Mod Parent up.

Sure, motion controls are all the rage now, but trust me, the number of hours spent in total using motion based controls vs a gamepad or KB and mouse to control a video game is 1 vs 100, and I'm being VERY generous with that estimate. Motion controls, and controlling anything on a touch screen is nowhere NEARLY as precise as a controller, which is nowhere nearly as precise as a mouse and keyboard.

To illustrate: You have generic multiplayer FPS/RPG/RTS game X. Who wins in a three way battle, player skill all being equal? The guy with the kinect or wiimote? The guy with a game controller? Or the guy with the KB and Mouse. I daresay anyone on Slashdot would know the answer to that.

So until you can give me the precision of a Mouse in a motion controller, or hell, even the precision of a gamepad... motion controls will be for the 'wow your parents' factor or the occasional party game. Not for gaming in general. I love me a good party game, but that's once a month gaming there, not five times a week or more.

+1 interwebs my good sir. I've made it my mission to explain the reasons behind IT decisions at every opportunity, to anyone who's interested. And you know what, people have WAY less complaints than they used to. We provide solutions when we can, and when we can't, we tell them why, and if it is an issue, we give the various plusses and minuses to the management and let them make the decisions.

When management decides against it, it's not IT stopping the user, it's management, and since we explain the reasoning behind every decision anyway, guess what happened.... People started TRUSTING the I.T. dept!!!! Once you build that trust it's amazingly difficult to tear down as long as you treat people like people and help them as much as you can, the yearly service survey results suddenly turn sharply upwards.

Am I the only person on Slashdot who thinks if this law passes the Supreme Court will knock it down as an unconstitutional infringement on free speech?

After all, corporations are people now, so Google's right to free speech is the same as Sony's.

Exactly how is this different than taking my money to the riverboat and laying it down on blackjack?

Mod Parent up. With proper storage, print is definitely the way to go when cost isn't an obstacle. Obviously we still have photographs from 150+ years ago, tens of thousands of them are still in existence and still mostly legible. This also has the added benefit of forcing you to edit your collection. Say what you will about capturing every second of your princess' fourth spit-up, 90% (or more) of your digital photos will go in the trash when you realize you have to choose which ones to print. Candids are always fun, and there is something to be said for not editing TOO hard. But going through digital photos it's amazing sometimes how two pictures of the same event can look almost exactly the same. In those cases, you don't really need both do you?

Does anyone have a link to this Pinwheel design house? I'm not as up on my modern architecture as I should be I guess. Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful

They learned that lesson as well.

Forget Rentals, and demos aren't much better. Even selling your used games is the same as stealing money out of the mouths of the developer's children. Renting is effectively a legal sex slave brothel where a Pimp (your local rental place, or gamefly, or, now, Qwikster) buys a child slave (a copy of a game) then pimps it out to be used... nay not used... RAPED HORRIBLY... by strangers, who then return the sad sad little creature to it's pimp who puts it back in its proprietary case and puts it back on display to be drooled on by further perverse strangers.

And the worst part of all this? The Parents who sold the child to the renter, only get paid once, whereas the pimp gets paid until the end of time. So you should not only feel bad for the poor developers. You should immediately report yourself or anyone you know who's borrowed or bought a used game to the police for grand larceny, because you have stolen $13million from the developers of a crappy game. If you borrowed a GOOD game, god help you, you caused the financial collapse of 2008.

Then most of the managers you know are idiots. I've had good and bad managers, more good than bad. The good managers got the hell out of the way unless you were way off course. And all of them admitted happily they knew less about the topic than the experts they hired. Hell, most of those managers INSISTED on getting input from the team, and would bug the crap out of you until they got it.