When you’re a big fancy executive, you get to call it a “dividend” and it’s totally legal.

Based on personal experience, I’m going to wager they are very close to going public. Because this looks a lot like the “Fuck everyone who got us here, it’s time for the owners to get PAID” phase that typically precedes it.

But it’s not capitalism that’s a problem. It’s that people aren’t capitalisming nicely, right? Or somehow this is “crony” capitalism (which, incidentally, is just regular capitalism) or a few bad eggs or something. Actually, I forgot. It’s the pirates who are taking food from the mouths of hard-working developers. No…

Does this simpleton understand

It could in theory be much simpler than apex seals in a Wankel. You could design the thing with simple plates-over-springs to access the seals from the outside, so you wouldn’t have to totally disassemble the engine to get at the seals. Two bolts, remove springs, remove seals. Replace seals, install springs, two bolts.

The valvetrain on this thing isn’t scary. If you consider the rotor as a substitute for the pistons and rods of a 5 cylinder radial engine you’ve got the idea. The designers had their choice of valvetrains to copy from airplane engines dating back to as early as 1901.

pooh-poohed the appeal of backwards compatibility, calling it “one of those features that is much requested, but not actually used much” and wondering why people would want to play “ancient” games.
So basically, he understands nothing about console game sales. Where the fuck did those dipshits choose him from? 

See, I’d figured that 1 & 2 would be easy, since the 5 would be powerful enough to run an emulator; and Sony has all the proprietary code knowledge needed to make a good emulator.  (whereas 3 would be a pain, due to the odd architecture making an efficient emulator challenging.)

I was actually hoping that it *would* make it obsolete. I already have five different consoles in my entertainment center. I was hoping to swap the next gen for their current counterparts. Sounds like I can do that with Xbox but would need to find room for three PlayStations instead of just two.

This is not necessarily a cop-out or a rookie mistake. Console coding relies on the understanding that the hardware is fixed. Getting the most out of the hardware often relies on these ‘cop-outs’. Sometimes it’s completely justified. It’s when you have to port, or in this case when the hardware changes out from under…

Sony’s checkered history with backward compatibility won’t be a problem here, Cerny said: “Once backwards compatibility is in the console, it’s in. It’s not as if a cost-down will remove backwards compatibility like it did on PlayStation 3.” When it launched in 2006, PlayStation 3 was fully backward compatible with…

The children not knowing about Spinal Tap makes me feel old and sad.

“Why don’t you just make ten teraflops louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?”

A hula Gek is the best we can hope for.

Yeah but on the other hand $20 for a family is a lot less than the cinema. 

This is a bit different. FCA isn’t going to sue you for modifying the software on your truck. If an aftermarket vendor makes a software fix, you’re free to use it. You’ll probably void your warranty, but you’re not going to get sued by FCA for doing it. Deere wants to sue you if you modify it. Imagine if FCA started…

“Also, couldn’t a farmer legally set up a tractor service center to work on their own tractor? 3rd party services were legalized in the 70's(?) for cars”

If this was only Deere vs Farmers, I would be right there with you.

Theres a difference here.

And fuckin’ Tearaway.