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Comment Re:I dunno, man... (Score 0, Redundant) 306

by sumdewd on Thursday September 16, 2010 @12:01PM (#33600572) Attached to: Facebook Competitor Diaspora Revealed

Cite your sources. http://tiny.cc/5ipel says that although the middle aged demographic is growing most rapidly, the 0-24 bracket is by no means shrinking. Having said that, parent's parent is certainly correct in saying that facebook is the place that "old people" use.

Study Claims $41.5 Billion In Portable Game Piracy Losses Over Five Years 316

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @03:49AM from the fair-and-balanced dept.

Gamasutra reports that Japan's Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association conducted a study to estimate the total amount of money lost to piracy on portable game consoles. The figure they arrived at? $41.5 billion from 2004 to 2009. Quoting: "CESA checked the download counts for the top 20 Japanese games at what it considers the top 114 piracy sites, recording those figures from 2004 to 2009. After calculating the total for handheld piracy in Japan with that method, the groups multiplied that number by four to reach the worldwide amount, presuming that Japan makes up 25 percent of the world's software market. CESA and Baba Lab did not take into account other popular distribution methods for pirated games like peer-to-peer sharing, so the groups admit that the actual figures for DS and PSP software piracy could be much higher than the ¥3.816 trillion amount the study found."

Comment Its just not the fastest browser... (Score 1, Insightful) 385

by sumdewd on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @10:20AM (#32097768) Attached to: Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome

The most casual of testing of Opera 10.53 on my own C2D e8400 just yielded a Sunspider result of... "Total: 312.0ms +/- 13.9%" If speed is such an important marketing factor then why aren't we hearing more about opera?

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