well that depends on the Linux distro....

you mean like one of the many usenet providers and one of the many usenet index sites?

How prejudice. I would say the vast majority of college educated Americans (the kind that would be working for MS) have an interest in at least one other country/culture.

The FMV may have been a failure with the sega CD, but i recall a playstation game with a 7 on the end that used FMV and to this day is one of the most popular games in history.

Just because the first implementations are poor, does not mean the concept is flawed.

Not everyone, but if you look at posts above. You can see people taking flaws and spinning them.

"Its not a flaw its a feature that takes several weeks to adjust to!"

Simple same code, but the new guys are cheaper.

The guys who copied the code did not pay a dime, while the original developers need to cover the cost of developing it.

Halo, Gears of War, Bioshock, wow.

None of these games are hard core with maybe the exception of wow. Bioshock is single player and Halo and gears are games 20 times simpler then what had come before them. Compared to games like starsiege tribes, rainbow six, and counter stirke.

Starsiege tribes was a high speed FPS with flight, where your shots inhered your speed. Not only did you have to understand how your shot would move, you would also need to account for where the opponent would be when you mortar or disk landed. This is quite a bit more complicated then LOL auto aim LOL of Halo.

Im sure Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 will be sanctuaries for the hardcore for many of years.

In wow i can get on for an hour and do several quests, get some money and exp.

In say Dark age of Camelot thats enough time to get to where i need to level to find out theirs only 1 full group, with 2 other people on the waiting list to join it.

Dono it would take alot of sales tax and increases in shipping charges to make the 7$ HDMI cable cost 89.99

500 insignificant choices like things such as fashion, taste, color, ect.

Example there are over 500 models of cars... but every car is nearly the same when it comes to the baseline capability's and function.

If i created a car that used pedals to steer,a leaver for throttle, and told you you could now only drive on the 4% of roads that support this car; i doubt i would sell very many.

Indeed... make the installer yourself! Much easier then double click and press next.

User: This is different and wierd...
Linux Dude: To bad.... just relearn everything,
Linux Dude: ... ya there?
Linux Dude: hmm guess he went to google it.
Linux Dude: Yep this the is year of linux....

And there are people who aren't ignorant and understand that taste is subjective.

I use visual studio for my hobby side stuff and Eclipse for my everyday work. While its true eclipse is more portable and expendable. Its slow bloated and buggy compared to VS.