matt

same out here in the san francisco bay area -- at least, for those (like me) who were stupid enough to preorder at E.B.

first and last time i preorder a game. also the last time i give E.B. my business after I see that the best buy down the road has 100's of copies which they sell to me with a smile when all I can get at E.B. is a smarmy attitude from clerk and a "better luck next time" voicemail. short the stock.

>19. Oddly enough my macbook which seemed to have a power supply whine seems to have lost it with the most recent os upgrade to 10.4.7. Weird huh?


Maybe yours shipped with the new logic board, but the software wasn't ready for preinstall yet....

From the article:
"I am often asked what kind of course a prospective games designer should enrol in. While I have no personal experience of working in the industry or attending one of the courses, I tell people to get a degree in English literature, psychology, world religions, history, creative writing or philosophy."

Uh, so then why is this guy even given a forum to present his half-baked ideas about what drives entertainment technology and games?

His own examples prove him wrong. Katamari is an exercise in rigid body physics. the sims is (go figure) a time and event driven SIMULATION balancing thousands of variables. Both of these concepts fall out of a direct and intimate knowledge of the nature of tools.

By this author's reasoning the best painters should never have to pick up a brush.

The last thing any industry needs are pundits without technical skills who sit around making high brow concepts without any real understanding of what tools and technology can support. Engineers have plenty of forward thinking concepts, but they also understand the limits of technology. That's why they are actually able to produce products rather than sit around and "it'd-be-neat-ta" all day like this guy probably does when he plays games.

If engineers are less capable of imagining potential and being creative, then can someone explain to me why any innovation happens in the first place? Is there a secret corp of poets and art historians who are holed away at Microsoft and IBM that *really* pull the strings on product development? Please. This author is a complete fool.

I don't see how it would surprise anyone that the PowerPC lines would be fazed out ASAP. In fact, I would love to buy a g5 right now but I think they are soon-to-be history as well. Apple can say whatever it wants about not abandoning PowerPC users, but I'm sure the sentiment internally is that all G4 and G5 owners are Legacy customers for all intents and purposes going forward.