If by epic fight you mean it took a third conglomerate to force Bell and Videotron to pretend to compete, kicking and screaming.

It's called going to the shows.

Only temporarily in most of these cases, staff turnovers are huge.

Most creationists are quite experts in the putting labels and treating others as subhuman department.

I also don't believe in the moral high ground.

The 60s as in "well after the southern strategy started" - besides, it's not what party they're from, it's what ideology they espouse.

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/yearrev2009_0.html

The reset you did was against the power of the mother of all megacorporations, too, just in case you're in the delusion that a corporation is not a form of government.

Hard Science Fiction is a pretentious myth; it always rests on one thing: the assumption of its day.
Not only do all the authors you mention have stories where part of the future leaves the realm of known science to an extent that is sometimes as bad as Trek's, but where they stuck to what was known in that day, they end up looking incredibly outdated, with Asimov's multiple tons micros and Clarke's typewriting space-goers.

But, true, some updates might be a bit buggy, CSS was still running on a version of source going back to 2005.

The "new cross platform engine" actually only changes a few libraries on the mac; the engine was always abstracted enough to allow the porting to happen in the first place.

Good luck finding the console still working in 25 years with current gen shit.

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Wait, they want more indies but have a rule against home offices because it's not professional? Are they kidding me? Where do they think indies can afford to work from to begin with, some of them are even proud of it (like Introversion "bedroom programmers").

That must be why Activision ended up in a lawsuit with the studio who actually created the cash cow they're touting is the main success of xbox live...

Given that's what map packs cost (including the MW1 maps), they are already borderline doing it. Modern Warfare 2, as a complete game, already costs a lot when you add up these costs, probably more than a lot of games by slightly smaller studios who can do FPS just as good with a similarly fleshed out world *cough* Bethesda, Valve *cough*... And for that you get no dedicated server, no mods, no cheat control and the privilege to pay for a subscription service! Quite a steal ;)