You're on to something there. Do you think that wasn't the plan all along? Its just more of Apple's psychological marketing techniques. "I have to not think about it and just buy it on launch day or else I'll get screwed later."

This guy's offices are in my hometown. He has a whole series of ads of the same format, intensely violent images in the background, and him yelling at me for not calling him when I'm engulfed in flames up or my car is cut in half by a train or some other terrible thing.

They must work, we've been getting a kick out of them on local TV stations for probably 20 years now.

Why do people still live there again? Seriously though, I wonder what the morale of people who live there is like? Do they all hate it but have nowhere else to go, or are they just culturally complacent with their rights being trampled on?

Anyone who has already purchased one of these games, or who receives a copy from someone who has, has the right to demand this now.

Let me know how that goes for you.

Seriously. These assholes oughta be ashamed of themselves.

The world is now driven by greed my friend. Logic has no place in it anymore. Nothing happens by logic anymore, it all happens because it makes someone richer.

Fix the problems, not the symptoms. I worked in a similar situation for almost 3 years. When I first started, it was the same, printers jammed, machines frozen, virus infestations, generally someone's hair was always on fire. It being a nonprofit, there really was no IT budget, but money would be available every once in awhile. I made a list of thorns in my side, and what was needed to buy when the money was available. I consolidated printers to a could of networked copy machines (which were managed and serviced by a local company, that was a bonus), spent an hour here and there getting enterprise wide virus control deployed, and prioritized freezing machines to be upgraded. By the time I had left that job there was not much work beyond routine maintenance I had to do.

People actually see ads?

Couldn't you go the other way with it as well and basically have a homebrew mocap system?

Amen to that. Tiger Direct is where people go until they discover newegg and where only idiots stay after they've discovered newegg.