Being able to name groups is hardly "much more efficient" than folders. It's the same thing as folders, with the exception that I can create nested folders while I can't create nested groups. Likewise, I can collapse folders to reduce clutter while I can't collapse groups. And while you may or may not find zooming in…

One thing I've noticed is that the gaming community seems to have a "circle the wagons" mentality. We tend to minimize flaws or problems, and react strongly to any external criticism. I think that has less to do with anything intrinsic to gaming and more to do with its status as a relatively new type of media. As a…

The thing is that there's a difference between change and actual forward evolution. We're not talking about abstract concepts, after all: dialogue wheels and voice dialogue are not some vague, undefined idea. They exist, have been implemented in various ways by various developers. From those implementations, we can…

You're reading the article wrong. The only thing Al Lowe, the creator of series, had to do with the video or the sexual acts is that he was employed by the company whose CEO was responsible. When he found out about it, he left the company.

You're half right, at least in Windows 8.1 (I no longer have a copy of the original Windows 8 to check). I never disputed that tiles can be rearranged on the start screen itself, but you cannot freely rearrange tiles when you go the the complete tile/apps list, which is what I was talking about in that context, and…

That's not what the DMCA, or any other US copyright law, states. Derivative works protected by fair use do not need to be non-commercial. Proving fair use is, admittedly, more difficult for commercial works, but it's not impossible.

Video streaming is very expensive. It's not as simple as just throwing a JavaScript player on a Web page somewhere. If your server isn't set up to handle the load (and it very likely isn't), it'll crumble quickly.

Not sure why this was posted twice.....

YouTube has an automated system in place that scans videos for certain images or audio that have been flagged as copyrighted by certain individuals or organizations. If it scans your video and sees something it recognizes, it flags that video. Depending on what the rights holder has decided, YouTube will then either…

They won't. And, believe me, you probably don't want them to. The Content ID system is pretty much the only thing YouTube has to placate copyright holders. Take that away, and things don't get better for video producers, they get worse. If a company like Nintendo can't use the Content ID system, their only other…

That's really the thin strand by which LP's can claim legitimate "grey area" status. If someone was to upload a motion picture to YouTube with their own commentary track, there is no question that no court in the land would deny any fair use claim under the "amount and substantiality" guideline. Using an entire movie…

Also, there is a good argument to be made that fair use goes out the window when there is profit being made.

you are right that you cannot nest tiles in subfolders (well they display the same) but that was intentional.

How else is he going to download a Linux distro to escape from Windows once and for all? :-)

I don't think many people miss the start button, per se. Or, at least, it's absence is pretty far down the list of most people's complaints regarding Windows 8. It's the difference in functionality between the old start menu and the new start screen that's the biggest complaint, not the mechanism by which you access…

Tiles themselves aren't a terrible idea. While I've not seen a huge number of apps that make particularly good use of them, the idea of live tiles that can present information from the app without forcing the user to actually switch to it first isn't without merit. The problem is that they don't work well when the…

nothing has really changed about the Start menu other than it's improved and it's full screen.

I don't understand you guys. I can't imagine limiting myself to the dozen or so applications I can realistically pin to my taskbar. Granted, it's useful to pin my most used programs there, but just because I'm not running something multiple times a day doesn't mean I don't want it easily accessible on those rare…

GOG has emphasized that they will still be able to allow people who have already purchased the games to download them, even after the rights are transferred to Bethesda. They just may not be able to offer them for sale any longer.

Practical concerns, more than anything else. A proper, branching dialogue story tends to lead to a truly massive script. Fallout: New Vegas's script, for instance, is (was?) listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for its length. Hiring a voice actor to voice every possible dialogue option in that script would…