"rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot.
Unless you own a powerbook or some other laptop. And don't want to look like a fool in the process. And don't have time to load linux onto your toaster. And pardon me while I load my GBA emulator onto my alienware laptop.
"... I mean, its not like you are looking at anything useful while you are fastforwarding, and "free tv" needs some sort of revenue."
I think my brain just exploded. One of the key points TiVo had in it's favor was skipping those advertisements. That, and you're already paying for a subscription. Are they just going to drop that now too? For somtehing that should have been free to begin with? I mean you're already shelling out for the hardware itself and it isn't that cheap.
I'm sorry, but contrary to the submitter of this story, there is no way I could have ever bought one of these devices from a company looking to milk their consumers so damn much. It's like XBOx Live. It's not free because they're money whores, no other reason.
It's ironic that somebody who is trying to address one of linux biggest problems- user friendliness -is being flamed and compared to that very same product. I'm not saying the service is good or bad. I don't know. And neither do half of you, but we're associating it with Windows- a bad comparison to begin with -anyway. What's hugely ironic is that you have to pay for a service to get an open source product that user friendliness to begin with.
And for God sakes, people, you can turn the windows auto update manager off. If that's your biggest bitch, go whore yourself somewhere else.
No, the airline industry isn't pushing this technology. Thry're pushing the technology that will allow an aircraft to create a quieter sonic boom over populated areas. A Mach airliner can be done. It can even be done affordably, if you can fly it over populated areas without a resounding 'thump!' everytime it passes overhead. The inability to use it's speed advantage over populations and subsequent lack of effecient route restrictions were key in killing the Concord, and it's one of the reasons why the industry hasn't taken off in the US. The cost to make the aircraft combined with the inability to use it effeciently makes it a money losing proposition everytime.
The SR71 uses one of the more complex methods of maintaining high mach travel, but it isn't the only one. The B70 Valkyrie experimental strategic bomber solved the problem using wings that folded down vertically to encompass the shockwave beneath the fusalage and literally ride it. It's supremely ironic that this aircraft can outrun today's B1-b Lancer by a full two times the speed of sound using 1950s technology.
Some history on this forgotten, stunning piece of aviation engineering.
"The tricky part, if I'm guessing correctly, is building a vehicle that can withstand the 3600 degree heat of flying at Mach 10 in the upper atmosphere."
Not only that, but the shape of the aircraft is critical to hypersonic travel. While it's been working thus far, there is something about the very design that becomes inherently unstable the larger it gets. There are serious concerns in building this thing to something of a more usable scale in the hypersonic community.
"The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs. The MPAA said the information detected by the free program would not be shared with it or any other body, but could be used to remove any 'infringing movies or music files' and remove file sharing programs."
Wow. It's like the Anti-Spybot. I get the feeling their servers will just meltdown as fast as this program will get downloaded.
Honestly, who runs this organization, because they always manage to hit the wrong trend at the wrong time with the wrong solution to the wrong problem. For cryin out loud, it wasn't tough to see the movie download tidal wave building years ago, and this is the best they can come up with? Lawsuits and self-serving software?
Well, one of these years somebody is going to ake up and realize their product requires a new method of marketing when it is effectively easily duplicated and free to obtain. I would suggest adding something of physical value (ie; not easily duplicated, collectible, etc) to the purchase, but the MPAA obviously has better ideas.
Somebody mentioned upsetting the balance of nature with these things, inadvertantly killing off higher organisms higher up on the food chain. I have to question that, however-- Exactly what higher organism in the city or average household are we worried about killing off through the destruction of cockroaches??? Now if we were talking a totally uncontrolled dispersal in any and every environment, sure, we have a problem. But the same thing can already said about insectisides. In environments where man has already taken over completely, I really don't see these as a problem. I mean, we've already purposely and willingly reformatted the environment to our design, and in most cases, insects are unwelcome in that design anyway. It's not as if they're going to reproduce ala Screamers and spread wildly.
It's ironic that half the crap on Cartoon Central could easily have been produced via Flash or some other web creation medium. Gotta wonder what the cost of creation is compared to the profit they make on advertising, toys, etc... For want amounts to nothing more a Flash clip.
And of course, all their missiles just up and vanished, right? Lets not forget the two countries you listed are the only ones that have missiles. While we're at it, thank you for banking the security of the United States on the sanity of somebody like Kim Jong Il. Frankly you're missing the point of having defenses such as these at all. they are for the off chance that some world leader psycho does decide to play your odds and pops a missile off because they don't think we'll call their bluff. After all, that's what N. Korea is betting on. They don't think we'll do anything after telling them to halt production. It's what Saddam betted on. Frankly, I think the cost of prevention is well worth guarding against the cost of letting even one slip through.
Besides, last time I checked, we were spending money on measures besides a missile defense program. Namely the retaliation against Afganistan, premptive strike against Iraq, disarmament of Libya, and from now on, a large hammer over the heads of those who would use less conventional means against us in the middle east. money equally well spent, IMO.
A) Nobody who signs up is sending anybody unsolicited advertisements. Fact. B) The only people who get advert spam are the people who sign up. You don't have to, aren't forced to and won't get a lick of spam unless you voluntarily agree to it. C) The above is made crystal clear when you sign up. it's not as if you don't know what you're getting into. D) Anybody with half a brain uses a fake email address for exactly that reason. You do have half a brain, right? E) I have no problem with a win-win situation. I get an ipod. It's entirely voluntary. Free ipods undoubtably gets a commision for my eyeballs and the companies get mass marketing exposure. On top of the fact I can cancel the offer in most cases without charge, and once I shut down that bogus email account, I'll never hear from them again.
Frankly, it's tough to even call it spam when the entire process is not only voluntary, but you actually get back something of value in return for your time. Find me another piece of traditional spam that does that.
I guess that qualifies me under "just don't care". It's a good deal. Suck it up.
Hey, I've managed to get 3 confirmations by having a fucking free ipod link in my sig, thankyouverymuch ^_^
Two more and that's a free iPod for doing absolutely nothing but registering and cancelling some stupid promotion, so pardon me if I feed into that horrible, horrible fad:D
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"It is only big because these people have not seen an FPS before."
Now see, that's where we part company. It's like saying that Halflife was an average FPS... If you ignore the story, depth and attention to detail. Which you can't. But somehow, people manage to put the blinders on in one case and not the other, insisting that Halo is nothing but another average FPS. All by itself, they're absolutely correct; Stripped of the outstanding story, dialogue and attention to detail Halo's no BFD. But then, you might as well not play anyway because you're divorsing critical aspects from the game itself.
And that's not even getting into the fact that you're attributing the entire bulk of the sales to console fanboys on the very machine where this is least likely to be the case. Certainly less so than the PS2 and Gamecube. Hell, I've been their since Maze3d back in the CGA days, and freakin ASCII before that. Quake. Tribes. Doom. Whatever. I've been there. And all things considering, the Halo franchise is a pretty high quality one. Not perfect, but nowhere near as average as you seem to believe. And I can actually say that because not only have I played all of those games, but I've owned the last Halo, and now this one.
Besides, tell me exactly what Quake used to be anyway? Run around, find the keys, have monsters pop out, wash, rince, repeat? Oh, shit loads of depth there. the only reason it was popular was because it was new and the n00bs had never played it before. Amazing how easy it is to turn that knife, huh? Care to see how many other games we can force that shoe onto??
"When all of these sources start giving it the highest or nearly highest scores possible, it does make you think that this is the real deal."
While that may be true, I can tell you (because I have it in my hot little hands at this very moment) that it exceeds the original in nearly every aspect from a technical standpoint. Fact. The only things I can possibly complain about at the moment is texture loading during cut scenes. Beyond that, it tells a story as good as halflife did and looks 100x better (than the original). I posted some more detailed thoughts here.
If we can assume that A) You like FPSs and B) You enjoyed Halo to some degree, then believing the reviews no longer becomes a question. It's a great game.
Cost effective Wind Power (Kilowatts/Construction costs) would mean the end of middle east conflict, global warming, rural poverty in developing countries, lung disease in Beiging.
Wait wait wait... First, I suspect bankrupting the middle east with cheap, efficient energy would tend to distabilize the region even more since oil is nearly their only income. Which segways nicely into the next bit, rural poverty in developing countries. Cheap power won't affect the change in lifestyle you're attributing to it. it may alliviate one financial concern, but most under developed countries have much bigger problems than ones cheap power will fix. And that's not even getting into the global warming bit...
It's still a good idea, just not for the reasons you list.
"M$ 'innovated' with an online subscription plan that simply blows its rivals out of the water."
How much do you pay to play games online with your PC again? And what rivals are we talking about? No other major console has been built with internet connectivity from the ground up. The PS2 had to add it on. And even then, it's free* I mean, what are you paying for with Live? The dubious value of hack protection that's more a funtion of the hardware, not the service? Voice chat, which also a function of the local hardware and software?? 16 player games that play closer to 4-8 reliably across Live if you're honest with yourself? And that aside, JUST 16???
From a technical harware aspect, the XBox shits innovation compared to other consoles. That innovation, however, doesn't come anywhere close to applying to Live as a service. If that's the definition of innovation, I'll be happy to take a step backwards.
Underwater autonomous submarines? We're not talking about a large jump to underwater cruise missiles here. Or autonomous attack submarines like the Predator drone. WOuldn't be too hard to program a few to sneak into enemy waters and hunt down shipping at random or launch bulk cruise torpedo strike from hald way around the world to destroy enemy ports and warships.
Frankly, I'm still waiting for the Catamaran Aircraft Carrier.
"Why would Micrsoft punish the user when it is obiously the retailers fault for releasing the game early"
For the same reason they're making you pay for online gaming when there is absolutely no reason you should be paying for it to begin with? Live is nothing more than a toll booth on the internet gaming highway that Xbox owners have to pass through for something that is free most everywhere else.
If that's not punishing the consumer, bend over and hand me the KY.
"If soundly gathered evidence suggests psychic powers or teleportation is real, then we should investigate it."
Sooo... That evidence is just going to come from thin air, or might they gave to -gasp!- fund research into such a project to see if it can be something useful? I'd say there has been enough unexplained phenomonom to warrent some sort of further research, and that research is going to cost money. Speciallized scientific equipment and scientific specialist don't exactly work for free you know. Detailed, scientific investigation amazingly enough costs money. Unless you're working for the SciFi channel and your scientists are plumbers by day. For any normal research, a million ain't that much given logistics, personnel equipment and other considerations.
I see where you're going and I'm not even saying your right or wrong, just the way you're there is horribly, horribly flawed.
"They're dictating design through a twisted "survival of the not-quite-fittest" form of natural selection that will lead to a long-term decay in quality, guaranteed."
Bullshit. guaranteed. Just having newbies in and of themselves dictate design won't kill a MMORPG... The first and formost benefit I see in doing this is a more common sense-centric game. One that can easily accept new players as well as seasoned veterans... Unless, for some reason you consider yourself gaming's elite and shun growth in your MMOOMOROOMPG world. If that's the case, your an elitist primadonna and the game would probably be better without you anyway, especially if you've forgotten you were new once too.
Now if they were given carte blanc authority over the entire design, I would tend to agree that this would be a bad move. The developer's original vision tend to be key to the success in any game made, but simply getting noobs to help make the game? Personally, I'd take the opposite tact-- It means they want to make the game as approachable as possible for new members that continue to revitalize the game.
In moderation, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach and frankly, the writers of that story sound like jaded elitist gamer bitches.
I mean, feel free to explain it away, but I seriously doubt the situation is even as remotely dire as you portray it when it comes to the current administration. Hell, I'm even one to say they haven't done done a stellar job on the deficit, but I'm thinking it's a tad over the top to say he'll neglect the country. Hell, for neglecting the country, he put a post 9/11 economy back onto it's feet and into something that's currently thriving. How much so, you can debate with yourself all day long, but the trend is definitely in the positive. I won't entirely agree with his fiscal policy, but it's not something you point to and yell "NEGLECT!!" all day long.
I see positives for the space program all the way around on his re-election. 2nd term Presidents have nothing to loose and if one thing has been made obvious and for better or worse, he's not afraid to spend money. Another thing you can count on from his past performance is that he'll stay commited to the project long term. And that's the most you can ask for in a Space program, right there-- The will to spend the money, do the work and resolve to stay the course.
" I'm with you, a Mac is a superior tool for all kinds of work, but I don't think anybody will hold back on buying a Mac just because there aren't enough games for it."
Thank you for your opinion.
And for every argument to this point, all you do is have to look world wid x86 hardware usage statistics to realize that either A) people do place a lot of stock in the PC's games, or B) something about the mac being the ultimate/superior computing experience just doesn't jive. Even if we were, for the moment, to take your word that the Mac is a superior tool for all kinds of work, one must then ask the question to which their are only painful answers for-- Why isn't the mac in the usage majority if it's so great?
I, IMHO conclude that if all of these statements justifying the Mac's superiority are correct, it must only be by the narrowist of margins, and only to the point where it must not counterbalance some major deficiency in all things Mac, save the iPod.
I'm hoping they're going to use this stuff as an under/over finish. I've more CDs die from label damage- the least protected side of a CD -than outright read side abuse. All it takes is a minor scatch to that area and the CD becomes an unreadable coaster....Which makes it all the more funny to watch people set it on that side, thinking they're protecting the read surface.
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"rendering the GBA one of the most cool digital gadgets for musicians that travel a lot.
Unless you own a powerbook or some other laptop. And don't want to look like a fool in the process. And don't have time to load linux onto your toaster. And pardon me while I load my GBA emulator onto my alienware laptop.
"... I mean, its not like you are looking at anything useful while you are fastforwarding, and "free tv" needs some sort of revenue."
I think my brain just exploded. One of the key points TiVo had in it's favor was skipping those advertisements. That, and you're already paying for a subscription. Are they just going to drop that now too? For somtehing that should have been free to begin with? I mean you're already shelling out for the hardware itself and it isn't that cheap.
I'm sorry, but contrary to the submitter of this story, there is no way I could have ever bought one of these devices from a company looking to milk their consumers so damn much. It's like XBOx Live. It's not free because they're money whores, no other reason.
It's ironic that somebody who is trying to address one of linux biggest problems- user friendliness -is being flamed and compared to that very same product. I'm not saying the service is good or bad. I don't know. And neither do half of you, but we're associating it with Windows- a bad comparison to begin with -anyway. What's hugely ironic is that you have to pay for a service to get an open source product that user friendliness to begin with.
And for God sakes, people, you can turn the windows auto update manager off. If that's your biggest bitch, go whore yourself somewhere else.
No, the airline industry isn't pushing this technology. Thry're pushing the technology that will allow an aircraft to create a quieter sonic boom over populated areas. A Mach airliner can be done. It can even be done affordably, if you can fly it over populated areas without a resounding 'thump!' everytime it passes overhead. The inability to use it's speed advantage over populations and subsequent lack of effecient route restrictions were key in killing the Concord, and it's one of the reasons why the industry hasn't taken off in the US. The cost to make the aircraft combined with the inability to use it effeciently makes it a money losing proposition everytime.
The SR71 uses one of the more complex methods of maintaining high mach travel, but it isn't the only one. The B70 Valkyrie experimental strategic bomber solved the problem using wings that folded down vertically to encompass the shockwave beneath the fusalage and literally ride it. It's supremely ironic that this aircraft can outrun today's B1-b Lancer by a full two times the speed of sound using 1950s technology.
Some history on this forgotten, stunning piece of aviation engineering.
"The tricky part, if I'm guessing correctly, is building a vehicle that can withstand the 3600 degree heat of flying at Mach 10 in the upper atmosphere."
Not only that, but the shape of the aircraft is critical to hypersonic travel. While it's been working thus far, there is something about the very design that becomes inherently unstable the larger it gets. There are serious concerns in building this thing to something of a more usable scale in the hypersonic community.
"The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs. The MPAA said the information detected by the free program would not be shared with it or any other body, but could be used to remove any 'infringing movies or music files' and remove file sharing programs."
Wow. It's like the Anti-Spybot. I get the feeling their servers will just meltdown as fast as this program will get downloaded.
Honestly, who runs this organization, because they always manage to hit the wrong trend at the wrong time with the wrong solution to the wrong problem. For cryin out loud, it wasn't tough to see the movie download tidal wave building years ago, and this is the best they can come up with? Lawsuits and self-serving software?
Well, one of these years somebody is going to ake up and realize their product requires a new method of marketing when it is effectively easily duplicated and free to obtain. I would suggest adding something of physical value (ie; not easily duplicated, collectible, etc) to the purchase, but the MPAA obviously has better ideas.
Somebody mentioned upsetting the balance of nature with these things, inadvertantly killing off higher organisms higher up on the food chain. I have to question that, however-- Exactly what higher organism in the city or average household are we worried about killing off through the destruction of cockroaches??? Now if we were talking a totally uncontrolled dispersal in any and every environment, sure, we have a problem. But the same thing can already said about insectisides. In environments where man has already taken over completely, I really don't see these as a problem. I mean, we've already purposely and willingly reformatted the environment to our design, and in most cases, insects are unwelcome in that design anyway. It's not as if they're going to reproduce ala Screamers and spread wildly.
It's ironic that half the crap on Cartoon Central could easily have been produced via Flash or some other web creation medium. Gotta wonder what the cost of creation is compared to the profit they make on advertising, toys, etc... For want amounts to nothing more a Flash clip.
"The USSR is dead."
And of course, all their missiles just up and vanished, right? Lets not forget the two countries you listed are the only ones that have missiles. While we're at it, thank you for banking the security of the United States on the sanity of somebody like Kim Jong Il. Frankly you're missing the point of having defenses such as these at all. they are for the off chance that some world leader psycho does decide to play your odds and pops a missile off because they don't think we'll call their bluff. After all, that's what N. Korea is betting on. They don't think we'll do anything after telling them to halt production. It's what Saddam betted on. Frankly, I think the cost of prevention is well worth guarding against the cost of letting even one slip through.
Besides, last time I checked, we were spending money on measures besides a missile defense program. Namely the retaliation against Afganistan, premptive strike against Iraq, disarmament of Libya, and from now on, a large hammer over the heads of those who would use less conventional means against us in the middle east. money equally well spent, IMO.
A) Nobody who signs up is sending anybody unsolicited advertisements. Fact.
B) The only people who get advert spam are the people who sign up. You don't have to, aren't forced to and won't get a lick of spam unless you voluntarily agree to it.
C) The above is made crystal clear when you sign up. it's not as if you don't know what you're getting into.
D) Anybody with half a brain uses a fake email address for exactly that reason. You do have half a brain, right?
E) I have no problem with a win-win situation. I get an ipod. It's entirely voluntary. Free ipods undoubtably gets a commision for my eyeballs and the companies get mass marketing exposure. On top of the fact I can cancel the offer in most cases without charge, and once I shut down that bogus email account, I'll never hear from them again.
Frankly, it's tough to even call it spam when the entire process is not only voluntary, but you actually get back something of value in return for your time. Find me another piece of traditional spam that does that.
I guess that qualifies me under "just don't care". It's a good deal. Suck it up.
Hey, I've managed to get 3 confirmations by having a fucking free ipod link in my sig, thankyouverymuch ^_^
:D
Two more and that's a free iPod for doing absolutely nothing but registering and cancelling some stupid promotion, so pardon me if I feed into that horrible, horrible fad
"It is only big because these people have not seen an FPS before."
Now see, that's where we part company. It's like saying that Halflife was an average FPS... If you ignore the story, depth and attention to detail. Which you can't. But somehow, people manage to put the blinders on in one case and not the other, insisting that Halo is nothing but another average FPS. All by itself, they're absolutely correct; Stripped of the outstanding story, dialogue and attention to detail Halo's no BFD. But then, you might as well not play anyway because you're divorsing critical aspects from the game itself.
And that's not even getting into the fact that you're attributing the entire bulk of the sales to console fanboys on the very machine where this is least likely to be the case. Certainly less so than the PS2 and Gamecube. Hell, I've been their since Maze3d back in the CGA days, and freakin ASCII before that. Quake. Tribes. Doom. Whatever. I've been there. And all things considering, the Halo franchise is a pretty high quality one. Not perfect, but nowhere near as average as you seem to believe. And I can actually say that because not only have I played all of those games, but I've owned the last Halo, and now this one.
Besides, tell me exactly what Quake used to be anyway? Run around, find the keys, have monsters pop out, wash, rince, repeat? Oh, shit loads of depth there. the only reason it was popular was because it was new and the n00bs had never played it before . Amazing how easy it is to turn that knife, huh? Care to see how many other games we can force that shoe onto??
"When all of these sources start giving it the highest or nearly highest scores possible, it does make you think that this is the real deal."
While that may be true, I can tell you (because I have it in my hot little hands at this very moment) that it exceeds the original in nearly every aspect from a technical standpoint. Fact. The only things I can possibly complain about at the moment is texture loading during cut scenes. Beyond that, it tells a story as good as halflife did and looks 100x better (than the original). I posted some more detailed thoughts here.
If we can assume that A) You like FPSs and B) You enjoyed Halo to some degree, then believing the reviews no longer becomes a question. It's a great game.
Cost effective Wind Power (Kilowatts/Construction costs) would mean the end of middle east conflict, global warming, rural poverty in developing countries, lung disease in Beiging.
Wait wait wait... First, I suspect bankrupting the middle east with cheap, efficient energy would tend to distabilize the region even more since oil is nearly their only income. Which segways nicely into the next bit, rural poverty in developing countries. Cheap power won't affect the change in lifestyle you're attributing to it. it may alliviate one financial concern, but most under developed countries have much bigger problems than ones cheap power will fix. And that's not even getting into the global warming bit...
It's still a good idea, just not for the reasons you list.
"M$ 'innovated' with an online subscription plan that simply blows its rivals out of the water."
How much do you pay to play games online with your PC again? And what rivals are we talking about? No other major console has been built with internet connectivity from the ground up. The PS2 had to add it on. And even then, it's free* I mean, what are you paying for with Live? The dubious value of hack protection that's more a funtion of the hardware, not the service? Voice chat, which also a function of the local hardware and software?? 16 player games that play closer to 4-8 reliably across Live if you're honest with yourself? And that aside, JUST 16???
From a technical harware aspect, the XBox shits innovation compared to other consoles. That innovation, however, doesn't come anywhere close to applying to Live as a service. If that's the definition of innovation, I'll be happy to take a step backwards.
*free, aside from MMOOMOMRRPG games
Underwater autonomous submarines? We're not talking about a large jump to underwater cruise missiles here. Or autonomous attack submarines like the Predator drone. WOuldn't be too hard to program a few to sneak into enemy waters and hunt down shipping at random or launch bulk cruise torpedo strike from hald way around the world to destroy enemy ports and warships.
Frankly, I'm still waiting for the Catamaran Aircraft Carrier.
"Why would Micrsoft punish the user when it is obiously the retailers fault for releasing the game early"
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For the same reason they're making you pay for online gaming when there is absolutely no reason you should be paying for it to begin with? Live is nothing more than a toll booth on the internet gaming highway that Xbox owners have to pass through for something that is free most everywhere else
If that's not punishing the consumer, bend over and hand me the KY.
"If soundly gathered evidence suggests psychic powers or teleportation is real, then we should investigate it."
Sooo... That evidence is just going to come from thin air, or might they gave to -gasp!- fund research into such a project to see if it can be something useful? I'd say there has been enough unexplained phenomonom to warrent some sort of further research, and that research is going to cost money. Speciallized scientific equipment and scientific specialist don't exactly work for free you know. Detailed, scientific investigation amazingly enough costs money. Unless you're working for the SciFi channel and your scientists are plumbers by day. For any normal research, a million ain't that much given logistics, personnel equipment and other considerations.
I see where you're going and I'm not even saying your right or wrong, just the way you're there is horribly, horribly flawed.
"They're dictating design through a twisted "survival of the not-quite-fittest" form of natural selection that will lead to a long-term decay in quality, guaranteed."
Bullshit. guaranteed. Just having newbies in and of themselves dictate design won't kill a MMORPG... The first and formost benefit I see in doing this is a more common sense-centric game. One that can easily accept new players as well as seasoned veterans... Unless, for some reason you consider yourself gaming's elite and shun growth in your MMOOMOROOMPG world. If that's the case, your an elitist primadonna and the game would probably be better without you anyway, especially if you've forgotten you were new once too.
Now if they were given carte blanc authority over the entire design, I would tend to agree that this would be a bad move. The developer's original vision tend to be key to the success in any game made, but simply getting noobs to help make the game? Personally, I'd take the opposite tact-- It means they want to make the game as approachable as possible for new members that continue to revitalize the game.
In moderation, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this approach and frankly, the writers of that story sound like jaded elitist gamer bitches.
...For free, no less.
For cryin out loud, must we turn every post into a political weenie roast? Ignoring the fact that certain other nations have their own political cloak and daggery, it would seem he could cooperate pretty well with other nations.
I mean, feel free to explain it away, but I seriously doubt the situation is even as remotely dire as you portray it when it comes to the current administration. Hell, I'm even one to say they haven't done done a stellar job on the deficit, but I'm thinking it's a tad over the top to say he'll neglect the country. Hell, for neglecting the country, he put a post 9/11 economy back onto it's feet and into something that's currently thriving. How much so, you can debate with yourself all day long, but the trend is definitely in the positive. I won't entirely agree with his fiscal policy, but it's not something you point to and yell "NEGLECT!!" all day long.
I see positives for the space program all the way around on his re-election. 2nd term Presidents have nothing to loose and if one thing has been made obvious and for better or worse, he's not afraid to spend money. Another thing you can count on from his past performance is that he'll stay commited to the project long term. And that's the most you can ask for in a Space program, right there-- The will to spend the money, do the work and resolve to stay the course.
" I'm with you, a Mac is a superior tool for all kinds of work, but I don't think anybody will hold back on buying a Mac just because there aren't enough games for it."
Thank you for your opinion.
And for every argument to this point, all you do is have to look world wid x86 hardware usage statistics to realize that either A) people do place a lot of stock in the PC's games, or B) something about the mac being the ultimate/superior computing experience just doesn't jive. Even if we were, for the moment, to take your word that the Mac is a superior tool for all kinds of work, one must then ask the question to which their are only painful answers for-- Why isn't the mac in the usage majority if it's so great?
I, IMHO conclude that if all of these statements justifying the Mac's superiority are correct, it must only be by the narrowist of margins, and only to the point where it must not counterbalance some major deficiency in all things Mac, save the iPod.
IMO, of course.
I'm hoping they're going to use this stuff as an under/over finish. I've more CDs die from label damage- the least protected side of a CD -than outright read side abuse. All it takes is a minor scatch to that area and the CD becomes an unreadable coaster. ...Which makes it all the more funny to watch people set it on that side, thinking they're protecting the read surface.
"Big Arctic Perils Seen in Warming!"
Big Solar Sun Seen in Warming!