Both are popular with women, relatively speaking. Been in guilds in both where women were significant in number and some of them influential. Couple of female Guild Masters, did wonderful job. (yes, we used Ventrilo; not fakes) No need to make games designed to attract females. Games are games are games. Only need to avoid elements in games that are offensive to most women. Much harder task is to remove online offensive language and adolescent crudity from players.

One way or the other or neither. Time will tell, not political science.

take away valuable time better spent playing World of WarCraft.

Like Monsanto even less than GM. Activists were acting against a malign corporation. Good for them.

On company time. Who are sitting in HR signing out with staff ready to help them carry their boxes of personal belongings to car. Oh no no no, I don't think so.

And I'm not that good at it; not the sharpest tool in the shed, indeed not even in the shed! But if you know in general what the pro players are doing it is fun to watch even if you do not understand why they are doing what they do. Besides which all that APM hurts my fingers!

Google copied their FUD Department from the Microsoft model. Windows never tortured me. Very reliable OS. I like Windows! I also like Linux almost as much except for games ... sigh. I like controlling and building my own computer, thank you. Please Google, go FUD somewhere else.

"find ways to guarantee that items bought are permanently owned even without a physical copy" Try GoG, www.gog.com. Buy game, no DRM. Put installer on CD if you want. GoG has no client that must run in background. Games on GoG a bit old, but probably a huge improvement on Nintendo. That being said, Steam, Impulse, D2D all work. Bunch of 'em out there.

WP was a wonderful word processor on DOS and I guess DR Dos up to some point, then it got overly complex. It did not transition to Windows gracefully especially when it was forced to dance to the tune of shots nicely aimed when each new Windows patch came out. Ethics was not anyone's strong suit in those days. Hate to be the legal counsel on either side of this one.

Xfce better for what I do. If even that. Holy Grails are only available from commercial vendors like Microsoft, Apple, and Google. Corporations can maintain design focus while products of volunteer groups are chunky, quirky collections of everyone's ideas. Next name of Ubuntu release, Quirky Quillboar. Any further questions about why the vast majority of users are not adopting Linux?

Number two on top 10 Games, Number 3 on top 10 Gamefaqs message boards. Just below World of WarCraft in both cases. Good indication that "the people" like it a lot! Also generates tons of videos on YouTube. It is a phenomenon.

Retired IT, worked heavily with Linux including desktop. Me personally these days I run MS because I like it! No, Linux has not won.

This is indeed an excellent book. Highly recommended.

WoW since two weeks after it went live, GW since the day Prophecies went live. Love both games! GW 2 is going to be a very big game with player base potentially as large as WoW. However that potential will mostly be realized without drawing players away from WoW. GW 2 players will like the RPG element of the personal story line, enjoy the excitement of the ferocious fps style game play, and the many other innovative features of GW 2. Not to mention having no monthly fee! I will be getting the super deluxe edition. However WoW does have the momentum and it has defined its own genre of which it is the only truly viable member! GW 2 is poised to do the same thing. But I doubt there be heavy overlap between player populations of the two.

If not, targeting information please? Let's make sure the enemy knows what to hit with the thermonukes. Most likely this is a now obsolete system still useful mostly as a distraction or a secondary source of recovery.