Have you not read this?

That's a pretty good reason to take him seriously.

This may be, and on the PC, I'll admit piracy is probably an issue. Lord knows I pirated games like crazy until I realized what I was doing and matured enough to realize that expecting something for nothing was for children, not grown men.

But what does bother me about this, is that Blizzard isn't SAYING this is what the issue is. Blizzard is pretending it is to keep people from 'cheating'. Cheating in single player?? Cheating who; themselves? This comes off as a damn near lie from Blizzard, and it stinks of the Marketing dept. having too much sway over the developers.

And on top of that, does anyone here on Slashdot TRULY believe this will stop the pirates? How hard would it be to spoof a server connection? Pirates have been doing that for years. Now all Blizzard has done is guarantee that people without an always on internet connection HAVE to pirate the game.

She might have some input on this situation. Also, Mecha-Striesand might be effective at law enforcement.

Not sure if serious....

Very well, it may not have had a name.. but the functionality was there. I've played both games in the last year thanks to GOG.com... and they were just as fun as I remember them.

You do realize that if they had left VATS out they would have been completely eviscerated by the Fallout community right?

Fallout 1 and 2 weren't FPSs, but VATS was a HUGE part of the fiction, and the fact they were able to incorporate it into a FPS was one of the most impressive things about Fallout 3 when it came out.

Ummm... did I mention that quote in there? Or is that just you diverting the focus away from a point of view you realize is probably more logical than the opposing view? Because apparently it worked. So good job.

The second myth is that Republican leadership wants to end abortion. That's not true in the least.

Obviously the Christian Conservatives are a huge portion of the voting bloc of the Republican party. The biggest Christian issue of the moment is abortion. If abortion becomes illegal the fight over it will die down considerably (though obviously it won't end). But once that happens, Christians will have to focus on other Christian beliefs.

And yes, while I realize a LOT of Christians won't change teams just out of stubbornness, some will, because frankly, other than abortion, the Left satisfies the White Christian guilt of middle America than the Right. Other than abortion, name another 'Christian' trait the right espouses? Feed the hungry? Mercy for the imprisoned? Swords into Plowshares? Hell, the Beattitudes are practically a Democratic Party Platform.

Jesus was a liberal progressive.

Just because 5% of gamers are 'willing to' spend 50 bucks on a game, doesn't mean they WILL spend 50 bucks on a mobile game.

Hell, I'd be *willing* to spend $50 on a mobile game if it's good enough. I just cannot conceive of a game now that would be that good... does that put me in the 5%?

I would +1 you if I could you beautiful bastard. That is exactly the point.

If he does think that he is nuts. The function of every machine created in the history of mankind since the first stick was picked up to make it easier to kill an antelope has been to do the 'work' of a man.

I'm pretty sure that is the very definition of the word "machine".

I don't know what you mean by they have 'interlaced' displays. A CRT at 1080p standing next to an LCD of similar size in a darkened room absolutely dominated the comparison when I tried this out. I've not seen the LED tv's side by side yet, but other than DLP, I've seen little that compares to CRT.

Just FYI, the difference between standard CRT and HD CRT tvs is probably the highest of any technology.

Although they don't come in very large sizes (if you can even find them anymore) a CRT HD TV has, by leaps and bounds, a better picture than any other HDTV technology.

I'm pretty sure the path Jamie takes from being a heinous child-murderer to slowly realizing the error of his ways and reluctantly, but inevitably changing them to see past his own nose is what is called a "Character Arc" in literary circles. I'm pretty sure it's a pretty common trope and isn't exactly meant to forgive him, but show growth of a man over a period of time.

Interview with Henry Markram This is the guy the article was about, but for the life of me I can't find the actual article where they describe the brain 'lighting up like a christmas tree', though I remember that exact phrase. Still, this describes his work pretty well. So might be worth a read.