> but Windows has the multi-monitor down pat

No, it hasn't. Had been removed after XP. Server 2008 and Vista do not support Multi-Graphiccard-Multiscreen-Solutions any more.

Newer Linux AND Windows releases leave multi-screen completely to the drivers. So if your Driver supports a card with two screen connectors, then you are ready. If not, things get ugly.

Setting up two screens on my Geforce 6600 and 8800 systems with Ubuntu is piece of cake, start Nvidia-Tool, active and configure screens, ready.

Whats the deal?

Apple is doing evil because they are evil.

Face it, customer, you are just consumer cattle being milked. You gave Apple a defacto monopoly on online music, now you face the consequences.

Shut up, don't complain, buy moar, be happy.

This seems like major horse poo, there simply is not reasonable general purpose architecture available for 128bit and I even fail to see a requirement for the far future. Sooner we will see shard architectures based on massive parallel multiprocessing like today GPUs but they will be per core a lot simpler than today 64bit systems, not more complex.

This stinks. A critical part of windows becoming unsupported.

What goes around comes around, I will remember that.

I have never ever thought about buying a low budget indy game.

First, there are thousands of free and nice games out there. Free as Free Beer and also some as Free Speech. I simply do not look for another Tetris-Clone or Lemming Clone or whatever lame remake of a 80 arcade game, they are available for free in thousand versions.

Second, I can get full blown studio games for one to three bucks.

I bought Pirates! two years ago for two bucks, a surprisingly complete Tycoon-Collection last year for seven bucks, Battlefield2+AllExpansions for seven Bucks just a week ago.

There is no room for DRM-shit, it is really that easy.

I have been using arcor.de for decades.

They are free like in free beer, have no limits, no binaries, just create an account on arcor.de and use the account and password to join their nntp-server. They are professional, doing it for over ten years, their servers are powerfull, what else do you want?

Besides you'll find more free providers at http://www.google.de/search?q=free+nntp

I build a faster computer which only costed a small percentage of that Opteron-Beast:

An Intel5400-Board with two 4Ghz QuadXeons and two GT280. Ok, it only has 16GB and four drives but this would be easily corrected nowadays.

I personally use an Intel5000XVN-Board with two 2,5Ghz QuadXeons, 16GB RAM, two 500 Harddrives and an Geforce 8800, waiting for the GT2xx-Line to become mature and passive cooled ---- BECAUSE MY WHOLE SYSTEM IS PASSIVELLY COOLED BESIDES ONE SINGLE 40CM FAN RUNNING AT 50RPM.

The whole System did cost a lot less than â2000 and consists of standard hardware allover.

Yeah I still remember PCS but I played a lot more "Racing Destruction Set" which is still a very formidable game though it has its lengths.

Also I remember "Lode Runner" and "Mister Robot and his Facroty" and lets not forget "Seven Cities of Gold" (though you had little control over your random world there were editors available for fine manipuation) and others...

What are people liking about Galactica NT?

It is a series about a bunch of spaceships full of retarded idiots, so stubborn, unpleasant, unfocused, no planning, blind and arrogant that I would join the cylons in the instance to whipe out that insult to intelligent life.

The old Galactica had its moments, was fancy and had surprises, but Galactica NT is just a remake of a brasilian telenovela which added spaceships.