Building the deck is the part that takes skill. A good deck will have a high win/loss ratio. Playing the deck is largely procedural, although there usually are a number of decisions in the game you need to make based on an estimated probability of certain actions taken by your opponent. Play enough games to remove the random factors from the equation, and you can see how well your deck performs on average, and work to improve that.

Its a game for people who like spreadsheets.

I would strongly consider the possibility that, while overlap does exist, the console market is fairly distinct from the phone-gaming market.

Neither - they are right.

You must be new here.

In my experience, those shareholders that have voting rights are usually aware. Of course, if you invest in a fund, the fund is usually the shareholder, so even if you have voting rights you don't count.

You seem to be confusing the C&C network with the infection vector. This article is about hackers using twitter, etc, as a way to provide instructions to their botnets.

I can imagine how much more festive Christmas would be when in place of little blinky lights we have a nationwide raging inferno of conifers.

Someone is too young to remember the Voyager spacecraft ...

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

Cat5e works for gigabit networking. Unless you are trying to go faster than that (10GBASE-T), you don't need to pay the extra for Cat6.

*House catches fire, burns down*

Boy, this wood shed sure is awesome.

While I am not the person you replied to, I believe I can help you interpret his post. Basically, he seemed to be saying that most of the iPhone apps/games/etc could be just as easily implemented in flash and stuck on a webpage somewhere. If the iPhone could run flash, then popcap (for example) would simply host its own games, keep all of its tasty revenue and Apple wouldn't get its 30%.

You teach him how to build robots, of course.

True, but they do make money off of your data. I'm pretty sure they will go to great lengths to protect their source of revenue.

Having just gotten into the beta, and played through a chunk of what you have just described, I concur. They do state that they are "disconnected" borg, but still ... its a pretty strange way to open the series. I haven't been able to finish, however, due to server disconnects. They could potentially salvage this if it were to turn out to be a holodeck simulation, though.

Get one or two beefy graphics cards in there and you will start sucking close to (if not more than) 400 watts.