Poppycock. You can spout all you want about the merits of green energy, but solar power is a terribly inefficient use of space. What will we do once we've filled up space with solar panels, huh? It'd be much better to just build a bunch of nuclear plants up there instead. Sarcasm aside, nuclear plants in space might not be such a bad idea if we can actually beam the energy to earth. Nuclear waste is no longer a problem, cooling is no longer a problem, not-in-my-backyard is no longer a problem, if we built a space elevator (which with a budget tied to the energy market [a multi-trillion dollar industry worldwide] would be pretty easy), then upkeep would be much more reasonable. It's worth a thought.

I suppose. I think there's something to be said about the mood set in cinematics that can't be with gameplay alone. Someone mentioned a cinematic of the Zerg attacking a science vessel, and you really get the feeling of how ruthless, unrelenting and uncompromising the Zerg are, and how terrifying engaging an opponent like that might be. Sure, the cinematic is just an example encounter and not terribly important plot-wise, but it adds a great deal to the realism of each individual conflict and a sense of desperation to the war as a whole. If that's not your bag, fine, but don't think that removing them to spend extra money of designers and programmers will make it a better game for everyone; for many it'll make it just an impersonal experience like Tetris or pong.

I'm guessing you've never read a newspaper headline. Using just a comma is a pretty common convention and any linguist will tell you that something is "proper" grammar so long as the reader understands it.

I don't know if those will make your laptop look more manly, but reading slashdot on it can't be helping.

Double wrong! It's a misspelling of the shocked question, "Jack eloped?!?"

Very clever :-)

They're fun to drive.

I wasn't aware that I did. I just suggested that banning things isn't always the way to go. If you're really trying to root out a hidden message in my post, it might be something more to the effect of, "solutions that force people to act a certain way are bad; solutions that people would freely choose to embrace are good." But even then, that wouldn't be a "claim", maybe just an implication.

Why ban either? Maybe it's just me, but I don't think the question should be what the right thing to ban is with the presumption that "We gotta ban something!" There are better solutions...

Why not take it a step further? Think of the emissions you'd prevent if you banned air conditioning entirely. Come on CA, everybody's got to do their part.

Bollocks! I tried learning from my mistakes once, and boy did that ever turn out bad. Now I know better than to try that again.

Probably because they handle more traffic than anyone else in the world, and their servers going down is a much more noticeable event than, e.g., GE's. And because the nature of their services probably complicates things as well.

Why would we need a more in-depth description? We already got our car metaphor!

You have the compact file size of a lossless codec with the crystal clear playback of a lossy one! Everybody wins!

I'm curious how damage is being done to the company in loss of good will. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the outrage caused by this lawsuit alone didn't cost them much more than $300M. I'm not sure whether the whole fiasco will cost them more than $200B, probably not, but I know many people who won't do business with AIG ever again if they can help it. Sometimes money grubbing is a bad business move.