That made me laugh out loud. Nicely done!

(And also evidence that you need to get out of your mother's basement more.)

Human milk is the only ethical milk.

And it'd be a great way for gals to make a few bucks on the side.

After all these years, it will be bizarre to think of Slashdot and not think of CmdrTaco.

Thank you for creating this site and seeing it through its first 14 years. Although I don't post much any more, I do appreciate all you did and I still read the new stories posted to the site several times a day.

May your future be filled with all the happiness and fulfillment you've earned.

Setting aside the issue of how many games are actually entertaining all the way through...

If a game has high replayability (which essentially means well-implemented, well-thought-out randomization), a 10-hour game would be fine for $50.

The problem is most video games play nearly the same every time through, in which case $50 for 10 hours of entertainment isn't as much of a bargain.

I don't have to worry about that. Not only am I using a Dell, but my battery exploded.

Eh, that'll be in 10 years if we're lucky, at this rate.

No time to watch or listen to it, unfortunately.

Nice one. I wish I had mod points.

I was willing to pay extra for that feature, too.

Instead, I don't own a PS3. Sony got $0 from me. Yay, Sony!

Exactly. I collect classic game and computer systems, so in addition to the usual modern stuff with microprocessores in them, I have:

1) Atari 2600
2) Atari 5200
3) Atari 7800
4) Atari Lynx
5) Atari Jaguar
6) Magnavox Odyssey^2
7) Mattel Intellivision
8) ColecoVision
9) Atari 1200XL (8-bit computer)
A) NES
B) SNES
C) N64
D) Sega Genesis
E) NEC Turbografx-16
F) GCC Vectrex

And I have multiples of most of the above, stored away in the basement.

So I have way, way more than 20 microprocessors in my home, once you add in the TVs, Blu-Ray players, Rokus, routers, printers, modern computers, cell phones, and all the other stuff.

AAPL fall down, go BOOM!

Actually, there might not be much effect this time. Maybe investors are getting used to this.

I miss DesqView. Like you, I ran a multinode BBS on pretty plain hardware (386SX-16 w/ 4 MB RAM in my case) thanks to DesqView and QEMM386. Those were the days! As you said, DV was great stuff, as long as you knew what you were doing.

I just finally bought my first HDTV last month (my old TV finally died). After researching a bit, I bought an LED-backlit LCD TV and a Blu-ray player. And you're right, in addition to the image quality being great, having networking built in is awesome. I have access to You-Tube, Netflix, Vudu, and a slew of other services all right from the TV and the Blu-ray player both. I'm looking forward to when Hulu Plus will be available on the TV (or maybe I'll break down a buy a Roku or some other device that offers it). When I get Hulu Plus, I'm cutting the cable and never looking back.

Anyway, I'm very happy I wasn't an early adopter of HDTV. My coworkers who were have sets with a single HDMI jack, no built-in networking, less contrast, and image blurring when things move quickly. And they paid five times as much for theirs!

I'm treating 3D the same way. If it's around in five years, I'll consider upgrading. But for now, forget it. Who knows what the standard will eventually be? Who know whether it's just a fad or if it will stick around? And who knows what improvements are on the horizon?