Or... you can do what Blizzard and Riot does. Making their most expensive game only exist serverside kinda defeats traditional piracy. WoW is 100% serverside. Starcraft you CAN play single player, but the bulk of the game is the multiplayer aspect. They're making Diablo 3 the same way.

@bob_d That's not entirely true. Games like Bioshock or Silent Hill 2 have very telling narratives that drive the story, or subtle ones like finishing either Deus Ex Human Revolution or Final Fantasy VI.

I used to agree. I used to love books. Then I spent a year working in a warehouse that specialized in used books. It was there, spending months and months among giant pallets and gaylords of books that no one wanted. Sure, we made money, and business was decent - but the amount of physical labor digging through the…

That's not fair. One of the few problems we of German descent have is step one of any plan is "invade Poland". We've had that problem for a long time. If my memory of history serves, we've had that problem even before there WAS a Poland.

I think the "BWAAHN" music from Inception would have worked near the end there.

That's funny. Our schools just pointed a camera at the clock in the office, and used the TV-announcement system so each class had a "clock" that was always the same. Sure, it was just a TV, but still.

Clarke's First Law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong"

You have to realize that science doesn't happen linearly. A bona fide invention that can be replicated incorporates relatively quickly to our civilization.

But then, if you have to pee? This doesn't sound like a universally useful solution.

What's funny is I JUST wrote about this.

I like Stephen King... But I'm really tired of the movie trope "Writer with Writer's block goes to cabin in woods where supernatural happens". I'm just over it. It's overdone, and never fresh.

I believe nigh-everything is cloud based, so you'd have to "cloud drive" most of it. However, I'd assume that there will be some amount of storage that you can simply swap around whenever you're in a wifi or using Whispernet.

Unless you're already using Opera Mobile on your current device... then you've already decided you're going to use cloud-based proxies :D

The iPad comparisons will stop when 68% of tablets purchased are no longer iPads.

Mummy? Are you my Mummy? Mummy!?

I'm pretty sure Yahoo uses Bing now.

Even if he couldn't fix one himself, he could take $30, buy pizzas, and invite a half-dozen CompSci majors over to fix his AND the others.

That's really innovative. 'Cause Spotify ALREADY DOES THIS.

Heck no. Touch interface is so NOT long-long-ago. Gesture-based is where it's at. You keep the lightsaber at your side, clipped to your belt, and move your hand to play Angry Droids.

THAT's what I'm supposed to put in here. I knew I wanted a geeky Bandolier for some reason