They've got until 2015 to work out the kinks

It doubles as firewood

Well, would he still be at arms if he wasn't armed?

The bees have stirred up the hornets nest....

wait...

But it entertains us!

The problem of getting higher quality graphics is what held game design back. In order to scale up the visuals, console games had to scale down other items such as world size, view distance, field of view, number of npcs, artificial loading areas, and so on. Saying that "this" is achievable with a low end PC while console games are holding "this" back is ignoring that these demos are doing the very thing console games have been doing. Cutting back the depth of the image for the glossiness of it.

Here's Hitman Blood Money and its crowd dynamics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNC2X9r0oGY

Notice how simplistic the crowd behaves. Rather than simulating individuals, the crowd is simulated in lumps. Also notice that the textures are a lot "flatter" and blander than a few other levels.

This is the simplest example of cutting back depth in order to gloss over the something else. In this case, gloss the crowd, shallow their brains.

Sleeping...because dieing while impeding traffic is illegal

My initial reaction was why not weave to the left side, I figure crashing into gravel is certainly better than between two sets of semi wheels. But its hard to notice how fast he may have been traveling and how little turning power he had with his current decelleration

Trust me, Castoreum is a hell of a lot better than if they tried the alternate, Santorum

"Its been under construction since the 70s with subsequent generations adding to it and its getting bigger every year..." I didn't know that beavers also have a medicare/medicaid program

I don't think a short attention span is enough justification to say this is a bad example of a video. If people aren't interested in a subject you can't force them to be interested, but at the same time, the video's visualizations showed without telling where someone who wanted to know more where to look. Even in the video they annotated that this is more of a research jumping off point, that it is indeed a compressed version, and even paid a little lip service to other complications if only to get you going on your own.

I spent a good few hours looking at ISIS, trying to figure it out myself a week before this video came out, now that this video is out it did the same in about 4 and a half minutes. Granted, this is without on demand sourcing of sources, but like I said above, its a great primer. For people that want to know and don't, this is a good place to start. For those who don't care why does it matter?