That's because you live so close to Germany...

... I'll start investing in MicroSD chips... lets see border guards search me for those!
Bastards...

I don't think you read it correctly: while OS sales rise and fall (and rise like crazy with Windows 7), the rest remain more or less constant, as each is only marked by the width of their band (for example, Office constantly provides slightly less than $4B).
Or would you believe that Microsoft makes twice as much from Office as it does from Windows?

The by far most realistic duel I've seen in a movie was the one between Dick Liddil and Wood Hite in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford" (holy crap, long title... not as long as the movie, though). The duel was in a room with one of them sitting on a bed, and they empty their guns at each other from about two meters away, and no one gets hurt...

If I understood the article correctly, the lasers needed are very, very exact, thus need high level optics - and therefore very expensive...

Oh my, I am so amazing, I'm a total hacker, I run Windows! I mean, it's so open, and lets me do anything I want with it, I can write my own programs for it too! It's the hackers choice of OS!!

I sat down during my first year of college, and finished the game 100%. It was great fun, even though the tech is indeed ancient. About the only annoying thing would be the control scheme. While controlling Mario himself was fairly standard (analog stick), the camera was straight from hell. Controlled very grossly by the four C-buttons, and prone to turn around whenever it felt like it. I must have walked in a door just to accidentally walk right out again a hundred times...

Unless he's on slashdot. Are you reading this, Vin?

f - All of the above!

Or they keep doing what they're doing because they earned ONE BILLION DOLLARS!

I went with the not buying and not pirating plan. I played it at a friends house, and it didn't seem all that special to me... oh well, back to playing STALKER

I remember being utterly unable to play CS for more than a minute without getting kicked out for "cheating"... was about the time I quit.

He could sue anyone with a light source for using it. This guy needs his own dark little faraday cage... for his own safety, of course. Electromagnetic allergies? Seriously?

Note that just setting the range of options between 100 and 500 is already biasing the outcome of the questionnaire. By making us evaluate 300 vs. 400 it already sets some idea into our brain of what is reasonable. Similar example: Prices for coffee of various sizes at Starbucks. I'm not saying I don't agree with your claim, just that this poll doesn't prove much...

Me too

I remember a LAN game of SupCom, with 8 players, and a 5k unit cap... after about 3 hours of playing, the whole game world suddenly froze... the graphics would work without stuttering, but it seemed as though the input was completely ignored... is that a side-effect of messing with multi-threading?