freakwit

I'm hoping for PS2 backwards-compatibility

Does it have a .bmp viewer?

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

An interesting post, and the first thing that I've read on livejournal in a long while.

As a guy who just finished university, I've played more than my fair share of guitar hero and rock band. I like the games, and rhythm games in general.

To address the author's points:

* Maybe I'm not the typical person, but I would have no problem paying $120 for songs that I don't know. In each guitar hero or rock band game, I estimate that I know fewer than half of each set list, but I still enjoy the games.

* I played the demo in the store. I was too focussed on the controls the first time I played to give half a hoot about whether what I was listening to was any good.

* Finally, and this is the meat of the post - the game is too hard for a mainstream audience. I agree with the sentiment, but disagree with many of the points he makes to get there.

I'm pretty sure rufo means they aren't.

One issue I see with this is having to sign with your finger. Sliding my finger around doesn't have the same dynamics as using a pen or stylus.

Not sure why the parenthetical is "watch out Go". Isn't the article supporting Go's take on interfaces and no inheritance?

because you forgot to encourage the next player to take their turn before the owner of the hotel asks for rent and you are playing by official rules

The question of "Do we really need another programming language?" is one that comes up time and time again. The answer is often one of the following:

* No - We have languages that are turing-complete so new languages have no benefit.

* Yes - New languages can take trends that make their way into other languages in the form of libraries and built them directly into the language, making the source code cleaner.

* Yes - New hardware (cf. multi-processors) enables new features which can't be exploited by older languages.

* No - New languages segment the population, meaning we keep re-inventing the wheel by writing the same libraries over and over again.

Bad idea: tossing your cousin Penny into a fountain to make a wish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8PhzrmBgMI

The facebook playfish games now have ads in their sidebar to some of EA's games - sims3 on the app store and pogo.com

yes

I totally read read as read.

If you click the options gear-like icon, there's a "Hide Chat" option.

The chat on that stream is as bad as youtube comments.

24. What's a mathmo?

I've wondered that too (mostly about extra arms). Then I wondered how much it would cost to add an extra arm versus the cost of the drive itself. Eventually I stopped wondering.

limerickdb - http://www.limerickdb.com/?top150

not the original source

but "oh well", i say