Thats why I call my recurring postings to the internet my Biary, or weB dIARY.
It's equally as stupid, but different!

Out of curiosity, when chronologically was this? I know I was building customized Internet Explorer 4 browsers using an NT 4 IEAK back in '98.
I'm sort of vaguely remembering a comparable feature involving Netscape about then, also?
By the way. I still think IE4 didn't suck in comparison to the competition when it came out. As a matter of fact, I would say that about Microsoft in general up until mid/late 2000. They got really squirrelly about then.
Evil and monopolistic, sure. but in a useful way.

I had a contract in late 2006 that involved doing a presentation on suggested purchases for a [ahem] undisclosed branch of the u.s. government.
Part of it involved providing a truly mobile office using the Palm TX; a video was made of a guy walking into a airplane bathroom with a small case, whipping out a TX (in a titanium case), a bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth headset, his cellphone (for the uplink via bluetooth), a 10" pentax pocketjet bluetooth printer, for some unknown reason a WiFi camera, and a couple of other weird Palm gadgets.
The video was very popular, and I think Some Other Agency might have used it, but as for the original contract, it was a no-go. because the Palm TX did not have an easily changeable battery; which is something you would have really needed after about 1 hour with all that juice being sucked out via Bluetooth and WiFi. So palm lost out on a multimillion dollar contract. And I stayed retired.

Flamebait? really? Apparently you are dead-on about the fanboys.
OK. if you are talking about the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1, it came out in Oct. 2008; Palm TX was early 2006.
The screen is bigger. well, it's over 2 years newer. Score +1 Xperia after it was released, but before that, score +infinity palm.
it's got more RAM. But it runs windows, so how much of that can you actually use? score: indefinite
It doesn't have a infrared port. this is not really a big deal. Score +0.1 palm
It DOES have a decent camera; this IS a big deal. Score +1 Xperia
it's got a faster processor. But once again, it's running windows. score +0.1 Xperia
I don't really see much about the browser, but the Palm has Blazer and Opera. score +1 Xperia
the Xperia has a FM radio. Ok. score +0.1 Xperia
Since I was postulating a Palm TX with a phone, we can't really compare on that.
I think there is a major strategic advantage with the palm running Palm OS as opposed to Windows Mobile, if for no other reason than for the tens of thousands of free Palm apps that are out there. But I'm biased, so I won't award points either way.
oops, one more thing: Price. Xperia=lowest listed price $539 Palm (without phone, $299; with some cheap phone guts, add $50? that sound fair?) $350. Score +1 Palm.
The results: Xperia pre 2008: 0 points. Palm TX Pre 2008: all the points. After Xperia release: 2.2 points Palm TX: 1.1 points.
So, I will concede to you that the Xperia is better than my hypothetical Palm TX with Cellphone guts would be, here and now.
Something I do take exception with: that Palms were never cool. Palms were cool as HELL as soon as the first one with a color screen that could run emulators was released; Palm just really sucked at advertising.
And, in case you just aren't aware of what a Palm TX can do, here is what mine is set up for: VoiP using a bluetooth headset. Watching TV via Wifi using MobiTV. e-books, everything except .lit format. e-mail. SMS. Scummvm emu, emulation of any game console up to the PS2. Google Maps. AIM. ICQ. full ms-office compatibility. Java applets. Full media player, any format audio or video. the browsers (blazer & opera) suck, but they do work. iTunes integration. Comix reader. Quake, doom, freeciv, tons of other "mainstream" games. on mine, a full iPhone emulation shell that lets me make phone calls through my (hidden) cheap blutooth phone, mainly to freak people out.
I got a Motorola Q in early 2007, and kept it up until mid 2008, so I'm pretty familiar with Windows Mobile; it doesn't suck. But if the Palm TX had released a version with an integrated phone in late 2005, I never would have bothered. Instead they came out with the Palm Treo, which as the success of the iPhone shows us, was overall a bad idea.

I asked my MOM (damn you, failure to spellcheck), she didn't remember it, and said she thinks the barn burned down 20+ years ago. which is a real shame, because it had a complete whitesmith setup.
She did, however, say that her uncle, who's barn it was, had married a woman from San Morino who was allegedly some form of minor nobility (seems to be a thing in my family), which was why his farm was gigantic; it's not totally improbable that some weird instruments were hanging up.
Or, it could have been a horse dildo.

Careful. I'm not sure exactly how, but I'm pretty sure you can get in trouble for walking in a different direction than the herd like that.

My feelings on this: I have a Palm TX. I've had it since they were released, early 2006. it works perfectly, original battery last for 6+ hours of constant use. If Palm had released a version with a built in Cellular phone, iPhone's would have made no where near such a splash.
Even today, a Palm TX with an integrated phone would have a better feature set that 99% of the currently existing smartphones.
I wonder, can you use a bluetooth keyboard with a iPhone?

I really don't want to say anything, But I would swear i remember seeing one of those hanging on the wall of my great-uncle's barn 35 or so years ago; the barn is in Extreme Rural Tennessee, so you could imagine my surprise.
I'll see if I can get my mm to investigate.

OK, my confession: I saw the original promo video for The Sims on a SimCity CD (the same one that had the Sim Mars video), and I've been playing it ever since. Every expansion for Sims 1. Every expansion for Sims 2, except for apartment life.
I play it for about 3 months, then not at all for 6-9. I get fed up with it. My kids play it about once a week, and have since they could figure out mouse buttons.

As to your question: you can kill your family. You can do it the way other people mentioned, or with mods; there are guns, overcharge tasers, poisons, etc. you can have a satellite come down and hit some one, or have a plague break out in a house killing everyone there.

As to the sex with the dog thing: I haven't seen it, except of the "furry" type. You can have sex with any other human type of sim, and people have developed custom animations, like they did in Sims 1, to cover every aspect of human sexuality, from bondage, whip play, to threesomes. There are mods to have a profitable Sex club business with functioning hookers, stripper poles, etc.

Nuke...nope. I can't see the game being moddable in that way. I have been very surprised that no one has come up with a fight-club type mod; I can easily see that working.

A LOT of this type of stuff was developed for making Machinima, but I would imagine most of it is because people are perverted.

The Sims 3 WILL have all this stuff, also, sooner or later. There are just toooo many people who will have copies of the game to not have a high percentage of Deviant coders.

So, 700k at best, $60 a month, and a Cap does exist, but you are not sure what it is, which means you probably haven't hit it.
I guess I'll stick with my HomeGrown Wisp; 300k is average, and I'm absolutely certain there is no cap.

I also live in the boonies; up until 3 years ago i was relying on ISDN, then a WISP startup came along and I'm getting, on average, 300k for $40 a month (considering that the tower is 7 miles away, I don't consider that too terrible..
I would gladly pay more for decent internet, but every time I've checked with the 2 cell providers for the area, Verizon and AT&T, it looks ridiculously expensive (like in the $150+ range) with bizarre limits; can you give me some idea of what you are paying? maybe I can trick Verizon into giving me a similar account, if it's reasonable.

OK, I don't understand, what exactly is your problem with this?

In case you are wondering, note the sig.

It's just a shame that Finland isn't the sort of haven that Sweden turned out to be, at least up until now; They would have never put up with this sort of interference

I would go ahead and cite references, links, older posts, etc. but I'm supposed to be watching a movie with my daughter in 15 minutes.
The army was essentially a "whatever the local person decides" for non-critical systems up until 2001 or so, at which time they started looking at the big picture; for instance it was declared a punishable infraction to put a XP system on a military network when it came out; it wasn't until Microsoft donated something like 3 million?(it might have been 3 million $ worth) licenses to the DOD that XP was allowed, around 2004?
But this... someone has seriously slipped a cog. I would love to get a share of whatever payoffs had to have been involved to let Vista on a DOD network; I refuse to think that NIST is so incompetent as to think this isn't going to at minimum double their overall support costs, and, I dunno, quadruple downtime? With windows all but admitting that Vista is total crap with the push for Windows 7, and the real possibility of a Windows 2008 server "workstation" version coming out, this is criminal.

I've been in the computer business for a loooooong time; the only time I've ever had a Power Supply take out anything in it's death throws was a Prism midrange system, which for about 10 minutes looked like it was possessed, arc lightning everywhere. Actually thought we were going to have to hit the Halon for minute or 2.
As to PC's, I've had them catch fire and not hurt anything. Stability problems sure.. in fact on a 6000+ PC WAN environment that was one of the stats I kept track of to give an indication of imminent (eminent? my son graduated HS tonight, I'm wiped) failure, but I've never seen one hurt anything, no matter the pricepoint. I have heard of it happening, but I've also heard of people running into Elvis at a carwash in Nashville.
Obviously if I was putting together a 101% uptime 911 sever i would invest in a top of the line PSU, but for a gaming PC? nah.

I dropped $1700 on my work laptop a couple of years back; an HP DV8230US. i wanted something that could do pretty much anything, either sitting at my home or in a Motel room when I'm on a contract. I spent the money I needed to spend.
However, my HOME systems, including my gaming system, are bargain bin; I get the cheapest parts i can get that WORK. My Gaming system has parts in it that date back to 1997 (It did have a Floppy from my 1993 386DX-40, but it died last year). I replace things as they break or are no longer capable of doing what I need them to do, at which point they trickle down to less powerful systems around the house. My latest purchase? My $30 Power Supply, which I bought in 2003, was getting flaky; I bought a new case and 480W Power Supply for $40 on sale, before that I got a deal ($15) on a PC3200 1gb RAM stick, to add to my 2 512mb PC2700; Before than, a 400GB SATA drive ($40) to replace a dead 40GB Maxtor IDE (from 2002), before that, I got a pair of Nvidia 6600 256mb AGP cards for $50 (for both) on Amazon, etc, etc.
I don't have problems running anything I want to run; i was a little nervous about SPORE (would it be the hardware? or another Windows 2000 installer block?), but absolutely no problems, whatsoever. I do have to run "Attack on Pearl Harbor" on the dualboot windows 2008, but thats it. If I was a FPS maniac, it might be different, but I doubt it.

My point: $40 for a PSU would be overpriced to me. and, since decades of experience has shown me that spending more money than you have to for components is foolish, I have to say it would probably be foolish for anyone who has the ability to swap out components at need, also.

I WILL have to spend some money soon, one of my productivity apps has come out with a 64-bit, multiprocessor AND GPU aware version, which means that my AMD XP3000+ will get to make my sons game system better, and I'll have to get a new motherboard & CPU(s), and might even consider getting a new video card. But it's giving up Windows 2000 thats gonna hurt; Windows 2008 Server (which, surprisingly, doesn't suck) is my next step (unless someone out there wants to slip me a copy of the fully developed but never released 64-bit patch for win2k?.....).

But as for the actual Topic... Sun Virtualbox, as of Jan 29th, 2009, has virtualized Hardware acceleration for both OpenGL and Direct3D. I have no idea what the requirements would be, or if 2 guests can do it at once.

And, I VERY CLEARLY remember doing this on a Win98SE system with 2 Voodoo cards back in 99, using only microsoft supplied software and no extra hardware aside from the extra mouse, keyboard and voodoo. but I can find no reference to this anywhere; I might break out an old Win98SE system and give it a try.