Fundamentally, science is about factual observation and "logical" reasoning.

Not the way I do it.

But seriously, the fact that an attempt to hold video game journalists to an ethical standard...

Hey look, I got one!

Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. At 1:35 A.M. Eastern time it runs out of disk space and crashes horribly

And the developers promise a Day One patch and announce DLC.

Machines have a history of blowing up or falling apart, but not of becoming evil and maniacal murderers.

I don't know if you ever had to change the RAM in an older Dell computer, but one nearly bit my hand off.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I'm living in a computer simulation being run on a computer. And I'm starting to get the feeling that it's a poorly optimized console port from Ubisoft.

I blame ethics in game journalism. Because bitches, man....

How long will it be before "scientists" say exactly the opposite again?

I've lived long enough to see everything become unhealthy and then healthy and then unhealthy again. And it's always based "on science".

The fact is, everything will kill you. That's why I only eat bacon, chocolate ice cream and bourbon whiskey. I may start smoking again, just to be ahead of the curve.

So, you're telling me the $300 I paid to the Journal of Experimental Onanism to publish my findings was a waste of money?

Damn. I've already printed up my CV and that paper is at the top of my list of publications. I suppose I should have been suspicious when I saw that the editors that were assigned to peer review my paper were Jack Meihoff and Richard Gazinya.

Yeah, what's up with that? I usually see at least a half-dozen JEs from you ever week. They're my excuse for drinking early.

$450 million is nothing to Apple. They find that much under the cushions on the sofas in the Apple lounge. They spend more than that every week on KY and poppers.

They can "plan" and "call for" all they want, but EU has no authority over a US company and banning it from doing business would violate trade treaties. They can certainly set rules for doing business that apply equally to all foreign and domestic players. Why don't they focus on that instead of useless and inflammatory rhetoric? It seems that Europe has it's own tea party.

As to "why" part, where is the lock in? All major browsers including Chrome support a choice of search engines. Internet Explorer has Bing as default and soon Firefox will default to Yahoo. It sounds like EU government wants to put interests of its own big businesses over personal choices of ordinary citizens. Again, same as US, but so sad.

Seems like a horrible and unusual experience. In a sane organization, getting fired would be a very extreme response to not participating in a single project. You will likely be transferred to something more to your liking. If it's your constant attitude, then yes you will have problems. But then how do you expect to work in a place if you can not make yourself useful?

The last thing you want to do is quickly release an application that people do not understand and that doesn't do what is needed. A delay in release is much preferable. Multiple prototypes and user studies may be needed to clarify those vague specs.

Yes, discipline is needed and indecision can be taken to extremes. But most apps/services fail because they have not been adequately thought through rather than by launching late.

Yeah, me too.

I'm pretty sure a DS is sort of an updated version of one of these things:

http://s.hswstatic.com/gif/sli...

I already know what I'm gonna do with mine.