The poll sais 'took' but a better wording would be 'will take', as i still have not done it.

Last year i did it in time. The year before i let some clocks just run on summertime for half a year, saving me the effort of adjusting, and on the fly introducing a little mental challenge every time i wanted to observe it.

Next year i plan to adjust the clocks pro-active. When wintertime arrives i'll adjust them for summertime, and vice versa. That'll save me a lot of time.

I replaced any part on any computer i possesed, occasionaly (=once) i replaced the entire pc but mostly my pc just 'evolved', but that was not the question. The poll is asking for 'Best Upgrade', and without doubt the best was to replace my CRT with a LCD. Before that, the best one was to replace the mouse with an optical version. 3rd best must be the G15 i purchased, because that's the only USB keyboard that survives and still types properly. The rest of the PC is not relevant, of course i like my gigaherzes and a new video card and more memory but what use has it when working at a remote shell, typing emails or /. posts.. To me, investing in proper human interface devices proven most valuable to me in the long run, if only i had realized it earlier...

I'm sorry, while i understand the correct plural of 'forum' is 'forums' in english, in dutch we mimic the original latin grammar making the plural of 'forum' to be 'fora' (and 'museum' like 'musea' etc). Our school teachers made pretty damn sure that we would do this correctly, and thus it has slipped into my english in unguarded moments.

Paid customer services, like character recustomization and especially migration have been deadly for certain realms and games in general.

If your friends move to another realm, you have 2 options: transfer your own character, or quit playing. The same goes when a previously florishing realm goes 'dead' - people either move either quit playing.

Blizzard neglected this issue way too long - look at their fora, for certain realm subfora this is the most common complaint 'our realm was good but now everyone left there's : not even enough players to raid with / too many opponents / etc. The character transfers also heavily affected PvP - no-one wants to belong to the 'loosers' so a lot of battlegroups got serious balancing issues. -There are other indications that blizzard didnt take PvP serious enough, like heavy class imbalances, but in my opinion it were the character migrations that have been deadly for certain realms...

Last not least - blizzard 'hardened' the content. While most will agree that a lot of content in previous expansions was 'too easy' (major cause of this being 'epics' too easily available - hence the term 'welfare epics' was introduced) - the balance now swapped to the other side and a lot of semi-casual guilds and players just gave up on the raiding content because it was 'too hard'. Blizz still being king of content - they'd better taken some of the complaints on the fora more serious as they seem to be unaware of certain issues that every player is aware of..

So.. i'm not surprised - it's still a great game but it cries for more variation in the content to please both hardcore, casual, PvE and PvP players - and yes, the players got spoiled over the years, too, demanding a better game all the time ;)

This might explain accelerating expansion of the universe (anti-matter continues to apply a repulsive force).

The expansion of the universe has nothing to do with galaxies 'just drifting apart' but involves the stretching of space itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_expansion_of_space might be a good, albeit mind-boggling, read.

Damn.. i voted 'none' but that actually isn't accurate.. i hacked some fix in a WoW addon making less-than-100 the correct answer..

Luckily, i see others 'defending' .NET here too. Cause just because it's from Microsoft 'it must be bad' is a very invalid statement. That it isn't portable is simply a troll too, that just depends on the libraries you use, very much like any other language. There's .NET, there's mono. If portability is a key, use mono (or make sure it compiles on mono), and you'r pretty much set.
I rejected .NET for long time too, just for the same invalid reasons, until i actually gave it a shot.. Let me state a few conclusions:

* The language itself is a beauty. Really. It's the best and most beautiful programming language i ever met. It's powerful, it has very nice language constructs, it has about everything a programmer could wish for - and more. From the beauty stance of view, C# is Claudia Shiffer whereas Java would be the average south european, Python the average german, Ruby the average american, pearl the average russian geek and c++ just a plain troll from the tundra.

* It is very portable. I developed some standalone specialiced servers. To deploy it on my linux server, i just copy the frikking binaries. No more. No less. It _just_ _works_. Yes, there are some details. 32 vs 64 bit, for example. Or platform-dependant assemblies. It is hardly an issue. Of course, integrating IE in your app would be windows only. Or take winforms, it is what it sais: forms for windows. Use GTK if you need cross-platform UI's, for example, as mono defaults too.

* It's versatile. From UI's, stand alone server apps, http integration (ASP). Actually, a lot of ASP solutions run on apache + mono. Stating that C# has only use for a few niches is simply false. Of course, take the right tool for the job, up to you to decide, but there's not much that could be excluded by definition.

Now, the cons:
* It's managed code, rendering it a bit slower than strictly needed. However, this has the advantage of easifying cross-platform binaries. The same as Java does. So, this con as a pre same time.
* Microsoft refrained from creating (and thus supporting) a cross platform implementation themselves. They rely on (cooperation with) the mono project for this. Having said they, MS clearly stated they embrace the mono project.
* Microsoft created it. The name alone blinds zealots. Please, spend a few weeks or months learning the language, then come back and say what you think.

From this information, it seems they are regarding themselves as the rightful copyright owner. If this is the case, nothing can stop them from re-licensing it as they please. That said, code released as GPL should remain GPL, simple as that, but duel licensing is pretty common.

So the real issue is: who is the copyright owner. The outcome of that depends on the local laws and the contract you had. If you sincerely think you are the copyright owner, you could claim the profit they make from it. Proving you are the copyright owner might be harder, and most of all, costly.

If i were you. I'd just work on your own GPL'd code. Continue to distribute it. Maybe on your webpage dedicate a page to this very issue. And, apart from gathering as much proof as you can to protect yourself from a potentional lawsuit from their side, do exactly entirely nothing, except working on your project and make sure it's better than their product. Making your GPL code better than their commercial code seems to me the best way to get back on them.

Ping (roundtrip) is usually measured in milliseconds, on consumer lines varying from anything in between 25 and 200 ms as considered reasonable and acceptable. Rounding to seconds would make no sense, as 500 ms would be acceptable for an australian player on european servers, but nowhere near acceptable for a european citizen, let alone 700 ms or more. Using the 'millisecond' unit makes perfect sense here.

Apart that, i can confirm british players, typically on BT, are complaining about their ping on a regular base.

Who are those people?

Worse even, i've got no clue what an avenger is without using an internet search engine.

At least, let uneducated people like me choose an option we know, like our hero C. Neal...