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Comment: Re:jetzt (Score 5, Informative) 297

by antek9 (#38974469) Attached to: If You're Fat, Broke, and Smoking, Blame Language

Morgen werde ich noch einen schreiben.

... and there you made your mistake. While that's a grammatically and semantically correct sentence, you're more likely to phrase it as, "Morgen schreibe ich noch einen.", actually using present tense to convey a future statement. I won't bother to RTFA, so I'll never know the argument it's proposing, but there might be some sense to it. There _is_ a tendency to melt present and future in German, and maybe that does re-program everyone's synapses accordingly, maybe not.

Anyway, the whole point would even be more valid for the Japanese who don't even know a future tense.

And here, dear children, are two sayings that might convey the article's thesis, one in German, and one in Japanese:

"Was Du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen!"
"Ashita yarou wa bakayarou!"

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Sony Could Face Developer Exodus on PSN->

Submitted by donniebaseball23
donniebaseball23 writes "As the PlayStation Network outage continues, developers continue to feel the economic pinch. There's been no word from Sony on whether they'll compensate companies who produce games for PSN, but Capcom has already said it's losing potentially "millions" from the downtime. Worse yet, developers who rely on PSN revenues may jump ship if they aren't compensated, warns Dylan Cuthbert, creator of popular PSN game PixelJunk. "I have a feeling they [Sony] are thinking about doing something or they will lose developers which of course is pretty bad for them," he told IndustryGamers."
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Comment: Re:Not that stupid (Score 4, Interesting) 255

by antek9 (#33954866) Attached to: The Case For Apple Buying Facebook
Problem with that is: Farmville (like a lot of games on FB) is a flash game, and Flash would have to go if FB would become an Apple asset. And, while I know that "there's an app for that" (TM), it doesn't seem likely that Steve could convince Zynga to go all HTML5 just for the fun of it. Well, not against the Google millions already poured inside Zynga, that is...

Comment: Re:Once again.... (Score 1) 356

by antek9 (#33804214) Attached to: Ballmer Promises Microsoft Tablet By Christmas
Even if you couldn't imagine this, as you say, the Playstation Eye camera has a rather capable microphone array built in, which is capable enough for what you described. Some games, take Singstar for example, have had voice commands for some time now (I think, two years or something), it's just that Sony doesn't value that feature highly enough to make them put it into the firmware, and use it system wide.

I don't long for it, either, by the way. I mean, who wants to have a feature that enables their spouse to shout: "xbox, force shutdown!" across the room whenever they are disgruntled about something? Or all the inadvertent voice commands the system tries to execute whenever you are having a ball with some friends? On a more serious note: contrary to Wiimote 2.0 (or whatever it's called), and Playstation Move, Kinect doesn't seem to live up to its specifications, or rather, people's expectations. Lag is still massive, the system can't track more than two players at the same time (expect disruptions whenever party people crowd up around the players, and while you're at it: strip the cameras' field of vision of any distractions like sofas, bookshelves, rotating fans, and the like!), it's by far the most expensive motion control system of all the consoles because you'll have to buy the whole set and can't scale it up over time, like with Move.

I can read your mind, and you should be ashamed of yourself.

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