I didn't know "Tycho Brahe" was a real person who is not Jerry Holkins.

I hate DRM as much as the next slashdotter, but I actually know a real case that supports why they do this stuff.

I have a friend who pirated Street Fighter 4 (yep, a Capcom game), loved it, and never bought it. He waited a long time for a pirated version of Super Street Fighter 4 to appear. When it didn't happen, he went ahead and bought it.

He is the reason Capcom and these other companies use DRM.

I'd be interested to know how many people out there are like him as opposed to how many are in the boycott crowd, but it'd be pretty tricky to determine that.

I'm not gonna lie. Watching my friend in front of me play RPGs on his laptop was the only thing keeping me awake some days...

You're making never leaving the house sound wayyy too scientific!

In case you're wondering the discrepancy, its NIV vs KJB

Here are the links if someone cares:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Timothy+6%3A9-10&version=NIV

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Timothy%206:9-10&version=KJV

Go right ahead! You'll be a hero.

Unfortunately, to do a decent job at what you're saying would take several days of effort. Heck, even to make wallpaper sized image would take hours.

I think someone smarter than me might have an easier time hacking the site and finding access to the raw images than to do what you're suggesting.

Is it just me, or is section 3 saying that its legal for a child to have a handgun if he's using it, but not otherwise? That sounds rather curious...

It's still huge in Big Business, where COBOL also remains alive and well.

From what I've seen, it's still largely popular as a web application language for the server-side. Usually an alternative to .NET.

Did any of those times lead to...more activity?

They should leave the space sims to Blizzard. They seem to be doing pretty well with them...

Interestingly, it's just "Documents" in Windows 7. They're not mine anymore apparently. :-)

I've read reports that using vsync helps as well.

This 15 page thread has some people who say they've had melted cards. A lot of the problems seem to be with laptops. As a corollary, people are reporting that the "fix" also helps with Alt+tab speed if anyone cares about that. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/starcraft2/show_msgs.php?topic_id=m-1-55785055&pid=939643&page=2 Since I haven't seen anyone else post the fix, I will: Add the following lines to your "Documents\StarCraft II\variables.txt" file: frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 You can add them to the beginning, end, or wherever. The game doesn't care.

How much cooler would this story be if he actually used a fake lightsaber to threaten people with?

My mind's drawing a blank on why your code would have a semi-colon followed by a parenthesis. Can you give me an example?