Bleszinski doesn't matter. None of these so called "rock star" devs are important. They are marketing figures putting a "cool" face on game development. Mr. Bleszinski may be an excellent coder or digital artist, but even if he is hauling his fair share of the labour, he's still just one guy in a list. His "personality" when making public appearances and the like, well...again, he's a talking head for the studio's marketing department. I almost wonder sometimes, do the parties responsible for "images" like Mr. Bleszinski, walk through the office and pick out the most "easy to clean up" or arguably attractive person working on the game and offer them this kind of job; "You can keep pounding out lines of code this week ORRRR you could faux hawk your hair, get some 'hip' clothes on our dollar, take a pay increase of no less than 25%(just for the sake of example) and be our new 'The Guy!!!1!'(again, as example)." I will say this for certain, when you play a Gears of War game on a large screen, with some large audio, it starts smashing your face as soon as you load up the game. If often feels worth it to have had to listen to guys like him even talk in the first place.

In addition to the data on that spreadsheet suggesting that the majority of cases were "older" people, look at the racial breakdown. Not suggesting that it has anything to do with race, per se, but rather that it would be interesting to know how much experience operating a motor vehicle that these folks have. Did they migrate here? Were their licenses just carried over from their originating country or did they have to retrain to the applicable state requirements?

Only make $15/hour? I'll assume that you make considerably more than that. If that's the case, you become a bigger loser for trolling around on /. for what "you're worth" versus what "he's worth". He's wasting $15/hour and you are wasting considerably more. When did hourly income become the value of an individual?

No no, it's great on the 360. The UI acts exactly as you would expect of it. I would certainly say that it was designed with a controller in mind. Of course, I am the type of person that bought a computer for computing and a game console for games. I keep my 360 wireless PC adapter on the ready, in case I felt the need to play a game on my PC.

Recently Adobe and Apple have been an odds. I doubt that factors in to this article though. Interestingly enough, the "about" screens in the article seem to suggest that the various versions, up to 5.0 were being run on a PowerPC. Perhaps the author has blended provided Apple about screens and windows UI screens? I wouldn't say the article focused on the Windows version anyway. That would be an assumption if you had only looked at the pretty pictures. To read the article, they is very little mention of platform, except where necessary to build the history of the product.

I actually had to read your post 3 times, just to see if I could detect sarcasm. The gene pool called and it would like you to GTFO.

It's really humourous when you live on the same Continent and watch with complete confusion as their entire country sues itself to death. I truly can't believe how litigious their society has become.

Typing was a mandatory class for both Grade 9 and Grade 10. Once you entered Grade 11, you had a choice. If you did choose to take typing, you had the option of general and advanced.

"Yours is a drill that will pierce the heavens!" "Who the Hell do you think we are?" Can't hear about drilling without thinking about Gurren Lagann. ;)

Excellent post. Is it exactly this kind of dialog that promotes the friendliness between our two nations. I would imagine that a lot of the American people have no idea that America even does a lot of business with Canada. During the 3 years of various call centre work that I did, it was amazing how many American citizens could not believe that a U.S. company would outsource their support/service lines to Canada(although I mostly chalk that particular example up to the idea that most Americans, rightly so, don't believe in the outsourcing of any industry). A great many yet, didn't believe that we had the technical prowess/know-how and infrastructure to support such an operation. In contrast, a great deal of Canadians know about the things that we provide the rest of the world, from soft lumber to robotic arms to vast quantities of Canadian Whisky/Beer/Maple syrup. ;) And not necessarily is that because we all WANT to know. To be Canadian, one must accept that they will have Canadiana(?) stuffed down their throats quite forcibly(The Tragically Hip or Hockey anyone?). Although I imagine that can, in fact, be worse in America, as the symbols of a nation as proud and strong as America are surely waved wildy and in abundance(Toby Keith anyone?) To the point, if a country/company/person does something very well and no other country/company/person is offering to do it as well or better, than why change? To "keep it exciting"? Just "for kicks"? No. If they do it well, they deserve to keep doing it well, until either they stop doing it well or somebody else does it better. Again, great comment. I'm glad to see examples of our two countries getting along at every level. :D

Two years? It says 1988, not 1998.