John Romero and his e-p33n.

Yeah - This is the chief reason these systems are being developed. If a boat is carrying weapons there are far more rigorous checks and procedures in order to dock at trading ports, which is why, although for completely sensible reasons, cargo ships will not carry weapons. Its not really about good guys vs. bad guys, in the end it is just red tape.

More importantly, it didn't have carburettors.

Unfortunately, yeah. Atkinson, the aforementioned AG lives in an absolute backwater shit hole, who will continue to vote him in for a long time. He has a stupidly high approval rating in his electorate, with a safety margin of around 15-20% (Don't quote me on that one, not entirely certain). The vast majority of Australians really do want a harmonised rating system, but one little inbred shit hole has decided otherwise.

Good point here - but some if this is to do with what the user is used to. OO and MS Office 2003 are about on par for me in terms of UI, but I cannot stand 2007 though. I think the same will go for allot of users who grew up/started using the more orthodox 9x-03 interface - lets hope Adobe shoots itself in the foot like that ;p. Howevr, the Photoshop point remains valid, all the photoshop users I know can't stand gimp, but the inverse is true for gimp users (speaking as one of them). Essentially, as OSS applications begin to gain significant minority usage, this will become less of a problem.

Due to the cost of labour - even with reduced/eliminated corporate taxes - it is unlikely any major manufacturers would look to the U.S as a viable option. However, that is not to say it would not help save existing production/factories. What corporate tax cuts would certainly help is job security. Without payroll tax, employees are suddenly much, much less expensive to keep. This is far more effective then bailouts, as it means employees are no longer viewed as such great liabilities whereas bailouts simply don't allow the companies to learn from their mistakes; subsidizing them will only reinforce poor business models, as will protectionism.

That vote also goes towards pricing games so high at launch. If less people bought games that were overpriced, the industry would start to pay attention - particularly if Steam sales started to skyrocket as broadband becomes cheaper.

I gotta agree with you here - It talks about the install speed, and then it's said the areas that are actually competitive are bits that most users don't care about. How many windows users actually install the OS themselves? And does install time really matter - after all, its a one-off thing... unless windows shits itself...which it usually does...

Quite a while back from now, I took a look at the feature list. There was a _lot_ more then Paintball mode in the pipe.