I agree completely. As a casual MMO-gamer I find the work/reward system to be the most enjoyable part of WoW. The fact that there is always SO much to do in this huge landscape is what keeps me coming back.

Have a bad day at work where you feel you have been "grinding" for 8-10 hours and accomplished nothing? Hit a raid or daily and, poof, you just did something useful with your day (emotionally at least by comparison).

Some days I just like to sit around and fish for that damn turtle mount ... doesn't matter that I haven't gotten it yet. It was the same for the TLPD. Until you happen upon it by chance and you get really excited because you haven't actually seen it in 2 years of playing the game.

So, personally, I love the new content. Have always enjoyed the background music for many of the zones (even bought the soundtrack a few years back). The back stories are engaging and the characters/NPC's you meet are often hilarious.

And speaking of grinding ... go for Insane in the Membrane and THEN complain to me about grinding... sure, it's easier now that the Shen'dralar are gone ... not.

Wow... where to begin?

I would love for you to educate me on how Jews are insidiously infiltrating and controlling world politics considering the number of stone-age countries with outright mandates on Israel's destruction.

Please explain to me how Jews control the US economy (have you seen the US economy? whomever is in control is doing a crappy job).

I would love for you to explain to me how you came to the conclusion that is it the Jewish destiny to dominate the world militarily (seeing as Jews make up a tiny fraction of the world population)...

I can recall maybe one or two extremist Jews that resorted to violence to make their point. I never hear of Jewish suicide bombers killing dozens of innocent non-Jews because their "leaders" told them that they would be rewarded in the afterlife or that their religious doctrine says it's OK to commit mass murder...

Speaking as a Jew ... I only have contempt for idiots like you and religious zealots who can only speak the language of violence. Obviously why you are posting anonymously (or trolling).

IS it just me or does the logo (when rotated 45 degrees) resemble a HazMat sign?

http://www.compliancesigns.com/nfpadiamonds.shtml

Valve's ability to make available popular titles through Steam in many markets and their near non-existent DRM probably contributes to the decline in piracy of Valve titles. Sure you need to be logged into a Steam account to run them but some of those Steam games are actually free to play anyways.

I bought CS:GO yesterday and will continue to buy my games from Steam. Assuming that Valve follows through on their promise to make Linux ports of their games and I'll even support their efforts by buying extra copies for friends and family.

I have been running a small business since 2001 and have only ever used open source software for just this reason. No restrictive licenses equals no legal fees for software piracy.

I think, however, that Microsft and the BSA should be MORE aggressive in their pursuit of these heinous villains of industry. Maybe it will drive more businesses towards using F/OSS tools and ditch their shackles. Something very Marxian about it ....

I have 8 kids ... I don't think that being a computer programmer is why I'm sleep deprived ...

Hell! I would LOVE to ONLY get 7h of sleep ... I think 6h is a more realistic target.

Just as I was feeling nostalgic for OMNI magazine and it's "How to tell if you are an alien" questionnaire...

He means, and this is my assumption, that running Java applications on the desktop via the JVM is no less secure than running natively compiled code on the desktop. Perhaps a better definition of where the security "holes" are located and/or transported would be a more enlightening discourse (applets? browser JVM integration? JNLP?)

For what it's worth that is not a Java problem ... it's an "idiot programmer for Dell writing bad code in Java" problem by requiring a specific version with no upgrade path. I have a number of Java applications that were written using the 1.4 JDK that will run without problem on the current 1.7 JRE.