From what I understand, the controller was designed so that people with severe hand deformities could play. To somebody who has regular hands, it might look strange but I'm sure for somebody who has fingers been 90 degrees the wrong way, it could be a god send.

What about doing Facebook in PrivateBrowsing/Incognito Mode/InPrivate Mode?

Except for the fact that Microsoft doesn't own Epic Games.

So, I guess I shouldn't have an X-Ray done either, huh?

...yeah, yeah, I know. Don't feed the trolls.

Interestingly enough, the original Syndicate came out for SNES and Genesis/Megadrive and the sequel, Syndicate Wars was available on the Playstation. (I think the original trailer for it mentioned a Saturn version, but I don't know if one exists)

Netflix already does some statistic collection for how many of each client is being used - I remember and some gaming show they mentioned how many people watch Netflix on each of the consoles. The biggest problem with attempting to watch Netflix on Linux (or BSD) is the fact that there is no application nor a browser plugin. Supposedly somebody is working on a Chrome plugin which is based on the ChromeOS plugin, but I haven't seen anything about it actually working just yet.

Spoliers!

You also leave the facility in Portal - until they retroactively changed the ending. Also, Portal 2 is supposed to take places hundreds of years after the first.

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I don't know about you, but I consider the ability to be out of the office for a few days (or hell, even a week), enjoying myself and not having to worry about phone calls about system X being down or having problems with process Y, to be a benefit. (Don't get me wrong, i do enjoy my work, but i do like to get away from the office and the server room from time to time.)

Could you also address you're letter to EA, Warner Bros. Interactive, and all of the other companies that have been implementing an "online pass" system in their games, since It's not just Sony. As a side topic, does anybody have list of games that require online pass for multiplayer?

You buy a game brand new, the publisher / developers get a cut as well as the game system manufacturer if any. You decide to sell it to gamestop, gamestop buys your $60 game for $25 and sells it for $40. Someone comes in, see's that game for $60 NEW or $40 USED, they see no difference in the two, they pay gamestop $40 and gamestop see's all the profit to themselves.

 
And this is the exact same issue when dealing with just about any store that specializes in used goods regardess if it's games, books, CDs, DVDs/blueray, etc.

...there was no Duck Hunt for the SNES (Super Scope)

I thought it was a refrence to the fact that the original shuffle was the size of a pack of gum.

As seems to be the case with Wine, performance seems to be all over the place depending on distrobution, hardware, and version of the software (both the Wine and the version of app you're trying to run). It's been my experience that the performance of Source engine based games has been in the toilet for the last year or two - I'm thinking they made some update to the engine that Wine doesn't like. I'm running a 1.8 GHz Core2Duo, 2GB of RAM, and a Nvidia 7300 - not hte beefiest machine by far, but it most source games should sitll run half-way decent, even at the lowest settings, or so I would assume.