Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

While watching the Tour de France (another sport that isn't soccer/footy, and isn't a dominant sport in North America), they mentioned that Rugby hasn't been in the Olympics for something like 85 years or so. Since it's a sport with a lot of fans globally and a rich history, I have to wonder why. Read more

Forgive my non-figure-collecting ignorance these days (I stopped collecting Halo figures in 2005), but does re-sizing them to the size of the Halo: Reach line make them smaller or larger? Read more

Sony was one of several companies that invested in, and own some of the technology in, Blu-Ray. Read more

Actually, it could be done if they created a reference architecture ala 3D0. But where 3D0 failed because the technologies were not owned by the companies making the hardware, here a great deal of the technologies *would* be owned by the hardware maker. Microsoft and Sony could each provide technologies to the joint… Read more

Really? I normally agree with pretty much everything you type, but this is an exception. I loved the first three seasons, but the fourth season was "meh" IMO. Read more

Consoles gained features over time, though, and didn't lose them until the PS3. By the time of the original Xbox we had internet connectivity, an internal hard drive, and more. That's not exactly no features, and no hardware features were either added or removed throughout its lifetime. Read more

You make a fair point. I suppose I was coming at it from the perspective that game consoles (prior to this generation) rarely changed in any meaningful way to the user from the first unit shipped to the last unit shipped, so any feature lost seemed like a removal. Read more

Again, how is that selective memory? I specifically stated that some features were removed before launch, others after launch. I also noted that while some were retroactively removed from all systems, that most features were simply removed from later models. What you've said concurs with what I stated. Read more

I know no such thing. There are some people who are legitimately peeved at Linux and backwards compatibility being removed, and it wasn't my initial impression at all that they were trolling. Read more

Could use more transforming hovertanks. But let's face it, what couldn't?

"If you don't give a toss about Netflix, maybe one of these other things will interest you. Read more

Hey wow, I can adjust your video quality settings now! Thanks for the link! ;) Read more

Netflix is only available in two places: the U.S., where it offers both streaming content and mailed DVDs, and Canada where it is a streaming-only service. Read more

The problem isn't the paying customer trying to get what they're entitled to. The problem is that, increasingly, when people are politely told what the policy is, a policy they agreed to in their contract and/or was stated on their sales receipt, they demand to "talk to a manager" and demand the store/service… Read more

I'm Canadian (generally considered a "polite" country) and we don't necessarily have to do go to "upper-middle class and above retail stores" to get good service, but you do see some customers here now using the tactic of always trying to escalate to a manager if they're not happy with what they're told. They're not… Read more

I frequently forget that Netflix even *has* a non-streaming service somewhere. Read more

But really, who *IS* a fan of periods? Read more

I clicked on the article just to read more on what was allegedly making Microsoft and Facebook competitors, which seemed odd since Microsoft is a Facebook shareholder and the two are relatively tight (Microsoft released a Facebook game to tie into XBLA game Toy Soldiers, and Facebook recently launched a Skype-based… Read more

To what end? I've been following the AACS transition since about a year before HD DVD and BD came out. All I'm saying is, however restrictive AACS is Sony can always choose to be *more* restrictive if it wants to. Read more

I don't know it's fair to say people criticising this have selective memories. While many features have been added (see above), many have also been removed (see above). If you're more interested in a removed feature than any of the added features, then you'd likely be pissed too. The fact that you're not suggests… Read more