Exactly. It's not doing a good job if it fails to realize that developers are a major part of it's well-being.

...sometimes a good thing and sometimes a bad thing. Publishers can obtain and manage capital, and if they deal fairly and wisely with the devs they fund it's a good thing.

If, on the other hand, we have something like Activision/Kotick, well, that's pretty indefensible.

A publishing house that has degenerated to the point where it cares exclusively for ensuring its own well-being is an evil one. There has to be a symbiotic relationship, not a lethal parasitic one.

This is something I never understood. If you say, and truthfully so, that violent video games don't make killers, therefore banning them is pointless, the logical principal behind that tends to negate the argument that guns should be treated in that same manner.

And not to be pendantic, but it is rather obvious that even the outright banning of guns would not stop people or children from murdering others, and it is my personal convition that it wouldn't even make much of a statistical dent.

That *had* occurred to me, but me being the trusting guy I am, I figured that they wouldn't do that to paying customers.

No, it didn't. This is on a Windows laptop. A lot of Mac people seem to be okay with the new player, so either Silverlight works better under OS X than Vista, or Mac user's expectations are really low. For me, and apparently a good chunk of Netflix's customer base, it's a step down. I imagine Siverlight would work fine, but there are obviously some glitches that need to be ironed out before Netflix forces a new player down our throats without giving us the option to backtrack.

And that doesn't work with Netflix, once your account is set for the Silverlight player, that's all they let you use. Disable it, and it forces you to install/enable it before watching. No other options.

Hookay, running a Core 2 Duo based system here, and I get:
1. Fullscreen artifacts
2. Stuttering (AFAICT it's not streaming problems)
3. More pixellation in higher quality modes than the old player.

So no, it's not just FUD.

It wasn't. It embedded WMP, hence the Windows-specificity.

Nope. It just avoids the deeper, more serious issue of a culture that is alright with killing people because they're female. The problem isn't that females are being born to these people, the problem is that they are willing to kill them because of that.

Given the current distress of the airline industry, I don't think the hyper cost cutting that happened after dereg is working, and it won't be too long before airlines realize that they will have to offer a good experience to get customers, as they used to.

Making customers happy is long term good business, and works fine in a deregulated market. The companies have to realize this on their own, though.

HEY!
Who's been leaking studio info?

Sadly, I'm afriad that you're on the dot about this. I can just see Hollywood cutting out CB's heart and eating it. Frankly, I hope it gets cancelled.

Obviously, you *both* belong to political party.