I refuse to give up culture just because it is a one-sided deal.

To be fair prices have decreased. Now you can get a lot of CDs at Best Buy or Walmart for $9, and I remember the going price at the Wherehouse used to be $17. Still, $1 a song is ludicrous, I think the allofmp3 model had it right, ~$0.32 a song. Even $0.50 a song is reasonable if the artists gets a good portion. I would probably pay $1 a song if the entire amount went to the artist.

I bought the first Velvet Revolver CD, which installed a rootkit on the computer to prevent you from doing anything other than listening to some shitty WMA files. After that I swore I would never buy a CD again, and I haven't. You only screw me once. So until we have no DRM and a perpetual license (buy the music once, have the rights to any format) I'm done playing their game.

You are correct, all the research that comes out of neuro and social psychology is completely worthless as it isn't real science, despite the fact that it actually has everything you mentioned. But don't let facts stop your baseless accusations.

Or, to put things in perspective, windows 7 adds additional features and security with minimal overhead. The performance differences were what, ~5% compared to a nearly 10 year old OS? I'm sure windows 98 is faster than windows 7, and if that sounds like a ridiculous comparison, I find it ridiculous that people would actually prefer to use XP over 7.

Really? I think I pretty much own my AT&T Tilt, since my contract expired I am under no obligations to any cell company. And not only did I load a custom version of windows mobile on it (that I made via tools on xda developers) I can install any software I want on it with no-one to tell me differently. In addition, Spb makes shell programs to fix the horrible UI of win mobile, so the phone is actually a pleasure to use. The only thing that I am apparently missing out on is all the cool new apps that are iphone only.

I don't pay for data since Wifi is everywhere where I live, so my bill is the same as any other phone.

I just installed Windows 7 RTM and went to install flash for IE8 (for steam) and Adobe installed a download manager just to install flash. Are they retarded or something? I wish I could ditch Adobe flash for an alternative. I'm already 100% free of Apple software, it would be nice to coup de grace Adobe from my system as well.

IIRC the spells required you to hold down one of the trigger buttons while trying to remember which spell you have mapped to which button.

I would argue the opposite, that perhaps the NES (or, to stretch it, perhaps the SNES) is the best "control scheme" for MOST games. Any action you want to do is confined to only a few buttons. Compare this to Fable on the Xbox, which in my opinion the controls were a complete mess due to the complexity. Having a hundred functions tied to a hundred keys is useless because only the extremely hard-core will remember them. However, I will agree that for RTS there is no substitute for a mouse and keyboard.

My $60 asus motherboardboard I bought 3 years ago came with 10 sata ports.

Wow, I'm ashamed to be a geek, you fixed my problem! Thanks!

For me it isn't that I'm lazy, it is that: 1) The motion controls don't work well 2) Most games use motion control when a button press makes more sense

Default install of VLC, video is incredibly blocky compared to WMP, GOM Player, or J River Media Center. This is for nearly any video I throw at it, it looks better in any other player. What gives?
VLC: http://imgur.com/o5HbC.png
WMP: http://imgur.com/hjmaF.png

Except clamwin/av has notoriously bad detection rates. I don't know why it keeps appearing on slashdot.

"In the 1 - 21 June 2008 test performed by Virus.gr, ClamWin version 0.93 detected 54.68% of all threats and ranked 37th out of 49 products tested; the best scored over 99%.[7]"

Because people will download and install anything? Even OSX was hit recently with people pirating the iwork suite.