We are offering a trade-in program for at least one series of models, but I'd guess it's still around the six-figure range when you include installation and such. There are plenty of feature advantages (e.g. bigger database) of the new models to provide incentive to upgrade as well. A good portion of our sales are upgrades already, either from our old systems or from a competitor's product.

As long as it works, there will always be someone who will still use it instead of upgrading.

My company still buys loads of 3.5" floppies to send monthly data updates to our legacy customers. Since we charge them $X,XXX per year for the subscription we don't want to drop support. It would cost most our customers $XXX,XXX to upgrade to our newer product which supports USB drives and SD cards, so it will be a while before we stop buying 3.5" floppy disks. Our bigger problem is our slightly newer legacy products which use ZIP disks, since the drives and disks for those are getting harder to find in bulk.

Eden of the East was the first thing I thought of. I tagged this 'edenoftheeast'.

Good, only half the universe will be destroyed. =)

The related searches for Microsoft sucks include:
- Apple sucks
- Microsoft rocks

Heh, probably true. But I'll bet their clickthrough rate just went through the floor.

That quote is from National Treasure: Book of Secrets, spoken by Riley Poole (Justin Bartha).

I'd rather walk through the Hundred Acre Wood, even on a rather blustery day.

I wanted Simon Tam on the poll, but after reading your list I think I would have most wanted to vote for Emmett Brown. Great Scott!

There is actually more than 100% available in the game. I've read that you can get 100% on one play through if you give the sphere to the right faction. There are some parts that are missable so it helps to follow a walkthrough.

I thought it was leaked that it would be released this year?

Yep, more or less. I took the hex and popped it into a hex to ascii converter (there are plenty online versions). Then I took the result and ran it through a ROT13 cipher.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13

Translation (required hex->asci then ROT13) for the lazy:

I prefer the feeling of sleeping in on a weekend and then having hot chocolate. But hey, if you prefer forcing yourself to wake up with caffeine so you can go work on a cold morning, then I'm not going to argue.

I live in a gated community yet somehow my house is still on Street View...