I've been playing these games since Morrowind. Oblivion was nice and so are the Fallouts (3, Zeta, Vegas, etc). My gripe is that their current engine is terrible still. Moving to a new engine when they haven't fixed the old one does not inspire confidence. Time will tell. I'll still buy it though, cause I's Luvs Dragons.

I'm pretty sure that box cost a heck of a lot of Doll Hairs when you bought it. Send it to me - I'll take it off your hands. I still have a quadra 68000 plugged up. I will give it a good home. :)

The Gov't won't be able to match the creative methods of free exchange that will develop as a result of their tinkering. The harder they squeeze, the more people will resist. They can't monitor everyone at all times. You have the control - you who digs deeper than most.

"I am a Snowflake, and though I am only one, I am one."

Just a suggestion, but the MACs will allow for both operating systems to run on the same machine (and with parallels, etc both at same time). In the programming world, having a wide array of devices to test on would be better. Like when I write html/css etc. I don't only test on IE and call it a day. I have to test with a number of different browsers and OSs to make sure it looks and works for everyone. Given the education discount for Apple and the fact you still have XP licenses (as long as you remove from old machines) you may have the best of both worlds.

What of Donuts?!? That's great. (Sisters-in-law dead, fancy house, new luxury car, ... Marge, pass me the donuts - what are donuts? AHhhhhhhh) One of my favorites. Bump*

***AHeM *** Flying spaghetti monster.

...all I'm saying.

My country has its money produced by the same international banking system as the rest of the world; with obvious name differences. The Federal Reserve IS completely as you described. "OUR" money only steals value from previously created money and has no real worth. We do pay more and receive less everyday - in fact: 50 years ago, $1 was equal to about $25 today and this trend continues with every bail-out and loan approved. US money institutions were destroyed in 1913 by allowing the practice of Fractional Reserve Banking.

If you want to make the point that stealing is OK, then please say that, because your analogy isn't so much a what-if but rather a what-is.

This driver update is probably why my 9600 GT popped 2 caps a couple of weeks ago. How lame is this? My card is no longer under warranty and it popped due to badly written/tested drivers. Oh well, I went out and bought an ATI 5 series. DirectX 11 and AvP is a pretty good combo. Thanks Nvidia!

I've been reading a lot of these posts and I can't help but click on TPB and notice all new titles for the PC, XBOX, and PS3. I'm not much for Socialism in gaming, but I can't be upset with a company for trying to protect its products and offerings. Sure, someone may be pissed that they can't play unless their online - however, as someone else suggested, you don't HAVE to buy the game.

Remember when Half-Life 2 came out on Steam, and how no one could play, even when online? I was one of the affected "no internet available" people who couldn't play at first. I had to hook my PC up at the parents house and wait for it to update. This did piss me off at the time, but I still love Half-Life 2.

You wouldn't be upset if your parents put a security system in their home. So, why be pissed that UBI Soft wants to make some scratch off their work? Can't blame them.

Just take a look at the below link (be careful, TPB is filled with Nasties) and put yourself in the developers shoes.

Pirate Bay Top 100 PC Games

You want to move the family to a new Linux Distro - Mint and Ubuntu are very nice, easy to install, and have a nice array of included/installed software. You can use dual boot with an old XP partition and show them how to load their old files.

If they want to just surf, watch videos, type papers, etc. then Ubuntu/Mint is a great choice.

If they want to play games on the PC, then Windows 7 is the best choice.

If they want a terrible headache-PITA, then OSX86 may be the ideal choice (it's not, lol).

If they want to add/subtract/multiply/divide, then a TI-36 Calculator is probably for them.

Give them the choice, and show them the +/- of each. Although, if you show them Compiz effects they'll be hooked like I was some 5 years ago.

Howdy, I worked with AT&T/Cingular right at the release and that is when "it" happened. From what I was told, AT&T reduced the range of their network to make data transmission more "reliable" for the iPhone, and in so doing, they pissed off a number of end users. We had so many complaints from people about their service no longer working in their homes, work, etc. I was there for the switch to 3G in OH and though the service is fast, the batteries don't last (heh); my phone(s) would be dead with very limited surfing. Oh well, maybe AT&T will rebrand again - back to Cingular and become completely Open Source... and monkeys might flight out of my butt. Bye iPhone.

GE stole their "ideas" from Tesla.
Wireless charging devices are just now becoming a viable solution.
Tesla was working towards creating that 75 years ago.

We are a stupid species that creates worth from nothing and fears change.
Don't worry, there is someone in a basement coming up with the "NEXT" big idea that has potential to change the world, though, it will be burried.

Nobody wants free energy... how would they keep their stranglehold on society ?
We'll be burning fossil fuels for a long, long time.

Scapegoat much?
Jeez man, you sound like Hitler.

NOTE:
All politicians are evil, not just the republicans.
All religions are questionable, and their motives are that of any major power: control the people.

Blaming the "jews" for the problems of the world just makes you a small-minded bigot. I blame the problems of the world on you. It's your fault - (this statement makes as much sense as yours does).

My hate knows no limitations.
I am an equal opportunity hater.
All powers are evil, don't fool yourself.