Y'know, I never got the appeal of Wired Magazine from the get-go. Seemed like entirely too much flash and not enough substance to keep me interested. The whole "oh, we're edgy" thing ran pretty thin rather quickly. I looked at the advert for the ipad app, and concluded that they perfectly captured the feel of the magazine: all show, no substance, and too fat for their own good.

I'm sure there will be a logical and rational explanation for why "Nibiru" didn't arrive until ~100 years too late (assuming it's even aware it has an appointment). :)

Just waiting for the Nibiru and Planet X quacks to say "See? We told you so!".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibiru_collision

Our local library does this. they have XBox 360, PS3, and Wii games available (I think PS2 as well, but not sure). It's definitely a great way to get folks into the library and see what else might be in there.

I once knew a guy who was a contract worker for 11 years. Contract positions can last for quite some time. What I hope New York doesn't do is hire all of their 5-year plan employees and then realize 4 years down the road that they'll have to graduate that class of employee all at once. Or maybe I do; I'm quite conflicted.

In any case, it's yet another indication that IT workers are considered a replaceable, interchangeable cog in the machine. Unfortunately, when your replaceable cogs are essentially your entire infrastructure, you'll have a hard time trying to get the new class of cog to know what the old cog was doing. Add to that a fatalistic sense from the old cog guard, and you have a recipe for one hell of a breakdown when you least can afford it.

Best of luck, New York; you're gonna need it.

There is one assuredly effective way to ensure this DRM scheme doesn't work, and that is to not buy the game. Period. It happened with Spore (although it unfortunately was pirated more than anything), but essentially if enough folks vote with their wallet, companies will stop doing this sort of crap - pure and simple.

Unless you LIKE that sort of thing, in which case, please make sure to pre-order it and buy as many copies as you need for you and your friends.

I'm not sure if anyone else has this problem with their local paper's website, but the advertising on it makes reading any article an exercise in frustration. Hover-ads, banner ads that would make anyone epileptic, links that bring up Netflix popups, and a scrolling ad that takes up half of the page. By the time one navigates the minefield to get to TFA, it's generally not worth the effort invested. If newspapers made their content available with less hassle and irritation, I'm sure more folks would click to read TFA.

After hearing there was a Linux version of EVE online, I decided to try it out using a free 7 day trial I found on PVP. After downloading the client and getting my registration in order, I entered my username and password and waited... ... and waited... ... and waited...

As far as I could tell, the client never would let me in, so I let my trial expire and moved on. I couldn't be bothered to pony up some cash for a subscription if their client wouldn't let me in. If others had the same experience as me, it's no wonder there weren't that many Linux players. I probably would have gotten my wife hooked on it as well, as she likes sci-fi. Unfortunately there's two less EVE Online customers, all because of a bad trial experience with a client that didn't even give me a taste of what it was about.

Sorry to hear it didn't work out for EVE Online, but not terribly surprised either.