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Comment What about the other fish? (Score 1) 247

I work for one of the other ISP's in the USA. While not American myself (I am outsourced, even though my ISP advertises that all their staff is located in America), I am at least privy to some knowledge of my company and several others. There are only like three ISP's that dominate in the US, the rest basically sharing equal 1% marketshares. If AT&T can't handle, how about the rest of us? Why are some of us doing just fine? Didn't AT&T also get bailed out a few years back, and claimed they used the money to upgrade their infrastructure. Did that not work as well as they had planned? Why did tax money go towards helping a company that will now jack up prices on the same people who just helped them?

Comment Horrible Idea (Score 1) 141

Catchers would become a lot more useless, no longer being able to try to affect the umpire's call by moving his hand when catching the ball (to move an obvious ball to being in the strike zone), not to mention strike zones can change depending on a batter's height, stance, etc. I could, however, see them use it to judge how accurate umpires are, to at least keep them on their toes.

Comment No Peter Molyneux? (Score 1) 184

I understand that EA has hired a ton of the Bullfrog team that worked on the originals, but no Peter Molyneux means this is doomed to failure (aside from the fact they took a four player squad based RTS style game, and turned it into what will likely be a massively generic FPS).

Comment Get Rid Of Harper (Score 1) 1

Please, dear God, even with the death of ALL the other political parties, can we just get rid of the man who is pulling crap like this behind our back, and trying to use the US government against the citizens of Canada? Why are we still in their shadow? Their government is in shambles, their economy is failing, so why follow in their footsteps? Trudeau must be turning in his grave :(

Submission + - NoW Hacking Whistle-Blower Sean Hoare Found Dead (bbc.co.uk)

SoVi3t writes: A postmortem on the body of Sean Hoare, the News of the World whistleblower found dead on Monday, is expected to provide a preliminary cause of death.

Police are treating the death of Hoare, 47, as "unexplained but not thought to be suspicious". Hoare was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor, was aware of phone hacking by his staff.

Submission + - Arizona Woman Arrested For Speaking At Council (infowars.com)

SoVi3t writes: "Quartzsite, AZ – The Mayor is challenged under a recall election beginning next month. Accusations have been made. The city council is persecuting the Mayor for giving the people a voice. The Chief of Police is also involved in the scandal.
Jennifer Jones is given the floor at a city council meeting open to the public. While she is speaking the council realizes she’s about to air their dirty laundry and quickly beckons their henchman to cart her off.

Videos are being taken down from Youtube mighty fast, for "Copyright Infringement""

Comment This Is 100% Normal (Score 1) 218

Every day people bring back computers, after they did something real quick on them (played a game, wanted to download one thing, do their taxes, work on a project, etc), and stores like Walmart, Best Buy, etc etc etc will just put them right back on the shelves unless they're broken. Hell, even major companies (Toshiba, for instance) will get broken products returned to them, then just put a 'this might be broken" sticker inside the product, then when it gets returned AGAIN, they finally decide to find out whats wrong

Comment The Dreaded Canadian Oligopoly (Score 2) 104

For a long time, Canada has been ass backwards over how it allows cable and phone companies to operate. When cell phone companies wanted to charge BOTH ways for text messages, members of parliament debated allowing more companies into the country. That got stomped out RIGHT quick. Don't kid yourself, the government is NOT in charge of this country.

Comment Re:Still looks uncomfortable, still stupid (Score 1) 30

The trouble is that either the movement is realistic (table tennis) but limited to games where you always return to the same spot (fitness type games) or it's unrealistic movement because you have to stay in view of the camera (no combat roll, good luck turning your character around while viewing TV still). I don't think that it was hard. I just think that it's not the best (by a loooooong shot) controller for these games.

the best? no. Better? yes

Comment Re:Still looks uncomfortable, still stupid (Score 1) 30

several other games work just fine. The fitness games are great, and the Kinect Sports game is fantastic, even thought the physics and AI is horrible at times. The whole point of this is that it shows that 3D movement can be done on the 360's Kinect. Sure, you may not agree with the current ways of moving the character, as shown in the videos, but the options ARE there now. Currently most games on the kinect (or in development) are rail shooters and games that only allow limited movement (ie Table Tennis allows you to move side to side, and closer and further from the table). Now we see that full 3D movement can be done, and with relative ease

Comment A Stroll Down Memory Lane (Score 1) 518

Shadow Warrior. Blood. Heretic/Hexen. Damn, all this talk makes me remember junior high fondly (which is pretty much a first). And FYI, they're making a new Doom game, they're just not going to be stupid about it this time. With Doom 3, they made the game, then sold the engine. With Doom 4, the engine is being made first, with Rage. I'm thinking we will see Fallout 3 sized worlds, featuring the moons of Mars as well as Hell

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