Ah, here is someone who never played DOOM for the first time in his room at night, with no other light source than the CRT and with headphones making sure the first cacodemon that ever jumped him gave him a bloody fright.

Indeed.

My comment was focusing only on the novelty of the technique per se, as applied to games.

It does not mean it cannot be applied in an innovative way to the RTS genre (unfortunately, if I may add: not to take away credits from the original poster, but there are so many things like this that could be used to make games a lot better, and they seem to miss mainstream. perhaps his will be the one).

The notion of intelligent agents has been around for quite a few years.

Even I, 12 years ago at the University, had to implement a miserable little game where the A.I. was at a lower level than an all seeing, all knowing AI that makes decisions, each agent with it's set of "intelligent", adaptive rules.

So... how is this concept new (or NEWSworthy, for that matter)?

Then I'd say we must expect HDD manufacturers to go the way of the dodo WAY faster than the crisis itself would have caused them to go.

A manufacturer that pulls a stunt like that with MY gear gets a one way ticket to my NO-NO list.

Like with IBM and their damned DeathStars. They may have sold their HDD unit to Hitachi in an attempt to get rid of the bad rep (and bad results, I'd say), but that only made me also NOT buy Hitachi HDD now. Cheers!

Amen to that! I also thought someone called Jason had been cooked... Silly, silly title...