Thanks for your insight.

I highly doubt Disney is in a cash crunch considering their CEO receives $29 million in compensation as of 2009 with a base salary is $2 million, and as of last year, receives $45million. How many IT workers is that?

This "Yellow Tea" has been done in China since about the 4th century. It's used by people who aren't stars and have tried powerful antibiotics...

Snowblind is out of business, nice nod but not making anything for the current gen.
Squaresoft is dead, FFVII PC port was released by them.
Naughty dog, Uncharted 3 for example, was patched several times to address bugs, (within a week of launch). An improvement over launch day :)

I vote with my wallet and commend them for their lack of DRM in the past. Not to mention they take care of their customers.

Simply criminal. A vanilla experience robbed of Bethesda's strength: mods. Bioware was once a powerhouse, Mass Effect 3? Blizzard releases are strong.

Games do this all the time, take widgets for example. Typically the engines feature media playback functionality or a sound library is licensed, and judging by the glut of media players out there, they're not exactly taxing to write. The Xbox has games that do exactly this.

Except the military, academia, scientists are a lot more than some engineers. The reason imperial units are displayed is because the purpose is to inform people, and the best way to do that is with what they know. Akin to how football fields or libraries of congress are referenced for quanitites. Although more and more both units are used with figures.

It isn't that complex, it's a money issue. Boils down to: redo all the signs nationwide for what?

Seconded.

Some of the games are made by the same studios. Some quick googling shows launch day patches for both consoles and titles. Witcher 3 day one patch, Halo Collection 20gb launch day patch. Evolve, GTAV the same thing... so this reeks of a No True Scotsman falacy with "good developers", as if the developers run the show. It's a business that's all about cranking titles out as fast as possible while papering over with hype. Just for the record what are some developers that you consider good? Constraints: They can't develop for the PC and can't have any launch day patches.

Or perhaps they can just allow players to play their files through the game? "Oh you like music? Just turn on your radio!" This was a feature request, not a half baked community suggestion request to be answered by someone's mom.

I'm all for getting off of oil. As far as raising taxes, all that will do is push the cost to consumers. The vast majority of the road wear is due to trucks, who regardless of oil/ICE will continue damaging the roads disproportionately to commuter vehicles because of the weights involved. One 18 wheeler does as much damage as 9600 cars. As far as raising fuel taxes to support the roads appropriately, this operates under the faulty assumption that not enough taxes are collected, which just isn't the case. Road funds are raided and spent by local governments (do a search for transportation tax misappropriation, example). In essence you're arguing that people aren't paying enough in taxes. We pay plenty, how about not diverting money explicitly collected for one thing and using it elsewhere?

I laughed harder than I should at this, thanks funny guy.

From my original post: "Forty-two percent of women obtaining abortions have incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level ($10,830 for a single woman with no children)." Half of whatever number of something is a high figure.

Sony is upscaling again :D

I provided the source. Also, they're not my numbers, just some selected from the Guttmacher page since people don't usually follow links. Why the Guttmacher page? I just googled "abortions by race" and it was about the 4th result which featured easy to digest graphs instead of census style tables.

??? Apparently by citing facts about it being mostly poor young women who have abortions, I'm for outlawing it? Why are there so many abortions in the first place? Depending on the age groups, teens, it's massive irresponsibility and poor use of contraception. The arguments seem to boil down to convenience.

I consider about half to be high. It's definitely not a super majority but I suppose that could be reached if the income constraints were altered. I don't consider $20,000/year a very comfortable living, not to mention $10,000 but that depends on the area.

What are you going on about? I don't have any dogs in this race. Guttmacher is just one of the sites that came up when I did a search for some numbers, Bloomberg references them in this article. I was specifically looking for a breakdown by race and area. Besides your selective quotes and emotional language you also curiously use counties instead of states so you can get a sensational figure, with emphasis added no less. It might be more significant if each state had an even distribution of counties, which they don't, skewing things for example is Texas which has 254 counties. As of 2008 all states have abortion clinics, since you have an affinity for percentages, that's 100%. This issue overwhelmingly involves young women and poverty. US teen pregnancy is highest in the developed world. Apparently abortions aren't convenient enough?

Progress?

I realize this most likely isn't your intent, it sounds curiously like statements made in the late 1800s when there was a sentiment that there wasn't much left for science to discover. This seems to fly in the face of productivity as well, the tools get better and more can be done with fewer.

I suppose it comes down to what "big" is. Minecraft didn't have a lot of people behind it, and look at the impact it had. There are other examples. As technology progresses things become accessible that wouldn't have otherwise, look at the appearance of the iPhone, a result of a combination of the touch screen and processor speeds both byproducts of progress and mass processes.

Convenience is king, I doubt you make your own clothes and grow the cotton, processing it into textiles, by hand, in the snow. Many of these things can be done without the wizard, depends on the platform, although for most purposes it's a PITA and there for the curious or those with need. With regard to the computer I don't miss IRQ settings, long live plug n play.

Or it'll not be fun and the programmer will lose interest in it.

I typed out something longer and accidentally navigated away. I've had an interest in programming for a healthy portion of my life. Client side automation is/was fascinating. Writing "hacks" arguably got me into programming. The demo scene is full of brilliant people, seeing what those guys do is so cool, it had a profound influence on me. Writing mods for video games held my interest for a time, most of all I really like(d) seeing how things work. I recall the glee the first time I read some comments where a programmer (in RTCW iirc something to the effect of "this part is gay and I always hated it") was lamenting the death animation where players would lay down and the remarks about about how terrible it was. I've found codesniffers to be neat for style guidelines.

Games that simulate programming, processes, or even hacking I haven't found to be very enjoyable, I want to like them more but they're just a toy when I can do the real deal. I don't want to imply that they're objectively not fun, it's more that when I'm not programming I'd rather not be play programming, I like to get my mind off of things. Memory editing is so much fun.

My recent goto for "hacking" stuff has been tampermonkey (very similar to greasemonkey but for Chrome, yes I know boo hiss - best developer tools around though) I wrote something to snag all the dropdown values on a page from a salesforce application. The product was prototyped and initially built out on salesforce and finally in Java. One of our guys was going through the page manually and writing a spec with the options, to top it off all the dropdowns aren't standard selects under the hood, they're javascript encoded value abominations solely there to hamper scraping. After some tinkering I got all the values to dump to the console log so it became a copy paste job instead of typing.

Inspiration is good, it spurs one on, and the more people exposed to it I consider a good thing. If creative young minds find inspiration in Minecraft, excellent. The engines today are capable (games or films) and the tooling is accessible. Although I think the trend is for games is less customization through traditional mod channels with the rise of DLC. Like what's happening with movies and music, there is more but fewer defining stuff, like how Star Wars was in the theaters for a year and how so many people saw it, how many present day films boast that?