Although I have not tried it (yet), there is a more complete third-party MythTV plugin for XBMC. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/mythbox/ and it works for Linux, OS X & Windows
Features:
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So, you should be required to have internet access to purchase and play a singleplayer game that you purchased in a brick and mortar store?
In ten years, every version of Quake and Doom that I own will still work.
I won't be able to play Portal.
Not true. Steam allow you to make backups of your games (something I can't do with most of the games I buy from brick and mortar shops) and restore them, then play in off-line mode which never connects to the Steam servers. I know this because when I moved house, and didn't have the Internet for two weeks, I re-played through Half-Life 2 which I'd bought through Steam.
Steam is not perfect*, but so long as there's off-line mode you can still be playing Portal in ten years time
* The sooner they add the ability to transfer non-duplicate games to other accounts the better!
I prefer physical presents (CDs) today than things that are virtual (MP3s) for my birthday, and in 16 years time, virtual presents may be the norm, and at that time physical presents would be really nice.
based upon her attitude, is that the only person she could blame then is herself.
Oh my, that sums it up perfectly doesn't it? "Kids these days" seem to have forgotten what responsibility is, or how to take it.
Be aware that a lot of right wing New Zealanders constantly talk the country down because it doesn't conform to their vision of a racist free market paradise.
Just for clarity, do you mean "racist-free market paradise" or "racist free-market paradise"?
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.