And whatever you say, they had the right to ban communist limux from their system, really!

Every god loving america^W^W^Wmoney loving japanese company has to enforce protection of their control over their customers.

Only problem: by banning linux the shit really hit the fan. No matter if Sony is right or wrong, in the end they are simply fucking stupid for provoking the shit-fan.

Steam Wallet is different. You can load it with variable amounts of money while the competitors only accept some values like â5, â10, â20 and so on. So you rarelly end up with money left on the steam wallet.

Also the wallet has another benefit: You can fill it BEFORE buying. Too often I couldn't buy a steam deal because my credit card wasn't accepted for some hours or because I tried to pay british pounds from a euro country and got blocked...

Have mercy with apple.

They build their computers in the same factory than every other low-cost-lable, by the same poor childs working for food.

They are doing their best, really.

When I visited the US last year I was SHOCKED about the totally broken infrastructure. Telefones, streets, public security, schools, this is all at a level I would have expected in a third world country. A poor one. Greed, corruption and indifference everywhere. Yes, there are some active people trying to make things better. But those few do it on their own, without help and backing and are not even a drip on a hot stone.

The OSCE estimates that the US would have to pay 130 billion dollars every year for 40 years to get the same infrastructure most euopean and asians countries have.

Or like a friend from russia said: The streets in the US look pretty much like in the sowjet union a year before collaps of the system.

Looks like the islamistic Milli Görü based Goverment is now finally departing "the west" and joining up with the jihad union.

I remember when the "netbook" was an attempt to create a minimalistic, cheap, long running notebook computer. 200 and you were ready to rock.

Nowadays the only real innovation is "more expensive", "more gadgets", "bigger"... not exactly what I expect from a "netbook"... well, after all the wintel cartel got the netbook totally under control again...

Where is the 150, 500g ARM netbook with an optimized OS running 12 hours without recharge???

The iPad was made for morons and therefore is very successful.

> but Windows has the multi-monitor down pat

No, it hasn't. Had been removed after XP. Server 2008 and Vista do not support Multi-Graphiccard-Multiscreen-Solutions any more.

Newer Linux AND Windows releases leave multi-screen completely to the drivers. So if your Driver supports a card with two screen connectors, then you are ready. If not, things get ugly.

Setting up two screens on my Geforce 6600 and 8800 systems with Ubuntu is piece of cake, start Nvidia-Tool, active and configure screens, ready.

Whats the deal?

Apple is doing evil because they are evil.

Face it, customer, you are just consumer cattle being milked. You gave Apple a defacto monopoly on online music, now you face the consequences.

Shut up, don't complain, buy moar, be happy.

This seems like major horse poo, there simply is not reasonable general purpose architecture available for 128bit and I even fail to see a requirement for the far future. Sooner we will see shard architectures based on massive parallel multiprocessing like today GPUs but they will be per core a lot simpler than today 64bit systems, not more complex.

This stinks. A critical part of windows becoming unsupported.

What goes around comes around, I will remember that.

I have never ever thought about buying a low budget indy game.

First, there are thousands of free and nice games out there. Free as Free Beer and also some as Free Speech. I simply do not look for another Tetris-Clone or Lemming Clone or whatever lame remake of a 80 arcade game, they are available for free in thousand versions.

Second, I can get full blown studio games for one to three bucks.

I bought Pirates! two years ago for two bucks, a surprisingly complete Tycoon-Collection last year for seven bucks, Battlefield2+AllExpansions for seven Bucks just a week ago.

There is no room for DRM-shit, it is really that easy.