Shh... don't give EA, Activision, or Ubisoft any new ideas.

At least you didn't get addicted to that Pacman. Listening to repetitive music, munching pills, and running from ghosts.

Ya, but you grew up with video games where you had real buttons so you could use them without having to watch your hands.

Now days the touch screen has the controls on the display and you always have to keep checking your positioning to make sure you are hitting the right thing.

I wonder if they also make their own GPUs For use in brute force attacks.

If so could I buy a graphics card off them? I'm sure it would still windup cheaper than the current crypto markup on retail units.

Am I reading that right. Sending a text to Facebook will show the post on their page?

It's pretty easy to spoof where an SMS came from. This could be fun.

There was also Windows 2000 Professional which was the "workstation" version.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000#Editions

Have you tried RMAing your defective phone? It's difficult for them to fix something that's broken in hardware with just software. Just look at Intel.

Mostly just a single retail game, and several digital-only per month. They say 2 PS4 games a month, but many PS3 or Vita indies are cross-buy so you also get the PS4 version.

That said I'm not really interested in most of the game, but it's a good way to try out indies I'd otherwise pass up. Rocket League, in particular, was a PS+ game at its launch and got the game into a lot of people hands and helped it gain popularity.

Microsoft's newer game pass is a better deal. It's $10/month and lets you play the games on your system unlike Playstation Now. The new Microsoft published games will also be placed on the service on launch day. But Microsoft's offerings pale in comparison to Sony's.

Every PS4 game does fully copy itself to the console. However, unlike the XBOne, Sony has a patented partial install that puts just the startup files on the HDD, and streams the rest over as you play.

The way I heard the streaming works is that when loading and a file isn't on the HDD, it will read the file off the disk, and copy the file onto the HDD at the same time. It will also continue the copy when the system is in it's standby mode.

Give the PS4 a try if you haven't yet. Over the holiday shopping season they were down to $200 and included a $50 gift card.

While the PS3 had some fun games, the interface was laggy and felt tacked on. The PS4's feels smooth, and has fun features like the game DVR and remote play.

The library isn't quite up to the PS2's yet being that's it's been only four years so far. But I've talked with multiple people who feel like the PS4 is the true successor to the PS2.

At least you didn't waste the money on the plans to build a "hovercraft".

Nah, subsidize loses, privatize profits. The US tax payer will fund the roll out of this network. It will then be chopped up and the different regions will be sold to small regional private companies for pennies on the dollar. And those small regional companies will be purchased by AT&T, Verizon, etc.

But reader only exists to allow the consumption of documents created in full Acrobat.

Not all Adobe products would be able to support having a free reader version.

In the case of Photoshop and Premiere they do offer an Elements home user targeted version that is a boxed perpetual license. These allow photo and video editing while stripping out some professional only features.

What other Adobe products would you use, that are sub only?

That's one of the fears. The other is turning people away from PC gaming and back to the console.

Yes, you get more choice, and higher quality graphics with a PC. But when the graphics cards are hard to get and being marked up $200 over MSRP, while over the Christmas shopping season PS4s were available for $200.

And that's not taking the RAM prices into account. When I built my PC six years ago, RAM was $20 for 8GB. It's now roughly $100 for 8GB, with 16GB kits running just under $200.

A few years ago PCs were blowing past what the PS3/Xbox360 could do. Now the graphical differences are less noticeable to the average consumer.

Don't look at the spices aisle then.