Split-screen multiplayer: supports 1 friend at 1 physical location.
Online multiplayer: supports N friends in N physical locations.

Which scenario do you think players find more convenient? The forward march of technology can be good for consumers and manufacturers at the same time, it's okay.

Yeah, it's hard not to sound like the anti-corporate tinfoil hat guy saying it, but it's also hard not to feel like Blizzard is a bit hobbled by direction from above these days.

Kind of funny, when you think about it. Used to be that the shady Chinese knockoffs were the less useful hardware, because they wouldn't go to the extra effort to make them work right. Now, it's easy to conceive a scenario in which the cheap stuff is the most functional, because they won't go to the extra effort to properly break them.

"I can't believe the ignorance of some people on slashdot to think that you could run a 1gbps service on a T1." I can't believe the reading comprehension required to interpret a post making exactly that point in the complete opposite way. See also: the joke about 1 gig down, 128k up. Simple version: the GGP suspects that while they can roll out gigabit fiber to the home, they do not have the additional infrastructure (such as a large pipe out) to properly utilize it.

I was absentmindedly browsing the front page while doing something else on the other screen, and still had the summary for this Ask Slashdot in my mind when I started reading the comments for this story. Boy, did you ever look like an asshole for a second there!

Like all innovative things, the original has served its purpose, and been laid to rest. From the ashes, not one, but many successors rise. And inevitably, one will bear the name of its father - even if, like present-day Napster or Atari, it is at best a shambling husk of a brand compared to the original.

Yeah, you should definitely take those numbers with a grain of salt.

Actually, if that happened, they'd have proved themselves equal, at best. Shortly after, the viral and bacterial communities would be having discussions on "peak human."

Not entirely true! I once had PSU make a horrible buzzing noise while all the magic blue smoke escaped... and then start up again just fine. I continued to use it for several months until one day it simply ceased to function, with naught but the faint smell of burning dielectrics to mark its passing.

Superhero origins are far more representative, actually. Consider: Spiderman and the Hulk both get their powers from radiation in the 60s, and from genetic engineering in their more recent movie versions.

If this becomes widespread, here's how it'll go: first, pirate groups will only have to pay for/obtain a couple extra copies, and come up with an automated reconstruction system that will compare the copies and perform error correction. Then the publishers will start obfuscating things more and more, and the pirate groups will develop more and more advanced algorithms. Eventually, the publishers will be publishing near-100% noise, with their heads too far up their asses to realize it, the only people buying copies will be the dedicated pirate groups, who will afford it by charging for their services, and before you know it, "content miners" will just be another step in the chain. The establishment is just last generation's rebels, am I right?

He means your home on the moon, i.e. the cave still offers more protection.

Really, ads for what? Windows? Office? Like, in case they haven't heard of it?

Understand that when I say that, I mean "relative to Western MMOs." You can go grinding in WoW, yes, but you can also play without doing it, or at least without doing it to any excessive degree (unless you're one of those people who defines "grinding" as "performing any actions to advance your character", in which case why are you playing WoW?). Asian MMOs, though, really take it to another level.