The reason geeks hate Windows 8 is that they made the computer easier to use and less confusing for the non geeks. This makes being a computer geek less, well, geeky, because anybody can use it without screwing up as much.
The "Start" button was flawed in design and usability right from the beginning.

The UI formally known as Metro (Metro), is a great advancement in usability. How many clicks does it take the average user to access an 90% of the applications they use now compared to pre Metro? 1 click in metro vs minimum of 2 using the start menu. The applications are onscreen and obvious and easy to locate unlike in the convoluted Start menu (remember, I said for the average user, which most of slashdot are not).

Embrace the new, forget the old and evolve.

Cool, make sure you boycott products from these FOXCONN customers too then:
Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
Amazon.com (United States)
In 2011, Amazon and Foxconn formed a joint-design manufacturing company. The move was meant to produce an Amazon branded smartphone sometime in 2012.
Apple Inc. (United States)
ASRock (Taiwan)
Asus (Taiwan)
Barnes & Noble (United States)
Cisco (United States)
Dell (United States)
EVGA Corporation (United States)
Hewlett-Packard (United States)
Intel (United States)
IBM (United States)
Lenovo (China)
Logitech (Switzerland)
Microsoft (United States)
MSI (Taiwan)
Motorola (United States)
Netgear (United States)
Nintendo (Japan)
Nokia (Finland)
Panasonic (Japan)
Philips (Netherlands)
Samsung (South Korea)
Sharp (Japan)
Sony Ericsson (Japan/Sweden)
Toshiba (Japan)
Vizio (United States)

...but when Samsung sue somebody (which this LG counter measure is retaliation for) they are not evil? Personally I would just love it if everything but copycat patents/lawsuits disappeared. In otherwords, don't make a blatant rip off of counterfeit where you are really just trying to deceive the consumer, and everything else is fine. (awaits they inevitable down mod).

Quick question: Do you think you would have a decent Android device right now if the iPhone came out? The answer is absolutely not. Ultimately though, people need to just enjoy the devices they have and the choices they made. Let the companies do what they have to do and enjoy what you have.

.... they protect innovation. If there were no patents, then companies would not invest huge amounts of money inventing and innovating. Instead they would sit back and wait for somebody else to spend the cash and then just copy them! Ohh wait, that is what just happened, Apple Innovated, Samsung copied... never mind, move on. Seriously though, you all act like Apple is the only company on earth that has sued another company. Get off the Apple hateraid bandwagon and get back to living your life. PS. Is it just me or is Microsoft the only company innovating in the OS market right now?

Whether its a dead OS or not, in an attempt to make me feel better about using Mac OS X and iOS I donated :P

Ocean Marketing, we're everywhere, we're in everything! Ocean Marketings emails reminded me of Lindal Global (I think thats the name) from the movie "The Other Guys".

They could bring their profiles? or sign in with their profile for the multiplayer part? Under their current method you would have to pay $10 for each of the games your friends bring around to play if they are different to those that you the host play. If they are the same then my suggestion also works in that you would have already had a code to play with your game. So no difference. Personally I think they should just lump it and not charge at all, but they are.

I honestly believe when you buy software (or licenses to use software as you do when you buy a game etc) you should be given the same rights as the original owner. If they cared more about allowing only one person at a time to use the software, then they should make it so that once a new user enters the original code, the previous user loses rights to MP. That would surely cut out piracy fears as only one code would be generated for the original purchaser who bought the game. They have control of the network, so they would be able to control the single use of the serial (or pass code or whatever they want to call it). That would kick piracy in the bum as well as control swapping of games.

I used to play this game along with Shadow Keep back in the day. We even had Marathon 2 and Infinity on the School network and would have LAN matches. Good times! I remember one time I was playing Marathon on my Powerbook 1400cs at night with headphones in and no lights on. Because of the ambient sounds etc and the intense story i caught myself being tense, slightly scared and waiting what was gonna happen around the corner like a horror movie. My heart rate was fast and I was on edge cause my life was low and It was like I thought I was going to die in real life haha! Marathon = 3D style shooter with intense story line, awesome multiplayer and map making tools. All back in 1992-96 :D For those interested in the game it was opensourced by the makers (Bungie Software!) and has been actively developed since then. check out http://source.bungie.org/index.php/Main_Page

Sooooo, you have never owned a gaming console? A GPS navigation system? Hell even a car with electronic fuel injection? They all require some sort of hacking to be able to run applications not initially approved for it....