The sale of incandescents has been prohibited in Germany to promote newer and more energy-efficient lighting tech, such as LED even for rooms..

http://www.lampenwelt.de/produkt/Nebenartikel/LED-Kristallglasleuchte-mit-Fernbedienung-13-fl.html/

The idea is to re-use your existing LED room lights to also transmit a data signal, *not* some completely new tech!

According to wikipedia, Bethesda bought all and every Fallout IP when Interplay was unable to continue development on their version of Fallout 3 and had to lay off their main (PC) team in 2003.
TFS says they still retained their right to sell the games they do not own any rights to anymore, as long as they get marketing and packaging approved bei Bethesda. So they can still make money with their old games as long as it doesn't interfere with Bethesda's new titles and gets their approval - that is a pretty good deal for a game studio that probably would have closed down if it weren't for Bethesda, don't you think?

You mean like Slashdot?

Use two of those Mics to triangulate the position of your fingernail and you have your position tracking.

Just needs "some" tweaking of the software and a way of describing the relative position of the two mics (by a echo-like click sound on init maybe?).

How could Alpha compete with Google's beta anyway?

This is not the only step towards lower energy consumption in the EU.
It was a solution for a small problem - nice to have but not essential. Still better than no improvement at all.

But you're right, this is a non-story.

How das Vista take control from you? Assuming you did the reasonable thing and created a non-admin user on your XP machine you'll actually have less problems with "control" than before - UAC is a change for the better if you're used to XP's rights management.

This is a technical article concerning MMOGs, using an anecdote from the most popular MMOG. What's wrong with that?

Don't blank out as soon as you see those three letters. Doesn't help you in the slightest.

Windows Server 2008. Free for 240 days before you have to reinstall / buy a license.

That's more like it.

Hm, why don't you have a look at the E3 movies from one of the last years demonstrating the Spore beta?

They actually look good, and innovative, and I really thought about buying the game. Especially the part where speed of your creature is determined by a multitude of factors (positioning of the legs at the spinal cord, size of the legs, etc), instead of just "Legs Level 1" or "Legs Level 2".

Yay for deadlines.