Some things: 1) FF7 has not been updated or remade. 2) FF14 is not yet out on PS3, but it is free, as far as I know, on the PC because of how terrible it was and how slow they've been on fixing it.

What the heck? "I'm surprised that you'd trust Google apps more than an internal server known to hospital IT." You're surprised that I'd trust Google Apps not to leak information THAT IT DOESN'T HAVE (patient records) over an unsupervised machine that has access to the internal network? Really?

Reasonable accommodations can be made. If a username/password is being used 50 times a day from 50 different IPs, you can reasonably assume something fishy is going in.

Or maybe, you know, different people are different, and we need a diverse mix to build an efficient, progressive society. But no, you're probably right, human society would be much more advanced if we got rid of the whole socializing thing.

Nah, it's because the way Facebook sets up it's privacy. You can't really have the user do *anything* social unless you rape their privacy. Want to allow your player to transfer his name and profile picture over to the game? You have to access his pictures and his profile information. Want to allow him to invite his friends? You have to access his friends list. And there's not really a reason to put the game on Facebook if you're not utilizing the social aspects. It'd be wonderful if there were some sort of option whereby an app could allow you to see a list of your friends, invite them, etc, without the actual app being able to see that information, but Facebook doesn't really provide that level of detail. To be fair, there's probably not a lot of demand; the crossover between people who have a huge desire to play Farmville and the people who are strongly concerned about their privacy is not likely to be large.

Ads on the actual Facebook site are an entirely different matter from what shows up on apps. Ads on apps are done completely outside of Facebook's sphere of influence (other than the fact that they'll apparently ban you if you're using someone they don't like). Ads on the actual site are often done by random users. If you want, you can take out space advertising your resume. I see someone doing that every few months.

The developers who want to put an app on Facebook's up-and-coming platform to attract users while using the superior (both in ease-of-use and monetization) AdSense for advertising support? I'm actually in the process of developing a webapp with an eye toward FB, and this makes me extremely squeamish. AdSense is second to none for apps/sites that aren't well known (obviously if you're Zynga or Bioware, you can partner with whoever you want, or just sell advertising directly).

So yes, this debate may not matter to people who matter (Steve Jobs? Mark Zuckerberg?), but it matters a lot to people who don't matter.

Your username is apt (other than that "counter" part, I don't know what's up with that).

This is false. Games that require a certain firmware include the firmware on the disk.

Lost: interesting and entertaining

B5: Boring as fuck.

Anyway, JJ Abrams had very little to do with LOST. He helped create the basic premise, and then left.

Yeah? And if you're suspected of orchestrating an anthrax attack, your browser history probably will (and should) be used as evidence of your guilt.

Agree. I especially hate it when they take an ordinary gadget and transform it into "THE MOST EXPENSIVE ____ EVER" by pasting diamonds all over it. That's not the most expensive TV ever. It's a bundle that includes a regular TV and a fuck ton of diamonds.

It depends. Some teachers design good tests where all the grunt work can be done mentally. Some are lazier and don't really plan the problems out well, and generally let you use a basic non-graphic, non-calculus calculator. But really, those calculators are only useful for skipping out of differentiation/integration in the sweet-spot of calc 1 or 2. Any higher than that, and the calculator is generally clueless, and tries to come to some sort of useless numerical approximation.They're useful for checking work, mainly.

Hate on Obama all you want, but if you're trying to pretend that he's not "well versed in our own government," you're just being silly. He's obviously well-educated, regardless of what you think of him.

He is wanted for rape charges. It's the poor reporting that has hidden this nasty little fact.