Last, and coincidentally every time I checked since the ESRB rating started, Walmart has carried and sold M rated games. Never an AO though.

M = Halo GTA RE Gears Bioshock Resistance, etc, etc.

We're too stupid to use Celsius in the USA. But you knew that, right? Water boils at like 212 degrees Fahrenheit, freezes at 32.

Your 42 * 9/5 + 32 = 107.6, which is a bit higher than the op was talking about.

How do you prevent some other shopper from buying the items you wanted before you arrive there, or prove that such did not occur?

Also, how do you prove that their computerized inventory is infallible?

Instead of letting the renters do that, or even working a deal with non leasing home owners who are behind, for months leading up to the crash almost one in every five radio commercials I heard in DeKalb IL were about people getting awesome deals on repossessed homes, with super low monthly rates.

But if those low rates were offered to the old occupants, I bet they would not have had to move out...

Even from a greed standpoint, that kind of crap didn't seem to make sense to me. Wouldn't it have been cheaper to cut the original owners the deal, instead of repossessing and reselling at the lower monthly rates? And paying for advertising about the low rates? /boggle

That's true, anything s/s or LAN would not be counted, I think people have pointed out that bungie did not try to include those games in their numbers, so they are celebrating the 1 billionth xbLive matchup..

It would be pretty awesome if they could write some software that takes the person's dna sequence as input, and outputs one of those composite picture of you made up of pictures of you things. But I guess some kind of fractal pattern is the best one could really hope for.

And only 15-20% outside the lines.

72,203,447,307.2 games. Roughly quintuple that if you include non-Source CS.

Fail. Overshooting their stamina.

I assume that while Halo3 probably runs matches on one of the clients, rather than running a server, the lobby/game searching feature is probably centralized.

Thus they don't have to monitor anything except some count made by the lobby server that keeps track of how many game match-ups it creates that get played.

So like McDonalds can check receipts, I'm sure MS can check server logs, and probably this is automated for them.

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Dead Space is not really a horror game at all. At best a couple startling parts maybe. Swarm attacks in a couple spots. It's no Silent Hill 1 or even RE1. It sorta played like RE4, I guess, with the highlight being stomping off limbs and heads of dead bodies.

Good game, don't get me wrong, but marketing it as survival horror is imo not correct.

Lots of software products already do the URL to EULA on box routine. PC games are relatively commonly inundated with that phrasing about the license terms being available on some website. Usually the games that warn you that they contain technology that interferes with gam eplay if you have any form of CD/DVD drive emulation software.

Write caching aside though, I think most SATA drives 'support' hot swapping, so if one were to disable write caching, wouldn't there be no danger of corruption unless they were switched during an actual write?

Wouldn't be very practical for a boot drive, but you could 'hide' a porn drive from the wife/kids...