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And playing Wii games on the Wii U is really helping it take off…..

4 days ago on Microsoft's Xbox head: 'If you’re backwards compatible, you’re really backwards' 1 recommend

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I’m self respecting and I’m a software engineer. Do you have any idea how many freaking projects would be easier and better if I didn’t have to support 15 year old garbage that should have been done right the first time or is totally obsolete? Have you seen the idiotic API’s the you end up with for the sake of backwards compatibility?

As an engineer, I fully acknowledge that building an emulator perfectly feasible. I know they could do it. But why waste the time? I want the future. (Not saying that I’m really satisfied that the One is it, but backwards compatibility is not the way to the future.)

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Do you really want them spending a huge amount of engineering time building an emulator and ironing out bugs to play old games that play perfectly well on the system people obviously already own?

Personally I would want them to focus on building the best new system, new games, and new features.

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They would need to have a stripped down version that doesnt have a 8 core processor then.

That’s what he’s talking about. It is expected for 2014. But some people, like my family, play a few games, but love our xbox as a multimedia box. I play through Halo with my little sister, but mostly we watch netflix/amazon on it. We will probably get one of these, then get a couple more of the little boxes when they come out. Cause the xbox is actually a much more pleasant streaming box than an apple tv or a roku, in my opinion. Though they all do the job admirably.

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Anybody else think the [duck face] spoils the effect of the spikes?

Also, [plastic football pads], [exposed abdomen]

Note: Apparently I can’t use angle brackets. Shoulda seen that coming….

4 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk 1 reply

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Anybody else think the spoils the effect of the spikes?

Also, ,

4 days ago on Road warriors: critics say big change to US traffic safety 'bible' could put drivers at risk 1 reply

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Now you say

Sales of individual song downloads […] are slowing down dramatically industry wide

But a couple months ago your headline from http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/4/3835120/us-music-sales-growth-in-2012 was

US music sales grew in 2012 as digital singles propped up physical media’s decline

You further state in that article things like “digital album sales increased 14 percent” and “Sales of single digital tracks were up 5.1 percent and reached a whopping 1.3 billion, a figure that Nielsen says is a SoundScan sales record.”

So in one article, for clicks you go with “OMG downloads are saving the music industry” but now you’re back with “OMG people aren’t downloading music anymore.”

We just want consistency and a factual report about how publishers are scared of cannabalizing itunes sales. Not typical scare tactics headlines.

4 days ago on With downloads dwindling, music publishers throw a roadblock into Apple's iRadio plans 1 recommend

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Boo to Google for not giving me Google Now in chrome. Is that coming?

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It’s a rule guys. It’s not like English can just jive the rules the finjer.

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15 New games in the first year, and that’s just exclusives. I’m sure they are just saving it for E3, where as this is an event to get press buzz. “Cool Games!!” doesn’t actually get you press buzz.

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Just so you know Curiosity, you’re screwed.

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Nope, it’s not. Personally, I think society puts way too much emphasis on fame, money, and power. I’m perfectly happy being a “nobody” and raising my own little family.

13 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender?

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If you think that massive differences in the way men and women reproduce has had zero affect on their biological make up, you must ignore a lot of basic science. Hormones have an enormous effect on human behavior and it’s very clear that men and women have very large hormone differences.

Also, you must have missed this line:

These are averages and there are certainly exceptions

Some people clearly don’t fit into the norms, but to deny that there is a biologically predictable average is silly. Now, I fully acknowledged that there are exception in large groups of individuals, but in a large behavioral study, where you take averages, seeing gender difference emerge is scientifically expected.

13 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender? 1 reply

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Oh, I agree. Men and women certainly can be equally capable. There are many many incredibly successful women CEOs and world leaders that prove women can have all the traits of a strong, dominant, aggressive leader. And there are many men who present very nurturing, traditionally “maternal” attributes. I really meant to emphasize that when you look at it as a numbers game, the way this study did, it’s not surprising to see certain attributes be more common in one.

There’s no reason women in modern society can’t perform as well men in roles of leadership.

I fully agree with this assertion. I just think that from an evolutionary perspective, it’s unrealistic to expect the rates at which women occur in such roles to be as high as men.

13 days ago on What can Python and the New York Times tell us about gender?

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I actually feel pretty good about GMO’s not being able to reproduce.

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Really? No biological reason?

For a woman’s offspring to be successful, they need to make sure the few they have survive. This has made women far more nurturing than men, no matter how politically incorrect it is to suggest that. They nature is much less conquering and looks much more to preserving their own.

Men, to be successful re-productively, can go with the have as many children as possible route, without having to spend enormous amounts of time on them individually. This leads to a much more dominating, aggressive nature, that makes businessmen and politicians successful.

These are averages and there are certainly exceptions, but they are biologically real so we shouldn’t be surprised to see such averages surface in a study like this.

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