You don't do much travel in Europe then do you?

Ryan air, takes unbundling and hidden costs to a new level, even charging as much as 40 Euros to "print" your ticket for you if you didn't print it at home. And then the flight is like one long advertisement from the moment you take off until you land, only allowing 1 carry on of any type (not the usual Carry on + personal item (purse/laptop/brief case etc...)

EasyJet, Wizz Air, and German Wings, while slightly better aren't much better. And the big name brands aren't all that far off either.

Since when?

Now if you want you can use ActiveStates PPM application, which doesn't contain everything in CPAN) But you can always download the original module from cpan, and make/compile/build it for your version of windows. And it's no more difficult than configuring it for unix/linux barring you have the proper utilities.

Now you will probably need a Windows compatable make program, such as nmake (ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe).

If it's an XS module, or something else that uses C, you might need to have a C compiler, but again tat's no different than if you were running it in unix.

The only other roadblock, is if the module developer used non-portable coding practises (such as fork) that don't work on Windows. But you're not going to be able to use that module regardless of what Perl build you use on windows.

Not sure if they video taped it (if they have they haven't posted it yet) but on a podcast they talked about putting it back together.

Suprisingly, it almost worked, it booted up, showed the apple logo for a split second, and then died.

iPads can be taken apart.

http://www.tested.com/ipad-autopsy-video-we-take-apart-an-ipad/47-24/

You're right for most people, they probably don't care, which is why the Game presents it in basic terms.

But, if you're on of the ones that truly cares, all of that information is in plain text format (marked up in XML) in the /Assets/XML/GameInfo directory. (You can even change it if you want).

The file that addresses the changes in difficulty specifically is: CIV4HandicapInfo.xml

But also realize that some of these factors are also modified based on world size, and turn speed as well. (Possibly some other things that I've forgotten as well).

I know Civ3 and Alpha Centauri had similar files, and If I remember correctly, I beleive even Civ2 stored all of this information in text files that could be modified.

Which is one of the reasons that the various Civ's have always been so modable.

That's actually kinda of what they did to create Alpha Centauri.

Initially, Firaxis didn't have the rights to the Civilization franchise, so they made the same game set in space, made some slight changes to the gameplay, and used graphics that were impossible to view if you were color blind.

Code can be poetry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl

EA realized this and as of June of 2009, all new games will not have software DRM and replaced it with a cd key check.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/06/eas-new-motto-please-pirate-our-games-er-storefronts.ars

Burn out Paradise, is the poster boy for free Downloadable Content (which is all that time you're spending updating the game).

After the game came out, it seemed like every other month I was hearing about some new free DLC. Including a few very significant updates like the Bikes pack.

For nearly the first year all DLC was given away for free. Yes, eventually they started offering paid for DLC but they have given away as much, if not more, and definately more than most any other company.

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/WATCHBLOG/60115

Is a story about the white guy with the gun in question.

The solution I've found to play with friends is to use the Public Test realms when they are up.

Now, obviously this isn't a perfect solution.

1. It only works when the PTR is up.
2. You have to co-ordinate ahead of time with all of your friends to do it.
3. You don't get to transfer anything back to your main.
4. Still doesn't help if you and your friends play different factions.

> Also, doors should be always pulled when you go in and pushed when you go out.

Depends where you live.

If you live in climates that have heavy snowfall, and your door only opens out, you're probably going to get locked in on occasion.

Hopefully now that actual citizens of East Texas are being targeted, the citizens will start to vote these types of judges out of office.

50 million sold with software sales of 200 million is hardly a failure

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=208211%3Fcid&skip=yes