@a.seivewright: You'll hopefully find that stories have layers that invite exploration past the surface. When you do, give films like this (and many others that your friends rave about) another watch.

@amygdala: Except that $50K wouldn't be anywhere near what someone of Gaiman's stature would charge for creating an entire product extension. It would be around the range of a one-shot book, however.

Gaiman is a minor god who's lifted the mediums he's been involved in to new levels, enriching readers' imaginations with his delightful, inspired infusions of myths, reflections and gifted re-interpretations of past works he's enjoyed (and gratefully cites).

The picture is a LIE!

No kittehs, Kotaku?

@collex: It was the only conceivable way the United States could field a decent enough hockey team for the '36 Olympics.

@van_line: There's this little thing called characterization that some writers are rather fond of...

It's tough to pull off so many characters (and their villains) into a 2-hour movie.

@Strakus: My. Gods.

@darkboy1200: Don't worry, I'm sure that at some point, Blizzard will make a version for the North Korean market as well. You'll then be able to enjoy StarCraft II in all it's non-Internet glory.

@MazdaMania: You asserted Apple was smearing its competitors. Adam pointed out the reverse, with quotes. You ignore it, repeating your original point, slightly reworded.

@Rahll: Except mace is 1:1 where each case can be individually controlled and scaled to fit the situation. This is all about delivering massive amounts of agony to a broad group of protestors (most peaceful, since were they not, terminal force would be justified) from a distance.

@Tony Kaye: The screams of the agonized protestors trying to effect peaceful change.

@GeneralBattuta: Since the military contractor said so, then it's fact.

@Illundiel: Tee hee. "That's not something that the US would ever do, there would be too much bad publicity. "

If anyone's in favor of this, keep in mind that soon - probably very soon - we'll soon see these deployed internally. And once they're deployed, expect them to be used to justify their expense. Then once they're used in limited circumstances, expect them to become routine.

@tomsamson: Sigh.

@sweenish: Loosely defined, any licensed engine or protocol could be called middleware, but typically (at least with how I'm familiar with the term), it's lower-level stuff than applications, that's either at the same level as the OS or one above it.

@sweenish: Those aren't middleware, they're engines.

Only people who feel the PS3 version of Team Fortress 2 is far superior to the computer one (or even the XBox one) would disagree with Steve Jobs' observation that middleware (or applications not individualized to each OS) is equivalent to developing games for each platform.