AH! At last, someone explaining it to me in simple terms.

The thing is, (and I do plan on giving some money to Wiki next week) the huge "personal appeal" banners are more intrusive than some small (but likely very well paying) adverts would ever be.

Most of the latter part of my childhood was spent playing Commander Keen, it was truly one of the best games I ever played. I adored it. That's really all I had to say, but I had to post just to say it. My Ubuntu login screen has Commander Keen as my user icon at work, I'd love to see the code released as OSS.

Chrome is pre-installed with Flash and Chrome also auto-updates.

While I agree that there is no reason fighting games shouldn't be on the PC, there is clearly very little want for them, Capcom dropped the game from PCs because people just didn't buy it which had nothing at all to do with fragmentation. I still can't think of a PC developer that has complained about fragmentation and then dropped the PC to develop totally for consoles, Bungie is the only one I can think of that intended for their game to be on PC but ended up elsewhere and again, that had nothing to do with fragmentation.

typo, was meant to read - *how you can say it WAS working out of the box* Proof read Monkey, proof read.

It was EVE Online, and I agree it was pretty cool that it worked at all on a Mac or Linux but hack job or not it didn't work out of the box, I'm not even sure how you can say it wasn't working out of the box because mine, well, wasn't working out of the box. I can't even remember the last Windows game I played that didn't work out of the box, I have a feeling it was Everquest II, and that was a day one MMO release. The point being, not that I'm a Windows fan or a Mac hater (because I'm not, far far from it) but statements that "if you buy a game for Windows... it never works out of the box" and "if you buy a game for the Mac, guess what, it works out of the box" are basically, utter lies. Even if the limited number of Mac games I've played ALL work out of the box (and maybe they mostly all do), it still doesn't make "Windows games never work out of the box" true. As a matter of fact, the whole reason my gaming machine is still Windows and the rest of my life is Linux is because I can stick a DVD in the drive, install the game and be playing it without any messing. The days where I had to hack at my autoexec.bat in DOS just to get a game to start are long long ago.

The last... 50 or so (random number)... Windows games I bought, all worked out of the box. The last 1 Mac game I tried to play, didn't.

Who have moved exclusively to consoles? Who are these "many"? Crytek, ID, Infinaty Ward and Epic have all started supporting consoles but none have packed up and moved to over exclusively.

I'm 33 and I know full well I want to live forever, I've not even come close to doing all the things I want to do and I never will. There isn't much I wouldn't do to be given a life span that never ends, or even doubles what I will likely have (bar eating babies livers and kitten paws of course). You're right though, we are just massive sacks of crap, it honestly bothers me that we can't all just get the fuck along and work our crap out. If we'd woken up to ourselves after WW2 I have no doubt by now we'd be living on Mars, sending all our rubbish into the sun for the cost of a modern bus ticket and if this topic is anything to go by, living till we're 150. *Disclaimer, I'm probably exaggerating.

God I'd kill for a new, well done, Commander Keen game.

Not trolling you or anything (ha what a way to start a post), but there isn't really anything that shocking about Porsches being overtaken by a BMW M5. That said, I totally agree that the driver was the one that made the difference and made it look easy.

To be fair, if it was REAL 3D, with crap leaping out of the screen at me and I didn't have to sit with a pair of glasses that slowly start to annoy me (and after a while the 3D effect starts to fade on me), then I'd maybe give a shit.

And only one of those sides started a war based on that agenda driven manipulation. Which isn't to say wilful ignorance of any sort is fine, just that this time at least, there have been dire consequences.

Because if Macs were so easy to hack, as well as all being sat without anti-virus software, I'd pick the easy target for what is still a good 90 million user base. Not only that, but the perk points for writing the first real wide scale OSX virus would be worth it, alone. I'm only willing to listen to this "there are more Windows machines than OSX machines" argument for so long, OSX was released in 2002 and yet there is still nothing. Sure if there was one or two viruses out there I'd see your point, but nothing? No viruses at all?