Not impressed. Won't be impressed until they squeeze the Unreal 4 Engine into an animated .GIF.

No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among black youth, thinking they're going to make it big in sports. There are only 30 NBA teams, with 15 players each. Each team has only a few new hires each year, maybe 4. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 120 jobs.

No, not "a lot". Very, very few. This is a common delusion among youth, thinking they're going to make it big in entertainment. There is only 1 Lady Gaga, who is famous for her singing and breaking social norms (wearing dresses made of meat, etc). It's unlikely that more than 1 or at most a handful of people could become successful for this. So that's 2.9 million high school graduates potentially competing for 1 job.

Nothing wrong with giving geeks hope. Not sure how you inferred that from my comment.

How about instead you show kids in every group, who all have their own problems and worries, that anyone can be wildly successful by being the best in any field, whether it is programming, basketball, or anything?

Not saying the headline's claim is true or untrue, but... these are all examples of very rare individuals - the luckiest or the most skilled of all the geeks, that made it big.

If you go by that argument, I can also point out that alot of the jocks from high school are now making many, many millions of dollars as professional athletes (NFL, NBA, etc.)

Disclaimer: Didn't RTFA, but still, dumb argument.

Well, that just about sums up the attitude of Northern Virginia towards the rest of the state.

There's a "rest of the state?" :)

(Also in NoVA, no outages or severe weather here)

great, first the VA shooter, and now this anti-korean game.

hope there's at least some south korean protagnoists in the game or else i'm pretty sure i'm gonna get capped in the face by some idiot for being korean.

Eh.. my arguments may not hold up, but I'm just applying occams razor. Simplest explanation is that this is a hoax.

Read this thread where these screenshots first showed up back in January (from a new account with a single post). And decide for yourself...

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/967600-windows-app-store-screenshot/

It's FAKE. It's a HOAX.. Look at the apps in the app store list:

* Angry Birds: Not by "clickgamer" it's by Rovio.
* Windows 7 Ultimate? As an app you can download from Windows 8?
* "App Store" is trademarked by Apple.
* Title bar text isn't centered like in other Win8 leaks.

FAKE. move along, nothing to see here....

When someone makes an extrordinary claim in science (i.e., cold fusion), many others must also reproduce and verify the claim before people have faith in it. If it can't be verified, then people won't have faith in it.

For real theories, even though we're trusting experts, the experts can continually provide consistent results that support the theories.

When someone makes an extrordinary claim in religion (i.e., cured blindness via prayer), it has generally not been possible to verify or reproduce the claims (or else a lucrative business would be starting blindness cure clinics where people pray for you until you're healed, right?). But people still have faith anyway. That's the difference.

With religion, even the experts can't reproduce or verify their own claims. (If prayer really worked better than western medicine, you would see a faith healer replace the surgeon general)

Am I the only one who read the parent post in an eastern european accent from the DirectTV commercial with the tiny giraffe? ("Opulence, I has it." -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMsSIjQXxo)

"...I want usability. And Apple has that. ... Is not about stat, is about the expeirence, and apple has it."

Thus, to keep a spacecraft operating effectively, a full analysis must be done to take into account all energy (thermal or otherwise) sources in a spacecraft and redirect energy to appropriately sized energy sinks (radiators, heat-pies, etc.).

Mmmmmmmm... heat-pies.. glarggghughhhhhh *Drool*

Relevant Propaganda http://www.hulu.com/watch/4510/futurama-anti-robot-propaganda

Everyone.. it's not 1.4M sales in a year.

As of March 9th, we've had a total of 67 full days in the year. (31 in jan, 28 in feb, 8 in march). This year we have 365 days. Our year is only 18.35616% over.

350k sales in 67 days translates to 1907k sales in 365 days.
1907k * $0.99 * (35%) = $660.8k

Yeah, if you guess purely random, you will probably win only 50% of the time. The real trick is to outguess the computer by figuring out what it thinks that you think.

In reality, I beat the first 7 rounds, then lost 10 in a row. Then later lost about 12-15 rounds in a row and ragequit immediately.

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!