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Missouri Police say adults shouldn't play Animal Crossing {Joystiq}
Mar 18th 2009 12:04PM Yeah Zeus, I've heard working in a meth lab will keep you up for 32 hours. Just make sure to be real careful. Don't want to go burning down your sisters trailer.
Next-gen Prius now official, uses solar panels to keep car cool {Engadget}
Jan 13th 2009 12:25PM Why do people still believe this? The dust to dust report that everyone seems to be using to make this claim has been dis-proven several times over. Not to mention the article that everyone bases the extreme environmental damage that the batteries supposedly cause, you know the one about the Sudbury Superstack, had to be retracted because the damage it attributed to the Prius actually occurred over 40 years ago. Also that plant is the worlds largest supplier of nickel, and Toyota only purchases a fraction of its nickel output for all its models, not just the Prius. Bottom line is that the extra nickel in the batteries is no where near as damaging as people seem to believe
Look, I'm certainly not foolish enough to think this car is somehow saving the world, or is really even that environmentally friendly, but I also don't understand why people have such a problem with it. Toyota set out to make a vehicle that increased MPG and lowered emissions and that's what they achieved. At the very least you can look at it as subsidizing the cost of this technology for you later down the road.
Despite manual's claim, Spore only allows one account per copy {Joystiq}
Sep 13th 2008 7:31AM Ah yes the "have my cake and eat it too" mentality. The point of boycotting a product is not solely to cost them a sale. It is about making a statement of protest that even though I would like to play the game, I refuse to do so even if I CAN pirate it.
As soon as you pirate the game, you are completely legitimizing their draconian DRM scheme no matter how ineffectual it might be.
Do you really believe that the argument of "If you don't remove the anti-piracy measures of your software then I will pirate your software" is going to be effective to an EA executive? Of course not. He is going to say that you were going to steal it anyway, then use that as as a valid reason to include even worse DRM in the next product.
To me the answer is simple: reward companies who do DRM right and avoid companies who do it wrong while giving no company a legitimate reason to put these measures in their product in the first place.
Granted this occasionally means having to miss out on some things (GASP! What, no instant gratification? OMG!)
Despite manual's claim, Spore only allows one account per copy {Joystiq}
Sep 12th 2008 4:54PM I have to agree with this statement no matter how unpopular a stance it may be. Apparently some people do not understand what a boycott really is. I disagree entirely with the DRM the game has, therefore I won't be playing it at all.
Konica Minolta licenses white PHOLED technology from Universal Display {Engadget HD}
Aug 16th 2008 3:40AM Red Rooster for me please
NPD: Wii hits 10.9m US sales, becomes console leader {Joystiq}
Jul 17th 2008 5:32PM How did you take a screen shot on the iPhone?
The Price Is Right for Wii, DS, PC and Mac {Joystiq}
Jul 15th 2008 10:46PM "My fingers hurt"
"Whats that?"
"My fingers hurt"
"Oh well now your backs gonna hurt cuz you just pulled landscaping duty"
Joystiq poll: Which of the Big 3 had the best E3 keynote? {Joystiq}
Jul 15th 2008 6:43PM "First, while Nintendo's presentation wasn't great, it also wasn't awful."
Umm really?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xtt9lOcfjHE
Nintendo announces Wii Music with 50 instruments {Joystiq}
Jul 15th 2008 5:38PM Or you could just put the wiimote in the dryer and turn it on. I'm sure it would play the Mario theme better that the travesty that I just witnessed.
Highlights from Nintendo's E3 2008 press conference {Joystiq}
Jul 15th 2008 4:44PM You only PRETEND to blow in it. Much more fun
