http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329093

Interestingly enough, it also happens in UK...

You know Leland Yee didn't make the gun and publish the plans, right? And it is about him, the lawmaker, California State Senator Leland Yee I'm talking about?

I wonder if anyone is going to tell him there are cheaper and more efficient ways (for larger numbers) to make homemade guns.

His heart is in the right place, it is just his brain that has a problem...

You think that is bad, try a guild with "shared leadership", or "no leader", or "full democracy", or whatever, meaning there isn't someone calling the shots, and we had to "see what everyone thinks" every step of the way.

THAT is painful.

And there is it, my friends. The time investment is just too huge. Ok, I was playing way past 20 hours/week. 40 minimum, sometimes going past that when new content was released.

Now, instead of playing WoW, this is how I'm using that time:
- Went back to school. Law school.
- I'm reading 5-8 books/month

and I still got time to spare.

I am still in touch with the people I've met while playing, and even consider some of them good friends. I don't regret at all having played, or even playing as much as I did. But I'm happy I moved on.

Pfft. We drank Scotch and ate Parma Ham while raiding.

Most of the people I know simply quit and didn't go anywhere else. Mostly, they play some single player games now and again.
We were all hardcore raiders getting some top 10 US marks, in some top 100 US guilds.

It comes a point where you are just tired of playing, and every other game is enough alike to keep us away.

So, in answer to your 'where to' question, I guess the answer would be: back to real life.

Actually, you probably should compare with the $49.99/month subscription, since you are using the full [retail] version above, making it $7,198.56.

Which is a very stupid logic.

Eliminating a pirate doesn't mean you are transforming him into a customer. It almost never happen.

My guess is Adobe is targeting those legitimate customers who buy their software and use the same version, without paying for upgrades, for 4+ years. With the Cloud model, you are forcing them to (re)pay full price every year.

Just read http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329093

There isn't really much more to say about it...

Executive summary: allowing this is a really bad idea because it sets a legal precedent.

2.4.37.9 on mine. (10.03, r20728).
No complain, really.

You are probably thinking of a home or even a soho environment.

However, using a WRT box (as I call them) has other advantages, including power consumption, it is fanless (less noise and less prone to fail), has 5 programmable ethernet ports (multilink, load balancing etc), is cheap, easy to maintain and fast to replace.

It is choosing the right tool for the right job, mostly. Your ITX box is a good choice sometimes (minus IPCop). Other times, a WRT box is better.

Pretty much par of course for them.
For years now OpenWRT is becoming more and more bloated, to a point it is hard to make it run smoothly in the standard base device (WRT54GL). I haven't been able to use the standard image for at least 3 years now, having to build my own removing as much bloat as I can...

You don't have to know the application by it's name. If you need the application to, say, scan a document, you can type "scan" and you will see all the aplications that you can use for scanning.

No shit. Every time I heard someone saying he plans on building a private cloud on his computer, I ask myself why he just doesn't buy a mainframe.

I mean, not every server farm or server room can be compared to a mainframe. But these days, when companies have VMWare clusters and what-ever clouds, it is impossible not to draw a comparison since, functionally (and sometimes structuraly) they are pretty much like mainframes.