Many of the game distributors use P2P as well - in the specific case of BitTorrent, for example Blizzard, Square-Enix and anyone who uses the Pando Media Booster (NCSoft, Riot Games, ...) are using it to deliver the games and their patches. Given the popularity of games like WoW, Diablo III or League of Legends, that's not really a "minor share"

Also, Pando Media Booster is basically just a BitTorrent client (really - run their PMB.exe through IDA Pro to see the protocol strings for yourself). This is used by a lot of game companies and others to distribute their files and updates, for example NCSoft (Lineage II, Aion, City of Heroes/Villains, Guild Wars, ...).

Hardware is just physics and physics is just applied mathematics, so everything can be reduced to a mathematical problem ... if you're willing to be silly and unhelpful enough.

FPSs are not the owners or even the originators of co-op multi-player. The original Neverwinter Nights for example had it and it worked very well (a RPG similar to ME).

The original Neverwinter Nights? Of course it hat multi-player. It was a pure multi-player game after all (too bad it was restricted to AOL customers). That's like saying Ultima Online, Everquest or Meridian 59 had "some" multi-player capabilities and it worked for them.

Wake me up when I can finally use 16, 32 or 64 bits per channel, and the channels aren't restricted to RGBA or integers ...

By killing Jews he did not put himself into conflict with the Christians, 5 min. looking into European history will tell you; Killing Jews is the great Christian pastime.

Yeah. For us in Europe, it ranks second only to killing other Christians.

My question would rather be, what does planting my seed in some hoe have to do with sowing?

> What makes them think the moon's crawlspace is not already in use?

By whom? Cat Women? :D

I believe you mean "risky" not "dangerous." The most dangerous item I own is probably a knife.

Funny. I consider my brain to be more dangerous than all of the other things I own combined, by several orders of magniture.

The thing that floors me is that people get hit by trains. TRAINS! We're talking like five-thousand plus tons of steel rumbling down a track, and people don't notice. How is this even possible? How self-absorbed do you have to be to notice a freaking TRAIN. I used to live not far from a freight line and the whole bloody ground shook when a train went by...

Having both of my grandfathers working for the local rail company at some point, and living about 50m from a heavy-duty rail line the first years of my life, I can safely say that most people have just no imagination as far as the physics of a moving train goes, and why you should double- and triple-check if you're free to cross the line even if it has traffic lights which say you're free to go.

On the negative side, I don't need to imagine the consequences of when you don't check properly ... and I cringe every time expecting another bloody mess whenever I see people doing stupid stuff like ignoring railway crossing gates being down.