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I'm not saying if it is right or wrong. Precedent was already set.

The Red Mile was the Dead Mile (ooooo *ZING*). The best part was that Oilers fan decked up with facepaint and the full Oilers gear.

Who makes it?

Never heard of it. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's why you use Google. http://www.google.com As a result, you could have poked fun at him for spelling it wrong "

I thought it was pretty clear what the ESRB means with "locked out content" with the hot coffee incident. Developers are responsible for all of the content on the disc, regardless of whether or not it is easily accessible.

I disagree. Syntactically they are similar. Which makes sense, given that the idea was to make something that looked like C++ so that people familiar with C++ would have an easier time switching over. Technically pointers aren't removed at all, as everything except for a primitive is a pointer. Java really limits the direct access to memory, which can be an excellent way to speed things up. The built in garbage collector, while also a nice convenience, tends to slow things things down. The upside of course is that memory leaks are more difficult to come by. I'm not a 100% sure on this, but I think it is also easier to incorporate assembly code into a C/C++ program. AFAIK, everything compiled in Java runs through the Java Virtual Machine. Which is nice, as things such as little/big endian becomes a moot issue, as the JVM acts as an interface for the hardware. Theoretically, things that run well on one machine in Java shouldn't have much of a problem running on a different architecture that the JVM can run on (I say theoretically because I definitely am not an end-all/be-all user of Java. I haven't had a problems, and I know it is an advantage, but I'm sure there's some way to make sure this isn't the case). This can be important because optimizations on blocks of code that get used a lot can be made by coding it directly in assembly. All in all, C/C++ tends to beat out Java in game development because of the intrinsic speed advantages that it has. And with games (especially today), you want to get the most out of your cycles as you possibly can. I find Java very popular in business applications though.

Deus Ex is always a good choice.

I'm not sure how that really makes any sense. I don't recall any Ubisoft demos having me install Starforce.

I went and found that old Hot Coffee discussion and took a looksee through it, and came away recognizing that I should not argue with the internets. All I'll say is that it doesn't really matter if it is right or wrong. A precedent was set with the Hot Coffee mod that developers WILL be responsible via the ratings for ALL content on the CD, including stuff not directly accessible with a vanilla copy of the game. That's it folks, let's go home.

Google is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Well, AA can be enabled from your graphics card alone. I care more about playing the game than the graphics personally. It'd be nice, but not necessary. The only thing I'd like to see would be higher resolutions.

Why would a demo need Starforce?

That would be quite a bit more than releasing JE for the PC. Don't get your hopes up. I wouldn't care if they didn't upgrade the graphics at personally.

Java I find is quite sloooooooooooooooooooooooow compared to C++. I do find it quite a bit more "user friendly" and whatnot though.

The only one better that I have seen is "Ranger Allan"

Some would actually disagree with that.

Are you thinking Theodore?

I doubt giving the victims free money will ease their pain.

Thibault????

1.21 GigaWatts? Great Scott!

I don't care about the hold...I want zee bounty!

If Anaheim wins though, we play San Jose. Not a fixed tree in the NHL.

I found it funny that the offical transcripts of what was said and happened on Flight 93 were released about a month ago. I haven't seen Flight 93, though I don't particularly want to. It seems like a "rah rah" movie, and I don't like those types of movies. I really, really hope that it and the offical transcripts are so far out of whack that you can't possibly take the movie seriously.

Don't cry for me....I'm already dead

I haven't noticed any awkward translation yet actually. Though the voice over in the video was so bad I think it was supposed to be that bad. So bad it's good type bad.