Recent content by aiusepsi

I wish this thread was shorter just because I can't read the whole thing, but ShadowKirby has it absolutely right, as does someone else in this thread. The difference between games and many other products is that a used game is pretty much as good as a new game, in terms of use, whereas a...

The UK is a very, very different place to the US. We don't want guns, we don't want our police to have guns. Sure, some criminals have guns, but they're mostly activated replicas or antiques; we're an awful long way from being awash with the things. It's actually pretty difficult to get hold...

I am absolutely dying to know what's going to happen. This is driving me crazy.

This is the exact kind of thing that Valve's been saying for years: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/valve-not-concerned-about-piracy-in-pc-market You sell a reasonably priced, localised day-and-date release in Russia, you're going to sell copies. I'm sure they've got hard data to back...

I think Valve knows as much as anyone (and I think, to be honest, they'd already started to figure this out when Episode 2 came out) that the episodic experiment just hasn't worked out like they (and we) would have liked. That's ok. Sometimes you try something and it just doesn't work, and...

Somebody above said it already, but it bears repeating: Specific releases of some games are region-locked because they're emerging markets versions: they're sold really cheaply in places like Russia where game sales are traditionally low. That produces a problem: it encourages people to...

Valve doesn't start taking preorders for games on Steam until they're locked in for launch. Portal 2 at this point is basically in the can, with a lead time so that they can get it certified and ready to go on the 360 and PS3. And Valve are certainly a lot better than they used to be; they've...

Sir Terrence is absolutely right. Doctor Who, at least under Russell T. Davies, pretty much did everything he could to downplay as many of the scientific aspects of it as possible. For instance, for a show ostensibly about a time traveller, very few of his plots ever actually involved time...

Indeed, I'm slightly surprised that there's anyone in one of the launch countries who doesn't have Spotify yet. It's fantastic, especially things like new albums going up straight away so you don't have to wait to listen (like the new Muse album...

klakkat explained the right answer to the OPs question already. The twin on Earth will be older, in a the literal sense that he will have lived for longer. The way to come at relativity is the anchoring fact that light always moves at the same velocity for all observers, no matter how...

The hell? Karl Marx didn't like Jews or what he percieved as Jewish culture: From "On The Jewish Question?" "What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, selfishness. What is the secular cult of the Jew? Haggling. What is his secular god? Money. Well then, an emancipation from...

Plus it's a fallacy that more vicious punishments make people disinclined to commit crime. People still got raped and murdered when such punishments were in force. Look at some of the more illiberal Islamic countries where you can get stoned to death for adultery - didn't stop people doing...

As has been mentioned, the TPM chip is also used for Bitlocker drive encryption in Vista. That's designed such that if it isn't Windows being booted up, there's no way to decrypt the disk. It's a really, really tough cookie. You know how they broke Bitlocker? You cut the power to the...

As well as the ad on the Steam store, it's also now the 6th best selling game, behind the usual favourites (two kinds of Counter-Strike, CoD4, TF2, and the Orange Box) but that's quite a sales bump. Also makes me wonder why people are bothering buying it on Amazon, sure, it's $5.50 cheaper...

I'm C++/C# too, although I'm thinking of having a crack at Python, and I code mostly recreationally, although I recently had to do some C++ programming for computer lab (I'm a physics student). I think my favourite language (right now) is probably C#, because you get a nice base class...