Yes. I have to throw in another vote for games.

My laptop that I take to school and use for notes/programming runs Linux and works great, much better than it did when I had Windows on it in fact.

But my desktop PC at home runs Windows 7 because I built it for gaming.

Unless DX11 is going to run under Linux my desktop is going to run Windows.

Chrome, whatever the latest version is.

It works on both my desktop running Windows 7 and my laptop running Ubuntu 11.04.

Both are using Chrome though.

Doesn't wikipedia work because there is a few people (the elite) who have the power to "lock" a page if the "stupid people" mess it up too much?

Are you using an out of date browser or something? It goes strait to the G+ Pepsi page for me.

This is exactly what I thought...

They're asking BitTorrent to block Pirate Bay?

If you choose to live in common ownership isn't it still, basically, capitalism? In that type of opt-in system you still have to choose to give "your" private property to the group.

Actually, I can think of a much more prevalent example, most married couples. My wife and I life in a state of common ownership between two people. But we still have private property, we choose to live in this state.

Couldn't it be that Android moves faster than IOS, meaning that handsets will become "outdated" faster?

Since IOS5 basically catches IOS up on things Android already did (such as pull down notifications), you could actually say that IOS5 = Android 2.4, meaning that the Nexus One is on the same level (software wise) as iPhone 3GS.

You could ask the same thing about computers. When's the last time you NEEDED to upgrade your computer to play a game? Lets say the PS3 lasts 6-7 years. A gaming PC made 6 years ago can still play all the latest games, at least on the low setting, which is equivalent to playing the game on a console.

The great thing about PC's is that you have the option to upgrade in order to get better graphics, but you are not required to upgrade. You can always play on the lower settings if you want.

On a console you are forced to play on low settings, whether you can afford to upgrade or not.

You could trade Pokemon through the infrared port IIRC.

The Wii-U is Nintendo's PS3/360. The Wii is the same generation as the original XBOX.

You could argue that console generations are split solely by years, and not by console power, but if you do make that argument you will have to also agree that there have been a ton of different console generations, since the consoles often release one or two years apart.

If you claim that time is the only determining factor for console generation then the PS2 would be part of generation x, and the gamecube and XBOX would be generation x+1, since they came out a year after the PS2.

Exactly this. No one has been able to yet prove that MSG has any negative side-effects, and it can be used as an alternative to salt, which may or may not be bad for you also (depending on whatever the latest study claims).

I do think that some people might be allergic to MSG and get headaches from it, but people can be allergic to anything. My mother-in-law is allergic to lemons, but I don't think that lemons are bad because of it.

You should have had him get a Nexus S.

I played Atlantica (among other f2p games) which basically had exactly what WoW is adding now, although the game was f2p so it was at least somewhat excusable, I can't believe they have the balls to do this for a p2p game.

Basically what happens is the item will be worth a ton when it first comes out. It won't tank quickly, but it will gradually become worth less and less as the new "shininess" factor wears off.

Then Blizzard will replace the item with a new "more shiny" item. The current shiny item will drop significantly, and the new item will be worth a ton. If Blizzard chooses to discontinue sales of shiny item 1 when shiny item 2 is released, shiny item 1 will increase in price in a week or so, before going back down to average levels. If they keep selling all the shiny items at once the older ones will continue to slowly decline until they reach a fairly low price that will end up as the "Standard" price for any non-new item-mall item.

Hopefully you would be grandfathered in if they raised the rates.... hopefully.

Despite this meaning that I will have to buy a new phone in 2013 or lose 4g access, I'm still very happy with it.

Sprint is by far the cheapest cellular provider so I have no intentions of switching. This means that my next phone will have faster and more reliable internet. It's worth needing to buy a new phone as far as I'm concerned.