Don't just remove the stickers, add another one adverstising a product designed to remove the sticker goo. AMD recommends Goo Gone for sticker residue. It's a new revenue source!

Well, apart from multiplayer, you do get weekly sales (although they only occasionally intersect with your interests), and demo access one week earlier than non-gold users. And there was 1 vs 100 while that was around which was quite fun (but disappointing that it's not being renewed) Not saying it's an amazing deal or anything, but there is a bit more than the multiplayer.

If he had subitted it to America's Funniest Home Videos, he maaaaabye could have won what, $10,000 is their top prize?

Because I would absolutely trust an unstaller app provided with a malware "virus scanner". I think I'll cut out it's heart by my self, thank you very much.

The Wii already has an option on it to wipe it's memory of all downloaded games and ties to the Wii shop, which is intended to be used before giving the console to a new owner (Anyone who does this currently is a fool, sell the games with the system, you might as well)... All they need to do is through that process, provide a code allowing you to download your now erased library to a new Wii. Just send me that code by e-mail, and when I get my replacement, put that in and get it all back. Easy enough to do, works in the framework that's already there, and Nintendo knows that barring hacking the console, that all existing games have been deleted.

The releasing the first X minutes of a movie has become a more and more common tactic in movie promotions recently. I know it's happened for more than a few movies, but the only one I remember specifically was Borat.

Otherwise, I totally agree with you. It's hard to put down $50-60 for a game basically sight unseen. Especially when so many developers do release demos, and XBox Live requires them, etc. Not only does a demo tell you if you would like the game, a demo will also give you an idea how well a game will run on your PC, which seems to pretty important to Crytek games.

On the other hand, even demos aren't always representative of the full game. Take the Brutal Legend demo for example. What seems from the demo like God of War-esque with driving sequences, is actually a semi-RTS with a large mostly empty "sandbox" overworld.

I don't know if you think you're joking or not, but as of this posting, Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board is the number one selling Games item on Amazon.com, Amazon proper is sold out, and the cheapest "featured merchant" has them for $119.95. Keep in mind retail price is $99.99. It's safe to say this story really has increased sales.

Judging based on the shocking reveal of millions of passwords from TFA that started this thread, I'd say that quite a few password systems must store in plaintext.

No, Amateur Porn Blog would come up first. It sorts based on how frequently you access the site.

Obligatory XKCD:

50 Ways

The battery onboard is supposed to last for about 70 minutes of play. Assuming the mechanism for determining the pages are open works correctly, that should be sufficient for the average reader. And after a month the ads may no longer be relevant anyway.

It's trivial for the writer of the "application" to include the legitimite Word document file icon as part of the .exe. Heck, at that point, calling it Partyinvite.exe would be enough to fool most people who have the extensions hidden, because they wouldn't be used to seeing .doc at the end of the name.

So we know that we can't get non-security patches for XP after next week... In the last year or so, what types of patches has MS released that AREN'T security patches? The only example I've seen on this thread were the change in daylight savings time. Can someone give me a few other examples from the last year or so of XP updates that we wouldn't be able to get today?

It's ok, it's not like anyone reads this far down the thread, right?

Oh wait.

Is he singing "All we wanna do is ban your games"?

I'm sorry JoCo... I had to.