Civilization Revolutions is not "Civilization on the console", it's "Civilization for casual gamers". There's no technical reason why Civ IV or Civ V couldn't be ported to console without any loss in functionality, it's just that whatever focus groups they talked to fell for the Wii myth that console gamers have a 5 minute attention span.

I've spent hundreds of hours playing Morrowind and Oblivion on a console, and would have loved to see a full Civilization console port.

it's not a case of "big bad windows" at all. The only politics is in your head.

It's a case of learning to be flexible and understanding the concepts rather than rote learning of a tool.
Its the same principle that has universities teach programming languages you probably won't use in the workforce, and why high schools offer spoken languages you'll probably never really use.

Good luck getting to that end without a programmer though.

This actually happened on Thursday. Some people are still waiting for their money, with 40,000 or so likely to still be waiting on Monday.

If you think QBasic is the reason you're not a programmer, then I'm afraid the reason is a little deeper than that.

QBasic is a fully featured, structured language. It bears very little resemblance to the BASIC seen on 80s 8bit computers. But even if you learnt with traditional BASIC, it still shouldn't have scarred you for life. You should have been aware of the limitations of the language, and been adapting the good design in your head to fit within its constraints - rather than letting the constraints dictate the design.

No, AMD makes Radeon and has done for years.

They've _branded_ them ATI since the buyout, but even that has changed now and future parts (which is what these are) will be AMD branded.

If any game is likely to still be played in 10 years time, it's Civilization. (Assuming there's not a Civ 6 by then, of course).

If you're taking the article at face value, then you should take the fact that the 48.4m is the money to date Capita have invested in something as the truth.

The article is just a bunch of big sounding unrelated numbers thrown together to effect a sense of outrage.

I've yet to discover an android app that's incompatible with my phone.
Maybe that's because the Galaxy S has a superset of currently available features - but as far as my experience with a user goes, I don't care. All I know is I haven't seen personal evidence of the much talked about fragmentation and incompatibility.

Unlike my previous experiences with J2ME, where pretty much no applications ever worked with my phone, no matter which manufacturer it was from, or if they did work, they were very clunky (like not taking advantage of a touch screen)

if it takes five years for your solution to stop scaling, then you've probably done a pretty good job.

There's nothing magical about this.

The fibre was always going to be capable of Gigabit, and beyond. And pretty much any off-the-shelf network hardware will handle gigabit.
To achieve 100mb in the first place they probably would have had to artificially limit the speed.

I doubt there's a big increase in exposure in having a game pirated vs having a decent demo available.

I don't know if this game in particular had a demo, but World of Goo does, and it's a good demo that more than sells the game to you, particularly given the low price of World of Goo.

If you don't want to pay for a game, that's your decision, but never pretend you're doing the developers a favour.

and that is why his sheet music costs $3.99, not $39,000