Or how about starting school at 11am?

There's some pretty strong evidence that teenagers have a biological need to stay up late and sleep in.

Just use a style sheet. In HTML5 the video tag is no different from any other tag.

Are you kidding? Bell, Rogers and Telus will be at each other's throats to offer the hottest new Nintendo product. They really don't care whether you pay for your data plan or if Nintendo does. Nintendo's habit of locking their devices down is also likely to appeal to these companies, since their goal is to collect monthly revenue without users doing anything on the network.

I agree with the article. Plot is massively overrated. I find that the majority of games touted for "great plots" reek of frustrated author syndrome where game play takes a back seat to the writer's vision.

I get far more enjoyment out of games that provide a large variety of game play mechanics, situations, re-playability and multi-player.

WoW's system is one of the ugliest hacks I've ever seen. It is not a game for roleplayers, it is a game for min-maxing, loot-craving metagamers.

You seem to be conflating differentiation/uniqueness with balance. Balance in a skill-based game like UO is purely about tweaking each skill and observing the mountain of data you are logging. Because each skill is singular and entirely optional, you don't need to worry about overpowering/nerfing an entire class.

Differentiation/uniqueness is another issue entirely, an exercise for the game designer.

I don't see why we have to have classes in an MMO. I much prefer the Ultima Online system of choosing your own skills and in effect, creating your own "class". This type of system is far easier to balance since you can modify each skill "in a vacuum" without upsetting anything else.

That, and the very old idea of the holy trinity (healer, tank, damage-per-second) needs to die, it is sucking all of the creativity out of game design. Real people are not specialists, they are capable of learning many different things.

No, they don't. No store has the right to detain you. They have the right to call the police, but you will be long gone by then.

If the police show up at your home, you show the police your receipt. If this happens often enough, the store will look really bad and the police will not appreciate the superfluous calls.

There is no delay on startup. DOSBox has a wide variety of different ways of outputting its video, depending on your platform.

Check it out, it's really fast now.

You guys need to get up to speed on your DOSBox knowledge.

The more recent versions of DOSBox use a dynarec backend. This is way faster than the old backend and has the added benefit of not requiring you to mess around with cycle numbers for every game.

Yes, but the publishers would be made extinct, replaced by these types of services.

Why deal with a company specializing in putting boxes on store shelves when this is your new business model?

I doubt it. The SIMD extensions on ARM chips are far less powerful than desktop equivalents.

We're talking about chips that are a pretty small fraction of the speed of desktop chips and only one core.

Superior in objective PSNR Quality. OK.

How about CPU utilization? Are there any ultra-low-power decoding chips that play Theora?

H.264 already has a large install base of devices that play it. Is there enough of an advantage to Theora to warrant dumping all of those for new ones?

You need to pay more attention. Steam has sales all the time. I've seen games go anywhere from 10%-90% off. Left 4 Dead had a weekend where it was 50% off. It did massive sales numbers over that weekend.

In the future, when physical distribution is gone, these types of sales will become even more of a big deal. Gamers have shown that they can and will wait for a price drop before buying a game.

Even though digital distribution eliminates any supply issues, it is still subject to the law of demand.