Most of the purchasable items that affect stats can be acquired during normal gameplay via the random drop or crafting systems. The cash store was introduced as a shortcut to people who didn't want to invest time in randomly getting a certain item they wanted, but it's still possible to acquire these items by spending no more money than the initial purchase of the game.

Also, the items were introduced as alternate play styles for each class. People complain about some items being over/underpowerd, but that's true of every game. You can still play well with just the default weapons.

You're right, I hadn't.

My bad.

No, but Apple could chose not to ship you anymore iP[a/o]ds. This is targeted at retailers trying to use the products in a promotion to get customers, not at a normal user who wants to give their device away to a friend (although I'm sure that they've already developed DRM to do just that).

Apple is probably doing this as a proactive maneuver to protect their brand name from being cheapened.

I remember it being stated before that Activation is trying to position itself as a multi-faceted, digital entertainment company. Relating an online FPS to Netflix or Facebook pitches it to investors in terms of other succesful businesses whose main product is delivered via the internet, and is enjoyed by the average consumer and not just niche gamers/geeks.

Team Fortress 2 (PC) has had this since at least last fall:
http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Mann_Co._Store

Also, they have a similar store for Portal 2.

It's worked fine for me in the past. Go to opera:config and check the Bittorrent settings. Normally changing the port helps with this.

In general, I agree and think it'd be better to just have a small program for each type of operation. The point Opera was trying to advertise was that normal users wouldn't have to muck around and install Torrent clients, their downloads would just work.

Also, I guess it'd be beneficial to useeverything (torrent, email, etc.) Opera offers if you're the type to leave your browser open all day. Having to manually restart torrents when you reopen the browser was a pain last time I tried it.

The problem is, that's the equivalent of saying "There's no problem with the software. The user should just throw money at the issue and upgrade his/her system."

Even Mozilla's recommended system requirements indicate 1/8th the amount of RAM you have.

We can't daydream and imagine we can acceptably run modern websites, let alone 50 tabs of them, on decades-old machines. But if the developers themselves are recommending 512MB, then the user should have an acceptable experience at 512MB, not 4GB.

The current iteration of 3D requires special hardware built into the TV, along with the special glasses.

You could accomplish the 50's, blue-and-red-glasses 3D on any viewing device, but that's quite inferior to the new system.

Maybe you're just talking about home consoles, but every handheld Nintendo console was able to play it's predecessor's games by just popping in the cartridge (3DS->DS->GBA->GBC->GB), not counting the Virtual Boy.

If you're saying these iOS and Android devices have high-quality, high-selling games, then I don't see how you can say they aren't handheld gaming devices, at least by your usage.

Well, I have an unused iPod Touch that I could use some recommendations for. Since you specifically mention RPGs, is there anything similar to Golden Sun or Dissidia that I'd be interested in? I'm not a platform "fanboy" by any means; if it's a good game, I'll play it.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised with people saying mobile games lack depth if you give PvZ or WoG as an example of what the platform has to offer (which both are, by the way, also available for consoles and PC).

It's a British article. They even mention on the third page how the season about to air in the UK is last year's US season. This lag is quite common in international distribution of TV shows.

One of the behind-the-scenes web videos had Adam and Jamie answering fan-mail about that myth, and saying although it may not have been a 100% accurate replication of the bunker, they were satisfied enough to not do a revisit.

Well, I guess that's true, if you consider "big numbers impress people with money to burn" not being that good of a reason.

To be fair, don't most professional wrestlers go under a psuedonym or character name? I'd expect the Wikipedia page on Legolas to have a different set of information than Orlando Bloom's page.
 
...then again, I just looked at Dwayne Johnson's page and saw how more than half of the article consists of info on his "The Rock" personna, just like you said. If you're interested enough, why don't you see if you can make seperate articles for the real-life person behind each in-the-ring character?

Actually, it looks like the proposed law covers customers downstream from the company that uses pirated software.

In this case, it seems like Soundforge would be able to seek damages from any company that licenses Windows XP.

Wasn't T-Mobile in the news a while ago because although they don't sell it, they said they'd give tech support to their customers who managed to carrier-unlock an iPhone on their own?

You'd have to pay the unsubsidized price, but you can still be an iPhone user and a T-mobile customer.