Posted 10/23/2009 at 08:57:53pm

I see some possibilities there:

-Apple opening Mac OS to 3rd party OEM builders or even end user that build their own PCs (yep us guys) but make sure their version is crippled compared to an Apple PC.

-A certain amount of freebies/month on iTunes to users who would get a ratio of free downloads while suffering adds before downloading and/or listening to their content.

 -A new line of budget Macs with the trade off  of having to suffer through adds.

 either ways: iMac, iPod, iPhone, iDiot.

Edit: oh!!! I see: Apple netbooks!  

Posted 09/19/2009 at 10:23:46pm

your IP adress identifies your ISP and its country (and often city) of origin so it is fairly easy for an app to mark you as an Australian and adapt the content displayed to you (and sold).

Posted 08/27/2009 at 07:06:43pm

"there won't be any question whether or not upcoming GPUs can run Crysis"

doh!

Posted 08/19/2009 at 12:48:36pm

I tried 3 different searches. 

1st : the name of my former band. I then voted for the column I saw the most related to and diverse infos : Google.

2nd I checked for a band I liked a lot when in college: Mudhoney, I was expecting a search engine to also point to the Russ Meyer movie of the same name, none did within the first few results. However, the one I chose had a link to their sub pop page as well as the ovious wikipedia and myspace pages. Which one? Google.

 Lastly I search my current employer. Yahoo gave only subdomains (support.domain.com, www.domain.com, corporate.domain.com, store.domain.com) Bing added a few product sites but then again, Google offered the most comprehensive set of results.

 For 3 out of 3 searches I prefered results from Google. I think I`ll stick to "Google is your friend" motto. 

Posted 08/16/2009 at 08:54:51am

Remember dx 10 cards?

AMD had a promising lead with the new XBOX GPU being as close as you can get to DX10 and Nvidia came out of nowhere during the first week of November and hit us all on the head with the 8000 GPUs.

 They were supposedly months from launch and had no clear plans announced.

 Don't count 'em out yet. 

Posted 08/13/2009 at 07:03:20am

"if you’re an IE6 user, you’ve got roughly four more years to enjoy your ancient web browser."

If someone that reads `MPC uses ie6 as is primary browser then consider myself shocked.

However, Natural Selection will get them on its way. 

Posted 08/13/2009 at 06:54:50am

The publisher is Activision, I`m pretty sure they don`t care that much. 

 They will have 5 new 'Hero' games out before the end of the year as well as a new Call of Duty, If Wolfenstein brings in an extra penny good, if not .... well I think Mr. Kottick will still find sleep.  

Posted 07/31/2009 at 08:06:27pm

I wonder how many people it took to download it a Billion times.

I must have downloaded it dozens of times myself on different home PCs, office PCs, plus all the updates before Firefox started to update itself. 

Posted 07/26/2009 at 10:33:40am

There is still room for linear games, but they have to be gorgeous, entertaining, addictive and innovative. 

 I've been playing linear games for the best part of the past 30 years and I crave for open worlds nowadays. I can still look at linearity in the face and say ok, one more time but we're on a bit of a hiatus here. 

Posted 07/09/2009 at 09:47:24pm

What I want now is a full HD re-make (or sequel) of Grim Fandango and a new Monkey Island Adventure.

And yes, a Star Wars MMO that is made by geniuses at Bioware with a little know how by Mythic can be awesome