I also loved Crysis in stealth mode. However, the alien section was nowhere as good... On both the original and expansion.

I felt the same way about Crytek's first game - Far Cry. I didn't like the monster section at all.

I have a Nokia N95, which now has free maps and navigation. However, since Nokia wants their installer to communicate with your cell phone (instead of, for example, just giving me the files to copy to the phone), I was unable to install the new version - it simply fails to talk to the phone on my computer.

Also, on my N95 the GPS is sometimes pretty awful and unable to get a signal for LONG times.

There is the slightly worse factor that for many MMORPG, they have to pay monthly. At least for Farmville (never played the other Zynga games), you only have to pay if you want to, or if you feel you need the cute extras.

I don't really see such a distinction from regular downloadable games and online games like Farmville... The only real difference is that Farmville is much better geared toward making you invite more people. Many of the "regular" games have now started to monetize on extras, although most try to avoid giving obvious advantages for players who spend more money.

I imagine that in the case of RTS, the extra screens could be better used with auxiliary screens (such as construction and stats) and data (as they already do with some WOW add-ons and Supreme Commander).

I'm not sure if it was Supreme Commander, but I remember one RTS where you could point to a place and make a mini-screen out of it, so you could keep an extra screen with your base, the enemy's base, etc.

I tried a Philips 37'' 1920x1080 LCD last year. It was pretty awful. It was hard to keep focus and it looked much worse than my (several years old) monitors.

I'm back to my dual 22'' monitors. Not that I didn't plan to keep a secondary monitor anyway - there is no comparison on the total resolution as well as just putting windows on the secondary monitor. It is awesome for developing software.

I've also bought one of the new AMD cards to try 3 monitors for gaming eventually.

Yes, I didn't play multiplayer either but loved the single-player missions. I think I still played it through 3-4 years ago...

Every other MechWarrior style game I've ever played after felt childish in comparison.

It's a big step to presume that the user won't be able to just click on an Ignore button and continue. After all, that's how it works now on most security software, isn't it?

Small software producers already have to go begging the antivirus companies to whitelist their software when it hits one of their poorly made signatures. I've seen several cases where they get some random malware with a common software protection system and suddenly any software that uses that protection system shows up as a threat (I'm thinking of Armadillo right now, which had MANY instances of that, although WinLicense did once too).

The procedure depends on the AV vendor - they usually have some form to report false positives. I've had to report it twice for one of my apps (which uses Armadillo). In one case (can't remember the company) it was pretty fast, on the other (Symantec) it took like a month and was probably part of a general fix up...

Of course, if the company is the contractor's only client, the company has to fire them as soon as they know.

That gives the contractor a nice incentive to lie about it.

You might think that the contractor lying would be enough to keep the company safe. In a sane system, that would be true. But labor courts in Brazil are notorious on siding with employees even when it doesn't make sense.

I've even had a friend who lost a case where the judge admitted (off the record) that my friend (the employer) was right, but he was ruling in favor of the employee, since he was so poor.

I also seem to recall that the legislation that made a contractor with a single client legally an employee worked per a yearly period - so if someone worked for you for a few months, and then had no other clients within a fiscal year, he counts as an employee. I can't find a reference right now, though.

When I worked as a contractor in software development, I did a huge fraction of my work (like 95%+ in some years) for a single client.

They were pretty nice, paid on time, and had interesting work, so why wouldn't I?

In Brazil I think it's a little weirder - the employer may get in trouble if I'm only working for them. How can they be expected to know this is beyond me...