I think an important thing people are overlooking is that not having walled gardens allows curious people to learn a few things. I for one knew just about nothing about technology when I had my first computer back in around 2000 (yes I'm young), but it was very interesting poking around the Math Blaster directory editing files in paint and being like O: this actually changed how things look in the game! Such things are hardly even possible (for people who don't know about extraction methods) in big games even on Windows since they compress everything into a few large binaries, and I'm sure having everything "just work" would dampen a lot of learning. Sure it's nice that things just work but things already seem to be dumbing children down enough with TV and schools as it is...

When I read the question I already knew what to look for, and I can't believe it was missed lol. $100 gfx card can mean the difference between 7 fps and 100 fps in a game. No (reasonable) amount of RAM or CPU upgrades can do what a single video card upgrade can for gamers.

why'd the Hipster burn himself with the pizza?

  because he ate it before it was cool.

My parents gave most of mine away to my aunts and uncles :(

Unless they won't sell your app or you are using a subsription model and don't want to markup your prices by like...what was it? 20%? 30%?

Guild Wars 2 is where it's at :D

Remove the bottom part of the guitar and put a hole on the end of the fretboard. About as creative as it gets 8)

This ^. Professional reviews on sites like CNet and Amazon remind me of the sponsored ads on Google.

Quitting while they're ahead.

Oh nvm I'm on an old blackberry and a 4 showed up after July since that was the number of comments -_-

Hopefully it won't blow up or something...that'd be quite a buzzkill

"Science flies people to the moon, but religion flies them into buildings"

Part of the reason for this is probably that p2p services have declined in quality with more spam on gnutella than ever and the younger ones who would do the p2p'ing not knowing how to use torrents (i've tried to help people use them often and for some reason they get confused about it) additionally, streaming services cut it for alot of people specially with the advent of apps like pandora. I personally replaced limewire with firefox+media download addon+grooveshark/similar sites. The download speed from such places is often far faster than p2p

This might also have been a good decision money-wise if someone else had found the bug but decided to save it for the pwn2own contest. Instead of risking getting $0 by being beat by someone else, he got a still respectable $1,337 relatively stress-free. (Note, I have no idea how small the chance that someone else had actually found the same bug and decided to save it for the contest is)