I chose it to relive a nightmare of my past. I was 14 years-old and I thought playing with He-Man was still cool. They were my friends and went through funerals, church (secretly of course), and a lot of other meaningful events. My best friend, or so I thought, brought a couple of girls over and I broke out the He-Man. They started laughing and left. It was this moment in time when I realized the fun innocence of youth was forcing me out. It just seemed I was about three years behind the curve. Fuck it, I still got those figures and they are still more loyal to me than anyone else.

There is no price/performance contest in comparing AMD Phenom Sexcore processors versus competitors. You could build a whole system around DDR3/i7 architecture, but it is unaffordable in large clusters. BTW, I am an AMD fanboy, especially after upgrading a cluster to the new Phenom chips. It was able to work perfect with DDR2 and saved a fortune just upgrading CPU's to get about a 15 percent performance increase. This only helps AMD.

Gnuwife. Otherwise we wouldn't have any money.

I think God built in many fail-safe mechanisms for destruction in case he forgets to push the red button. The earth colliding with Mars? Bring back the cosmic death movies on television!!

Surrounded by 1024 screaming 15,000RPM fans in a cold room with my tech bench. Noone can hear you scream!!!

I will gladly do hardware support for system developers and admins both. Break the machines all you want, you are under maintenance with my company, who unlike devs and admins, doesn't treat me with the least bit of respect. The random "failures" caused by experimentation keeps my job interesting. Only my customers at any IT job have ever respected my skills.

I just completed King's Quest III again. "Gwydion the chickens need feeding!" I miss the old Sierra Studios.

A hoax? How could you be such a pessimist when you know those two guys just unveiled the frozen bigfoot they caught? :D http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200834/1806/Shock-Bigfoot-claim-is-frozen-hoax/

All your batteries proven to catch on fire to the following address: Sales / Marketing Any Company USA. Thanks I need new IT stories at work.

Trade your games directly on craigslist. It works everytime for me. You don't lose 70 percent of the value by trading it in and you can just keep the cycle going...

I agree completely. IMHO, what is controversial today gets released tomorrow and it turns out society doesn't collapse with an explosion of rapists, murdering fiends, etc. All this is a lame attempt by the "moral majority" to keep us looking at the past and present through rose-colored glasses. No controversy here...nothing to see...move along.

Your right about the hardware for sure. When I got my first Tyan S2466 mainboard with Dual AMD's and 2gb of Ram I knew the party was over for exclusive vendors like Sun and SGI. Powerful and cheap like my last girlfriend.

It shouldn't surprise anyone who has paid the least bit of attention to hardware prices. It is almost impossible to compete with the x64 blades and clusters which are all the rage. Itanium? No thanks the customers I work with only want the best value AMD 64-bit setup. And the maintenance prices for equipment have fallen through the floor except for SGI's pricing model. It isn't 1999 pricing anymore and they lost.

Technology has moved how far since the 80's? I am talking out my ass, but wouldn't it be cheaper and more efficient to just buy someone's newer DARPA creation instead?

would it be unreasonable for companies to release end of the road chipset development including all engineering white papers, etc.? Especially those companies who found a niche market and pissed it all away? I just can't help but think someone would be interested. Copyrights, etc. be damned because the money has already been made.