Mass Effect 2 isn't on Steam any more because Valve wasn't happy about DLC for it only being sold by EA through an in-game store.

To clarify: It's not that it had an in-game store they disagreed with, only that users couldn't pay for it from their Steam wallets.

Fun fact: Windows XP has been around for 12 of those 15 years and is still supported until April next year.

Poorly written version detection is why Windows 7 self-identifies as 6.1

Turns out that 6.0 (and 7.0) fail the old
if (majorVer >= 5 && minorVer >= 1)
idiocy that places were using to check if you were running XP instead of Win2K.

The Firefox release notes say you're wrong.

Aren't they limited by encoders, etc. that support DRM? Not a slam against DRM or anything here, honest answer to the OP's question.

It's actually quite a bizarre parallel to the time-shifting arguments posed to TV shows.

I went in and changed it manually after I saw this, but it was never reset by name.com in the first place...

They probably just assumed that they had a right to seize the phone and its contents as evidence, since that's how it normally works (what a person has on them at the time of arrest can be seized freely).

If you'd read the article, you'd have noticed that ESEA beat you to that idea.

Yeah, this was one of the major turn-offs for me. I wanted to use a couple of the apps, but once I saw ads I uninstalled them immediately. I have ad-free alternatives that work just as well. Putting ads in the default apps was a big mistake.

Steam also tends to sell games for dirt cheap, or at least below retail value. Being unable to re-sell off of Steam is bad, don't get me wrong, but the punch hurts a little less if I can't sell the $5 Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, as opposed to the $60 copy of HALO 4.

In general (but not always), people tend to accept the lack of being able to resale as a trade-off for lower prices, digital download, etc. Maybe one day (pipe dream), Steam will set up an e-Used Game Market that Steam users could buy, sell, and trade games around with. I have no idea how legal it would be for them to do that (i.e. certain publishers might not like it, be able to stop it, etc.), but it would certainly alleviate a lot of concerns.

Wrong answer.

Steam's ads only appear when you visit the Store page or exit a game for the first time after starting Steam. The exit game ads can be disabled in Steam's settings. Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, and sale items.

PS3's ads are little scrolling text messages in the upper-right corner of the system's main menu.Incidentally, these ads are limited to new games, recently updated games, sale items, and PSPlus price reductions.

The Xbox 360's ads are a set of 6 or so ads taking up 3/4 of the screen area after you turn the system on. And this is the same for every single tab in the UI with the exception of the Bing search tab. Incidentally, these ads are for new games, new DLC, Xbox Live Gold, and the other 3 are for whomever is paying Microsoft the most money today.

So yeah, the 360 has a lot more advertising on it and irritating advertising at that.

The face that they sold it then turned around and started a direct competitor using its own source code could potentially land them in hot water.

Pepper Flash may not be working due to an issue with the 11.6 Flash releases. At least Flash 11.6 has problems with Amazon video on Windows, I just assume it's a multi-platform problem.