I'm willing to bet that the design of this school is more a function of lot size than anything else. Most schools, if they have ample room to build on, will consist of one or two long buildings, 3 stories high or so, which have a hallway with windows on one side and a row of classrooms on the other. This allows for…

In the old days, HTML used to pull double-duty as both a descriptive (telling the browser what page elements are) and stylistic (adding the actual visual flourishes to those elements) tool. Now HTML is firmly situated as the former, and CSS has taken up the latter role. I imagine they wanted to use nomenclature that…

Microsoft has deep pockets. I think Kinect is pretty much a failure in terms of the breadth (or lack thereof) of gameplay applications. But Microsoft isn't going to go under because of it. It's loose change to them.

Yep, the noses and mouths are just abysmal. The turtles look like Voldemort now.

I'm talking about the permanent price cuts that always happen, eventually, with consoles.

Which circles back to the point about developers not wanting to use motion control. They're just not that excited about it in most cases. Gamepad controls are 100% reliable and effective, and most importantly, they're easily replicated across every platform.

That's pretty much it. This is typical South Korean bureaucrat stuff. People in positions of authority love putting on little shows like this and getting pictures taken. I imagine it's a pretty big part of how their job performance is assessed.

It couldn't be "dropped" before. It was a peripheral. Kinect 2.0 is effectively what Microsoft sees as the "real deal." They are essentially trying, for the first time, to make Kinect a fixture, by releasing it bundled and integrated with the XB1.

I'm not "waiting" on anything. I'm not in the market for a new console yet, but if/when I am, it will almost certainly be a PS4.

I disagree. The living room is the XBox vision. This all goes back to the late '90s, when Microsoft decided that it wanted to be the hub for all the entertainment consumed in the home. This led to things like Windows Media Center, and was the eventual impetus behind the introduction of the XBox.

It won't happen because it won't happen. Boy, that's some really solid reasoning.

It's the easiest way for Microsoft to price-cut the XB1. We know that price cuts always eventually come. If developers haven't latched on to Kinect in a big way by the time Microsoft starts planning a price cut (and sure, this may be a long way out still, but it is nevertheless inevitable), it will probably be on the…

The problem is that most developers, quite honestly, don't want to do anything with the Kinect. Motion control is neat tech and all, but any problems with imprecision can severely hamper the player's perception of game quality. And unfortunately, imprecision is just going to be a fact of life with motion control. A…

Making a Kinect-less XB1 package would be the easiest way to price-cut the console. I have to agree with Molyneux that this is almost certain to happen at some point.

Storrs isn't a shitty place, though. It's just not a big city.

Yep, that's the story of the area of the city where I live in Korea, as well. This whole district used to be all farm land mere decades ago. The farmers who owned it probably made fuckloads selling it to real estate developers. There's actually still a decent-sized patch in my neighborhood that the owners are renting…

Sorry, I can't even play my game without dipping down to 2fps because my internet is down. Tough luck for me, I guess.

You have to remember that median household income in the US is right around $50k. Let's assume you make exactly that much from the time you graduate university (~22) to the age of 65. In total salary, that's $2.15 million. But then you have to factor in taxes, and all the money you spend on food, clothes, gas, and…

Umm, but you can only count the house if it's actually bought and paid for. A mortgage wouldn't count, and that's what most home "owners" have got. Same with leased vehicles and the like.

Yes, you can easily become a multimillionaire working for somebody else. Which is why only a few people are able to do it.