About two years ago I switched to using Kubuntu most of the time. I still dual boot on both the desktop and notebook, but a majority of the time is spent on the Linux side.

I wouldn't have enough money to buy licenses for all the old boxes we have in the house, but with Linux they are all up and running, and each kid has their own Linux computer.

My hardware is too old to play the latest and greatest games, and with lack of free time, I like to fire up Civilization 4 for the occasional gaming bug. get Civ 4 to work under WINE, and I'd ditch Windows all together.

Libreoffice is good enough for me, and I like the feature that can print straight to pdf.

My Creative Zen is recognized under Kubuntu, and so is our ancient laser printer.

The kids computers run Linux (this month's flavor is Lubuntu) and they love it.

I've got an old Gateway laying around that I have Win98 on. Still like playing the old flight sims of the late 90's, and the Voodoo card still works great on the machine.

I still maintain an old Gateway with Win98 on it, with the original VooDoo graphics card. I've found that all of my old favorite flight sim games work better in the original hardware that running on a modern machine. Go figure.

Air National Guard computers at work, so it's Windows 7, locked down with a virus scanner that does a FULL SCAN of EVERY DAMN FILE everyday! Our only option is to "postpone for one hour". Takes about 15 minutes from once it's turned on to being able to work. Everything else is locked down, even forbidden to adjust the clock if we wanted to. Home is Kubuntu computers (11.04) and a Win7 box for various games that I'm too lazy to get working under Kubuntu. Kid's box is a dual-boot of Vista and Kubuntu 11.04. They spend a overwhelmingly amount of time on the Kubuntu side.

A Princess Bride reference on Slashdot. I love it!

So in 2009, the industry takes a new approach: owning your cellphone.
This is already happening with some of the new cell phones out there. My daughter (had) the Sidekick, and it was basically a rented cell phone. You had to sign up for the $25 monthly data plan to get any functionality out of the phone. All contacts were stored on the server, along with ring tones and texts. Take away the $25 a month, and every time the phone is turned off, it returns to factory default and loses everything.
You were not allowed to import your own ring tones, but had to download from their list.

That game was "Rescue Raiders".

Wiki Link..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_raiders