Everytime it ran a web page with flash on.

I don't know what you're talking about... people have been sitting in cubes manipulating data in spreadsheets for decades now.

Console, singular, DEIW was Xbox only. Funny thing is the first game has a PS2 port with minimal differences from the PC version (mostly interface), but you can still play it with mouse+keyboard if you want.

It is when you burn it outright or use it in a fuel cell

Not when it releases less energy than it took to create it. You won't find much free hydrogen on Earth.

Still, if you put Hydrogen under enough pressure, it fuses nicely into helium and releases lots of energy in the process

Which is nuclear power.

They didn't lost it just to marketing department of AMD. Athlons were simply a better core, capable of higher clocks (and without such obvious tricks as with P4; they had often higher IPC than P3)
If anything, Intel was driven too much by marketing back then... (remember P3 Coppermine 1.13 GHz fiasko?)

Which is nuclear power.

I don't have much time to play games. Matter of fact, my monthly budget is pretty much zero hours.

Yet, _if_ I sit down and play a game, I want to do it right.
When I still had time, barring Doom 1 & 2, I played through every single FPS which I ever played on hardest mode without losing a single health point (notable exception: in Doom 3, you exit an escalator and breathe some kind of gas. You need to switch off the gas outlet and do not have a hazmat suit at that point. Sucks. -- Also, I never made it through Half Life proper as there is one section where a squad of enemies is outside a warehouse and I could never kill _all_ enemies without losing health. I lost the savegame and as I spent more than a week on that one part where you fall trough the ground (not the large pipe; later), I never could get myself to start from scratch).

In Secret of Mana, I have several perfect savegames. In Chrono Trigger, I have 1 1/2 perfect save games. In Zelda 3, I have countless perfect savegames.

But take any random new-ish Zelda title. In Twilight Princess, to get all heart containers, you need to fish. I suck at that, but I made myself go through it. I even walked around looking for golden bugs for ages.

But the newest Zelda on DS, Spirit Tracks? You need to play for ages _after_ you beat the game, trying to get treasures so you can get all train parts. Same for ship parts in the Zelda before that.

And _that_ is what annoys me. If you create a way to collect all of X, do not make collecting X a goal in and as of itself. At least not if you force your paying customers to sit through hours and hours of monotonous, braindead _work_ to truly finish a game.
I would rather play a good game twice than slave away at finishing it once.

You could probably get equivalent exercise by chasing the neighborhood kids from your lawn.

Now that I'm healthy again I'll just run them down with my motorcycle.

Broke my hip on the ice this winter. When I was in rehab they got me up and forced me to play a stupid bowling game on the wii. I hate video games! They seem to think anything that motivates you to get up and be more active is a good thing. ( Oklahoma, USA)