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Comment Re:More than just China and aircraft (Score 1) 113

Yes! This right here is the next step in the evolution of human ingenuity. Fascinating specious, aren't we?

All this time of worrying about outsourcing manufacturing to China, but soon we will be outsourcing to our own garages! Though, as history shows we will use this capability to find wondrous new ways to kill each other. Man the future freaks me out some times.

Comment Re:Man, If I had a nickle... (Score 2, Insightful) 376

It does make since as a marketing plot. It's just more reason for someone to enter a McD's who ordinarily would not. For example, I have an ipod touch. There are numerous times I've drove around in a different city where I had to keep a lookout for a Starbucks so I could use their wifi to look up an address on google maps. A few times I wound buying a cookie or something. Had they not had free wifi I would have never made those purchases.
Music

ASCAP Seeks Licensing Fees For Guitar Hero Arcade 146

Self Bias Resistor writes "According to a post on the Arcade-Museum forums, ASCAP is demanding an annual $800 licensing fee from at least one operator of a Guitar Hero Arcade machine, citing ASCAP licensing regulations regarding jukeboxes. An ASCAP representative allegedly told the operator that she viewed the Guitar Hero machine as a jukebox of sorts. The operator told ASCAP to contact Raw Thrills, the company that sells the arcade units. The case is ongoing and GamePolitics is currently seeking clarification of the story from ASCAP."
First Person Shooters (Games)

Infinity Ward Fights Against Modern Warfare 2 Cheaters 203

Faithbleed writes "IW's Robert Bowling reports on his twitter account that Infinity Ward is giving 2,500 Modern Warfare 2 cheaters the boot. The news comes as the war between IW and MW2's fans rages over the decision to go with IWnet hosting instead of dedicated servers. Unhappy players were quick to come up with hacks that would allow their own servers and various other changes." Despite the dedicated-server complaints, Modern Warfare 2 has sold ridiculously well.
Businesses

EA Shuts Down Pandemic Studios, Cuts 200 Jobs 161

lbalbalba writes "Electronic Arts is shutting down its Westwood-based game developer Pandemic Studios just two years after acquiring it, putting nearly 200 people out of work. 'The struggling video game publisher informed employees Tuesday morning that it was closing the studio as part of a recently announced plan to eliminate 1,500 jobs, or 16% of its global workforce. Pandemic has about 220 employees, but an EA spokesman said that a core team, estimated by two people close to the studio to be about 25, will be integrated into the publisher's other Los Angeles studio, in Playa Vista.' An ex-developer for Pandemic attributed the studio's struggles to poor decisions from the management."

Comment Re:Here's the cure (Score 1) 432

See, it's people like you who were responsible for my high school cutting education programs and robbing us nerdy kids of a decent education. I grew up in a rural school district and the surrounding land owners (who's kids were already out of school) petitioned to have a few of the math and science programs removed in favor of lower property taxes. This lead to our really awesome math teacher becoming outraged and finding a job at a different school.

Yes, there are a lot of kids out there that won't go to college regardless and wind up having a repetitive job at what ever local factory. But for every 10 kids you might get 1 that is inspired to do well and become something and a better eduction only encourages this. We're trying to make our future society better.

Stop whining and pay your taxes. It's not our fault no one wants to help you reproduce.

Comment Re:They still have far to go (Score 1) 427

I know this is a little off topic but seeing you refer to Scorched Earth, I thought of another similar game who's name has been lost to me in the sands of time. The game is like Scorched Earth but 3D. The map is round and has destructible terrain on it. The players are colored dots, I believe. Anyone know that name of that game?

Be Part of the 2008 Presidential Youth Debate 513

We participated in this project back in 2004. This year it's hosted by Walden University, and the format is a little less cumbersome than it was four years ago. So go ahead, ask some questions you'd like to see McCain and Obama answer, and they'll go into the pot along with questions submitted through other channels. Later this week you'll have a chance to help moderate the final questions chosen from all sources, and on October 20 you'll be able to see video responses from the two major party candidates. Please limit to yourself to one question per post, and note that questions must be posted no later than 4 p.m. US EDT on Monday, September 29, to be considered.

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