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Comment Re:Remember the Granatelli STP turbine race car? (Score 1) 120

Funny, a similar story came to my mind - the Mini Cooper at the Monte Carlo Rally. A little British city car, with comparatively little modification, wiped the floor with custom built continental exotica costing many times the price and several times the horsepower, finishing in all three top places in 1966 - after which the hosts banned it on a tenuous headlight infraction.

Comment Baby steps (Score 2) 497

There's already people prepared to spend 100k on a suborbital flight. I imagine a few orbital joyrides would be a great shakedown, and there would be plenty of people prepared to pay upward of 500k for a week long luxury cruise in low Earth orbit. That would raise funds to develop the full interplanetary infrastructure.

Comment Cheap (Score 1) 271

I'm less surprised that they want to keep it quiet, than that they thought they could buy someone who can afford a $100,000 car for $1500. Why be so cheap? instead, they just pissed him off and now it's all over the internet. Also, calling it "goodwill" is perverse, coupled with the gagging threats. If it truly was goodwill, and they were confident they weren't liable, they why bother silencing the owner, shouldn't it be heralded as excellent customer service? They can't have it both ways. Either they truly believe they are in the clear, and are being super generous so all the passive aggressive legalese is unnecessary , or they realise there is a high likelihood of liability on their behalf, in which case, don't offer a settlement that still leaves the owner substantially out of pocket. it's a dick move, however you view it.

Comment Controllers (Score 1) 255

On the face of it, it seems like a good idea for PC gamers to get some more AAA titles, but it means developers will have little incentive to develop PC specific versions. 9/10 We'll be forced to use joypads for all games too, there's no way they'll let WASD twitchers compete with sofa fiddlers. Console FPS games have built in aiming hacks to cope with the inadequacies of the joypad for FPS play. I'm a mediocre gamer, and I played against some friends using some hacky hardware to play on the Xbox with kb and mouse, and it was a massacre. There's no way they'll let that happen, and there's only one way they'll level the playing field.

Comment VR (Score 1) 82

My money is on XBOX One:VR as a name. Games will be launched as VR - Only or VR compatible, where you can still play them on the "old" XBone but don't get any VR niceness. VR takes double the rendering power, so the older machine may still be able to play them on a traditional single screen and gamepad setup.

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