Comment: Re:Cheaper to buy CDs (Score 1) 551
Don't forget that in the US most online purchases don't even bother with sales tax. (I don't use iTunes, so I don't know if it's any different).
Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? 362
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Soulskill
from the nobody-needed-to-frag-each-other-while-stomping-koopas dept.
from the nobody-needed-to-frag-each-other-while-stomping-koopas dept.
hornedrat writes "Gamepro discusses the idea that modern games put too much emphasis on multiplayer, and that players aren't as concerned about it as developers think. 'The current environment encourages developers to unnecessarily toss multiplayer into their games without caring about it — or even considering whether anyone will bother playing it. It’s like they're checking an invisible quota box that demands multiplayer's inclusion.' Personally I agree that too much emphasis is placed on competitive multiplayer. I play online, but only with my brother in games that allow co-operative modes, like Rainbow Six: Vegas and ARMA 2. 'My point isn't that developers shouldn't try and conquer Halo or Call of Duty. We'd never have any progress in this industry if developers didn't compete. Game companies, however, should think carefully about what they want their games to be, and more important, gamers should consider what they want. If a developer wants to eclipse Halo, then by all means, pour that effort into a multiplayer mode that's different.' I would be interested to know how many gamers really care about the multiplayer components of the games they buy."
Comment: Re:well it's $6.60 all ready... (Score 1) 611
And gas is around $3/gallon where i live in the US (admittedly my region is usually below average). The price increase would be more like 150%. It's more like your 1.2GBP/litre rising to 3GBP/litre.
State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor 574
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samzenpus
from the let's-vote-on-this-instead dept.
from the let's-vote-on-this-instead dept.
Everyone knows how boring a debate on a controversial abortion bill can get on the Senate floor. So it's no wonder that Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett took the time to look at a little porn and a video of a dog running out of the water and shaking itself off. From the article: "Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan Gelber's voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill. 'I'm against this bill,' said Gelber, 'because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida.' Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator.'"
Comment: Re:Use It, Lose It (Score 1) 419
Unless the passenger is reading a book.
Or is a screaming two-year-old.
Or is blind.
Or really just likes to hear themselves talk that much.
Comment: Re:Duality of Wozniak's Apple Versus Jobs' Apple (Score 1) 789
I suspect
Freeedom > Openness - With freedom you can choose to leave the closed system for a more open system. Without it, the openness of the system doesn't really matter as you're stuck with it either way.
Comment: Re:How elastic? (Score 1) 213
I think that was his point.
Comment: Re:WTF? (Score 2, Insightful) 189
In an economy where people get rich by betting that other people can get rich placing the right bets on what companies will be profitable, "worth" and "value" have somewhat arbitrary meanings.
Comment: Re:Hardware support (Score 1) 166
The XBox 360 is most certainly not the only console which gives access to indie developers. I know of a number of games in or coming to WiiWare straight from indie developers. World of Goo, for one.
Comment: Re:Didn't Produce Transistors? Oh Come On! (Score 1) 170
To be fair, if i knew i was obsolete, i might be throwing things too.
Comment: Re:lol = laughing out loud? WTF? (Score 1) 274
ha
The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282
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samzenpus
from the equal-distribution-of-the-pie dept.
from the equal-distribution-of-the-pie dept.
iamapizza writes "New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article; 'The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-center, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-center cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighboring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?' This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of 'sharing' a pizza."
Comment: Re:Good. (Score 1) 284
You would think that most people here would have grown out of the "M$" phase.
You must be new around here.
Comment: Re:Is it trickery? (Score 1) 514
But if that one result on Bing is exactly what the user wants, then what's the point of millions more results? From the Bing-vs-Google results page, that one result included links to Google Image Search, Google Video, and a half-dozen other Google products. Google took the whole first page to provide basically the same results. The biggest difference is Google's news links at the top of the results (which in my opinion is just extra clutter, but whatever).
And seriously, who would search for just "google" and not be looking for the search engine itself?
Comment: Re:Waaaaahh (Score 1) 548
Make a game that portrays Americans in a negative light and sell it here...
Isn't that what they did with GTA?