My Widows 7 laptop with 2 GB of memory that runs beautifully says you have no idea about the system requirements for Windows 7. Further, Win7 runs totally fine on a 32-bit platform, provided it meets the other system requirements. I've done that on a different machine. I've also run 32-bit Win7 on my laptop, for a little while (Mostly because I wanted to futz with the release candidate, but the 64-bit ISO I was getting from MSDNAA wasn't installing). Heck, my laptop doesn't even have a discrete graphics card, it's integrated. It's a 2.5 year old laptop that came with Vista on, and it runs great in Win7.

(Now, why do I run Windows? Gaming and that all the digital design classes I'm taking in University use Quartus and ModelSim as their standard tools. Both programs that have free versions for Windows but no free version for Linux. And it's not worth my time/effort/frustration to buy Quartus or learn a different set of software. And that Remote Desktop between two Windows machines is amazingly simple to do, and RDP is on every Windows machine ever.)

Just like watching someone play sports is more pathetic than playing sports, right? Or watching someone sing instead of learning how to sing//play music instead of learning how to play music? Or . . .
I hate that argument, really.

But, I wouldn't say watching progamers has taken the fun out of SC1 and SC2 for me. It's akin to, well... when I play any sport. I'm not serving the tennis ball at 120 MPH, but it's still fun. I just don't expect to be a pro.

For a very given definition of eSports, maybe.
I mean, I LOVE SC:BW and SC2 progaming. But Evo has been around since long before 2002 and Counterstrike was huge in the US around the same time that SC started to become huge in S. Korea. That was definitely eSports. And even before that, there was Quake 3 and...
Starcraft didn't set the concept. SC:BW just made it HUGE in S. Korea and that's affecting the rest of the world. FPS watching never caught on. SC:BW watching did.

And if SC2 was 'balanced' like MvC2 was or MvC3 is looking like it will be (given that the metagame is young, I hesitate to say 'is'), then some fractional amount of a single race would be used, as everything else is too bad to be used. So, maybe only the Marine, Reaper, Banshee, and Raven are the only units in the entire game worth using. That's good game design, right? Or maybe only a unit or two from each race are usable and teching to them and microing them is the entire game.
Yeah. No.
RTS balance and fighting game balance are way the fuck different. RTS balance, or at least in SC2, RELIES on having every race be balanced (or so close to balanced as to give them all decent representation, let's not argue if SC2 is balanced yet. See: Young meta) and have multiple good builds and unit compositions and strategies within each race. As compared to MvC2 where how many characters out of the massive roster were tournament usable? Hm. Magneto, Cable, Storm, Sentinel, Psylocke, Strider (if your name is clockw0rk), Doom (mostly see previous parenthetical), CapCom, and Cyclops. And all the rest are thrown out. All the rest aren't used. And how did SC2 avoid that? By what was talked about in this article. SC2 isn't super revolutionary, I'll agree. But as a competitive game? I'd say it's outstanding. As someone who liked Brood War and likes SC2, but also sucks at micro ... I enjoy watching SC games. I watched SC1 tournies and I'm currently watching NASL. Fuck playing the multiplayer myself - I know I'll suck. That's not due to the game, that's due to that I don't care enough to get good. But I love watching the pros play.

Resident Evil 5 and Splinter Cell: Conviction. Well, the latter's story mode, not so much, but there's an entirely separate co-op campaign.

Splinter Cell. Especially Conviction.

Yeah, in modern games you respawn instantly and lose a few seconds of progress in the majority of games. Games, aside from those that are competitive or made by Atlus, don't have difficulty anymore.

I didn't realize heavy was synonymous with any. DLC on Xbox360 tends to be massive - Which is something that, to be fair, Nintendo doesn't allow. But they actually do have the same internal memory. However, Nintendo was about a year and a half quicker to allow you to use USB drives to save to.

As opposed to just going "Welp, someone ELSE better look through that code!", I decided to. I'm not going to claim I'm a security or python expert, but I know the latter decently enough to feel safe in saying... ain't nothing there but what it says on the tin.

And then remember to celebrate Cake and Cunnilingus day a month from now.
Yes, I'm serious.

To be fair, CSI also does this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uoM5kfZIQ0
Which is so far absurd that it's not even fu... no, it's fucking hilarious.