Of course something like this would happen with a free program, you get what you pay for. Nothing like this would ever happen with one of the quality anti virus programs, like McAfee...

This has been true since the early days of DVDs, i remember a friend had some cheap no-name player from wal-mart that was region free, would output PAL dvds to NTSC, would play MP3s and JPEG slideshows off burned CDs... While my parents $250 RCA dvd player wouldnt do any of that.

Still pissed about the bad chinese capacitors from a few years ago though...

'Bout time they nefed Rooks, they were friggin OP.

Hell, i had to use a floppy to install RAID drivers for Win7! The motherboard manufacturers page didnt have just the drivers available for the RAID controller for me to put on a flash drive, and the chip manufacturers site didnt have the correct driver either. BUT the mobo manufacturer did have a driver floppy creator exe. It was a weird situation. AND, of course as soon as i got everything installed and ran windows update it updated the RAID driver...

Wasnt THAT old of a motherboard either, 2004...

Those arent achievements, theyre feats of strength and dont count for any achievement points. Theyre typically for things that can only be completed by one person (such as the realm firsts), or things that are only available for a limited time, acquiring toys from past holiday events, defeating bosses that are no longer available, that sort of thing. That said, it looks like he has 40 of those also.

Cyno, Realm First Grand Master Engineer, Madoran.

Actually...

Brick and mortars sell knockoffs.

http://www.officemax.com/catalog/search.jsp?freeText=professor&search.x=0&search.y=0

The average episode of TNG is pretty mediocre. Sure S7 was some of the very best of Trek, but seasons 1 and 2 were some of the worst.

I remember reading some study that basically said the power savings from shutting down computers was insignifigant compared to the power required to make all the replacement parts needed by a computer that was started up/shut down every day.

A cold start is rough on moving parts, fans and hard drives. Hard drives fail, fans fail and CPUs melt, etc etc.

Theres no COST savings in lowered electricity use compared to having to replace hardware AND (IIRC according to the study i cant find that i wish i could cite...) theres no actual energy savings either when factoring in the manufacturing of replacement parts either.

Sold gold isnt usually farmed, its stolen from hacked accounts.

This bug was interesting because of the actual cause. The spell deathgrip functioned the same as a jump, and because of this explot, we learned that the game engine did not recalculate your postition (in the case of a jump/deathgrip) untill you land.

I dont know if this function was known before this bug was discovered, if it was, it wasnt widely known. But ever since we're always being reminded, when moving out of 'fire', just move, dont jump, since the game wont recognize your position and youll keep taking damage untill you land.

I meant the market as a whole is in decline, not that shitty music was relatively less popular. Music, in general, is less popular.

Except people arent, the marketplace IS reacting. Vehemently AGAINST the crap the industry is (over)producing, but the industry refuses to pull its head out of the sand and instead blames piracy for declining sales and intrest. I cant remember the last time i bought an album by a new artist, someone i didnt already have an album or two by.

It is stupid to blame a piece of software, but the overproduction and homoginization of current music IS a major part of the problem.