Except the Pre is a CDMA phone, and therefore is not unlockable. There is no SIM card, and I doubt Sprint would activate the phone for you if you somehow managed to obtain a Pre without buying it from them.

Metroid games have always been action-adventure, it was never meant to be a fragfest like you obviously wanted. If Nintendo turned Metroid into a generic FPS there would be a whole lot of pissed people. The reason Metroid Prime and its successors are so critically acclaimed is because Retro Studios managed to take the formula of the old 2D platformer-adventure games and apply it to a 3D world quite successfully. Go ahead, download a SNES emulator and a ROM of Super Metroid and you'll see that it plays out basically in the same way as the 3D games.
The Prime games were never meant to compete with all the FPSes out there. However, Metroid Prime Hunters on the DS was more of a traditional FPS like Halo or Quake. It's not a terrible game but it is generally considered inferior to the Prime trilogy on the Gamecube and Wii. I personally hated that game, even though I love me a good FPS. That game just doesn't have that Metroid formula that the other games have, so I was disappointed by it. Although if all you've ever played was Halo you might like Hunters quite a lot.

But if they remove IE from Windows, how am I supposed to download Firefox?

So who will be the first to make baby monitors that work on your WiFi network?

Here's how you get rid of a teacher: make their life miserable. My IT teacher quit his job, and here's how the school board bastards got rid of him:

He was teaching his Security class, showing us how to use BackTrack, Wireshark, Nmap etc... He has been teaching this class for years. His superiors recently decided that they don't want him around anymore, so they started complaining to the school board that he is teaching students "hacking" and they will all become criminals, etc. They would make up new lies about him every week. They even threatened to call the police so he would stop teaching kids "how to commit crimes". So he decided one day that he's had enough and would quit. Interestingly, once he submitted his resignation letter all his problems went away. All the treats stopped. The school would pay his salary until the end of the school year and then he would leave. So for the rest of the semester we would just waste time and played video games in class instead of learning, because he couldn't teach the class anymore.

So there went one of my favorite teachers. Most of the teachers in my high school were incompetent fools who have never deserved their jobs, but they all stayed. None of them were fired. I feel like I was denied an education.

As long as there's LSD, artists can dream!

Anon is not your personal army. Anon is not your personal army. Anon is not your personal army.

If you have a "ThePirateBay" subscription, you can download Windows 7 RC now.

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

So, will you buy Chrono Cross from me for $500?

NOOOOOOO!!!!
Alice was the worst software I was ever forced to use. I hated my programming class during that period. The class got a lot better when we started learning Java, but I would recommend Python to any beginning programmer. However I don't think it's such a great idea to be forcing all students to take a programming class, I think a keyboarding/office class and basic network security would be a lot more useful for the majority of students.

Then why is NVIDIA trying to build a CPU themselves, if it's a decaying business?

That's interesting, because in most games you're supposed to shoot the head.

Because of the support nightmare it would cause when Joe Sixpack discovers he can't run his $10 game from Walmart on his new Linux-preinstalled computer (and he chose Linux because he didn't know it wasn't Windows, and he was cheap).

Not right away maybe, but I'd give it a week to a month before someone hacks it and lets the rest of the school in on how to do it. Like when I showed my whole school how to use web proxies to get around the filter (now this was with the desktops at the school, if you're giving these kids laptops to take home there is absolutely nothing you can do to stop the smart ones from using the computer however they want). Better just not lock down the machine at all because your efforts are futile.