my VS11979 is 19" and has a native resolution of 1680*1050, which exceeds your needs. It also has a very high response rate and insanely high contrast ratio. The colors are simply fantastic; I almost fainted when I first watched Big Buck Bunny on it. I also got it dirt cheep at Fry's. And everyone knows ViewSonic displays are the best. Just ignore the fact that it has built-in speakers - they're predictably terrible.

Urea, commercially used, is synthesized. You'll find that many shampoo products have urea in them. I don't think that people would like to put piss on their heads.

PostScript, the technology upon which PDF is based on, is still around and running. It can do everything required for this application, since it was designed for paged media (such as real pages). Best of all, it's a more open standard than PDF is, and it's actually slightly more ubiquitous since there are so many printers that use it.

In interactive media:
take off the glove to smack your opponent as you challenge them to a duel!
play a virtual flute that will make others watching you think you've gone insane!
Fill the glove with Vasoline and pretend you're Curly(R) from Of Mice and Men(C)!
Most realistic boss-stabbing simulation ever!
Aim your gun - WITH YOUR HANDS(TM)! (disclaimer: never aim a gun with other appendages)
Smack them bitches - LITERALLY!
Pretend you're a ghost by activating {noclip} and walking through walls! (disclamer: do not attempt to walk through walls)
Pet virtual chickens!


Coming soon from ANTHROTRONICS!
The IntelliSock (patent pending)!

All your friends will be jealous of you when you wiggle and pick up things with your toes - IN A VIRTUAL WORLD! WOW!
After all, who would like a VR fighting game where you can't _kick your enemy when he's down_(TM)?

You forget, EMA, that that extra $6B IS ALSO GOING TO BE THE $6B THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO SPEND ON GAMES THE NEXT TIME AROUND!

I may be exaggerating, but meh.

Well, this new activation scheme may be a good thing. After they put that into effect, the cracking groups will become so popular that they'll establish their own publishers who won't deal with this crap.

It must be some astronomic and powerful calculator they need for those conversions. I'm assuming that it's so expensive because it can calculate the highest prime number and last digit of pi in under a second.

But that still doesn't account for the costs they're making up.

There are numerous ways to do this, but I would use Samba (best used with VPN), because it can pretty much be used everywhere, even on computers with crappy OSes like Vista. There are numerous other solutions for the same thing; FTP, AFS, maybe iSCSI.

You could always, I dunno, try walking out your front door? Geeks are everywhere! All you have to do is get out and meet people. You can even do it *gasp* at work!

Now get off of my lawn!

This is a day of rejoicing! Now even our most simple embedded devices can have decades of backward-compatibility baggage and buggy code!

You are confused sir. 'D' is a slice of watermelon.

"... the actual artifacts of early Unix development were in danger of being lost forever."


That's odd. I seem to have had copies of Unix versions 1-5 on my computer for quite a while. And I'm not talking about UNIX system V SVR blah blah. I had some (there was a lot, it could have been all of it, but I didn't look too far into it) of the source code too.

This was at least a year or two back, when I was interested in the origins of UNIX, when I was simulating the PDP with SIMH. Complicated computers they were.

Also note that I don't have any real links to AT&T, Lucient Technologies, or Bell Labs. I do, however, have the internet and access to Google.

As it turns out, the early builds of IE9 are starting to implement HTML 5. For instance, they support the video tag. However, they made a statement that they are only planning on implementing the intel INDEO video codec, with PWM audio. And they're finally supporting CSS and SVG propperly, but only if the color scheme matches the scheme they chose for Windows 7. And after years of debate, they now support an early draft of VRML.





I'm obviously lying, since Microsoft always plans on the "let's not improve the product until it's at least 10 years behind the times" plan.

Sadly, though, The way I described their new version of IE is waaaaaaaaaaaay too realistic.

"Slippery Slope" is an idea pushed by the ultra-conservative republicans in an attempt to prevent any kind of societal progress. A means to spread FUD, it is the absolute lowest of all attacks that can be given, as it needs no facts, proof, or any kind of truth to be taken for the claim to be considered truthful and factual. For a better example, see the false and flimsy arguments against gay marriage.

Also, where in hell did that last quote come from? It makes no sense in this context, and it doesn't appear in any of the links.

take your cell phone and duct-tape it to your netbook. Voila!
Honestly, though, trying to replace your working and well-proven cell phone, and tryingt to use two very unstable technologies in it's place, is extremely stupid. Netbooks and all laptops have the terrible condition of high breakability, and WIMAX isn't everywhere. In fact, I've never even been to a place that had WIMAX service.

Now it's time to reveal to the world a part of my philosophy. There is no such thing as controversy; controversy is simply an illusion that an issue is so big that it will effect everyone. The truth is that while there are events which can cause effect a great deal of people, there isn't really much that can effect everyone - all I can think of is someone accidentally creating a virus that kills everyone on the planet or nuclear holocaust.

Now as I mentioned before, people are illusioned into believing that something is extremely important. The reality is that most of the controversy is simply caused by stupidity. Sadly, I'm wrong when I say it's caused by stupidity; it's usually caused by willful ignorance in the form of religion. Though I do admit that there are some caused by bigotry, idiocy, and normal ignorance as well.

Think about it - What are the big controversies today in America? I'll list some for you:

• abortion
• evolution vs. creationism vs. intelligent design
• stem cell research
• civil rights for gays, especially marriage
• pornography.

Those are all caused by religious institutions; the pope hates them all. and there's such opposition to these issues because, guess what? They hurt their feelings. And they remain controversial because of bigotry. But there are some very minor controversies out there that aren't caused by Christianity; gun control and the war on drugs, for instance. These issues are caused by sheer ignorance.

How does this relate to the topic in hand? It's hard to say. Games based on real, current wars aren't controversial because of people's bigotry, idiocy, stupidity, or willing or unknowing ignorance.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that this type of game isn't controversial at all. What it is, however, is stigmatic. People have different views on the war, and because not everyone agrees with it, and even though it's a subject that people can have differing opinions on it without getting upset, it instantly becomes taboo.
So the real problem is that people and organizations have become so incredibly afraid of being politically incorrect, they're not even willing to go along with anything that people won't agree on. Which means that the shelves of the game stores will continue to be filled with endless sequels, because someone might be offended with anything new, and in an overly-sensitive global society, that's enough to get your game banned.

To sum up what I was trying to say, current-war games aren't controversial, but are simply too new of an idea.

I hope my message got across well; I'm actually doped out on sleeping pills right now. I'm not even sure that I wrote about the point I was trying to make.... I'm a very confused man at the moment.

P.S. I think I meant to say earlier that controversies are caused by intolerance. Ex: Fable was controversial for being able to play a gay character.