I think Kijiji is more popular outside the US than inside in general.

Amen to that - no contract on either my T-Mobile to go phone or my Dish Network. After doing this for a couple years, friends and family have taken note and are now doing the same.

I love how their review of Fennec makes brief mention that they had no problems crashing it, yet they still give it a favorable review in the summary.

eBay doesn't own the protocol, so you'll have to go to Joltid if you want that portion open sourced.

MS-DOS beat PC-DOS NT3.5 beat OS/2 Heck, you can argue that MS SQL Server is beating DB2 If I were choosing a side in this fight, I'd stick with Microsoft...

AMD's high end graphics (the 5870) far surpass the offerings from nVidia.

Mine is: 12345

The problem with multimedia is the reason I went back to Windows Vista as well. HDMI video and sound out was effortless and flawless in Windows. With Linux, it was hours of mucking around to get it "kind of working".

The original $2.6B was not the full purchase price. There was still a later portion to be paid out based on performance, which ended up being about $500M I believe, putting the total price around $3.1B.

I think intel's Core 2 architecture jump, coupled with the plummeting memory prices, have really changed the upgrade cycle. I got the upgrade bug since my machine is 2 years old, but the component I ended up upgrading was to an IPS monitor. Next might be an SSD drive - my Core2Quad Q6600 is still handling all my needs otherwise. Even games don't force you to upgrade anymore because of two reasons:

1. Valve, Blizzard, and EA (with the Sims franchise) showed there is a lot more money to be made if you cater to the low end of midrange computers.
2. The Xbox 360 is so old that cross platform games can generally be ported over to mainstream class PCs with decent developers.

No, it shouldn't. I'm a techie who spent lots of time getting a Gentoo install running great on my Inspiron 1525, specifically built with all Intel hardware (wifi and video) knowing that their drivers were the best. Made a wiki for it and everything (it eventually got nuked when gentoo-wiki was lost, but that's another story). Then, one day after fidgeting with xrandr and various related tools to get HDMI output to my TV working properly, I gave up. I backed everything up because I was afraid of permanently giving up, then I went to Vista. And you know what? Everything worked. Things that I didn't know that didn't work in Linux worked just fine in Vista. Examples: - My sound outputs properly and didn't detect my two laptop speakers as the "surround sound" speakers. This would also change on different kernel releases due to new drivers in ALSA. - Both of my headphone jacks worked. I always assumed one was just busted since it was a refurb, but nope, they both work fine in Vista. - My wifi activity light doesn't blink off and on ever 3 seconds. I had to hunt down that kernel parameter to fix that in Linux. - My second output correctly detected my TV resolutions - no more stretching 4:3, I had actual 16:9 output at 720p resolutions finally. Don't get me wrong, there are some things I miss about Linux and I understand almost all of the above problems are driver problems, but they are still real problems that aren't fixed and won't be for a while. It still remains that *in my opinion* Windows is a better choice than Linux on a laptop for just about anyone except those who can't run Microsoft programs for religious reasons. For the record, my battery life is roughly the same between Vista and Linux, although I do feel that I got slightly longer life out of my Linux install.

Hmm, I've recently started having to do this and didn't realize it was a known problem. Thanks for the heads up.

PayPal is now so ingrained in the eBay experience that you are probably costing yourself more in auction than you are saving in PayPal fees. I know a lot of buyers do not bid on auctions that don't accept PayPal - they are so few and far between that they almost look like a scam now.

Supporting your cause: Top selling games by platform, comparing PC vs XBOX360 The Sims (PC) - 16 million The Sims 2 (PC) - 13 million World of Warcraft (PC) - 12 million Starcraft (PC) - 11 million Half Life (PC) - 9 million Halo 3 (360) - 8 million Half Life 2 (PC) - 6.5 million (does not include sales on Steam, which Valve doesn't release) Guild Wars (PC) - 6 million Myst (PC) - 6 million The Sims 2: Pets (PC, expansion pack) - 5.6 million Gears of War (360) - 5 million PC Gaming looks pretty dead - selling too many copies to stay alive! The Cake is a Lie!