Oh, Ubisoft. You so quickly went from the guys that brought us Splinter Cell (young people: Splinter Cell used to be cool in the early to mid 2000s) to the guys that have created the stupidest DRM known to man. Oh, and you're also incapable of telling the truth. The authentication servers for Assassin's...
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Tags: 2000s, Adage, Assassin, assassins creed ii, Authentication Servers, Bullet Points, Creed, Denial Of Service, Denial Of Service Attack, Denial Of Service Attacks, Drm, Headline, Heros, Legitimate Customers, Modern Warfare, New Super Mario Bros, Punk Kids, Real Reason, Server Crash, Silent Hunter, Super Mario Bros, Telling The Truth, Ubisoft, video games, Wii
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The 2000s left us feeling battered, but the 2010s are looking awesome. Thanks to recent scientific research and an explosion of cultural interest in science fiction, there are at least 15 brilliant reasons to stick around for another decade.
Image by Dan Lydersen.
15. Lost returns
Sure, it may not last for the entire decade, but...
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Tags: 2000s, 2010, Aldous Huxley, Blade Runner, Brave New World, Eyeballs, Fantasy Novel, Feb 2, Future Cities, futurism, Jj Abrams, Joe Haldeman, Jonathan Strange And Mr Norrell, Literary Fantasy, modo, Movie Theater, nanotech, New Year, Optimism, overmind, Prequel, prosthetics, Replicators, Ridley Scott, Science, Spaceships, Tiny Robots, top, Utopia
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Are you sitting comfortably? Good. Because you're not going anywhere for a while. Wired has a great article up right now that reminds me of Wired magazine content in their glory days in the early 2000s. The object of the piece is to examine the feasibility of disappearing completely in the digital age. They...
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Tags: 2000s, Cash Withdrawal, Circumstance, Conclusion, Couch, Emergency Cash, Feasibility, Glory Days, Head Start, Headline, Imagine, Joe Pugliese, Magazine Content, Matter Of Time, Measures, Photo Joe, Ratcliff, Sipping Coffee, Tendrils, Virtual Region, Wired Magazine
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In the interest of bringing Ron and Fez’s fantastic radio show topics to a more tech-minded audience, I propose the following: games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, while fun and, generally speaking, “good,” will not save rock music. Rock and roll, for all intents and purposes, is dead. Bear with me for a...
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Tags: 2000s, Buying Music, Cutoff Point, Entertainment Dollars, Experiencing Music, Fantastic Radio, Guitar Hero, Headline, Intents And Purposes, Killing Time, Man Theme, Mdash, Money Women, Music Business, Music Rock, Pac Man, Paraphrase, Pearl Jam, Playing Video Games, Rock Band, Rock Music, ron and fez, Ron Bennington, video games
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Whether we, in the early 2000s, are at the forefront of technology or the forefront of invasive advertising is a debate which will be debated for decades. I'm guessing: a little of column A, a little of column B. After all, a video in a print magazine is pretty amazing, but on the other...
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Tags: 2000s, Advertisement, Advertisements, Big Bang Theory, Brave New World, Cbs, Decades, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Forefront, Headline, Print Magazines, Profits, Two And A Half Men, Video Ads, Video Magazine, Video Magazines, Wtf
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