Hi, I'm a Linux gamer. When I get bored, I have my choice of the following: Advent Rising, Assassin's Creed(II), Borderlands, Crysis, Deus Ex, Diablo 2, Fable, Fallout 3, Gothic 1/2, GTA San Andreas, KotoR2, Max Payne 2, Oblivion, Oni, Psychonauts, all the STALKER games, Starcraft 2, Torchlight, Warhammer 40k, and last but not least all the Source games. You were saying?

Moore's law is ok. I prefer that law, forget the name right now, that says that as computational power increases, windows will require ALL of it to run, greatly increasing demand for CPU and RAM, and lowering the cost of hardware just behind the curve for the rest of us.

As Intel giveth, Microsoft taketh away.

Another world? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_World_(video_game)

Actually, Outcast.

Now suppose I move your brain's data into another organic brain, electronic brain, or anything else of the source. Would you continue to "live"? Would YOU continue to live?

Yes, and yes.

To make the point more clear, what if I made an identical copy and booted both at the same time. Do you suddenly develop a psychic link with your other self, experiencing both existences at once, living in two different places? ... ridiculous.

If you absolutely cannot dispense with the existence of a soul, just pretend it "finishes" up my life, then circles back around and lives the life of my copy. Since all informational attributes of the human mind can be biologically explained, this time-travelling "soul" does not violate causality (because it carries no information).

Let me put it like this. If a convention takes mental warping to persist, and does not have [i]serious[/i] force behind it, then it is either going to die out within one generation or otherwise it is already dead and some people just don't want to acknowledge its demise.

You sound like your cliché.

That has to be the first time I've seen the Chewbacca defense actually used.

Chicken poop.

You bought the CD. This implies a right to use the CD. Can you unpack the files manually? Can you create and distribute FOSS installers?

Every time I come across a post of yours, I feel a vague, nick-based kinship. :-)

Hi, I'm a Linux gamer. Wine is getting really really good nowadays, to the extent that when a new game comes out it actually has an estimated 50/50 chance of working out of the box or with minor tweaks. Amusingly, I'm using Steam too and it runs fine. Valve can be forgiven for not supporting Linux natively - their wine compatibility has always been very good. Not that it doesn't bum me.

Personally I have friends in the US that I could lan play with if Blizzard/Activision hadn't insisted on keeping it out as part of their silly struggle to keep everything running through crappy BNet2 - and if you think that has nothing to do with restrictions management, you're deluded.

It's called Poe's Law. Look it up.

You know what this thread needs?
More rhetoric and less sources!
Oh wait.

The converse question is; without letting you play a LAN game with only one gamedisc, would it ever have become the leader in esports?