Sure, I'll get right on forcing the company I contract for to switch the OS on 1000 machines. Meanwhile, in non-bizarro-world, I will work with what I've actually GOT, is that ok with you?

Or you could just put the screenshots in a .zip file or something... And that would be handier and easier how exactly? How do the screenshots become individual files without pasting them into something first, such as Paint? That method sucks if you have several to collect. Open Word. Flip to what you need to snap. Hit Alt-PrintScreen. Flip to Word. Paste. Repeat as necessary. Save. You're not going to beat that with Paint, saving each individual shot into a specially prepared folder somewhere, then zipping that up. Work smarter not harder. What I really don't understand is how that classifies someone as an idiot.

I have distinct memories of the places I have been in in MUDs, and my memories show them most definitely in 3D. Sure, my brain had to do the rendering from the text descriptions of the rooms, but this was an automatic process, exactly like when you read a book. I was immersed in a world as vibrant and real as my imagination could make it. Superior in many ways to actual graphical displays that shortcut the imagination, leaving you stuck with exactly whatever the designers were able to come up with and no personal embellishment at all.

Go stick your head in a pig!

Maybe assuming that there is a gravitational constant is what the mistake is?

My point was this is not an every day, all the time ocurrance. These would be the "one-off" situations I mentioned. At least, I should hope so - if you're dislodging connections on a regular basis and pulling the thing over with the controller whenever you play, you need to re-examine your setup.

Umm, you're right, these are different scenarios. Kevorkian's intention was to END suffering. Lori Drew's motivation was to CAUSE suffering.

Most notebook optical drives I've ever seen have a friction-lock spindle that you have to "snap" the disc onto or off of. I would expect you could turn the notebook right upside down while a disc is spinning and not scratch it. But again, as already noted, they are designed to be portable. An XBox 360 on the other hand, is not. I have no idea why anyone would move it around while in use - I mean, the TV isn't coming along with it, why would you suddenly have the need to move the console while in use? There are always little one-off situations I suppose, but that's hardly the manufacturer's concern. This story is instead about how the thing is poorly engineered so that a normally-spinning disc is able to wobble in some way that allows it to get scratched regardless of what the user does with it, so a lawsuit seems to have merit.

I'd always thought that the American Dream was actually sitting around on your ass while someone hands you a massive payoff for no reason at all. Or at least, that's how people seem to behave.

I paid $10 for a wind-up flashlight that appears to have the same style of 3-LED array as this one. It's nice and bright, requires about 1 minute of winding to provide 15 minutes of full illumination, with less-bright light available after that. Considering that I never need anything other than a working pair of hands to charge it, I think the one I've got is much better for ensuring there will always be light when I need it. In a power outage, or out in a tent somewhere, a 90-second DC charge time doesn't do me any good at all.

Not having to dig out the stupid disc and put it in the drive (and risking a scratch) every time I want to switch to a different game is an awesome reason to use cracks or mounted images for games I have bought. I don't know about you but I don't play only one game every day until I'm sick of it and never play it again, I rotate among several. Each of these games is cracked even though I paid for it, because then I can just launch it and go. Not to mention increased performance in many cases -- that alone should persuade anyone that does play only one game at a time.

How does the signal get into your house? The "last loop" also referred to as the "last mile" is the path to your house from the street. In most all cases that part's still copper. Fiber comes to the neighborhood from the head-end, but it has to be converted onto copper to get it into your house. This is because you haven't got anything in your basement to convert fiber to copper for the old wiring in your walls, plus your modem only takes a copper input.