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Why? Steve Jobs is one of the biggest blowhards of the computing industry. He needs to be put in his place from time to time. Also, why the Kinect/ESPN hate? Kinect's tech looked impressive and I'm interested in where it can go for games (also I just want to navigate my dashboard only using my hands and voice. That's too awesome). ESPN is great because it means I could drop cable if I wanted to. Between Netflix, Hulu on my PC, and ESPN, why would I need cable TV anymore? I can get tons of programming on my 360 and my PC that cable kinda becomes useless because it doesn't deliver enough interesting content and that's a huge savings. Or for another example, in my apartment, we only have one cable hookup that'll go on one tv. What if one of my friends wants to use it to watch TV or play games and I want to watch sports? I can go to my own TV and use my Xbox to watch ESPN as well as being able to talk with my live friends while I do it. How is that not awesome? And it's free? That's an even bigger deal. Oh, and a Gold Live Subscription costs $50 a year vs probably around $50 a month for Cable. I think you can afford Live much easier than Cable, and even then it's not a matter of whether I can afford it or not, but if I can save $50 a month why wouldn't I? Over 12 months that would be $600. That's a bit more than $50 for a year.

>implying build 80s and build rock aren't basically free builds seriously, do something like the old days where you had to include x, y, and z pieces, THAT inspires people to be creative I love your methodology of indirectly arguing with me. It's easier to argue with someone when they aren't there to counter, isn't it? No, they aren't basically frebuilds. You are being forced to build something within a very constrained conceptual space. You cannot simply build whatever you want, unlike a piece restriction event which either says "build whatever you want as long as you include/don't include this piece or set of pieces." No, it doesn't inspire anything. Look through the entries of those types of contests. You'll find more often than not people just tack on those pieces as an afterthought to simply meet the demands.

There was Gears, Fable, Reach, Crytek becoming MS first party, MGS: Rising, ESPN exclusive to 360, Black Ops, Zune music on 360 (about freakin time), a slightly refreshed UI. A lot of really cool stuff now.

Why are you disappointed? Outside of of the Kinect stuff, I thought the conference was good.

Initially there were a lot more blogs hating on it (plus a lot of the hate is actually taking place in comments or the actual topic), but a few staffies and some non-staff reacted by giving their support for it. In other words, welcome to BZPower, please enjoy your stay.

I hear that guy rocks.

Yeah, I have a feeling there'll just be a bunch of drums/guitar MOCs. :/ There's nothing particularly wrong about that, especially if it breaks people of their insane habits of only building humanoids.

I wanted to murder myself when I went for that achievement.

No. Do yourself a favor and get an Android device.

Image only comments aren't allowed.

I wouldn't touch Alpha Protocol with a 10 foot stick. Let's see. Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2 Red Dead Redemption Alan Wake Darksiders Burnout Paradise The Orange Box Bioshock/Bioshock 2 Gears of War/Gears of War 2 Batman: Arkham Asylum Assassin's Creed 2 (not the first one, I hate the first one ) Fallout 3 Fable 2

Ravenholm is just the worst.

Classic rock is not 'the past.' It's good taste. The pink one has a point.

Nvidia GeForce 310M Also, in Windows 7 you have go to your windows experience index, and then select the "view and print detailed information." There is no "properties" options from the desktop.

I didn't even think that was humanly possible.

It's why we global moderators have access to tools similar to the box when you make your sig for checking signature sizes. But I could see where for an average user it might get difficult. If you feel it may be suspicious, I suggest sending it in anyway and we'll just check it over.

Are you trying to say people don't deserve to have larger images in their signatures?

We settled on this size limit based on a 1024x728 resolution. The only computing devices with lower resolutions are netbooks (fewer pixels tall) and smartphones (a different beast altogether). We didn't really factor in blogs, but blogs have always had issues at some resolutions prior to larger sigs so that's really a non-issue. Honestly, once the people having massive sigs just because they can dies off, things won't be too bad. For now some people simply wish to express their new found freedom (something we're so often criticized for not giving on this forum) by taking advantage of the entire space. It'll take time to adjust to, sure, but quite frankly it was the easiest way to handle images rather than imposing some odd ball rules (especially in the realm of dealing with multiple images spread out across the entire signature and how they would add up). This is easier for us to moderate and easier for members to understand.

Spoiler tags would be wonderful when your talking about the end of the game, some of us haven't played it yet.

Only 2 years to catch you... Well, that's just to graduate with a Bachelors, but I'm perfectly content with just getting a BS. But anyway, glad to hear it's over. Now enjoy that real world thing.

So real metal then.

Now I want to go through older episodes of The Office again. But I have to study for finals. I hate you.

It's intentionally laggy. It's a network test designed to stress the netcode under various situations and the lag is a by-product of that.