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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14807 | ripfire (430) Mar 26, 2007 - 12:11 pm » Edited on Mar 26, 2007 - 12:13 pm
| You forgot to mention music as a viable source of violence.
But seriously, when are people going to understand that when kids are f'ed up, they're f'ed up to begin with. Why is it that our society is always trying to look for some sort of external excuse first rather than doing their own research on the aggressor? This reminds me of that article in Penny Arcade about that kid who beat up a homeless guy and blamed it on games (see link). A person wrote a letter and basically said that the kid had serious issues and had nothing to do with video games, yet the media took that as a scapegoat. Link: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/02/21 Flag this | Edit this post |





| Matrix Blog Link » /matrix/blog.asp/61869/305 | ripfire (430) Mar 16, 2007 - 03:53 pm
| Nice review. Although I think it would have been better if you included some comparison to the other racing wheels like Logitech's G25. Of course, I would understand that not everyone would have the luxury of owning several wheels.
Personally, I'm already anxious for the Forza2 release. I hope MS would release a special Racing Wheel with the FM2 in the package instead of PGR3. I would definitely pick that up. Flag this | Edit this post |



| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14636 | ripfire (430) Mar 12, 2007 - 09:36 am » Edited on Mar 12, 2007 - 09:41 am
| Please tell me you are not kidding. Increase in compression is proportional to CPU power. Yes, that's true but you never mentioned at what magnitude. We are talking about image stills here, not H.264. Please, if you're trying to reach for some excuse, try not to skew the facts.
optimizing costs development time, and development time is expensive
Why don't you just tell everybody to stop whatever we are doing to forward our technology. Gee, BMPs are soo awesome everybody is using it. Oh wait a min, almost all our cameras use JPG. Gee, I wonder why. Is there some sort of conspiracy going on? Oh hell with all that, let's all go back to analog! Flag this | Edit this post |


| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=14644 | ripfire (430) Mar 12, 2007 - 09:20 am » Edited on Mar 12, 2007 - 09:20 am
| Razgriz wrote:
... It's all about the money, ...
Well duh! They're not exactly in the business for fun. Why do you think they're calling out piracy? From their point of view, there's not enough PC game sales to justify their investment. You can see that for yourself if you're paying attention to the "Top 10 games sold this month" articles.
And just because they're moving to the console platform doesn't mean free money to them. It's an increase in development costs, and it's not even a guarantee it will sell enough games to recoup their costs. Flag this | Edit this post |



| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=3963 | ripfire (430) Mar 07, 2007 - 01:40 pm » Edited on Mar 07, 2007 - 01:42 pm
| | He was being charged ATM fee, out-of-network fee, account access fee, a fee to review his balance, a RegD fee for withrdawing out of his savings, another fee for not keeping a minimum balance of 400euros, and finally a fee for not being able to pay these fees. Flag this | Edit this post |


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