I don't support the patent, but I also don't support the submitter's complete troll of a description.

Windows 7 shuts down very fast, and it's actually really nice that it asks if you want to close unsaved documents - I'd rather have to click one more time on "Force Shutdown" than have it force Photoshop or Word closed when I forget one of my tens of documents isn't saved yet.

People still use Konqueror? Even if I was running Linux, I'd be using Chrome, or Firefox, or Opera..

Oh and dialup really isn't that bad.

I'll still have to disagree with you on this point ;-)

This is the saddest part of this. I don't give a shit about AOL, other than the fact that they own Winamp.

Granted, Winamp is basically completely mature right now and I can't think of any more features I want. I just hope when newer operating systems are released, Winamp will still work, or that someone will take over for the occasional bugfix.

Also, iTunes and WMP work well enough for me since versions 9 and 11, respectively - when they became pretty full-featured and fast. But I still love me some Winamp - I started using it at version 2.

You're right about the wireless anywhere human beings reside - it's not hard to find internet on the go, even assuming you don't have it through your smartphone already.

$7/month is also easy to beat if you value your time at all. What's a minimal DSL subscription these days, $20? At 1.5Mb/s, this is still approximately 37 times faster than dial-up.

Doesn't AOL require you to install their bloatware to connect as well? Gross! :P

The Omar offer a wide variety of biomodification canisters with full piezochem compatibility - you should talk to them.

It's not always because us car-drivers are talking on cell phones that we almost hit you motorcyclists.

It's because motorcycles are so damn small, and because people who drive them frequently drive them too fast and change lanes too often - I can check my blind spot to make a turn, and by the time I turn my head forward and do it there can be a motorcycle that has weaved into the blind spot, completely hidden from my mirror views. This has happened to me. I have almost hit motorcyclists several times, and not because of talking on my phone - because they and their bikes are too damn small. They almost always proceed to flick me off as well, as if I should have some sort of 360-degree camera on top of the car watching out at all times for assholes.

Don't take this as an insult to you - if you drive your motorcycle at reasonable speeds without a ton of lane-weaving, anyway. Also, if your motorcycle is quiet and doesn't disrupt everyone's conversation and dinner within a 4-block radius when you unnecessarily rev the engine.

In the same vein, I hate trucks. I can't see a damn thing when they're around me and I'm trying to make a turn, or when they're in front of my shining their lights directly at my eye level. Most of these people don't need to haul anything anyway - and they've got a bald-eagle-and-American-flag stencil on their back window, along with a Calvin-pissing-on-opposing-truck-manufacturer sticker.

What are you talking about? These are THE GAMES people want to be playing! Have you seen xEyes?

but you aren't even going to consider your option to start your own competing service?

Yeah, because that's reasonable. Valve has been in the industry for 12 years and they've established the biggest digital game distribution platform. You're saying he should consider starting his own service to compete (and do better at making anti-cheat software) because some people couldn't play MW2 for a weekend?

Whether it's beneficial to them or not, it still shows how good customer service can be conducted to benefit both the company and the consumer. Valve is one of the most community-friendly game developers, which is all the more amazing since they're such a successful company (not just a small indie developer).

Had this happened in a previous Call of Duty game, PunkBuster wouldn't have done a damn thing about it other than releasing a patch. If anyone cries foul at Valve's generous solution, they need to take off the tinfoil hat and also realize that not playing Modern Warfare 2 for a weekend isn't so bad.

Ha - sounds like the two extremes of cat personalities. I stand corrected. I prefer the first type (same kind I have), except when I'm trying to sleep - he craves attention, i.e. sitting on the face of sleeping people.

You've obviously never owned a cat. I can sit there talking at my cat loudly while he's sleeping (I know, I know - what the hell is wrong with me?), and he won't move or open his eyes at all. The second I say "Norman", even quietly, his head perks up and he looks at me. I know it's just the combination of sounds that he's used to hearing, being associated with me petting or feeding him - but he definitely answers to it, sometimes with a MOW.

I have no idea what the real timestamps on my oldest files are. Over the years, with hard drive crashes, I've done full recoveries/backups of everything between filesystems on Linux (NTFS > ext2 > NTFS again, for example) and then the timestamps were all lost. However, I am able to know the date I recovered them!

I do know for sure that some of my MP3s were from the Napster days around 1999-2000..

I'm not concerned with babysitting users. I'm concerned with having my sites work on their browser. The most work I do to that end is a warning for IE6 and IE7 that they should upgrade to IE8, Chrome, or Firefox (with links).

Well obviously letting IE die is the way to fix the REAL problem. This isn't about the real problem - this is about a really nice bandaid.

I'm not so idealistic that I'm going to refuse to make sites work in IE and thus put myself starving on the streets - because I don't write sites for myself. I write them for clients who have ignorant customers, who are probably using IE.

It may not seem like a big deal, but these CSS3 properties can instantly make a site look nicer to a client that doesn't know much about design. These are things they demand anyway. Now it's a lot easier to do them.