I was just going for +Funny...you deserve my Insightful points.

I think the really insightful part was what you hinted at the end: You can deny the bogus Facebook account, but that's only if your employer confronts you with it. They might just treat you differently and you would never know otherwise.

However, I don't know how likely that scenario is, as you have friends (hopefully) that use Facebook, and they would surely at some point want to discuss something posted to your Facebook account.

Why did you type all that extra text when you had the perfect solution from the beginning?

Ditto, especially hit me hard since I am playing STO and subseqently decided to re-watch DS9 in its entirety which I am halfway through (Netflix ftw). My first thought was "Hmm, shouldn't they say Colm Meaney instead of Miles O'Brien?" Then I started watching and was like, "Oh."

This experience has made me realize something though. I'm never going to get laid ever again.

Three Words:

Jam Targeting Sensors.

At 11km buff yourself to high heaven (tac team, atk alpha, hi yield torp, rapid fire), set throttle to max, and fire off your initial volley right as you get in weapons range. Then use Jam targetting sensors right away. NPCs usually seem to not move when you do that (even though it just prevents them from firing..must be an AI bug) so they will keep the same shield facing you, and you can often have them destroyed or at least on the brink of death by the time you get next to them, and you often have little more than a scratch on your forward shields.

Now what was this story about again? I got distracted by something more interesting.

It's actually far more easy than you realize.

I was actually quite good with C++, I just found it considerably more boring than I thought it would be (In retrospect, I'm sure the classroom environment didn't help and I should have looked into tinkering with OSS projects). And I had a passion for hardware way before that.

Furthermore, from working in corporate IT, most people don't understand hardware that well either. That's why they overpay CDW and others to handle it for them. And about half the time those guys don't know what they are talking about.

To answer the poster...any Phenom II or Core 2 CPU avaiable plus a video card where the second number is a 6 or higher (x6xx) available on Newegg will do the trick for Oblivion.

I was simply pointing out to the GP that HTC is not a small fish compared to Palm, which is a common misconception as they have not been in the public eye until recently, despite being nearly as old as Palm and probably responsible for producing about as many(if not more) PDAs and smartphones over their lifetime.

While you are absolutely correct, Market cap can also be considered a decent representation of a company's approximate net worth and size in most cases. It's a quick convenient way to check and compare companies...but if they are too close, it's meaningless, and it shouldn't be relied upon for anything remotely important.

Legal power is completely irrelevant to company size in any case, as you pointed out. Depends mostly on how good your case is, and secondly on how much jack you have to throw at lawyers.

Yes, daily...Eeebuntu and Debian, with several others tried inbetween. I find Debian-based+Gnome to produce the fewest headaches. Still, every other fucking apt-get install or deb package says "Oh, you're missing this dependency". Which is why Linux stays on my netbook and a 'server', and not my primary workstation.

Then there are all sorts of fun little headaches, like getting certain programs to recognize mounted network shares, or the WLAN deciding it can only connect at 1Mbps despite being right next to a WAP...I could go on but I stopped keeping track of the little stuff long ago.

I'm a Windows sysadmin by day, and a complete hardware junkie, so I'm far from a novice with computers, and no stranger to a command line environment (We run an Openfiler iSCSI box which I setup, and our primary mail server is CentOS/Qmail which someone else maintains primarily and I administer almost every day). The problem is Linux as a whole is so damn fragmented between distros and application libraries the interoperability is an absolute nightmare. I'm sure if I grew up on years of primarily Linux, it would seem like things have improved greatly and are 'so easy' now...but comparatively, for people looking to make the switch, it's not.

With that said, if I ever run into a person who has never used a computer and does not plan to install any additional software, I would definitely give good consideration to a distro like Ubuntu...I'll never have to worry about them getting hit with spyware or a virus. However, I have yet to meet that person. I'd rather clean up the occasional infection than deal with lots of compatibility issues.

Agreed. Ask first, and ESPECIALLY keep in mind the 'LOT of questions' part. I've figured out the hard way that this is a bad idea. Unless you enjoy being unpaid tech support. I find it easier to go with Vista/7 and switch it to classic appearance mode. Far fewer headaches from end users.

I know, it's great to promote OSS...but desktop Linux is still a ways off from being ready to replace Windows or OSX (psst..this is where you start flaming me). It works great out of the box, but as soon as you want to do much tweaking aside from desktop backgrounds and install some additional software, you will run into headaches. "I can't install X without Y and Z dependencies?" And then it's off to google to find out how to get them...in a way that works with the current version of said dependency on your distro...

Agreed. I stop into Suncoast or whatever the heck it's called now equivalent each time I make it to a bigger mall (I live in BFE and have to drive 60 mins to a decent city) because they often have half off or buy one get one sales, and that is the only time anime seems reasonably priced to me. And 2 out of 3 times I walk out empty handed because the selection is already picked over (usually it's a sale for a specific publisher). All the other publishers still have their good titles in stock.

What does that show you? At the right price, anime sells like hotcakes. Maybe they should do a little experimentation with prices on 'new' releases and see what happens. I use new loosely here, because often these are things that were released in Japan years ago. Didn't they already pay for themselves? As someone else said, piracy created an international market. Learn how to utilize it. $50-$60 for a 25 episode box set? Awesome. $25 for a 4-episode DVD? Fail.