Sure, I'd be more than happy to open my wifi network...if it meant I wasn't going to be liable for what a guest does on it....

Exactly. Hunting and sports shooting is great, but that was NOT what the 2nd amendment was for. I'm with you both. Scary stuff going on lately...

Simple solution for publishers: release DRM free games and those who oppose DRM will buy them. Yep, some will pirate regardless, but those would also pirate DRM'd games. And yes, I know the type of DRM they are talking about for SimCity and the type Diablo 3 had makes it all but impossible to pirate, but you can see the negative backlash that is creating.

I recently got a free copy of Far Cry 3 with a new video card. I had to jump through major hoops creating an account just to try to get the damned thing working. Then I had to log in to that account every time and the game kept crashing. So I grabbed a cracked copy, installed it quickly and with no problems, and played hassle free offline. Publishers are just getting stupid with this shit.

A recent movie dealing with time travel in a good way was Looper, I thought. I liked that movie a lot more than I thought I would.

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Reminds me of the time they invested $150 Million in Apple. At the time I took it as an attempt to diffuse talk of them stealing Mac OS for Windows. Doesn't really apply here, but almost has the same feel.

No doubt. The man legally changed his name to Kim Dotcom. That's not attention whoreish at all...

/sarcasm

I'm with you. Just starting to realize that I need to get more involved. "Be the change you want to see..." and all that. It may not have much of an impact, but doing nothing will definitely have no impact.

Hey, no fair bragging!

Someone from the Department of Redundancy Department, perhaps?

All I know is I used it for a while last night with no issues at all. Open an image, edit it a bit, apply some filters, change some colors, sharpen, then save as in a couple of different file formats - whatever I've tried to do has worked completely normally. Of course it's possible I will notice glitches down the road, and honestly if I do, who cares, but at the moment it seems to be working perfectly after messing with it for a while.

Downloaded and installed from the link in the article and it works fine on win 7 x64.

I just downloaded and installed Photoshop from the link with TFA and it works fine on win 7 x64.

YES! I just spent the last 5 minutes searching for the exact joystick I had for my C64 when all I had to do was look further down the thread. That's *exactly* the joystick I had. Oddly there are many that look very similar, but the name even rings a bell with me.

On a side note, my absolute largest regret in life is I let my wife garage sale my C64. I had a tape drive, two 1541s, an MPS801 printer (no true descenders FTW!), 1702 monitor, and about 3 shoe boxes full of 5 1/4" floppies. Can't believe what an idiot I was for agreeing to that. My step daughter and son are still pissed at her for doing it and me for agreeing to it (even though they were very young/not born yet at the time).

Good point.

I was thinking about it, and part of it may be that the way teenagers are communicating is evolving past phones and text messages. As I said he IS technologically literate so he would probably be on the cutting edge of any such trends, whether I realize it or not. I will say he Skypes a lot. Mainly with a couple friends he plays Minecraft with, but I looked over his friends list the other day in Skype and it's pretty big. He doesn't have a video camera for his computer (and thankfully hasn't asked for one) so it's all audio. But there's a lot of it.

I guess if that's the case that would make his opinion valuable to tech companies. And I guess he did participate in one paid research study sponsored by Mozilla about how, when, where and why he uses Firefox. So maybe tech companies have recognized all of this before me. But that's not surprising. For being smart, I'm notoriously bad at noticing obvious things.

Marginally more on-topic: I still don't have a "smart phone". I have a shitty Samsung feature phone (which I hate; I want my old Razr back, but I digress). I'm almost always in front of a desktop with a net connection, I commute all of 5 miles to work, don't travel, and mostly shop online. Why would I need a smart phone?