I'd be way more leery of them selling three separate single player campaigns instead of one like SC was. That right there made me lose any interest I had in SC2 at all.

And the company doing the switching as they experience a period of lower productivity as they have to retrain the employees on using the new software.

Installing Win7 is fast. Upgrading, specifically transferring the migration files, takes forever, even HDD -> SSD. It took over an hour to transfer about 80G or so stuff from a 10k RPM drive to a SSD on my machine. The article is about the time it takes to upgrade, not a clean install.

There is a difference between 'possible' and 'stupidly easy'.

The developers went to the PS2 and XBox because the Dreamcast was stupidly easy to pirate games for. If the developers weren't making money, why support the system?

And miss most things of any tactical value in that time. There is a place for fast places, in strategic recon, which happens to be a lot harder to hide from satellites. We are going toward slower (I prefer the term lumbering) platforms with awesome endurance for tactical recon, staring is better than glimpsing in that case.

According to the Chrome Wikipedia article, there are several tracking methods in Chrome, one is not optional, several are optional. The scary one is the RLZ Identifier.

The RLZ Identifier is non-optional, it can send back anything it wants in an encoded string, and it sends stuff back to Google 1) every 24 hours, 2) or on every Google search query, or 3) when a 'significant event' (no definition except 'such as a successful installation') occurs. Some of the stuff Google admits to being in there is the installion date, when the first time you used certain features and where you downloaded the install files from. The RLZ parameter is stored in the system registry (yay) and can be updated at any time Google wants. Another fun fact:

From Google itself on the RLZ Parameter.

So tell me again how it isn't tracking you?

Somebody else gets it.

Because a company that lives off data mining everything you do through them (sifting email for target advertising, web searches for the same) is as pure as freshly driven snow, right? The fact that anybody would use a browser from them so they can see *EVERYTHING* you browse is mind boggling.

The hypocrisy is incredible.

Depends on if EA is dumb enough to let ANY of the devs involved in the epic failure that was Warhammer touch it. If they keep the Mythic devs completely segregated and not even allowed to look at the BioWare staff, there is hope. If the Mythic people have anything to do with it, expect another train wreck.

Looks like you'll have to stand in line with the other 5 people wanting the Mac download.

You are aware that Aion has been released for almost a year in Asian markets and that the West version is starting at 1.5, right?

You think a penalty that is removed by spending a few coins at the healer is a real death penalty?

Wow.

Uhhh, the original telescope was suppose to cost $400M, but the actual cost was about $2.5B (about $300M was for storage, so say $2B to be conservative). Do you really think launching a new one every time it had to be repaired (we had five repair missions so far) would be cheaper than just repairing it? Figure about $100M per launch on top of the telescope cost.

The entire program has cost about $5B. Your proposal would mean we would've spent about $12B in telescopes alone. Even cutting the price of a new telescope in half, we wouldn't be breaking even compared to repairing the HST.

I'd guess it has less to do with sharing priorities than it does with some pretentious ass stating that virtual communities built around silly-assed devices is in any way newsworthy.