Ubisoft is digging themselves a hole that they most likely will not get out of. With DRM and now the lack of game manuals, I doubt they'll even last 3 years.

On another note, I rather like having a physical copy (read: paper) of the manual. I like reading the manual before I get the game installed (for example, as soon as I purchase a game). And then there's the fact that I may want to read the manual when I'm playing the game. I can't read a PDF while I'm playing a game, unless things have drastically changed (no, I should not have to purchase a 2nd monitor).

And then there are games like Grand Theft Auto that include large colorful poster/maps of the in game world. Whenever I play a GTA game, I usually post the map above my computer as a reference. That's a reason why I've never purchased a GTA game (I don't even know if the digital versions include the map as a PDF file) through digital distribution (eg: Steam). For one, my printer can not print pages that large. Secondly, since I would have to print a rather large and colorful page, it would eat through my ink. And then there's the fact that (for an example) the GTA games are cheaper at retail than on Steam. I can (and did get) GTA4 for $20 several months ago, while on Steam it's still $30. I got the older games years ago, but today III, Vice City and San Andreas can all be had for $10 each.

Actually, you must have forgotten about the LGA775 3.46GHz Pentium Extreme edition. Basically it's a Northwood (as it's 130nm, unlike Prescott which is 90nm and it only supports up to SSE2, unlike Prescott which supports SSE3) with 2MB L3.

Are they dropping support for XP all together (I have yet to hear anything about it)? Even if it doesn't have that feature, it will still support XP.

And it'll work on Windows XP. So it matches IE9's two biggest features and has one more feature Microsoft doesn't have: XP compatibility.

But it was buggy as all hell. Even today, if you want to replay it, I tell people to play the PSX version in an emulator with every thing maxed out. It looks better and plays better.

I believe that it's StarForce.

First, you seem to have forgotten that the processor is called the Phenom II X3 720. That right there should tell you that it's a triple core. Secondly, how do you know the Athlon XP is the K7 core? Or the Pentium 4 is the Netburst core? Your average joe doesn't buy a processor. They buy a cheap Dell with a Celeron in it. They turn it on and it works. They don't care what happens, as long as it works. The people that buy processors usually look into them.

Windows 3.1 came out in 1992, so I don't think that that's possible. Also, Windows 3.1 was not an "operating system", just an operating shell running over DOS.

It isn't quite $100, and I'm not sure about the restrictions this time, but: Windows 7 Home Premium is $104.

Animal abuse and a sex offender are in entirely different leagues. I can see if people want to know if their neighbor touched children in the past, but this? What next? A public "traffic violation registry"? What happens after that?

Sorry, this is the copyright police. We're afraid that the copyright on this content will not expire until 2103. Because of that, we're going to have to have that video removed from YouTube. Sorry about that.