Farscape was better.

Of course, I already own both that and Firefly on DVD, so the whole streaming thing is moot for me.

As it is, I am not a fan of streaming media from the net. My ISP (Rogers) charges a not inconsiderable amount for a, in my opinion, pitiable bandwidth quota. Their overage charge is even worse. I would rather purchase the physical media and watch whenever I please, as often as I please.

I was waiting for the inevitable chair throwing reference and you sir did not disappoint.

You missed one.

8) Release source as Public Domain, where anyone can do anything with it. Granted, it's not as popular as it was 30 years ago, but there's still a lot of interesting PD code floating around the net.

Yes, LOTRO has made considerably more money after going FtP. I'm a lifetime VIP ($200 at launch), and they've also treated us well, to boot. We get 500 "Turbine Points" for free every month, access to all original launch content and a bunch of other in-game benefits. We do still have to buy the expansions when they come out, but that's fine by me. My son also plays, and I've not begrudged spending a couple bucks here and there to grant him access to additional content and features. Considering his short attention span when it comes to gaming, LOTRO has certainly earned its money (he bounces back and forth between Xbox, LOTRO and Starcraft 2... and soon he'll be throwing Diablo 3 into the mix).

For some games (read: bad games) though, it is a death knell. I've been dabbling with DC Universe Online, which went free earlier this month, and I don't see it lasting very long unless they do something innovative with it. It's fun to fly around (or superspeed), and the writing is fairly well done, but it's still stupidly buggy almost a year after launch, and there've been various other issues since it switched to FtP.

I haven't tried Champions yet, and found City of Heroes to be a lacklustre throwback to EverQuest style gameplay. There's still a ton of other games out there, and I'll surely try them eventually just because. I am looking forward to The Old Republic, though. Hopefully it'll be good, and worth my $15 a month.

Add me too!

(Thank you parent for the wonderfully nostalgic flashback to 1990's Usenet, intentional or otherwise).

invasion.

I don't know what's worse, that I knew what you were quoting, or that you dared quote such a horrible piece of [expletive deleted] on Slashdot.

WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOUR FACE?

Only if he does it as Darth Vader. That'd be sweet.

Yeah, Daniel Tosh had the kid on Tosh.0 (along with Michael Winslow). He eventually admitted it was staged.

Is your intelligence so low that you cannot understand that Google plainly said "NO HONEYCOMB SOURCE" and gave their reason for it? Google is not the only company developing "open source" but not always/entirely releasing the code (VirtualBox comes to mind with their extension pack).

It's almost like you're some one of those morons who calls anyone who points out the idiocy of you and your ilk a shill because you've really got nothing else, but I suspect you're just stupid.

I don't claim to be a genius, but apparently my comprehension skills are superior. Nor am I a shill, and you have no idea what I think of Google beyond my repeating what they said without embellishment or praise. How you got an insightful rating for such a moronic comment is, however, beyond my comprehension. Further proof of the average Slashdot reader's declining intelligence. Perhaps I can score higher on my posts if I throw in baseless ignorant remarks, call people shills, and just to fit in with today's crowd add "lol i troll u".

I can't believe Slashdots readers are really as stupid as the last few posts about the Android source are making them appear to be.

Google was clear that Honeycomb's code was not going to be released because they did not want people attempting to shoehorn what was effectively a tablet OS on to mobile phones. End of story.

Google has also been clear that the ICS code will be released after the devices that are shipping with it roll out, which none have yet. Also end of story.

Really, has the intelligence of the average Slashdot reader fallen so low that these two simplistic statements have been rendered incomprehensible?

I'm so sick of hearing about this bloody Steve Jobs guy; I wish he'd just die.

Seriously, he was just a man. Sure, a stylish dresser and a very capable peddler of mediocre products that purchasers never truly owned, but still just a man.

My younger son uses an old P4 hand me down and doesn't have any problems with the (numerous) flash and Java laden sites he enjoys. Perhaps "ur doin it wrong lol" or whatever the kids are saying these days.

Have you read the books? I'd guess not, since ASOIAF is not sword & sorcery. Yes there's a bit of magic in it, and it permeates the world, but it's thus far not been a big factor in the story. It's a story about people and all the horrific ways they die.

I thought I was alone in thinking of it as a soap. When I try to explain what ASOIAF is to others, I describe it as a realistic, medieval soap opera (for men)*.

*Not implying that women cannot read/watch/enjoy it, just that it doesn't have much of the drivel that a man associates with a soap opera.

My Magic-User was using scrolls, sometimes stolen from an elderly person, back in the 80's. I should dust off his character record and have him sue Bethesda.

I don't know the fine details, and the summary seems somewhat inflammatory, but it looks like Bethesda's making a mistake here. Not a big enough one (thus far) to dissuade me from still wanting Skyrim, but they've got another month to do so.

I rather wish they had spent more time coming up with a better, and more sanely priced collector's edition, however.