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This is why I always wait so long to buy games now. First they release the game, but you don't know what platform to buy it on. Then comes the DLC. You know if you wait long enough, and it's a popular game, they'll re-release it for the same price with some/all of the DLC, or some platform will get exclusivity, or.... nobody can just treat the platforms equally anymore.
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What he said. I have to downscale my display to run Hulu fullscreen, regardless of what the actual *content* is encoded at (since the controls are rendered at the native display resolution). What's going to happen when Flash is flogging my poor processor with 1920*1080*24 bits of information per frame? We all know how well Flash handles (or *doesn't* handle) hardware acceleration -- HTML5 video can't get here soon enough...
Here's the thing -- there's already a language that runs in your browser at "native" speeds; it's called Java. No, it's not as fast as C or assembler, but last benchmark I saw it's still faster than Go. What does Go get us except a big ol' Google logo on the manual pages? I love the big G as much as anybody but I have yet to see what this offers.
Wow. This is what happens when you try to tell old people about the Internet.
I love *some* digital download services, but the monopoly services on consoles are a real pain -- Steam has half-off sales to stay competitive, while the MS "deal of the week" is 10% off a 2-year-old game. Bottom line is my first and only metric; console digital-distribution fails by that.
I'm curious what they're using as a backend for calendars. I have yet to see a project that handles a shared calendar with automatic attendee availability, emailed events, recurrence, etc., as cleanly as Outlook does. Which kills me, because I can't convince my coworkers to make the switch to Thunderbird if I can't give them a *really good* calendar alternative.....
Uprising was one of my favorite games of that era -- I think it was actually ahead of its time. Uprising 2 really didn't get enough visibility -- I think they did everything about as well as the original with a few new features. It was tough, but fun.
This is a terrible idea. The Internet speaks English!
"Set-top boxes that stream content from the Web are still relatively hard to come by"

What was the last retail outlet you went to that *didn't* sell the Xbox 360? I assume that the Netflix service on 360 is currently only in the US, but that's probably for the good reason that Netflix has only worked out licensing for content in the US. Once Netflix goes worldwide, there's no reason the 360 service for it won't follow suit. And a Roku Netflix box (haven't used 'em but hear they're good) is only a hundred bucks -- if you have Internet enough to stream video, you probably have Internet enough to order one of those.
Austrailia can *also* eat a giant, giant dick.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I'm looking for a pair of quality headphones that aren't seemingly made of glass. I'm an avid BMXer which causes me to frequently bash on any type of technology that joins me for my daily riding. I've been through the higher quality headsets in the Skullcandy line as these are supposed to be built for "abuse," which is laughable. I cant wear earbuds or canal buds, as my large ears seem to have a repelling property upon anything that sits in them. Wired or Bluetooth doesn't really matter, but I need something that can hold up to taking a few hits every now and again. I'm trying to keep 'em under $150. Thanks!"
 

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