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Survey Shows That Fox News Makes You Less Informed 1352

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 16 2010, @01:58PM
from the fair-balanced-and-simple dept.

A survey of American voters by World Public Opinion shows that Fox News viewers are significantly more misinformed than consumers of news from other sources. One of the most interesting questions was about President Obama's birthplace. 63 percent of Fox viewers believe Obama was not born in the US (or that it is unclear). In 2003 a similar study about the Iraq war showed that Fox viewers were once again less knowledgeable on the subject than average. Let the flame war begin!

Comment: Re:Yep (Score 1) 336

by FloodSpectre on Tuesday September 14 2010, @11:22PM (#33582838) Attached to: Why Broadband Prices Haven't Decreased

In your own words, "that's dead wrong." As of 9/01/10 we in Rochester NY pay $55 for 10/1 (standard) without bundled services (cable, phone). Additionally, we have no RR Extreme in Rochester. There is no "wideband" in Rochester, and I suspect there will be no plans to offer this service any time soon. You guys may falsely advertise it, but we sure as hell don't have it.

Comment: Re:Felt this from 2 miles away (Score 3, Interesting) 357

by FloodSpectre on Thursday August 26 2010, @07:08PM (#33387498) Attached to: Fire and Explosion At Hydrogen Station Near Rochester Airport

I heard it in the South Wedge too, just off of Mt. Hope. I was home for my lunch break and heard something like a dump truck hitting a brick wall. With all the construction going on, I assumed that too ;)

Comment: Re:The first number he plays (Score 1) 79

by FloodSpectre on Thursday June 10 2010, @01:09PM (#32525204) Attached to: Theremin Guitar Hero

It's Nobuo Uematsu's metal group The Black Mages. They do covers of Final Fantasy songs, and I'm pretty sure that one was off their first (self-titled) album.

Ubisoft's Authentication Servers Go Down 634

Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 07 2010, @08:23PM
from the single-point-of-well-you-know dept.

ZuchinniOne writes "With Ubisoft's fantastically awful new DRM you must be online and logged in to their servers to play the games you buy. Not only was this DRM broken the very first day it was released, but now their authentication servers have failed so absolutely that no-one who legally bought their games can play them. 'At around 8am GMT, people began to complain in the Assassin's Creed 2 forum that they couldn't access the Ubisoft servers and were unable to play their games.' One can only hope that this utter failure will help to stem the tide of bad DRM."

Ubisoft's Constant Net Connection DRM Confirmed 631

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday February 18 2010, @03:26AM
from the enjoy-getting-flamed-by-the-entire-internet dept.

A few weeks ago we discussed news of Ubisoft's DRM plans for future games, which reportedly went so far as to require a constant net connection, terminating your game if you get disconnected for any reason. Well, it's here; upon playing review copies of the PC version of Assassin's Creed 2 and Settlers VII, PCGamer found the DRM just as annoying as you might expect. Quoting: "If you get disconnected while playing, you're booted out of the game. All your progress since the last checkpoint or savegame is lost, and your only options are to quit to Windows or wait until you're reconnected. The game first starts the Ubisoft Game Launcher, which checks for updates. If you try to launch the game when you're not online, you hit an error message right away. So I tried a different test: start the game while online, play a little, then unplug my net cable. This is the same as what happens if your net connection drops momentarily, your router is rebooted, or the game loses its connection to Ubisoft's 'Master servers.' The game stopped, and I was dumped back to a menu screen — all my progress since it last autosaved was lost."

Comment: Re:ya.. they've come a looong ways.. (Score 1) 427

by FloodSpectre on Wednesday October 21 2009, @05:41PM (#29829161) Attached to: A Look At How Far PC Gaming Has Come

I paid $70 for Chrono Trigger on the SNES in 1995. Secret of Mana and FF6 cost at least 60 as well. This is nothing new by any means.

GBA Emulator Released For the DSi 66

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 20 2009, @11:38AM
from the what's-old-is-new dept.

Busshy writes "Darkchen has released a Gameboy Advance emulator for the Nintendo DS/DSi that plays full speed with frameskip. This can only be played with the homebrew dev cart, the DS iPlayer. The emulator adds save states, cheats and tools to GBA games, and for DSi Fans the ability to finally get over the loss of the GBA Slot on the DSi."

Comment: Re:Overlord 1 & 2 (Score 1) 202

by FloodSpectre on Saturday July 11 2009, @09:47AM (#28659519) Attached to: Why Video Games Are Having a Harder Time With Humor

A big part of the comedy in those games needs to be attributed to Rhianna Pratchett. Fantastic writing and humor in those games.

I love the jester at the beginning of the game... "Overlord? More like over-lard!"

Comment: Re:Feeling a huge sense of meh towards starcraft 2 (Score 1) 737

by FloodSpectre on Thursday July 02 2009, @09:58AM (#28557073) Attached to: Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For <em>Starcraft 2</em>

I'll agree with your opinion on the AI, but unfortunately most games have pretty laughable AI. The best I've seen thus far are all custom AIs used in both Total Annihilation and the Spring engine. They can be downloaded just like new units, maps and mods. It's a pretty cool mod concept, really, and makes playing skirmishes against the computer much more enjoyable.