Just call it rouge-like instead.

I admit I haven't checked this, but since the character lists are NOT shared between regions (Americas, Europe, Asia) would you not have an actual 3x10 characters available to you?

So that's four difficulties, 30 characters. I'm pretty sure after 120 complete runs through the game you do not want to start char #121, and if you do ... consider seeking help. NO GAME is that entertaining.

GameMaker, on the other hand ...

How do you suggest making the machinery figure out what needs to be exact duplicates, and what can be defaults? For instance, I'd really hate for it to confuse half my brain matter with generic body fat just because I was asleep or something.

It may be more accurate to say they won this battle, but the war is not over yet.

Full circle, 360 degrees.

Either that, or he pulled out a video game console, but I think he meant that he turned his car in a circle.

Backwards compatibility is a pretty good motivator, really.

We usually see that term when it comes to computers or consoles. Backwards compatibility on the expensive unit to still support the cheap peripherals (eg. games, joysticks). If there is no backwards compatibility offered, in most cases you still have the old machine able to sit next to the new one.

In this case, however, changing the form factor of the bulb (relatively cheap) may mean changing every lamp in your house, including that semi-heirloom chandelier in the hall. That is going to be very costly, and people hesitate because to the average person there's no real reason to suddenly replace 15-30 working lamps throughout the house, just because someone decided to make a new kind of bulb.

Been there.

Somehow the microwave, two computers, washing machine and clothes dryer were all on the same circuit.

Eventually, during a day of heavy spring cleaning while downloading stuff and making lunch the circuit couldn't take it anymore and blew out completely. The electrician only had one question: How the hell did it survive for this long?

In hindsight I should have gotten it looked at when turning on the microwave while washing clothes would make the lights dim.

No more than jet lag does. A couple of days down the line and your body has re-adjusted to the sun's cues.

Imagine a world functioning like this:

Everyone works 9-5. No one does anything personal in those hours.

Everything is CLOSED 5-9. No one does anything personal in THOSE hours, either.

Economy collapses after a couple of weeks.

Not to mention that this has nothing to do with personal emails, but the choice of words, sentence structure etc. in ANY email you write, which is likely to be affected by your current general state of mind.

Please re-read my post.

I'm not complaining that XP is about to go off life support.

I was correcting the GP's broad generalizations about current XP systems, particularly the part about not patching the system anyway.

That's a bit of a generalization.

Is it so hard to believe there are people with up-to-date XP systems who simply don't feel like forking out a couple hundred dollars to fix something that isn't broken?

Because without any government oversight EVERY SINGLE STORE is going to say "LULZ!" and remove any right of return whatsoever.

If you wish to refuse this claim, please add information on how this would not be the most cost-efficient solution for the company IF everyone did the same thing.

And they will do the same thing, same as how no one is advertising that they provide a 120 day return policy instead of 90.

And the moment someone does that, there will be screams of outrage about human rights violations.

I did not advocate killing them, contrary to most people responding here, simply finding a solution that would actually give the navy presence some bite to back up its bark, one way or the other. Be that sinking pirate ships on sight or actually being able to have them prosecuted, that's not for me to decide. Fortunately.

What is the use of this until a far greater problem with the Somali pirates is solved?

Capturing them does nothing. No African nation will take them and prosecute them, so after a few weeks the navy ships are forced to simply release them, after which they go right back to pirating. Until that problem is solved, really, what is the use of better detection tools?

That's trademarks.

IANAL either, but I'd imagine that CBS would be able to say, "Hey, since it's YOU guys, send us a dollar bill and we'll send you the script." In doing so they'd charged for the product, but just because you sell something at one price to one person doesn't mean you have to sell anything like it to everyone else for the same price, so they wouldn't be suddenly flooded with dollar bills for their entire collection of scripts.