Well, the minimum CPU requirement for Guild Wars is an 800 Mhz Pentium III. That was current when Guild Wars came out.

So yeah, overclocking something like that would probably have been reasonably common at the time.

The JavaScript effectively redirected all image requests to a proxy, with 'Press Alt-R to reload this image at full quality' as a mouseover text on everything. If you reloaded it, you'd get full quality.

It was really annoying, but less so than the current 'you get a recompressed image no matter what, ha ha.'

No, it's a latency issue; adding the forward makes interactivity horrible.

Actually transferring data is fine. I get between 1.2 and 2.1 megabit speeds most of the time.

It's a proxy alright, but it's handled transparently by the network, not by any proxy settings on my end here.

I have to define a system-wide proxy in order to get around it. It's very annoying.

I use Millenicom, who resells Sprint, and in my area Sprint started injecting JavaScript into every page that comes over HTTP to recompress all the jpegs to a much lower quality setting.

That, at least, I could block. Now they just recompress all jpegs that come over http to a horrible level. If I want to keep the internet from looking like ass, I have to use a secure tunnel. Which is obnoxiously slow on 3G.

(Unfortunately, there's nothing Millenicom can do about it. It's up to Sprint. And there's no opt-out.)

The problem with heat pumps is they're only good in places where it only gets 'sorta cold'. In places where it gets 'really cold', they don't work. Which is why they all have backup plain old electric resistance heaters.

I worked in a building that had a heat pump with a busted backup resistance heater, and it was effectively unheated for a good chunk of the year. We had to get portable heaters.

Yeah, but to use Steam you HAVE to have an active Steam account. You don't need to have an Xbox Live account to use an Xbox.

I know a lot of people who get a real kick out of Garage Band, iMovie, and iDVD. Delicious Library is pretty neat. The Mac version of iTunes is much less sucktastic than the Windows version. (It still blows, though. And I say that as a Mac user.)

... how much has the price of NeXT non-ADB keyboards jumped on eBay since this was posted?

... and anyone got one they want to let go cheap? I miss my black hardware keyboard.

Except that Apple Desktop Bus documentation won't be of much, if any, use decoding the NeXT keyboard bus.

Since they're not related in the least.

There are a lot of games that require Steam, even if you purchased them on disc at retail. You have to install Steam and have a Steam account to register and play them.

They use Steam as DRM. Having the physical disc doesn't actually matter. The only important thing in the game's box is the Steam license key.

These games tend to need Steam even if you bought them from Impulse or GamersGate or Amazon Downloads.

This is what they meant by 'games you bought elsewhere and which use our DRM'.

Flight Simulator X came out over six years ago. October 13, 2006.

What 'android dongle to hook up to the TV'?

I spent like $4 on a micro-HDMI to HDMI cable.

And GameStop has third-party PS3 controllers for under $30.

Though really, a lot of people interested in using a PS3 controller with an Android device probably already have a PS3 controller.

The Bard's Tale (actually, I think that's a port from the PC version - it has higher-res textures than the PS2 version.)

Grand Theft Auto III (same deal - looks a little sharper than the PS2 version though it has draw distance issues.)

Shadowgun THD and Mass Effect: Infiltrator both look great and play well.

Square-Enix has been rereleasing the Playstation upgraded ports of Final Fantasy games for Android. They don't push the hardware much, of course, but they're 'PS1 quality'.

And I had a really fun 'attack the castles' game I forget the name of. (I don't have my tablet handy.) Siegecraft HD, maybe? I remember it had standard and Tegra-optimized versions for sale.

An Xbox controller likely won't work. (They're not Bluetooth. Has anyone written a driver to use the USB ones?)

A Playstation 3 controller, however, will work just fine. In fact some Android games (like Grand Theft Auto III) natively support the PS3 controller, even handling the pairing for you.