I suspected someone would do this since they were basing blocking on domain. essentially SOPA will kill DNS.

people will begin passing raw addresses/ports to each other and you will end up with another dark-net, one where there are no domain names or to access it you have to get a hold of a domain file for a plug in.

soon there will be sites dedicated to the pirate DNS then there will be assholes who distribute bad DNS files leading to pages with drive by attacks. peges will be fighting over their old domain names since there will be no registrar for this dark net.

this security issue will likely push the P2P DNS efforts already in place.

if the shapes don't have overhangs that don't curl around won't need that much (or any) support in microgravity.

Volume discount. Windows users represent 70% of the payments. ;-)

Guess ill just be staying with windows 7

maybe because there is no such thing as accountability? cops are above the law these days. there have been lots of cases lately concerning this "wiretapping" and taping of wrongdoing. i don't think any of the stories i have read involved the cop getting more than a brief suspension whereas the filmer gets raked over the judicial system and even if they post bail and don't serve time they are put through expensive and stressful trials.

more than likely the market is just cyclical.

everyone has a phone so everyone bails on handhelds and plays crappy 20 minute games with either crappy directional controls or good touch ones. people clamor for better controls so (like the new sony phone) they make built in buttons and pads. then better graphics processors then games for those processors. suddenly we have games for only some users (not everyone will have the hardware) then people will want games with more depth than the 20 minute crappy games and be willing to pay for it. aaaaanndd we're back.

just look at netbooks, they were supposed to be uber cheap stripped down and tiny. then people wanted more cpu, a full hard drive, bigger display, now they cost as much as a laptop, but are a bit smaller.

think tablets liek the ipad are the future? sure then one day someone will get the "bright idea" to put a fold up keybored "right on the ipad!" genius! aaannnd we're back.

my phone as a gaming system? yes and no, i have hooked it up to my tv, used a wii remote synced to the bluetooth and run an snes emulator. *that* rocks pretty hard. for actual gaming ont he go the ds is far nicer and better. especially with my ace-card where (like my phone) i can keep 3 dozen games ont he device without carrying a lunchbox full of carts. if the 3ds had a nice ipod hard drive and a slick online market ( with the option to buy and install from carts) i think it would be more relevant in today's market.

It's really about the greed. the DRM is really *NOT* for piracy. honestly i dont think blizzard gives a flip about piracy, a major component of the game is online multiplayer. games like that have been hard to pirate back in the D2 days if your key wasn't legit bnet would kick you out. sure you could use a keygen for single player but online wouldn't accept the key.

this really stems from the micro trans shop. blizzard knows a lot of people like to start with single player to get a feel for a game before jumping in. they want you to be able to transition your SP character to a MP character and buy crap from their store to support that character.

personally i knew it was going to be like this last year when i didn't buy starcraft 2 because of their DRM bullshit. now i won't be buying D3. the saddest part is how completely unnecessary it is. they could easily secure a healthy online economy with old school cd keys and leave the single player alone and even offer lan or open bnet.

and offline SP isn't just about gaming in the middle of nowhere, i like to cheat in SP sometimes. i downloaded hacked lvl99 D2 characters just for shits in giggles an had a few hours fun obliterating the game and testing various builds to see which one i wanted to shoot for online.

since porn on the internet...

Every pirated copy is a sale lost. therefore any apparent reduction means sales are up.

duh.

on a side note i've been boycotting Ubisoft since before Spore came out due to crap like this.

honestly all the FF games seem to look the same to me. i think they need new art direction and to focus on what made their old games classics to begin with. actually a more open hybrid game breeding games like elder scrolls/FO3 and the Final Fantasy franchise could be cool.

re-release couldn't hurt if they add value, and i'm not talking about just porting chrono trigger to the iPhone. i would totally buy a re-release of FF7 with updated graphics and gameplay for the Wii or the PC.

2 factor is useless if you never log the hell out of facebook. I just want my flippin session to timeout after 30 min >_>

were you working on a robot for the FIRST competition?

i worked on one back in 2000. they used BASIC STAMP instead of a visual language. was a modified basic which was pretty easy to use especially if you had any prior knowledge.

also for robotics i remember the lego mindstorms setup. it wasn't too bad, it could be a little frustrating if you were already experienced with programming but otherwise was ok to get it to do stuff.

obligatory XKCD (alt text is relevant)

surprised nobody has mentioned money. guess when you're throwin' $300 around every few months for a new iPhone it doesn't matter to some people but last i checked the economy still sucks gas is like $4.00 gallon and i look at that $250 price tag (+ game cost) with a fairly weak opening line of games and walk on by.

as pointed out this is fake if for no other reason then it actually says "app store" in the menu.

"App Store" is trademarked by Apple; MS would not be so stupid to actually use that term.