"We actually do care about what Google is doing, but we cannot say this in public because our stock price would be affected by this." There's a reason why there's talk of busting up Google's empire, folks, and that reason is because Google is doing everything that you're not supposed to do and winning anyway.

Up until May of last year, I worked at Dell as a help desk support representative for one of their clients. IMHO, Dell is in trouble because they have stopped innovating. They've put no effort into making a tablet PC that is as good as what any of the competitors offer, and instead of keeping their technical support focused on supporting their products, that have instead decided to diversify and provide support for companies like Boeing who needed help with their infrastructure and were more willing to sack their entire IT department and get it at a cheaper cost. Nothing new here, no sir.

I think this might just be a return of some really good games to the fore and a nostalgic trip for many with titles like Rise of the Triad, Shadowrun: Online and Carmageddon coming out. Mistborn: Birthright, Shadownrun Returns and Nuclear Union look promising. And I just have to say this about Star Wars 1313: Fruity pan-galactic melodrama is no substitution for having a blaster by your side, kid. Too much emphasis has been on the Jedi and not enough on the scoundrels and other things that operate in the between spaces. Let's just hope that it breaks the suck cycle for Star Wars games. Now could someone PLEASE re-release Star Wars X-Wing, TIE Fighter and X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter on GOG please?

However, how niche is your product?

If Surface heats up, the other OEMs have two stark options. They can continue their race-to-bottom, devouring each other in consolidations and acquisitions until only the brand names are left and every PC component and system has been outsourced to Malaysia -- or they can start building names for themselves as innovators.
This.

Adapt or Die. That is the mantra of the computer industry. Apple has seized on this notion and have reaped the rewards for it. Microsoft is learning, but they have a long way to go. Personally, I am glad that they didn't let their OEMs know what is going on. "But Dharma, you charismatic stallion, why would you support an Evil Empire like Microsoft," you ask, It's quite simple....Microsoft is willing to step out of its' comfort zone. Look at the XBox, look at the Zune, look at the Windows Phone. Sure, all of those products had the missteps and out and out failures, but they got past that and made a better product up the road, and the consumer has been better for it on the whole.

HP and Dell have forgotten how to innovate because they stopped making things. And when they stopped making things, they stopped thinking about how to make things better. Making things in Malaysia does not count here, because those people over there are not making things. They are following a blueprint that has already been set in stone. They do not innovate. They are robots made of meat and it seems to me that this is what business in the 21st Century wants is robots made of meat.

You dumbass hogs, what you ain't catching is the fact that Notch wants to make a gorram game of the Firefly 'verse. Personally, I'd love to play this game, especially if it takes place after the events of the film.

Doubleplus Ungood.

In a word: Yes. In several words: Zuckerberg is a very smart man, but even very smart men can be very, very stupid and short-sighted and a general pain in the ass. I would say that it's less Karma and more Zuckerberg having to pay the Danegeld to Yahoo. Of course, if Yahoo wins, then the feeding frenzy begins anew, and like the Danegeld, once you pay it, you'll never get rid of them.

Yeah, I shall not soon forget the ass-whuppin I got when I tried to play Super Smash Brothers Melee on the Gamecube with my nephews. The fail was epic.

Here's the crux of the biscuit: SOPA and PIPA is the latest attempt of the MPAA, the RIAA and a whole alphabet soup of organizations representing billion dollar babies who have been crying about the internet killing their business since Napster reared its' nappy head up. This is also them trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube after realizing they should have bought a stake in the factory. This will not pass, and a watered down version of it won't pass either because the RIAA doesn't think it would go fast enough. Quit crying and adapt, people.

I hate to say this, friend, but we are already fucked beyond the point of no return. Look at how easily the masses were manipulated by the Tea Party rhetoric that was bought and paid for by Corporatists who despised everything the Democrats and progressives stood for. Now they run the House and have a large chunk of the Senate at their whims, and they are promising more of the same in 2012. Personally, we are so fucked that it's going to take nothing more than pure Anarchy to bring us back.

If it means I can drive The Deliverator car, then sign me up. Saint Dharma

From the Wiki: During a speech at the 2009 Deutsche Bank Securities Technology Conference, Kotick received significant criticism from enthusiasts and the media for stating, "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression." The gaming media may not like it, but here's the problem: Kotick doesn't give a tinker's damn what the gaming media really thinks. He answers to the shareholders of his company. And you can bet if he screws the pooch like EA did a while back, they will ride his ass out of town on a rail. Sad that I actually prefer EA over Activision. I think I only tolerate Blizzard because Activision is smart enough to leave them alone...for now. Saint Dharma, patron saint of The Alliance