against taking them as gospel", and that's coming from The Register, a site that has been... uh... less than correct on some issues in the past.
Plus, the reports are from Adobe, who make Photoshop... an extremely Mac-optimised piece of software usually held up by the Mac brigade whenever they attempt comparative benchmarks.
Look, I *want* to believe that the G5 makes great coffee, gives fantastic backrubs, cures cancer and runs faster than every P4. I do. I've just heard all these lines before, with the G4.
I agree - scheduling groundbreaking projects is a nightmare. Usually, the only time you'll get an accurate timeline is when the project is done, and putting "no freaking idea, no-one's ever attempted this before" in your budget is pretty much going to torpedo your funding.
This is the edge - some of the most insanely complex, mind-bustingly difficult science in on the planet, with devastating penalties for failure. The entire Mars Climate Orbiter mission failed utterly because of a simple metric conversion error - rigid budgets are going to just add to the difficulty.
We'll either see more mission failures (prompting another round of budget cuts, nice one) or a scaling-back of missions to simple, straightforward, budgetable and LAME projects, like launching weather balloons.
These guys just don't learn... Linux isn't about market share - it's about making a good OS! Linus and Alan Cox don't get up in the morning and think of ways to cut into Microsoft's pie, they try and improve the existing Linux system. Woz said it in his recent interview... he cut his hacker teeth building computers that competed against their previous versions, always improving.
As for Wininformant, yay well done. You caught the fact that a Linux win wasn't actually a Microsoft loss. Here's some more news for you: WE DON'T CARE.
shut up man
Holy crap, that Roboguard demo is... 173MB? Maybe they should put a size warning on that one, although my work's currently paying for my bandwidth, meh.
shut up man
1) Watch WTC terrorism events and repercussions on TV
2) Realise there'll be big money in the video surveillance market
3) Create video surveillance company, but don't have any products
4) Post an Ask Slashdot for free technical advice
5) Create surveillance product
6) Make serious bank!
shut up man
This is kinda odd, considering Powerful Dumb People's usually fruity reactions to violence in videogames.
Since the media loves blaming games for bad behaviour, will this be touted as a "government-sponsored murder simulator" by Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman and his ilk?
Then there's the kneejerk reaction that creating a game that teaches people effective command of groups of soldiers might be assisting terrorism...
All complete rubbish of course, but dont be surprised to see people frothing about it sometime soon.
shut up man