I'm pretty sure you can make kids with 6 people or less, at least given the right people. Many seem to use only 2 for that kind of project.

I checked for that some year ago. None (!) had a webcam mode. Best they could do was to play the DV tape over USB. Maybe the market is different here... :(

...is how long they are. Some games might have a beautiful engine, but the contents and scripts run out quick. Once you figure out how the scripts work and the content work you get bored, and stop playing, unless you get fed new and exciting content.

MMOs, Facebook et al solve the last part by letting it be social.

Games like Fallout III and Oblivion didn't. It's a huge world, but it still feels limited because after a while you've seen all the possibilities, and everything you get is new variants of the old stuff.

Why not just have a GSM/3g/4g signal that can be transmitted from the base stations? Either SMS or make all cell phones in the cell wake up and loudly tell the message.

If only it was true.

Since 99.8% of the "programmers" out there seems to get code monkey jobs where they have to translate an algorithm from one language (or diagram) to another, those don't need many skills at all. Especially not when protected by schemes like MISRA, code reviews and QA.

The other 0.2% wouldn't get the job unless they had skills. I hope. And math is probably included there somewhere.

(Figures totally out of the air.)

The problem seems to be the boxes that you click away. Everyone gets a million of those boxes every day, noone reads them and they are clicked away as fast as possible because you're busy and don't have time to read silly things.

So, maybe:

1) there should only be boxes that are important

or

2) the actually important messages should appear elsewhere, for instance on a part of the screen that stays there and doesn't have to be clicked away

The second solution would actually solve the tech support problem. "Read to me the red text in the bottom right of the screen", would be much easier to answer than "what was in one of the million boxes you clicked away earlier today that was actually important".

Does that mean that those pesky windows keys will vanish?

It's interesting that most people think of "difficulty" here. There might even be more importantly to cater to playstyle - reckless berserk, careful sniper, silent, never seen and non-killing thief, explorer... socializer.

Altogether way too few games today you can play without killing anything.

Hair also repels one another when given a voltage:
http://images.google.com/images?q=hair%20static%20electricity

How is this different, and how will it make a muscle? It didn't seem to make anything shorter in the direction where it's actually strong.