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Comment Re:Still doesnt excuse (Score 1) 280

Most indie games seem to take one approach or the other, either be a clone, or be completely different than anything else (or a clone with a *twist*! that might as well be a clone).

What kind of game do you want that isn't a clone and not something completely different than anything else? What does that leave you?

Comment Re:So true (Score 1) 366

I wish people would use BCC when sending an email to a bunch of people they don't know. It also helps to not advertise everyone's email address. A co-worker got an email , I think it was just a joke or something from someone that she knows and it had a lot of people in the to field. Not too long after she received that email she got another mesage from someone else that must have been in the list saying thanks for everyone's email address. So now a spammer got a hold of all these people's active email addresses.

It's also a pain when people forward these type of messages and leave everyone elses addresses that received this message prior.

Comment Re:Microsoft is fighting back (Score 1) 324

if anyone hasn't noticed, Apple and Microsoft have been playing very nice together since last year.

Can anyone explain to me why MS has been playing nice with Apple but not with Linux? I have never understood why they are doing that but they try so hard to stop Linux adoption. Mac's are the ones putting the bigger dent in their desktop marketshare. You would think they wouldn't be releasing Office and other things on that platform to keep people from switching away and decreasing their markethare even more.

Comment Re:Impulse power! (Score 1) 763

Also, the ability to return a game that I do not like.

Isn't that the point of renting games from places like Blockbuster or some other place so you can try them before you buy them? I'm also thinking Blokcbuster had (has?) a policy where if you rent a game and you do like it you can keep the game and pay the rest of the purchase price if you want to buy it.

Comment Re:Windows Port? (Score 1) 180

I had the same problem but with a cd-rom drive. it would totally freeze the system if I put a cd in the drive and unfreeze if I took the cd out. it turned out to be autorun. i disabled autorun and no more freezing. now you have to go into my computer and click the drive itself to view the contents instead of waiting for the screen to pop up to ask you what you wanted to do.

Comment Re:Uhm, bandwidth? (Score 1) 148

We can already stream DVD-quality movies encoded at 1 mbps or so, well within the current consumer "broadband" offerings. I'd assume that would be in the target range.

I'm not exactly sure how this will work but they said you have to offload the data to their servers. So if you are playing a game wouldn't you have to upload all the data to their servers so they can process it? Consumer internet connections are fairly quick at downloading but it seems that the upload speed is going to be a problem. My internet connection is 10mbps down but only about 700kbps up. So that seems like it would be the problem.

PlayStation (Games)

PlayStation Home Beta Opens to the Public 206

Yesterday Sony launched the open beta for PlayStation Home, the virtual world designed for PlayStation Network community members. Eurogamer has an in-depth look at the features of Home. They point out some glaring weaknesses, such as a poor communication system, a flawed business model, and the inability to form groups without entering games, something the recently revamped Xbox interface does better. "It's not alienating, it's easy to identify with, and the socialising and advertising are entirely in context. But you're left pondering the inevitable question: why would you want to spend any time here?" Home's debut to the public saw a few typical launch-day problems, but Sony was quick to address them and get things back on track. Gizmodo has some screenshots and basic information available.

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