Quantity matters too. You're not getting millions of tons of the gas in each livestock establishment. Granted the distribution across area could still be similar, but it may be easier if it's leaching from reservoirs in the ice...

You want to explain why you lose DLC functionality, even temporarily, when you can't connect to their servers and the date is messed up? You really think that their services will exist forever? Hate to break it to you, but for all the complaints about DRM and players rights on this site, this is an example of where it's significant.

Actually, you lose some non-net based functionality as well. All my downloaded add-on content is fubared at present, free or paid. This is a pretty significant loss.

If the issue really is with one dude, you never know, splinters have a way of getting squeezed out.
Disney had the same problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Eisner
It resolved itself.

They got the slap on the wrist good and early. They're turning it around. Wonder how much noise it will take to get Activision back into shape.

Last games by Activision I really enjoyed were Earthworm Jim, Civilization II, and Tony Hawk II (stopped playing the series after that).
Heck, gotten more use out of a free bottle opener from them than any of these games combined.

Wonder if they'd be up to push trademarks on this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_(interactive_novel)

no, but if that's the case, maybe it's time they did pick one.

wow, somehow I've missed these O_o

Thanks for the links!

Sounds like a nice sane approach.

Have you considered posting your list online? I'm sure it would help even techie converts to Ubuntu out when getting started.

I'm finding the vast majority of issues I've run into trying to setup a Linux box is getting partition sizes right on the first try. The documentation I've found for this online is fairly dated, and re-partitioning is not something that should be done on a regular basis.

Just a thought.

Design patterns are useful, but if you can't arrive at the need for them on your own, and assume that every piece of code written must be fit into the patterns you know of, you overlook some fast and powerful solutions. Granted, there's always a risk of vastly increasing clutter in systems that don't make proper use of design patterns. I agree with the sibling post in that there is value in not knowing them first, but learning them after you've recognized walls that are difficult to tackle.

Unless you're able to transfer more energy in this fashion than it takes to measure the system, I neither see a useful purpose to this information, nor any uniquely distinguishing characteristic that would make your comment on consistent histories invalid. If the universe is actually allowing for the transmission of energy through an entanglement, I expect this will get rather entertaining.

If nothing else, reading this post made me smile.

As to your on-topic post, well written and I agree whole heartedly.

I think what you've hit on is key here.
You grew up in a place that had an availability of silence.
Your MIND developed with the ability to function in the presence of it, and when you need to concentrate, you return to it.

City mouse/Country mouse. Ask one of your friends who needs music to function where they grew up.

I find that the music (or silence) I need is very closely dependent on the language I'm working in.
I've also found that the music tends to be similar to what I was listening to when I learned the language.

My typical mix is video game music, jazz, rock, etc... but across the board, no English lyrics.
And nothing that sounds like grinding metal (too many remixes love that sound >_).

still applies, you can resell a PC game, provided you remove it from your machines and give up the license. Read some of the licenses. They're trying to set a precedent that this is illegal, when it REALLY is not. If enough people think there's something wrong to it, they've made it fact. Nice trick, right.

So anyone that doesn't buy the game in the original shrink wrapped packaging is now a pirate? Man, EB Games and Game Stop make half their profits off used games. How about Play and Trade?

Am I missing something here? Is it no longer legal to sell the original copy of something you purchased?

In the same breath, the DLC model still works in this situation as well and, provided the original game is worth playing, can potentially keep a game fresh for a while.

Excellent find,
I'm sure the author is relishing in the Streisand Effect right now.
How far down the page was Go! two days ago if you googled the name?