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In any case you should get paid enough to afford spellchecker software...

Sony is clearly aiming for this option. There is no loss of goodwill because 99.9% of customers don't care about the Other OS.

On the contrary, the name will grab attention (combined with the fact that a party named like that is a bona fide one). That is the most important thing for the young and tech demographic, which is likely to be their main demographic anyway.

It may be a tired old line, but it also seems to be right. The problem *won't* be solved by creating new parties. The issue will continue to be raised until the political system is reformed.

Obviously, reforming the system that keeps the two parties in power while said parties are still in power is not going to be easy. But it's either attempt that or accept that the system will always be a "shithole" that does not give the people have any say on how the country is governed.

Interestingly, Spain has one of the highest, if not THE highest, piracy levels in the European Union partly because of their media tax. People figure out that they're already paying for the right to pirate so they do it unabashedly. The media companies are probably banging their heads against a wall by now.

The video has a post-title closing shot not unlike movie trailers from the last decade. It starts at 3:45 and it's actually funnier than what I expected (admittedly I had pretty low expectations).

The question is, when did these start showing up in officially submitted academic videos?

...There are too many rumors flying around to actually know who's in the right here. It's easy to bet on the big corporation being greedy / evil / stupid. But *if* these guys did start talking to EA or other potential partners while still on Activision's payroll, they could be in breach of contract (at least if I understood industry expert Keith Boesky correctly).

Portal is NOT an indie game. The core mechanic was originally from a student game and the dev team was mostly composed from those students, yes, but they were employed at Valve and had the support and resources of a large corporation.

No, in 2009 the PS2 finally gave up the ghost and only sold in marginal quantities. And the PSP is only having healthy sales in Japan.

How is "you need to pirate this to get decent use out of it" an argument for actually buying something?? If I do unDRM an e-book, I'm a "criminal" in the eyes of Amazon or the copyright holder anyway. I gain nothing by paying.

Supporting non-DRM'd e-books, that's entirely another matter.

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I can understand trying to shield innocent employees and patients. But is the government so deep into corporate America's pocket that they openly admit that protecting shareholder profits trumps upholding the law?

This controversy is already going to have a great benefit by making everyone (in Israel at least) think about organ donation and, hopefully, make a decision on whether to become a donor or not.
As I understand, one of the major problems with organ supply is that even people who would be inclined to donate never actually register or discuss the topic with their families. By the time the question is relevant, they are no longer able to state their opinion, so the family has to agonize over the decision and tends to choose the "safe" option of not donating.

Other than the music, there's nothing on the game to make it "Super Mario Bros.". The player character runs and jumps over generic obstacles without making any use of SMB physics or any other distinctive elements. If anything it's closer to Pitfall.
Then again, "8x8 platformer created with Arduino" wouldn't attract as much publicity.