Linear algebra, matrix math, and set theory are pretty much pre-requisites to any serious graphics implementations, not to mention physics engines. Sorry to go anecdotal, but my web/art background prepared me for making models but certainly not rendering/shading them.

...and to be clear, I don't mean "game design."

Any creative math major can be a game developer with some CS. Education masters? Serious games: http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/

The most basic user story:

1. go to www.google.com.
2. search.

is really how people are getting shit done. I can see niche search, like Wolfram, or maps.google.com, or Amazon for products, but social search is bs.

...so long as they tax violent movies and television first.

...or Psonics!

+1 to this, start small with simple mechanics in a 2d space. Flashdevelop is a great, free tool that is easy to setup and use.

If you want to try using a Flash game framework, try something like Flixel.

They are still trying to beat everyone at their own games instead of coming up with something interesting themselves. An infusion of 273.1 million faithful users from the second largest email provider would help them lock people into their Windows Live! infrastructure (email, phones, OS, cloud services)

Wait...

"Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate." Or "all war is deception"

Good to know they are working on the important stuff =/

...and then there is the guy who buys the used Subaru (uni-body Macbook with Windows 7 on it) and just drives to work, not worrying about his investment or what other people think about his choice of vehicle.

..seriously? Who fucking cares is their hardware is tied to their software or walled gardens or whatever. There are too many choices in this market to start branding Apple of all people as "evil". If you don't like it don't use it. I personally use a mix of Apple and other technologies but only what I want to use and what makes me productive and happy. Much like my own religion, to extend the metaphor, there is no one between me and salvation, it is mine to make for myself, on no ones terms but my own. Let's talk about Comcast, or the shitbag, satan-worshippers in the recording industry who are actually, actively trying to create a monopoly where they can perpetrate evil. This other discourse is yawn city.

Lynx on VAX is probably pretty safe (does it support https?) compared to some more recent browser versions that will remain unnamed.

I was at the SIGGRAPH talk and it was really interesting to watch that chip function (obviously a bit slower than what it would natively). The speaker went through how they laid out all of the circuits based on the different chips they had stripped and photographed, and then he showed it in action. He started by filling and emptying single registers and then he started doing some ops on it. I wish I could provide some video of it in action, but I have a feeling SIGGRAPH wouldn't like that very much.

Download it an try it for yourself, it is really hypnotic to watch.

...pressure sensitivity? Because that would be something to write home about.