Just because they're talented and successful, doesn't mean I can't hold a grudge against them forever.

Monolith doesn't do charming games with intelligent dialogue anymore. They only do scary games for 12 year olds now. R.I.P. NOLF and TRON 2.0.

They're both clueless, then. The defendent is claiming that removing hyperlinking will make the web less interesting, when in fact hyperlinking is the only thing defining it as a web!

My wife is using Foobar2000 for Windows which uses 12MB of resident memory. I used it for years as well but the browser is clunky so I switched back to Windows Media Player (30MB resident while viewing a list of album cover thumbnails).

Songbird is a music player and library organizer similar to iTunes or Winamp. It's based on the Mozilla Firefox Gecko framework. It inexplicably uses about 130MB of RAM while idle.

I confused PHPBB code by accident. I'm not in the habit of entering HTML in a form textarea.

As you can plainly see, web standards are very important to me!

[blockquote]Hyperlinking is what the web is all about, says p2pnet founder Jon Newton. 'Without it, the Internet would become a drab and pale facsimile of the exciting news, data and information medium it is today. [/blockquote]

Um, without hyperlinking it wouldn't be much of a "web" at all, would it? Why is the defendent so clueless about his own case? This isn't a matter of something interesting becoming drab, it's a matter of whether Canada chooses to exclude itself from the civilized world.

If you go to your CIO saying "if we took less than half the money we spend on licensing Microsoft's software alone and invested that in training users for an open source system, we would be far better off in the long run" you will be ignored. Rip and replace never goes as smoothly as the pamphlets promise. Fine one application with measurable improvements over your existing system and make an ROI case for that one small change. Earn the credibility by being sympathetic to your CIO or IT Director's objectives.

Are you calling a Pentium 4 a "Crysis ready machine"?

Halo was released on PC many years after its Xbox debut and despite the very dated and blocky graphics the performance was incredibly poor. The frame rate was so low that many PC gaming magazines used it to benchmark PCs and video cards alongside much more attractive games like FEAR and Quake 3. Amusing, considering the game was a PC-only title for a while.

Mirror's edge is a fantastic game with good controls on PC, but the interface was poorly ported from consoles. The tutorials kept directing me to press Xbox 360 controller buttons even though I don't own that gamepad, so I had to hit escape to look at the key mappings about a dozen times. It's really frustrating when you're told to press "A" (not "the A button" but just "A"), so I do, and nothing happens because it's actually referring to a controller button which happens to be mapped to the shift key..

What about the other side of the spectrum? It's 10pm and you're in your jammies and you see on Steam that a friend is playing a casual game. With one click you can join his game, play together for 10 minutes, and make plans together for the weekend while chatting. There's a lot of value in that, even if it's not your very favourite means of gaming.

You can make your profile private which effectively opts you out of any social features. You can also disable in-game overlays but I find those handy whenever I want to pull up a web browser.