Mass Deduction (née scrapking)'s discussions

You might well be right, but there's *some* cost there. :) Read more

That's a really common attitude in North America (particularly the U.S., somewhat less so in Canada) because disk with a "k" was becoming coming here. Likely we'd be spelling optical disc with "k" too if not for Philips (a British company) being the main company behind compact disc, and the CD logo actually spelling… Read more

Sonic CD's due out on Windows Phone soon, can't wait to check it out! Read more

Ummm... my reply was meant to be good natured, I was unperturbed by your statement. Read more

Any more than there's a 10 metre ice wall at the U.S./Canadian border, but that fact is lost on a lot of Americans too. Read more

A single proofreader could look for typos and inappropriate innuendos, but couldn't do anything to verify the accuracy of a translation, so you'll need a translator either way. Read more

I think the bigger issue is the legality of using a fan made translation in a commercial product, especially a crowd-sourced one with an unrealistically large number of people to get permission/rights from. Read more

Oh, and disk/disc has always been spelled with both a "k" or a "c" depending upon what part of the world you live in. In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and... well, really, pretty much the entire English speaking world outside the U.S., disc with a "c" was either common or nearly ubiquitous. Inside the U.S., disk… Read more

from the article: "I love that they get Skyrim on an old-school 5.75-inch floppy" Read more

Because Canada, Europe, Australia, Brazil, India, etc., shouldn't get to play it? :P Read more

"Nintendo's reluctance to release its Japan-only hits in America has made less sense in recent years. The company has cited development costs and localization costs. It's not free to translate a game. Except, of course, when fans do it for you, as they repeatedly have for the games Nintendo won't bring to America." Read more

"Gifts For... Your Adolescent Son Can Play with You" Read more

Local newspapers in Victoria, BC (Canada) have reported that Microsoft is opening a game studio here. I'm surprised because I thought Microsoft was getting out of the business of owning game studios (including letting the crown jewel, Bungie, buy itself back from Microsoft). Read more

Look up the definition of discrimination. "treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit:" Read more

Apple needs to host the data somewhere, and those servers need to feed the data to the device that's requesting it. Do you actually believe Apple doesn't need any bandwidth to feed the millions of apps to the internet that iOS devices are downloading? The fact that the downloader also needs bandwidth to receive the… Read more

If there were one locally, I absolutely would. EB Games ran them all under, one by one, sadly. Read more

$5.99 for a 1.35GB download... of which Apple gets only $1.80. I wonder what 1.35GB of bandwidth costs Apple? Read more

The definition of sexism is discrimination based on gender. If both genders are being objectified equally then it's a big "Yes" to objectification, but a "No" to sexism. Similarly if neither gender is being objectified then that's also not sexist, as no gender differentiation is occuring. Read more

Wow is this just the U.S. (the only place Black Friday properly refers to) or globally? Read more

We are getting Rogers on Demand, though, which is not necessarily a downgrade based on comments here. We already had the ability to use Xboxes as extra Telus digital TV cable boxes, too. Read more