I have a suspicion that assuming "real" games cannot be delivered to a browser is a lot like saying 64k ought to be enough for anyone.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/11/14/the-worlds-most-super-designed-data-center-fit-for-a-james-bond-villain/ Dimly lit, lots of blue and green accent lighting. Lots of organics, running water, etc. And keep it a few degrees below normal room temperature.

When Google Buzz was introduced I had the option to opt-in to the service. So I did. And as it turned out, all of my contacts, who had also chosen to opt-in to the service, were able to "buzz" me. Or whatever lingo is attached to this service. And they didn't, and neither did I. And we went on our ways, existing in each others contacts list.

We tried a variety of kid-friendly gaming/computing toys with both of our children. Basically, at 18 months, if it wasn't something they've seen mommy and daddy use, it wasn't interesting. I suggest an old laptop. Attempt to teach them how to use it properly, but understand that they'll probably just mash the hell out of it at first. By the time they're 3 years old they'll be little computer wizards, trust me. My three year old daughter can navigate her gaming websites (Nick Jr. and PBS Kids) just fine. My five year old son, now in Kindergarten, can sound out words and type them on the keyboard better than he can write them by hand (I'm still not sure if this is a good or bad thing).

And I posted as AC on accident again...

All Glenn Beck wants to do is speak to us about how immigrants are destroying the United States, and tell us that Muslims should move their prayer centers far away from important landmarks. It's just a coincidence that he'll be preaching from the pulpit previously occupied by Martin Luther King Jr. And it if happens to be on an awkward date, he's not responsible. Damned liberals and their control of the media, and now the internet. Always standing in the way of progress.

The problem with that is the software that does the re-imaging requires network services among other things. In other words it's running on top of a platform that can be rooted. So while you think you're doing a complete re-image, that may not be the whole story.

What is meant by "the sum of the reach of all sites using that icon"? Are they simply scaling icons based on Alexa rankings, or is there something more profound going on here that I'm missing? Six beers says it's the latter.

I like to think I'm pretty good about recycling. It takes a decent amount of work, separating, washing empty bottles and cans so they don't stink up the garage, crushing, tearing down boxes, etc. I'm happy to do all of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than 10% of what ends up in my trash bin is recyclable. Accidents happen, sometimes I miss things, and every now and then I get lazy. Don't fine me for slipping up every now and then.

...and that is all. Except that I'd also like to be able to drive into the back of a semi every now and then to equip new weapons. Yeah.

I want my John Carmack back! Remember the days when there was a clear 3D god to worship? And he wrote engines for the PC. And they rocked. What happened to all of that?

I'm aware of at least one player who lost a titan (a very expensive ship) that was funded almost entirely through the sale of pilot license extensions (PLEX). Currently a $34.95 USD PLEX (two pack) will net you about 600 million ISK (the EVE currency). A titan will run you somewhere around 80 billion ISK. Do the math on that. There are also rumors that entire in-game alliances have been funded through the sale of PLEX (or game time cards which existed for a while before PLEX), which could represent tens of thousands of dollars.

I wouldn't worry too much about that. They Voynich Manuscript is likely the work of a madman, who used a very inconsistent cipher to encode plain text from a language he was not fluent in. Then he added several hundred little tiny pictures of naked women, and a bunch of plants he saw on some sort of "vision quest".

We've seen a lot of discussion about "file and forget" digital storage methods. I haven't seen one that I'd trust over even a 10 year time period. The only practical solution is to periodically move your data over to the latest, long term storage medium. Make multiple copies each time, and store them in separate physical locations. I make sure to store all of my personal/financial/etc data along with family pictures and videos. I challenge you to go more than five years without wanting to watch your kids walk for the first time. This helps remind me when it's time to update.

You'll end up with every porn company and opportunist domain squatter slamming registration like we've never seen before. TLDs not country or government specific made available in the past were not immediately desirable. If I owned sexyblonds.com for example, I probably wouldn't have been that anxious to register sexyblonds.tv when it was made available. But I'll definitely want to register sexyblonds.xxx as soon as possible. Especially if I believe (whether true or not) that adult content will be legally forced into the .xxx TLD at some point in the future. ICANN, or whatever organizations are responsible, might want to come up with a plan to throttle registration. You're also going to end up with people registering and posting (maybe even related) adult content on sites like disney.xxx. I foresee many lawsuits.