How about saying that the Brit's Health Care system is extended to PC's and then download the
remote app, make them wait a few months before connecting to the machine (so it seems normal)
then take it over.

It could work.

(/tongue firmly in cheek, BTW)

You have to because some freaking idiot made it a unified/menu-like like IE.

So instead of a single click and you're done, it's now, click, menu, choose/click the fwd/back,
go wrong direction (possibly) or too far, click the unified button again (repeat).

A FWD (with menu and clear direction/levels) and BKWD with the same menu and CLEAR direction.

I HATE the way IE does it (can't seem to fix) and it's the first thing I fixed in FF3.

Both had a point in time when their names meant something good, now

"It's a Sony" and "This is CNN" only server as warning labels.

And a merger? I'm sure it'll work out as well as MSNBC has, if you're going for
two single digit viewer-ships, one might actually make it to double digits.

Which one works the best for those of us that bought it and hate the DRM?

Had Peerguardian running and forgot about it when I tried launching AC2...oops.

Even Allowing ubi.* did not work entirely, logged in and barfed with "no net, exit
to windows?"...grrr.

Just want to launch and go. C'mon ubi get a clue.

If AC3's DRM is worse (knew AC2 was a matter of time) may have to wait out AC3 and
consider if I should buy or not.

I've said time and time again, "Never replace hardware with software" because
something dedicated to the task will always work better, or be less failure
prone (more often than not).

Would Toyota be having these problems with an accelerator cable vs electronic?

99% sure the answer is "no"...heck the solution is add some grease, make sure
it isn't pinched/looped too tightly and/or add tension to the pedal side.

Or, replace the damn cable with a new one...a 20 to 30 minute task.
(less than 10min on a motorcycle)

Oh, well, what do I know? I'm just a CS major with real world experience, pay
no attention to the man behind the keyboard!!!

Special iAccessory called the iBag Of Holding.

1) SCSI cards: 29160U is not supported. I was pleasantly surprised, as that was my
32bit Xp install, but seriously no support for this card? Humm.

2) Ok, some esoteric cards I can understand, but a RocketRaid 464 has had Win2k/Xp
drivers built into the OS (not sure about Vista). An IDE card that does RAID 0/1
onboard and 5 w/CPU, but in addition to not seeing the card, it would CORRUPT the
filesystem. During setup w/o driver, corrupt. left unconnected and as soon as
I'd check under xp = OK, 7 = corrupt. Of the two times it could read the disks
any copy to the drive (formatted under xp and 7) it would BSOD the memory mgmt
module.

Joy. Luckily recovery was easy, but JFC 6 hours+ to get it all back each time.

7 was/is fast, easy to get used to and GPU folding was pretty peppy, but can't
live w/o that RAID card when all is said and done.

I will give 7 some credit, I've got a dual boot of XP and 2k3 both 64bit and
guess what? both the SCSI and RAID work flawlessly. Not folding as fast as 7,
but smoother than xp32 by a smidgen.

Strangely I've got an itch to get redhat AS4 installed, but not when I've got
school to deal with. Next break, perhaps.

What's the reality here ?

Scott McNealy's Revenge after almost 20 some-odd years: "the network is the computer."

'scuse me, cloud/web/network/whatever.

I think I know where I'm having dinner tonight! :)

-A Committed Environmentalist

Going to the dogs, eh?

Sounds like a plan, feed these wingnuts to the dogs...way to go!

would be Snapserver(s).

IMO, that is, because IME Snap's have good storage but are horribly
underpowered in the CPU/MEM/NIC dept and suffer terribly from diminishing
returns too soon.

Either that or evolution happens *much* faster than I thought given that a single generation sees a 4" change reasonably often.

I guess it depends on where that 4 inches 'of evolution' occurred, now, doesn't it?

Call me when they can run linux on sand.

Ugly bag of mostly water, stay out of our wet sand!

No kidding about some of those puzzles needing two people as one of my friends back in late 91 or
early 92 had this game and I was around on occasion, just hanging out before getting addicted to
this game.

The recipe for getting to the Island was something that drove us nuts because it was so devious
and clever: pressed/flat skull = jolly roger, "one or more of the following {chemicals} = Capt.
Crunch (final ingredient that got the cauldron going).

Getting off the boat...sheesh...Guybrush's "I need a helmet"...damn, 'try the pail' I said after
several hours..."boom" goes the cannon and on the Island we are. We just looked at each other
and shook our heads. Felt stupid not thinking of it sooner after getting to the Island took
about 3 days (service, duties, work interfering with gaming).

Good times. Sadly, me going on 12hour shifts for a while and my buddy getting stationed elsewhere
left us SOL when it came to getting into the monkey head cave. We were 1/2 way there as we had
the chimp that followed us for bananas and never put the two together. Ah, well.

I may have to get this just for old time's sake (and a walkthru on hand, just in case the
old brain, now 20 years older, can't hack it quick enough).

I tell you ... I remember back in the day when IE was the browser of choice for developers. Netscape was the nightmare. This was the age of table based layouts and one missed closed table tag stopped the entire page from rendering in Netscape. I don't know when that changed, but now, IE is monkey on my back.

< AOL> ME TOO </AOL>

But here's the thing that bugged the snot out of me: If my mistakes were covered up by the browser, I'd
not be aware of them and never learn how to correct them.

Kinda like how some programmers never seem to get a clue and others seem almost god-like.

Granted, I've not done the web master thing for a while, now, but the same applies... get an IDE/Browser
or whatever that nannies you too much and the art of programming becomes the "shart" of programming.

As said before:

huge levels are a must, none of the console BS.

Garrett's style and the humor in 1&2 (esp 2's arguing archers)

3's grfx, I suppose would be good, and the lockpicking from 3 (toss up between time freeze, slow, or IRT)

Whatever BS that was in 3 where the person stiffened before being "boffed on the bonce" (whacked on the head),
sheesh, made a mildly playable game insufferably stupid.

Two words: Rope Arrows!

Back to basics and proven games that ppl liked about the first two.

Or, best summation:
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/544-Thief-The-Dark-Project