Comment Re:Welcome to 1999 (Score 1) 245
So.... Facebook?
Comment Hello dear friend (Score 1) 245
Welcome back Tech Bubble. How ya been?
Comment Re:Consoles need to invest more on hardware. (Score 1) 568
Certainly not off the shelf components, but IBM and ATI made a boat load of money off this generation of hardware that's for sure.
Comment Firefox Home (Score 1) 315
Firefox home has the same age rating notice as well. I guess that's Apple's get out of jail free card if you decide to start watching pr0n outside of Safari?
Submission + - Mrs (labelle-wastesystems.com)
larekasea writes: "http://labelle-wastesystems.com/ We offer a removal service for those who would prefer or do not have the help to load a dumpster themselves. Our guys will come into your home or business and remove unwanted items and load them in one of our dumpsters or our trucks for you."
Submission + - Old Man Murray entry deleted from Wikipedia (rockpapershotgun.com) 1
shoptroll writes: "In what can be best described as an unfortunate interpretation of the "notability standards" at Wikipedia, Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports that the entry for Old Man Murray, once a mainstay of PC Gaming reviews and commentary, has been deleted. A sad day for gaming journalism everywhere."
Comment Not all that new (Score 4, Informative) 321
Jeff Atwood hit on this issue in a blog post last year: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/url-shorteners-destroying-the-web-since-2002.html
Comment Re:Very interesting (Score 1) 150
Agreed. Very impressive.
Comment Re:Join "Adblock Plus" fan page on Facebook (Score 1) 154
They'll still be interested. Demographic information is worth money. If they don't use it on Facebook (or the web) they'll use it in other places.
Comment About time (Score 1) 154
About time my alma mater got some recognition on here for something other than an MP3 playing Xmas Tree
Comment Re:I swear.... (Score 1) 756
"What I have noticed is that the employees at Chik-fil-a's are better dressed and more polite/helpful than at most fast food restaurants"
Holy crap yes. I tried Chik-fil-a for the first time back during Xmas while mall shopping. I was actually stunned when they seemed more than helpful to make sure I was satisfied with my order.
Comment Re:Steam has an offline mode (Score 1) 541
They've supposedly fixed this very recently. If you launch Steam without an Internet connection available it'll kick into offline mode correctly now.
Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games 541
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Gamasutra:
"Valve will release a version of its Steam digital distribution service for Mac next month, along with Mac-native versions of its own games, the company confirmed today after days of hints — and owners of Valve games will have access to both platform versions. The Source engine, which Valve uses to develop all its internal titles and also licenses to third-party developers, will incorporate OpenGL in addition to DirectX, to allow Mac support for all Source developers. ... 'We are treating the Mac as a tier-1 platform, so all of our future games will release simultaneously on Windows, Mac, and the Xbox 360,' said Cook. 'Updates for the Mac will be available simultaneously with the Windows updates.'"
Comment Seriously? (Score 1) 545
I started to use Netflix to watch movies because I decided that it was much more convenient to rent a movie I wanted to watch instead of dealing with the hassle of BitTorrent and running the risks that includes. So now they want to clamp down on that, presumably because it's cutting into their profits. How many more times are we going to see this song and dance from these spoiled brats? First Hulu, now this.
If they were smart they would realize that 1) we're in a recession, 2) people are effectively telling them movies cost too much to own. If people are jumping on board rental services (which have existed for years, and rental stores predate them since the 70's or earlier) after they scared everyone from pirating, wouldn't that be a very clear indication that the price of a DVD is too high?
Next thing you know they're going to get rentals classified as illegal.
Comment This sounds familiar (Score 1) 536
Haven't read TFA but this stood out at me from the summary:
"'I'm not sure that we'll see a standard $70 price point at all. To my mind, emerging technologies, subscriptions and episodic and downloadable content should all enable price drops -- increasing accessibility to a much wider audience.'"
Well if it worked for AT&T and Apple, I'm sure it'll work for the games industry. Decrease the initial investment cost, charge a regular subscription fee (DLC can serve this purpose too) and profit. No ???? needed.
Of course, it should be pointed out that PC and Wii games have stayed at $50. Just sayin'.
