people wouldn't care if they had showed some "OMGWTFBBQ" gameplay on the announcement.

instead they got 30 minutes of a guy watching tv and skype on tv. like, wtf, my tv has that built in.

the words with friends market isn't the high end games console market. there is demand for some multiplayer, which needs online of course. there is no demand for getting chat popups while playing next elder scrolls(non-online) game though.

ea and others would publish games because they need to. they're a games publisher. EA has no trouble publishing hundreds of android titles yet copying them is easy.

what's going to be problematic is that they envision using this thing for ten years or more - say, what are the chances the server stuff in the cloud is going to be running for a game company that already went bankrupt between the time they published the game and the time someone buys it say, 6 years later - on a physical media from a games store. the store gets the blame.

but all that wouldn't matter shit if they "got" gaming, yesterdays announcement was done in such fashion that they don't really give a shit about gaming(all the studio showcases could have been the exact same bullshit reel - all used same empty hype words, same bullshit, same kind of rendered scenes which showed no gameplay at all). as a gamer there's exactly nothing to look forward to. "the new xbox let's us tessellate surfaces as you get closer to the object" uhh well no shit didn't the exact same studio use the same fucking line about the old xbox already. if a fucking dog is the most important thing you have to say about your game when demoed with new hardware release maybe there's nothing you got to say about the hardware really..

the presentation was very done and rehearsed, with sleek presenters, it was like from a movie, because it was so generic - it could have been almost any tv widget they were presenting, so too bad they had nothing to present. nobody cares how many transistors your cpu has.

well there was SHIT ALL NO playing at all at the announcement stream.
it's a box for watching live american cable tv. rest of the world doesn't care and neither do gamers.

playstation announcement might not have had the console on display, but at least it was somewhat about the games.

MS could just as well have skipped displaying the specs(8 gigabytes! ... and a cpu with x number of transistors) since they were so light on them.

no. no no.

you might get some metro apps. that's what the "snap" view was about.

yeah... they're just switching from online pass to "play pass".

I was pointing out that I would use more ram if it brought things to work otherwise faster. even eclipse.
I could do with 100mbytes of email storage. my laptop isn't maxed out on ram, if there was an advantage of getting another 8 gigs I would.

people bitch about python. at least I do.

                                      whitespace has effect. who has time for that..

they could just move their mail operation overseas with no US operatives.

they do it for taxes already, so why the fuck not...

ram isn't much of an issue on a desktop.

I got "just" 8 gigs and pretty much never go over 75% usage for extended periods of time.. even eclipse just takes 766mbytes!

..why do you think google got into browser game if not for shipping a browser that doesn't block their ads and tracking _by_default_.

well how do you think the got the idea that "the tech is real".

he saw a demo somewhere, along with some money.

Home defense is? Are concealed carry permits given for target shooting now? arms aren't for hunting.

then there's guns for fighting pirates etc.. but I suppose one could chalk that one under military(and the pirates weapons as well), but then it becomes just a case of calling all guns bought for killing to be for military use.. then there's police guns, which are for killing people. derringers are nothing but for killing people, or at least wounding, and used to be pretty popular to carry around. then there's dueling pistols which are precisely just for imprecisely killing one man.

of course people buy guns for killing people and are sold guns for killing people, with the intention that they might be used for killing people if the situation presents itself - nothing sporty about it.

if you in this day and age buy something that you could use to kill someone who might threaten you.. what do you buy? a gun. you don't buy a car even if you could kill someone under some circumstances with it - you buy a gun. because guns can be used to kill people.

there would be a natural market for smart guns if someone made it work. this plan however would just bankrupt all gun manufacturers in usa who don't deal just to military.

it's not as much as the price as it is what is deemed an "acceptable"(as per germans) solution. nobody has gotten it just right yet, to a point where they would be selling them.

the ring seems interesting. or the wrist tag. but then again you might just as well just put a key and a lock on the gun itself.
a built in lock(with just a regular 'ol key) would be much easier to get into practical use on guns and could be retrofitted to most designs.

but then again, you could just lock the guns now if you wanted to.

gun makers have been trying to make it work as hard as they can for the past 25 years. all the big gun manufacturers (colt etc) have had trials going for almost as long as I've been alive. they do it because if they would get it working, there would be a sizeable market for it. some of the tries( a recent one for example) have used finger/palm recognition, which obviously has it's drawbacks, some have tried some other systems like having to wear a tag on your wrist for the gun to work.

why this guy thinks they can deliver if he just gets a law to force them is a mystery.

it pretty much wipes every fucking gun design on the market out as well. he could just as well call it "kill all but two gun companies act".

if twilight is dead then great!
the little vampire books were kinda fun as a kid though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_kleine_Vampir they should get a resurgence(no idea about the movie though).

but did barnes & noble really have a shelf dedicated to that shit? at least finnish bookstores aren't that kind of insane(or finnish teens don't read or have more sense..). the funniest labeled shelf I saw was at londons forbidden planet: "macho guys with guns". around here they're just fiction or non fiction. some bookstores having a scifi/fantasy shelf as well..