Well thanks to this debacle I have herd of an interesting new game and signed up for the Alpha..... I also own Oblivion, but I doubt that I will be giving any more money to Bethesda.....seriously mountains???? WTF

I have read about this practice many times...but it still blows my mind.....users in the US allow their carriers to charge them twice for the same service???? Bits to the phone is bits to the phone....doesn't matter if the phone then routes those bits to a computer or not. I live in New Zealand....tethering is standard practice (I'm posting this from my laptop through WiFi on my nexus), how has this situation been allowed to develop over there?

The same was as the physical act will be made into a crime... Some officer of the law will ask you to move and when you don't then you are arrested for failure to comply with an officer of the law, which is barely a step away from resisting arrest when you protest that this is a ligitimate protest...

And last time I checked it was the English alphabet....

about 2.8 micro Joules

Yes I care a little bit, the fact that the mac version has to use non-microsoft technology means that it is closer to a linux version.

I could care less about the mac version....but if there was a Linux version that would be awesome

Got to be sarcasm, there is no way we have the tech to build the fibre yet.....let alone get it into space in a controlled way.

NZ FTW ~ http://www.nzcs.org.nz/news/blog.php?/archives/97-.html ~ an interesting article from the NZ computer society

As a Kiwi I welcome more people. Highly skilled software engineers / computer scientists, these are the type of people who make a country grow. Innovation and problem solving skills are what we need here. Oh and we have nice open country to enjoy also. If you like that kind of thing.

Sometimes it is good to be a New Zealander. First it was nuclear ships now software patents. There was recently a really cool ad on tv for steinlager (beer), with Willem Dafoe going on about NZ telling the US to f-off with your nuclear powered ships. it even made it onto the news: http://www.3news.co.nz/Brewery-using-American-actor-to-sell-Steinlager/tabid/369/articleID/82050/Default.aspx

"Religion is bullshit" - my personal favourite http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o&feature=related

Nice to hear that at least some places in the world wont criminalise people so x-megacorp can "protect" their investment even after it should have passed into public domain

Annoyingly things are priced at "what the market will bear" now what the thing is worth. People have overwhelmingly shown that for movies and music what the market will NOW bear is much lower then it used to be. The execs at the music/movie production companies have decided to ignore this obvious fact.