If it comes to Linux via Steam, I'll have no excuse left.

That is if all of the goods have a fair price. Here from Wikipedia about antitrust law:

It can't be more predatory by giving them away.

Who was it that said, "You haven't really succeeded until the Department of Justice comes knocking on your door"? I seem to recall having read that back in the 90s, regarding Microsoft.

Anyway, congratulations Google. You've really made it now.

I wonder how many times the Barbra Streisand effect actually has a somewhat positive effect. Lets face it unless you're looking for game reviews you probably wouldn't have known about Escapist to begin with. However now with it on the front page of the news I am willing to bet quite a few people will head on over to check out the site. From the negative point of view a forum I never knew existed (and I go to the website weekly for a specific video review) banning a few users because admins decided they were talking about things that potentially cut off their main revenue stream doesn't register at all to me. I'll still go there, and probably still won't visit the forum I knew nothing about. But I'm sure someone will "discover" this site due to the Streisand effect.

Today I used a computer without adblock for the first time in months
I stopped at stared at the ads without realising they were ads.
They were so alien to me I couldn't comprehend why there was a picture of a fat woman on the screen which was ttoally irrelevant to what I was reading

the targets sued where smaller, near one man operations. Gawker is anything but.

403,000 frames
divided by 50 weeks
divided by 5 days a week
= 1,612 frames per day
divided by 8 hours
= 201.5 frames per hour
divided by 60 minutes
= 3.4 frames per minute

That's a hell of a lot of images to have to review every day just to keep up. Doesn't leave a lot of time for any editing or much of anything else. I realize some can be dismissed after one second of review, but still...

The reason to not talk about something when the publication is pending is to avoid having your work scooped by another researcher, not due to contract obligations with the journal.

The only time an academic researcher is free to talk about their work is once it has already been published and their name is permanently associated with the results.

Even in Texas, which is very much an "at will" state, there is some protection. It's a pretty uphill battle for an employer to show "for cause", especially for an employee who has been there for a while.

They can certainly fire you and try to keep you from getting unemployment but it will require a lot of work and expense.

Just offering you something for quitting instead of getting fired would sink their case and generally get them in hot water. Basically, they bluffed you into quitting.

According to TFA this research was part sponsored by the Department of Defence.

Rumours suggest hardened "Warrior Mice" will be deployed in the field sometime in 2012, possibly as ground support for the Reaper drones.

Those of us who don't yet hate mice will learn to hate them when they, along with their Reaper brethren, descend upon us.

Travian?

UUuuhh... another shiny browser based game... The cheer quantity of web based games with similar rules/mechanisms is just mind bogging.

For over a decade now there have been such games. Calling it Ultima doesn't make it better than all the other crapfest around.

They are defecating on the memories of those that were fond of the ultima franchise, and hoping to gain frm it, too.

This a very lame response to have taken 10 days for consideration. I think that if it happens again I would report it to Amazon at the very some time that I reported it to the FBI Cyber-crimes unit.

Wow, you mean a manual has a pedal for that and I have is a lousy Neutral gear?