You do know the us government has been paying telcos to get the infrastructure in the ground for years. Into the trillions. Fibre to the home also. Obama's billions isnt going to change much. So yes, it does suck, and unless the telcos get off their asses and do the right thing and not the easy thing, it will continue to suck.

Good job not reading the article. The author specifically states that they are paid per view, not only clicks. If it were clicks, they wouldnt be making very much money anyway.

He also mentions that advertisers for tv are paying to reach a large guaranteed audience, websites can't guarantee an audience.

Sony has a little less than 4 years to figure out how to solve this. I pray they can do it in time. Meanwhile, my PS2 worked just fine.

What about ALL the outliers (ie 90% of slashdot)?
While growing up, I had videogames to play all the time. The only thing we weren't allowed to have was Mortal Kombat. I think it just wasn't appropriate for young kids because it was gory. We were allowed to play Street Fighter though, which wasnt graphic. From there I moved into Halflife, and Quake III, and Unreal Tournament and into Counter-Strike. Aggression has never been a problem for me, or all the kids I played these game with. I guess you could take some of our sick and twisted games as aggression. Sting Pong, Swords, Submission (two players grab arms, a belt is tied around their arms, no cheap shots, but what ever else it takes to get the other to submit) Night Tag... I dont think it was aggression, I think it was just a bunch of kids with a lot of time on their hands and a high tolerance for pain.
Aside from our games, i think I turned out pretty well.

This is just wrong.

It was commissioned by Congress. "Management of the memorial was turned over to the National Park Service, under its National Mall and Memorial Parks group. As with all National Park Service historic areas, the memorial was administratively listed on the National Register of Historic Places on the day of its dedication." (wikipedia)

I think, as the piece being commissioned by congress and the managing body by the US Park Service, the artist can go fuck himself. As an artist my self, Im possessive of my own works, but this is wrong. As a photographer, I am allowed to take someone else's work and duplicate the scene and photograph it. This is so long as I am not taking the image of their creation and claiming it to be my own. If I put the effort into it to duplicate it, and take the exact same photo, and can prove I did all that, Im in the clear. Taking a picture of a publicly commissioned art piece is my own work. Also, If I had art that was to be commissioned by congress, I wouldnt throw a hissy fit over what the government wanted to do. Theyre not even making money off it. What the hell is this guy's problem. He is known as the creator, that should be plenty enough.

I wasn't posting looking for a solution. I was simply trying to say that Eidos created a port and didnt care to do anything to support the product, which is what the original post was about.

I own the PSX version, non greatest hits and can play that any time I want. The game is currently being sold at second hand shops for $50+. Unless you can get the game off someone who doesn't know its current price, you wont find it very cheap.

The fact that it would crash at the required Golden Saucer chocobo race in windows newer than 98. Also the fact that Eidos didnt give a rats ass to provide a patch for it.

Ive been seeing those things almost everywhere now. You type in a pin number and put your hand in the machine. Most of the time its right hand down, one company I worked for said someone asked what if you dont have a right hand. It works just the same left hand up.
This was in a hotel. I just saw one at the library the other day. Im pretty sure it isnt about your finger prints, but the shape and contours of your hand in combination with your pin.

Its not like you can hide much from the government, its a Federal Work Study job.

I wonder how much condensation has to do with it.
Its freezing here in chicago and walking from the bus to the lincoln park conservatory, my camera gets cold enough that it instantly condenses when i get inside the conservatory.

When changing temperatures that drastically, I cant help but wonder the non liquid stress those indicators get

Orly? What about Cyanogen? He snowboards, alot. I dont know if you've ever gone out side to try it. Its rough, and you can easily burn about 1000 calories in an hour.

Dont push your inadequacies on to other people.

P.S. I know lots of geeks who do triathlons

Oh come on, an american who doesnt understand the concept of something other than baseball and football?

Dont comment, even anonymously, if you dont know shit about what youre talking about.

These machines really shouldn't be producing harmful exhaust. If they are, than most forklifts inside warehouses are also extremely harmful too, because some people work with those things running all day.
They wouldnt be allowed to run indoors with exhaust over OSHA (working environment) standards, and im sure for an area with people not insured by the building management, its even lower levels of exhaust allowed.

Except at some universities, like mine, there were lots of things sent to your university account. Some classes required it. Not exactly opt-out.

Pretty confident lying about military service is illegal, because I know a guy who did it and was facing both a misdemeanor and a felony.
Im sure lying to one person about it is harder to prove

You can unlock a phone here in the US after only a minimum of 40days postpaid plans/60days prepaid on tmobile
I know it can be done on ATT, but they dont give any worthwhile information: "AT&T only releases unlock codes to customers under certain instances"

Since Sprint and Verizon are CDMA you cant really unlock them.