HA! Excellent! I also had a BP6, but with 533's. Then I learned how nice having a bigger L2 cache is, got burned by terrible Creative drivers that couldn't deal with SMP, and switched off to a P3-800EB. Ahh memories.

Nitpick... back in the day, we oc'd those bad boys to 450. The 300's were 66MHz bus * 4.5 multiplier; they mostly all moved nicely to the 100MHz bus to get a 450MHz chip with tiny cache. Still, cheaper than a P2-450 or P3-450 at the time.

Doesn't that, then, speak volumes about Ubisoft?

Because the material is extremely porous?

That's why I loved my (486) DX-33. Built-in FPU! Thanks for the memories.

Didn't they already do a fair portion of the work with the PS3 port? It *had* to be OpenGL, necessitating redoing the engine (or just updating their old OpenGL renderer). However, I heard it was not very good on the PS3. Given the time that passed, I'd bet they used the PS3 engine as a jump-off point and have been optimizing heavily, around OpenGL 2.1 and 3.0 I'd bet. No coincidence 10.6.3 is supposed to have OpenGL 3.0 support.

Regarding the two droids holding hands, the impression I've gotten so far is that it relates to (1) the Glados personality overall (2) emotions and their presence in robots and (3) the mentions repeatedly by the Aperture Science CEO in decoded messages saying basically "no witchcraft!".

I think the computers (Glados) as well as androids (if that's what they are) have some rudimentary emotions established through "witchcraft". What we don't know is what "witchcraft" literally means in this context.

Yep, the host already caved. Wikileaks is already mirroring the document; I don't want to hotlink the PDF and melt their servers :)

Is it free to make calls from Skype, to a landline? Last time I looked it cost money. But you are correct -- the MagicJack box is just a generic rebranded USB-to-VoIP box and works perfectly with Skype.

What, no puffery?

Carbon sequestration is a joke. For instance, there is a power plant in WV that recently started capturing CO2. You know how much they capture? Less than 1% of total CO2 emissions. Maybe in the future it will be better, but it is no solution now.

They did get common in the past few years, but since they don't melt snow like good ol' incandescent, colder northern climates are probably dumping them cheap :)

Maybe you would enjoy Torchlight? It's made by a bunch of former Blizzard folks, and is a very good Diablo clone. It doesn't have the same dark feel; it's slightly more cartoony, but still good. Definitely a good stop-gap until Diablo3.