I was talking about pirates, not myself. :P

Remember: Time is money, pirating costs time, buying costs money. And you got it exactly right 17 year olds are more likely to not be able to afford a high end computer, so will have more antiquated computers.

I still play a lot of Quake III, so I bump into more 30 and 40 year olds there actually. :)

Also quick disclaimer: I've never played, downloaded, pirated or know anyone who plays Crysis 2.

So I'm looking at "Have fun playing on your antiquated hardware with a bunch of 17 year olds." and thinking, what? You need a little more of a meaty comment to chew on there.

But how many people kept it on their computers for over a week?

I'd bet a good chunk of those are from "Will my computer run Crysis 2?" or "Is this game worth buying or is it garbage?" throw in a few hoarders (You know, those ones who pirate everything, but never play a thing) on top of poor college students who are surviving on ramen noodles.

Also, since beta leaked before the actual final version, I'd bet many folks who bought it pirated it before hand, just to see if it would be worth their money.

You don't need a terrorist organization, we have what's needed to do this already.

Anybody with a vendetta against a website can basically shut it down with a bit of effort, pretending to be an organization.

Good old fashioned internet trolls will cause mass chaos if this actually goes into effect as written.

By the way: Raid finder is only for the current tier raid (Deathwing) not older raids, you have it backwards. Big thing is it's on an "easy" difficulty only, so you don't get the "best" gear from it. This will probably change, most people are wanting to do normal and even heroic content with raid finder raids.

We'll probably see raid locks go away eventually, there's a hardcore mentality that things have to stay "hard" in terms of needing lots of time invested, instead of "hard" as a form of challenge. They serve an important purpose allowing people to take more time to finish raids, which tend to be giant instances taking hours and hours of time. If it takes you 6 hours to kill all the bosses, having your time investment go away after you leave is bad. Most guilds spread these across 2~3 days in smaller chunks. Many guilds even invest just an hour a night in raiding, making it their main focus.

As far as rez sickness, as well as the waiting time, they're an integral part of world pvp. Without them you end up in situations where new players are camped for hours on end.

It's more than just parents, it is a factor, but it isn't a big thing.

What would help more than anything would be simply to hire more teachers. Classes are overcrowded, and you have ratios of 50~70 students to one teacher.

In the past, students who fell behind could be caught and individually helped by teachers, right now, there's just too many students per teacher to be able to catch up, so students who don't get help at home don't have a chance. Add onto that kids today having to pick up more than their parents did, and you end up with even willing parents who can't help.

Money spent on building classrooms and hiring more teachers would go worlds beyond investing in laptops and other things. The ideal ratio is about 1 teacher for every 7 students, that isn't practical, but if we could get it to where it was 20 years ago (1 teacher for every 30 students) it would be an improvement.

There's an easier alibi, which is being completely honest:

I was really curious where the fedex truck would end up, so just for kicks, I fedexed my phone to myself.

I wanted to see why they were taking so damned long to get my packages to me.

They're using two types of controllers: The wii controllers and the new one. Most games will probably end up using the wii motion plus types of controllers.

It's not even a huge leap in innovation, they're bringing the same "gimmick" that turned out to be a giant success with the DS to a console.

It's also enough of a nod that Sony is listing their new PSP as being workable as a controller with PS3, and selling it as such.

Radio has completely replaced television news for me. I live in Minnesota, so our local public radio (Minnesota Public Radio) has very solid news. Commercial news outlets (other radio stations, television) have totally devolved to the point of not really having any actual news to me. Nothing on reporting the local legislature and goverment, nothing on local happenings aside from "people stories" and an increased take on always pushing whatever big crisis is going on.

What's sad is, most of the broadcasters are the same, and over the years I've seen worse and worse stories pushed on them, and you can see a sinking feeling on their end as things change up. They have gotten a little better lately, which is good, but they still obviously have awful stuff pushed on them by their parent company (which is sadly... Fox News)

Yes, Wings of Liberty and Heart of the Swarm will also be on separate ladders as well.

As someone who's worked for years as a web developer: Knowing what browser people are using is 100% needed.

Mostly, you use it as a priority list as far as what browser bugs you're fixing, it's not as serious now, but I know there's many web developers waiting for IE6 usage to drop below .1% so they can safely ignore it.

Now, using content headers to "guess" which version of a page to serve up is wrong (you can easily use mobile stylesheets for that) but we're nowhere near that kind of real world application.