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Comment Re:is Sega a failure now (Score 1) 153

Why compare Sega to Atari? Atari itself doesnt exist, its just a name, its been bought and resold, reused by new companies so many times. No serious original Atari IP remains.

The original Atari disappeared in the 1980's.

French-based Infogrames bought Hasbro Interactive that owned the Atari IP and renamed itself Atari in the 2000's. I worked at the "new" Atari for six years, splitting my time between being a tester and a lead tester. They tried to "converge" with licensed Hollywood properties (i.e., "Enter The Matrix"), gone broke during the dot com bust, and sold all the studios that they paid two to four times what they were really worth. Today they are recycling games from the old Atari IP as mobile games.

Meh...

Comment Re:Why Under the Sea? (Score 1) 149

Is the problem that we don't have the submersible technology, or robotic technology to do the finishing work, or is there something else I'm missing?

Some drunk driving a motorboat with the anchor dragging above the ocean floor will latch on to above ocean floor tunnel, causing a massive leak and/or damaging the boat. This is why it's better to build the tunnel in bedrock.

Comment Re:Hard To Imagine... (Score 1) 191

My 2006 Black MacBook ran for eight years until the CPU fan gave out. I didn't bother to get it repaired at the Apple Store. Although Snow Leopard OS X ran perfectly fan, updates to existing software no longer supported the 32-bit CPU. Better to save up for new hardware to run the latest and greatest.

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