yeah, "Done!" It's just that simple! "Done!"

Good grief.

This was the first thing I did. If I want to use Chrome, I'll use Chrome.

Change for change's sake.

Tabs STILL are not in their own processes like Chrome has done since day one. It does look like closing tabs reallocates memory though. So at least that seems to be fixed (it's been promised since, what, version 2?).

And this time it only took me one add-on (Status-4-Evar) to regain lost functionality.

I first played the game at the age of 11 in early 1989. I'll never forget this game. Mostly, I'll never forget that feeling of being completely absorbed into the game, as if the outside world no longer existed. I remember finishing an extremely long session (maybe 4-5 hours, which is kind of a lot for a kid), and going outside into the warm springtime. I recall thinking..."wow, the outside and fresh air and sunshine still exist. what IS all this?"

Making that experience all the more special is the fact that it doesn't happen to me anymore, and probably never will. Getting old is hell.

Probably no one will see this reply, but I'm looking at the Ninja Gaiden video on AVGN now.

Holy christ does this bring back memories. Stage 6-2 is giving him the biggest problem, and I remember the exact spot in the game where he loses it. Keep in mind this is almost 20 years ago that I played thru it, but it's burned in my mind. Wow.

I think you may be right; I never thought of it that way. Still, as you alluded to, the games were enjoyable despite their poor development.

Then of course there was Rygar. Ridiculously difficult and no save feature.

I'll second this. Good lord, I remember spending hours and hours getting thru Death Mountain to find the hammer. Then fighting, fighting, fighting thru that awful path that led to the final palace. Then trying in vain to beat that god damn blue/red Thunderbird (and failing, until 2002 when I could use an emulator and cheat codes). I finally got to see the ending, which was lame, but at least I finished the game.

I'll also second the comments about Ninja Gaiden, which, come to think of it, was much harder than even Zelda II. All the Ninja Gaiden games were great, but horrendously difficult to the point that I never finished any of them without a game genie.

As an IT worker, I found the show more depressing than funny. Too many similarities with my life and theirs.

Excellent explanation. Thank you.

Please explain.

The way I understand it:

Google drives by my house and sees a WPA2-protected wifi router. I guess they could get the MAC of the router if they want (right?). But that's all they can see.

When I go to a google.com from my wifi laptop at home, google sees the MAC of the laptop, but NOT the router. So how would they associate a physical location with a google user? They can see my external IP online, but they cannot see that by just wardriving. (Unless there's a way to also sniff the MAC of my laptop at the time of wardriving...now I'm paranoid.)

I don't get how they could associate the two things, unless I'm ignorant on the details here.

Agreed. This is a great song. I'm old enough to remember when it was popular on MTV. The title track from this album ("Whenever You Need Somebody") is even better.

Astley does have a great voice.

I'm obviously getting into the comments very late, but I felt the need to reply.

If you plan on replacing your nytimes.com reading with BBC News, you obviously have never read both of them. They are nothing alike. Whereas the BBC mainly reports strictly news (with an arguable anti-US spin that has grown tiresome to me), the NYTimes produces fantastic journalism. They have the best columnists and investigative reporters anywhere. Their travel and food sections are second to none. I also enjoy the tone of their writing -- it carries a more traditional, formal language than many newspapers these days.

I will watch with great interest how this plays out. I love my nytimes.com and would have to think hard about whether to pay for it.

Disagree.

I bet well over 90% of Palm users WOULD care if informed of this. It does not take a geek to understand that this is a serious invasion of privacy. I'd think most people would very clearly understand what is going on here.