This was marked as a Troll!? *sigh* How is this any different than the higher-ranked posts above that all but drip with condemnation for the Eeeeviillllll Corporation even when the corporation is actually doing *something* to lower costs?

Ahh Leftdot, you do not disappoint.

Jack Thompsonwhen you really need him!?

Seriously though, I am certain he is going to point to this as conditioned behavior caused by gaming, cause, you know, gamers will jump through an actual flaming door, despite the heat and all. A message for ya, Jack: Gamers may be conditioned by games, but only when actually playing games.

Cliffs and ponds are far more common than building fires and we don't see crumpled or floating bodies of gamers beside these natural hazards despite their low danger level in video games.

I doubt anyone but you will read this but I found this comment great. I am a self-taught developer and when I learned C, I was driven by a need I had to create a list of pointers that pointed to the next element in the list as well as an object on the heap. I could even "walk" the list for sequential processing! I felt very proud of myself for having come up with such a novel idea and truly believed had something that other developers might be able to use. This was in 1989 or so. *sigh* Anyway, great comment; it really sent me for a trip down memory lane (no pun intended).

If you really *are* living on $500 a month and TV is your biggest concern, then you have a priority problem.