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Comment Re:To remind people that government is fallible (Score 1) 653

It does cost something, it costs time the government could have spent doing something to improve the lot of their citizens. Time sucked up in debate on whether to do it or not, time spent doing it, and the cost of the 'event' itself.

Regardless of whether they do it or not, its silly to think it costs nothing.

Comment Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG (Score 2, Insightful) 737

Sure, if you have a fat enough pipe. Of course, then you still have to deal with lag issues,

I keep seeing people say things like this. This is not true. The majority of the packets will be peer to peer and never leave your Local area network. Only the talking to the battle.net servers would go out to the internet, and this will not be happening hardly at all during game play. Having to maintain a connection to battle.net will not lag your game for the people who are connected all on one router,

Comment Do what I did. (Score 1) 584

Get Blackberry alerts (makes your blackberry ping you if you haven't answered it)
http://www.handango.com/catalog/ProductDetails.jsp;jsessionid=37239925D458872C11BCFC9520E8B5B0.worker6?storeId=2218&platformId=5&productId=199266&WT.mc_Id=programId11

Also I recorded my skytel pager and then set it as a custom ringtone on my berry before giving the skytel pager back.

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