Recent content by Bubbay

Actually, the second 'U' is pronounced in American English. It's the second 'I' that isn't pronounced, mainly because in American English the word is 'aluminum.' Note the presence of only one 'I' in the word. Incidentally, if you were in the US and used 'aluminium' in a paper, the prof...

WHY DO YOU TALK SUCH CRAZY TALK? The internet is always right. Period. I read on the internet once that people like you are secret communists who are trying to undermine all that is America and I should shout at you and bang pots and pans until you go away. Or that might have been bears...

OH NO! A well-respected developer is branching out into new areas? THE HORROR! This is going to definitely end in disaster, just like when Blizzard branched out into MMOs. Everyone knows they're just known for their first-rate RTS games and shouldn't use their talents anywhere else...

Using concepts from established technologies is not the same as writing code for your specific product. They still have to write specialized code for their hardware. Kinect is entirely new hardware (even if it uses established technologies and even if they use off the shelf components, this...

Yeah, it's pretty irresponsible for the inital article to say that MS is making $93.99 profit on each Kinect, not to mention it betrays a fundamental lack of understanding of business. Cost of parts != cost to manufacture. It is merely one component of that. I guarantee you that the parts...

With 50 replies, you'd think that more than one responder would have actually read the Penny Arcade article. PA is not saying that the used games market is morally on the same ground as piracy, they're saying it's economically on the same ground. This is indisputably true -- the developers...