And they had to go through the color-related gimmicks to get to proper color. It cannot be an off-on switch like approach where one day you have black and white, and the next day you have perfect color.

In much the same way, I anticipate we will have to go through certain other approaches before we approach something like true life-like 3D. It cannot be a sudden jump from high-quality 2D to high-quality 3D. There will always be growing pains.

A very well-deserved award. That extension right there is the primary reason I always use Firefox. Well, that, Adblock Plus, Flashblock, and Nuke Anything Enhanced. Makes viewing almost every webpage/site a clean, 99% ad-free readable experience.

Are you saying the games industry and the movie industry are similar? Because from what I understand, both of them don't work the same way.

Also, if I understand correctly, this is for the Online MP aspect of the games, NOT for the SP games themselves. If so, I can kinda-sorta understand their reasoning in that, the Game Devs and Publishers are willing to support Online Play for people who have paid THEM (Publishers and by extension, Developers) for the game, and that they will NOT support Online Play for people who have NOT paid them for the game. In my opinion, that perspective seems reasonable, if a bit extreme.

And each book cost tens of millions to create as well, right?

Is that why Nintendo are trying to say their new console is geared towards that "niche of gamers"?

I wonder at the Moderators who are modding up posts praising Anon and LulzSec while ignoring your post, which so ably highlighted what these antics by these immature hypocrites may cause to the Internet we use every day.

But far be it from /. moderators to actually mod objectively.

First, they hacked and brought the Network down, and I cheered the hackers, because I was not one of the victims and I hated Sony.

Then they hacked and stole and publicized personal and financial details, and I cheered the hackers, because I was not one of the victims and I hated Sony.

Then they hacked and stole my personal and financial details from some other location, and THEN I was outraged and was no longer cheering them, but was impotent as the very ones I had cheered were the ones now committing a crime against me.

Ah so you guys (similar_name and TheCount22) take issue with him not caring about something that didn't affect him personally - yet you were okay and did not take issue with the hundreds of /. users who DID NOT CARE about the millions of PSN users and were jubilantly cheering the PSN hack - precisely because they were not affected. And wanted too much for Sony to fail, even if that was the expense of millions of people.

Hypocrisy - look it up.

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Ebert is not an idiot, granted, in general.

Concerning this specific topic, he certainly acted like an idiotic illiterate know-it-all, specifically because he pontificated on the issue of games being ineligible to be considered as art while not having played a single one.

Not true - Sony hashed the passwords; but never let facts get in the way of an anti-Sony zealot, right?

Also what happens if you sorta remember the password and are tentatively trying to type it in?

Wouldn't you be a little less confident while trying out the password? How would this "verify by the way you type" approach interpret this?

In my opinion, Slashdot cannot lay claim to promoting insightful discussions anymore, at least as far as anything Sony is concerned. Over here, most /. folks are willing to believe ANYTHING negative about Sony, even if it's from the worst sort of tabloid, and are unwilling to do the slightest bit of research if said research will work to disprove their bias against Sony.

Over here, anything anti-Sony, even if it's a blatant example of trolling = modded > +2,3,4 or 5 Insightful, Interesting or Informative, while anything NOT anti-Sony = modded 0, -1 Troll or Flamebait.

Says a lot about the maturity of the moderators here.

Also ChoicePoint (which never told me it had lost my information) and Citi Cards (who did not issue a press release but just gave me a call saying there was a chance my CC info may have been compromised and they were sending me a new card).