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Too Much Multiplayer In Today's Games? 362

Posted by Soulskill from the nobody-needed-to-frag-each-other-while-stomping-koopas dept.
hornedrat writes "Gamepro discusses the idea that modern games put too much emphasis on multiplayer, and that players aren't as concerned about it as developers think. 'The current environment encourages developers to unnecessarily toss multiplayer into their games without caring about it — or even considering whether anyone will bother playing it. It’s like they're checking an invisible quota box that demands multiplayer's inclusion.' Personally I agree that too much emphasis is placed on competitive multiplayer. I play online, but only with my brother in games that allow co-operative modes, like Rainbow Six: Vegas and ARMA 2. 'My point isn't that developers shouldn't try and conquer Halo or Call of Duty. We'd never have any progress in this industry if developers didn't compete. Game companies, however, should think carefully about what they want their games to be, and more important, gamers should consider what they want. If a developer wants to eclipse Halo, then by all means, pour that effort into a multiplayer mode that's different.' I would be interested to know how many gamers really care about the multiplayer components of the games they buy."
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State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor 574

Posted by samzenpus from the let's-vote-on-this-instead dept.
Everyone knows how boring a debate on a controversial abortion bill can get on the Senate floor. So it's no wonder that Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett took the time to look at a little porn and a video of a dog running out of the water and shaking itself off. From the article: "Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan Gelber's voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill. 'I'm against this bill,' said Gelber, 'because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida.' Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator.'"

Comment Re:Duality of Wozniak's Apple Versus Jobs' Apple (Score 1) 789

I suspect /.'s discontent here has absolutely nothing to do with the technologies involved. The controversy is a question of freedom: the freedom of a developer to develop in whatever language they choose (whatever the compilation target) and the freedom of the user to install whatever they want on a device they rightfully own and (theoretically) control.

Freeedom > Openness - With freedom you can choose to leave the closed system for a more open system. Without it, the openness of the system doesn't really matter as you're stuck with it either way.
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The Perfect Way To Slice a Pizza 282

Posted by samzenpus from the equal-distribution-of-the-pie dept.
iamapizza writes "New Scientist reports on the quest of two math boffins for the perfect way to slice a pizza. It's an interesting and in-depth article; 'The problem that bothered them was this. Suppose the harried waiter cuts the pizza off-center, but with all the edge-to-edge cuts crossing at a single point, and with the same angle between adjacent cuts. The off-center cuts mean the slices will not all be the same size, so if two people take turns to take neighboring slices, will they get equal shares by the time they have gone right round the pizza — and if not, who will get more?' This is useful, of course, if you're familiar with the concept of 'sharing' a pizza."

Comment Re:Is it trickery? (Score 1) 514

by Plaid Phantom (#30146276) Attached to: Bing Gains 10% Marketshare

But if that one result on Bing is exactly what the user wants, then what's the point of millions more results? From the Bing-vs-Google results page, that one result included links to Google Image Search, Google Video, and a half-dozen other Google products. Google took the whole first page to provide basically the same results. The biggest difference is Google's news links at the top of the results (which in my opinion is just extra clutter, but whatever).

And seriously, who would search for just "google" and not be looking for the search engine itself?

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