And no fee for the millions of players that "can click 4 buttons over here" to pirate it to enjoy it.

While Steam and 360 declare approximately the same number of registered accounts, Steam just hit 5 million concurrent online users across all games. Xbox LIVE has 2 to 3 million people *playing just the latest Call of Duty* after its release. From a marketplace standpoint, PC isn't the big leagues.

I think that's debatable. You have some control over which websites you visit and what software you run.
You have absolutely no control about who winds up in your ranked matchmaking lobby. That is a core feature of what people spend $50+ on a multiplayer game for.

(Sure you can stick to private matches, if you have 15 other friends who all play at the same time you do, and don't care about public ranking.)

Stop making sense. It's never going to be that way again and we all bloody well know it. What you're doing is the equivalent of telling kids to eat their vegetables. They're going to flip you off and go back to the entertainment center and cheap junk food in their bedroom.

I downloaded and played the Mass Effect 3 demo today.
In the Options menu under "Online" there is an "Upload Gameplay Feedback" switch. It says, and I quote:

Since the demo is a 30 minute vertical slice, and the retail code HAS GONE GOLD, I believe it's safe to assume the same option will be in the full retail release.

The ME3 franchise has one of the largest budgets in gaming history. The industry just flipped us off. Patches are the reality now.

The Papal and Italian agencies turn to their roots for cipher strength: IIIIIIIVV

Get a job with Rovio and you can use OSS without even giving credit to them!

I don't mean that as a sling at Rovio, honest. Read the article and you'll see they were pretty good about dealing with it.
But having more developers working in the industry who really do give a damn about OSS can only be a good thing. I noticed the credits of Ghost Trick have 3 pages of OSS licensing.
Keep at 'er.

Waste? Leftovers?
Sounds like what you're really asking for is Mr. Fusion.

Indeed. While they have improved the camera, the IR seem about the same.
http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/kinect/setup-and-playspace/lighting
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2012/01/microsoft-bets-big-on-kinect-for-windows-but-splits-its-community.ars

Soviet Russia called, Gorbachev wants his joke back.

Also I think it's worth mentioning that "online" is a tainted word when it comes to schooling. (Much like it is with prescriptions.) A more mainstream term known to most generations is "by correspondence". Most universities use "distance education" and offer various combinations of accessibility for students. It's not dumbed down material, and it certainly doesn't cost less. It's specialised for a non-lecture, non-classroom format.

If you say "I got my degree online", you're asking for trouble. Say, "I got my degree from accredited college X, through their exceptional distance education curriculum."

Assuming your potential employer doesn't cringe at the name of "University of Phoenix", you should be fine with distance education from any brick & mortar institution... http://www.phoenix.edu/colleges_divisions/global.html
If they're an ivy-league snob who cares more about what fraternity you were in, than the work you can do, it might not be a good fit.

As a kid growing up before the Web, nothing would have delighted me more than swingin' saloon doors at the back of my local library.
Got kicked out of magazine stores more than once, but librarians wouldn't do that.

One often leads to the other.

Your needs will be taken care of by the emerging SEA industry.

Search Engine Appeasement.

*crosses arms*

Reminds me of the time I bought an electric shaver at London Drugs a couple years ago. Got it home, turned it on, then found out it was used. Well used. It was a return.
People are fuckers. There's no single person to blame anymore.

I don't think we're talking about the era of Stoned on a boot sector anymore. If this is a decade of organised crime, it's going to be a bit more sophisticated.

You might want to check out Stuxnet before you presume any amount of caution or aptitude can so easily subvert a sufficiently developed worm. Whatever someone might think about how people "over there" do things, I feel it's a safe assumption that the professionals working at a middle-east nuclear plant would also be qualified to work at a San Francisco college.