I've got a fairly heavy duty cable package as well, but after months of not even watching it, I'll be cutting it completely when I get home.
I've got my old computer hooked to my TV so I can watch anything online or acquired online quite easily on my HDTV. Cable is just not worth the monthly fee considering how absolutely crappy it is.

As we were taught in the Air Force: CYA - COVER YOUR ASS. Assume that your bosses are going to fuck you over when they screw something up horribly. Assume that your superiors will dump the blame on you. Assume that everyone you work with is a retard. If your boss asks for information, give it to him, but get records of what the hell is going on. You can't get in trouble if there's documentation and proof showing it wasn't your fault. Then when it all blows up you can go "ha ha, I told you so."

That said, this never should have gone to court. This whole thing reeks of butthurt office morons flexing their muscle just to feel better about their own incompetence.

Also, did the remove the ganet from this episode because it wet it's nest?

The even bigger joke is that they talked about this exact form of censorship a few seasons back and it involved the words the Prophet Muhammed. It just goes to show how on the ball Matt and Trey really are.

Reactor...online...
Sensors...online...
Weapons...online...
All systems...nominal..

Oh hell yes. I own the entire MW4 series, but it'll still be awesome to see MW4 get released like this. MekTek has been fantastic with keeping the community going and with MW4 being green lighted for a free release, I know I'll be eager to introduce a few friends of mine to the game and getting into some heated mech battles.

"Yeah, up up, down down, left right, left right, B A doesn't work in Quake 3. So much for memorization."
You're obviously forgetting to hit start, duh.

"though there clearly is some benefit to prior video game experiences help you learn new video games." If as you play more and more video games, you actually pay attention to the design of the games as opposed to just blindly playing through the game, you will develop a very keen '6th sense' in video games and it has a lot to do with the fact that you've learned how to get inside the head of the developers who make games. You get a very good sense for the inherent pacing that a lot of games tend to have, so the more games you play, the harder it will be to surprise you. You'll feel a lull in combat for instance and just have that sense that you may be about to hit a sub-boss fight or a big enemy wave.
An excellent example was when me and a few friends were playing through Borderlands and we were coming up on the Roid Rage Psycho boss. Before you get to him there's a hall you have to go down that gets oddly quiet and at the end you have to drop down off a ledge. We all just looked at each other and all remarked that there just "HAD to be a boss fight coming up." Sure enough the Psycho spawned in once we all got down into the boss arena.
Another good example in the opposite spectrum is the opening Marine level of AVP 2. We were so used to playing FPSs that pretty much had you running and gunning from level 1 that when this game came along presented us with an opening level that didn't have any shooting whatsoever, it had a lot of us jumping at shadows and actually getting shaken up by the atmosphere soley because the game was going against everything other video games had taught us pacing wise.
Playing Brain Age might not develop any new thinking skills like playing a really involved RTS would, but much like doing a daily crossword puzzle, it will help to keep your brain from essentially atrophying.

Intel is riding high right now and thinks that everyone will fall right in step no matter what Intel does. They're getting greedy, pure and simple and it's about to bite them in the ass.
I was going to write something completely different after this, and then I read the last line of the article.
"Oh, one last thing: one of our sources states LGA2011 will launch with quad-and six-core CPUs (with Hyper-Threading so eight and 12 execution units) although another source has stated eight-core CPUs are also on their way"
Really? They couldn't do anything else with Socket 1366? Good job Intel, you're going to manage to piss off a lot of people all at once. Oh well, it was time for the playing fields to reverse again. Sure Intel's processors may be the biggest and baddest on the block, but if I have to switch out my motherboard every time they issue a new generation of processors, then I think I'm going to switch back to the AMD camp (I always did have a soft spot for my old Athlon 2800+ rig. That thing was unbreakable.)
Funny how both GPU and CPU leaders seem to swap at the same time. Nvidia just recently shot itself in the foot with their 400 series cards, and Intel is about to do the same with yet another generation of sockets. Meanwhile Radeon is riding high with their latest offerings from the 5000 series and if they play their cards right, AMD is going to end up stomping Intel if only due to the fact that consumers are going to get tired of Intel's shit.

The interesting part here is that Crysis's 'demo' was just an opening chunk of the first level. That cuts out early. Someone more familiar with these sorts of things really needs to explain how a code cut and paste is "prohibitively expensive."

The plan all along was to bring in the actors from the individual movie franchises together for the big Avengers flick. I'm not sure why you'd think otherwise.
Joss Whedon would be a HORRIBLE pick for a movie like this, and I really have to wonder why in the hell they just don't have Jon Favreau direct the damn thing. He's proving to be quite adept at the superhero movie gig.
Joss Whedon on the other hand wouldn't know what to do with an action oriented movie. Characters that, yanno, have to do things besides just talk and talk and talk. Now, dialogue isn't a bad thing at all, lord knows I loves me some well written dialogue, but this is a superhero movie, and superheroes are expected to get out their and beat some ass, and that is definitely not Whedon's bag. Plus, I doubt he's got the force of personality required as a director to wrangle actors like Robert Downey Jr.

He's a bad pick through and through for a project like this.

Ahhh Linux. Old and outdated computer that you don't want to part with? Linux box!
Kid fucked up and bought a Mac and learned to hate it in a hurry? Linux box!
Bricked your Windows PC? Linux box!
Found out that your PS3 isn't as awesome as you originally thought it would be? Linux box!

Linux, making useless computers not suck since 1991.

Yeah, that was my first thought when I read that article. I can't play driving games in 3rd person view, I always jump to either first person or the hood camera. The entire article is just bogus. Real life drivers play iRacing and comment on how it helps, there's that Grand Turismo kid that got to go do the real thing, and even for me personally, before I ever got behind the wheel I already had the basic concept down for driving. Slowing down in turns, proper brake management, etc.

Too bad the article itself can't be modded down.

True story. I gave HoN a shot in closed beta and was immediately treated to the same level assholery that plagues DotA and kept me from ever actually wanting to play that game online. It's hard to enjoy a game when you're being kicked for "being a noob" all of the damn time. HoN was flooded pretty bad right from the start with that crap, and even LoL and Demigod got inundated with it. It's part of the reason that I only ever played Demigod and DotA vs bots.

The DotA and DotA clone communities make Xbox Live look like a hippy playland where everyone holds hands and sings Kumbaya in harmony.

Did they really need to do a study to prove something we already knew? At least they fully admitted that it was just a matter of parents making sure that their child's time spent with video games is limited. Of course, that won't stop parents from blaming video games anyway.

What's so wrong with being independent?

Except to willingly associate yourself with the Republican party in its current incarnation is just as bad as endorsing the Democrats in their current state. You have to be willfully ignorant to completely ignore the massive failings of our two current political parties and want to be a member. In my eyes that does make you a moron.