Yea, Roland has had good instruments and samples for quite some time and when arranged properly they totally do the trick.

I guess it is no longer Apple Computers, but is just Apple Inc now.

Ten years ago I had a 1.5mb cable modem from Comcast (actually I think I got my first cable line in 1998).
Today I have a 20mb cable modem from RCN (which costs nearly 2x as much as the 1.5mb line I used to have).
Each of these were the fastest consumer lines available to me.
100mb in 10 years sounds rather unambitious really. Consumer usage (I'm assuming) is probably growing at a rate akin to Moore's Law. There would be 6 and 2/3 cycles of Moore's Law in 10 years. My 20mb line should turn into a 1300mb line in 10 years at this rate and consumer usage will probably meet the demands.
Unfortunately by this logic I should have a 96mb line available already, which isn't true at least where I live

"Not cookie based, not IP based, but stop it you creeps angry phone call based. It ain't a pure useful service, and it ain't a pure privacy invasion. But I sure wish they'd go away and have had the decency to never start up in the first place."

Please tell me that the writer is either a non-native English speaker, or they didn't read that twice?

No joke. I'd call my friend that's trying to cross the border and let them know they couldn't be seen. Duh.

I think they are either trying to be overly ambitious and unrealistic with themselves, or knowingly going to the press with absurdly low pricing to get headlines and discussion (like this) happening- but when/if it comes to light the price will be 2-3x of this. OLPC has got some lofty goals, but I don't know if they fully saw netbooks coming (competition) and have obviously before have came out with announcements of unrealistic pricing ($100 laptop) and when they released they were 2x that.

We developed our initial product (imVOX... http://imvox.com/ in .NET for Windows, but then we wanted to move over to OS X and Linux as well. Instead of rewriting completely in Java or C (which we didn't have the time or money for on our schedule), we thought to use Mono. Otherwise creating 3 separate code bases to maintain and debug with a small team, Mono seemed to do the trick (for now). By no means do we claim that .NET/Mono or C# is the best thing in the world- but similar to using Rails, we needed rapid application development to get a shippable product out the door in order to raise more money. We didn't have time to write it in C on 3 platforms from the first day. I think this makes sense. When someone loads us up with cash- we'll probably re-write in C++ or something, but not today.

I'll second many parts of this review. I'm feeling that more and more of the 'review' websites were paid off to give perfect reviews of this game.

First, there's the bugs. The camera is nothing but annoying. I started as an elf and went on a rampage through his manor. My character was screaming half the time about killing humans, even when he was killing guard dogs. Didn't make sense. There's more little things like this throughout.

The "this can be played like four games" thing that they were spinning the other week is totally bunk. It doesn't come off as that- it seems instead scattered and inconsistent.

The graphics aren't bad, but they certainly aren't good. The way they just blurred the backgrounds (which you can sometimes see in focus around people's hair and stuff) instead of doing real DoF like most modern games. Kinda a cheap way out. The faces generally look pretty good, but the scenery really isn't anything amazing.

This game is NOT Baldur's Gate. The AD&D rules held Baldur's Gate together really well. It made it a little unshocking when you'd get a new spell, but it was a comfort that I enjoyed. It also made it so that things had real numbers behind them. The Talent Tree sucks and is hard to tell what in the world I should do. Also- unlike AD&D your stats constantly increase per level. I initially assumed that they'd stay firm like AD&D or at least close like Fallout 3.

While it might have made the dialogue even longer, I really voice they had voiced the PC's parts. Otherwise you seem mute and without character or life. A lot of the characters are supposed to be 'likable', but I didn't find that to be true at all. There is no Minsk and I constantly disagree with the actions of my character, let alone the party.

I definitely miss finding 'good stuff' in the chests, and the battles just didn't seem tactical enough. I wish I could make it actually stop after each turn like Baldur's Gate for those battles that MUST be executed perfectly. Feels much more 'hack and slash'. It being a game that's born out of AD&D (somewhat) I was also disturbed at first with the death system. I guess it does stop just me resurrecting people or carrying pheonix downs or similar.

Not a bad game, but some of these 'pro reviewers' were definitely paid off. Not perfect. BG:2 was perfect. This is more like a 7/10.