I accept the terms of your challenge.

... on leashes.

Now, I'm a Canadian, and one thing I've always been fuzzy on is exactly how the CD-R fee benefits "The Artist". My understanding, based on hearsay and no research, is that the fee is pocketed by the corporations and never trickles down to the artist.

However, I do know that the federal and provincial governments do provide funding for "The Arts"; presumably some of that must go to this mythical "The Artist", right? I wonder if any of the CD-R fee goes to fund those grants. And I wonder how many "The Artists" apply for and get those grants?

In statistics, a "population" doesn't necessarily mean "the population of a country".

It could just as easily mean the "population" of the classroom.

Actually, having played it, I found that it wasn't monotonous "at first" - there were enough missions and such that I was able to have a lot of fun right off the bat with it.

It got monotonous, for me, when instead of working up the alliances and resources to conduct missions in 0-Sec, I chose to go into the mining profession hardcore. I had thought that with my dual-monitor setup, I would be able to program on one monitor and play the game on the other monitor - and that would have worked fine, if my computer could have handled it. It couldn't. Eventually, after a while of this, I ended up getting a 360 Elite for my birthday (this was about two years ago) - I hooked that up to my second monitor, instead, and I cancelled EVE in favour of Halo 3, which I still play at least 3 times a week online with friends.

However, as concerns EVE, I have no doubt that if you are willing to venture into 0-Sec space, where you *could* lose everything on a moment's notice, the game can be VERY exciting.

"So the point is that the contamination has increased."

*STILL* Lindsay Lohan. Never underestimate her.

It's news because it horribly breaks iTunes, and (last I heard) causes re-installation to fail.

Of course, that's only if you believe iTunes isn't horribly broken to start with ;-)

... I've skimmed this thread, and all I have to say on the topic is "you people are fucking morons".

That's all I have to say about that.

So I take it he didn't try "==="?

Turns out it was *after* my time; I was using Opera under BeOS at the time, I think.

Heh. Your first paragraph makes you sound exactly like me ... (Except I'm on one of those new dual-head Mac Minis now). My Banshee was fun, though.

Uh. Do you even know what vapourware *is*?

Honestly, I had no idea that staples contained starch.

I have a whole new respect for the lowly office supply cabinet now.

I'm pretty sure every activeX call already does this, with how fast it seems to be.

Not if it's a shape-shifting iPhone ....