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+1. This. Obama's plan is idiotic. Its a handout to insurance companies. Yeah we will fine people who don't buy insurance - but the companies still don't have to compete across state lnes. Great idea... The thing that gets me about Obama is how he is a such a failure as a liberal. A real...

I don't think so. The boxes are fairly compact - they would fit in the overhead I think. Some of them have nice handles too.

The problem is even at ZERO CO2 production for DECADES we would still have extremely elevated C02 levels. We are taking absolutely no serious steps to reduce C02 production on a world wide scale. At best countries are limiting their increase in CO2 production. But even Civil War levels of CO2...

I dunno. I used to be far more sympathetic to the green movement. The issue is how much prevention = how much cure. It sure SOUNDS good to say that an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure. In reality its likely an ounce of prevention is just that - one ounce. World population is GROWING...

I think global warming is real. I think scientists though need to move past that. 1) If it is real how much conservation would actually effect change? How much conservation is actually possible? Remember the third world is growing leaps and bounds. China is building coal plants around every...

Consoles are not for kids. They are proxy to move people from an open system (PCs) to a closed system (consoles). Microsoft, Apple, Sony and the rest NEVER REALLY WANTED to let computers be open. The current PC is open in both software and hardware - which from their perspective is CRAZY...

i feel the rise in mobile computing is confusing the analysts some. Yes, There is a whole class of people that really like and sort of need mobile computing. All the guys who spend alot of time away from home or the office and yet want to do minor computing tasks/games etc. In the cities this...

I get this is a joke. But interestingly enough - no. Porn is not profitable since you can get good enough porn for free..and it gets boring in like 10 minutes. 5 Billion in revenue last year I believe. That's like as much as Activision Blizzard makes in one year. That's fairly pathetic when one...

What it will bring is the likely death of one of the players in the console market.. I hope its Microsoft.. From a PC gamer perspective most of what XBOX/XBOX360 has done is divert attention from any push to improve PC gaming and the gaming experience on PCs. It has hurt windows media center...

Oh certainly I see where you are coming from. It's just that part of being a liberal is supposed to be championing individual human rights - whether its the right to smoke pot, get an abortion, get married if your gay etc. Having every single person tracked by the government and essentially...

For me the issue I have isn't so much the spying. It's that it was secret. Sure the current supreme court lackeys will twist the law to say different.. But I don't see any reading of the constitution that would allow limitless searching. ' "The right of the people to be secure in their...

I wouldn't say games are 'shit' but honestly the genre has moved forward a whole lot. Personally I had hoped for amazing AI - but playing even the best RPG like Skyrim - the world feels like a dead empty place.. If you compare it to something like Baldur's game - basically the biggest change is...

Raiding is the best mechanic game designers have come up with to keep people's interest in the end game. They have tried a bunch of other things - and none of them have worked, IMHO. So you can rant that you don't like raiding - but then go play GW2. Oh wait you say there is 'nothing to do in...

Microsoft and Sony basically see modern consoles to be locked down PCs - and Apple sees tablets and the fabled lock down Macs. When you buy these machines - you give the hardware makers a very nice guaranteed revenue stream. It's like a Ford car that you could only run with Ford gas...

They pulled money directly out of banks for the last round of the Greece Bailout. Don't think that couldn't happen here. If its electronic with a few keystrokes all your money is gone. Cash is king. Actually if more people used cash they wouldn't be broke . Its damn hard to part with alot...

That's not really fair. They thought they would make money on the consoles sold because in the past you could sell alot of software with each console. Thus you break even - especially over a multi-year period where the loss on each console goes down. The problem is of course you cannot bank...

I get that you like exclusives. And I agree they are the reason to own a console. The problem for Sony is that they hope to do well just by executing 'better.' I am not sure its going to work - rather I think it won't. They had a good first party lineup for the PS3 - and they lost money four...

Good advice here. I agree Fractal will work well. Also get a good aftermarket CPU cooler and the ASUS non-reference coolers are nice and quiet too. I will say that if you for whatever reason don't want Fractal and say want a LIan Li - or something prettier its still going to work.. The reason...

More efficent yes - but not significantly more so. That's been the problem in the past with consoles. In theory the PS3 was quite fast - in reality the developers preferred the easy to program XBOX360 to the PS3. For years now the hardware guys have been beating the software guys so to...

I like GW2 and WoW the best. GW2 On the plus side: Good exploration. Good graphics. Runs well. Good music. Non-addictive. On the minus side: Lacks depth to the game play. In the PvE side the lack of a "Holy Trinity" style structure puts them in a hole they can't dig out of...

The disadvantage of consoles is that its a closed software system. You are not going to see the same kind of deals you can get on PC because of this, IMHO. You are ceding control to a big slow corporation. It's a troubling trend for the hobbyist - as its what computer companies have done all...

Yes you are absolutely right. I don't think I quite explained myself. I think there are different kinds of games. Some games are designed to be 'time killers' these provide something moderately entertaining that you can do for a very extended amount of time without getting bored of it...

Well for me its not just gaming. I don't get nearly as excited about sports events as I used too - and its rare that I get up for a movie either. I do think this is aged related. Its this feeling of being jaded. I don't particularly like it. Even a fast car doesn't quite thrill me as much as I...

Let me say that I DO have a dog in this race. I am rooting for AMD since I live right next to them. I am less optomisitic though: On the console wins: If the console win was so lucrative - it would have effected the stock price, IMHO. The problem here is there is just rampant...

You are assuming they make a cut with every console sale. I would assume quite the opposite - they only get a one time design fee and the rights get sold to the game companies. Why? This: https://www.google.com/search?q=AMD+stock&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&rlz=...

See the thing is I am not sure alot of people want the game design decisions that GW2 went for. They might SAY they want them but the reality of the content when implemented with 2013 technology leaves then cold. Alot of stuff that sounds really appealing on paper just doesn't seem to really...

EA deserves special scorn because it takes something thats about bringing joy to the world and ruins it. Companies that are in both the energy business and the pharma business generally have dirty hands because its impossible to do business otherwise. What oil company is beyond reproach...

Alot of guild wars innovations just didn't work, IMHO. That's the real problem with the game. It's a shame because I love the art style - and I think the developers put a ton of effort into it. GW2 is a good 'be careful what you wish for" scenario for MMO developers. No class roles = no real...

Huh? You are quoting me out of context. Architecture doesn't matter in terms of how fast they can make the CPU to run. There are fast POWERPC chips - and slow ones. And there could be fast ARM chips if you wanted to make them. That was my point. The 'theory' was that they couldn't use ARM...

You run into all kinds of race conditions and you have to use locks and such when you program for 8 cores. Developers never did it before because its HARD. Graphics respond well to mutli-cores - but game logic does not.

So to clarify OP - what's the problem with women in games? There are not enough of them as lead characters or are they too attractive? I think if you want to attack the gaming industry you need to specify what the problem is.. The gaming industry for the most part tries to appeal to the...

Sigh. They are not as fast because they aren't DESIGNED to be as fast. It has nothing to do with the arm architecture. If you look at the performance of chips and compare it to the number of transistors - you quickly conculde its not about ARM vs. x86 its about how many transistors you are...

You don't need x86 for a game machine though. You blow like a million transistors on your CISC to RISC translator.. (which all the intel and AMD x86 chips have now). True its not a huge hit - but don't spin it like moving to x86 is an efficency based one. NVIDIA would have crafted then an ARM...

The problem with talking about theoretical advantages is that it's not clear where the problem lies. For example lets assume that the PS4 has alot more bandwith between the GPU and CPU then a PC. Nice right? But how do you know bandwith is a problem. Maybe the problem is a lack of single...

*citation needed. I think you are wrong on this. Game making nowadays is like movie making. Sure they spend alot more on marketing the Batman movie. But they also spend a ton more money then they did on the the Hurt Locker. It's just opportunity cost. They could say reshoot bat-man with...

We reached this point early in the PS3/Xbox 360 cycle. PC gaming didn't have any big downturn. What could and will likely hurt PC gaming is the new generation that's into social media and causal games on tablets and the like. On the plus side while I think we might lose a few players...

Deveoping computer games is hardwork and they only have limited budget. So the more time spent on developing 'inclusiveness' the less time that can be spent on making the game rock. The pay off for the inclusion of more romance/lead character options doesn't seem to match the downsides -...

It works. You bought a bigger power supply then you needed. Its not exactly the end of the world though. You have some extra capacity if you switch to hotter components and a ton of wiggle room for capcitor degredation over time. (Though Its only a few percent per year)..

+1. This. I would also point out that AMD stock is trading at 2 dollars a share. Bankruptcy is not out of the question for them. Whereas NVIDIA is doing okay going after the mobile market with their Tegra lineup. Can the Tegra 4 do well? That's an open question - but I will say the market...

I wouldn't expect any long term advantage for either chip company (which is what I assume your getting at). Both of these companies have proven very willing to change architectures. So if a certain AMD style chip design feature was leading to real world dominance NVIDIA would simply adopt that...