I suddenly find myself with an urge to evacuate this small grassy area.

Although with the B&N hardware, what you're looking for is the contract to publish on their storefront -- the tools to package the text are all available from other vendors.

There's one for technical publications -- It's SCIgen.

Incorrect in my experience (from a technical standpoint): an OEM Windows install key will just work with an actual windows install CD/DVD (although for XP you need a genuine OEM CD--which Newegg sold). Now, legally, you are correct -- OEM licenses are not transferable from box to box.

I'm reminded of Robert Aspin's Time Scout series, which basically took time travel as a form of tourism and also used for anthropological study.

I'll see your Amdahl's Law, and raise you Gustafson's Law.

Your mention of cocaine is incorrect -- the "naturally occurring" part is coca. Cocaine is what you get after isolating the alkaloid and processing into a pure form.

It is my opinion that Demigod sucked. My reasons are terrible AI for solo play, and laggy netcode over a LAN. I do, indeed, own a legitimate copy of Demigod... and it's sat, ignored, in the corner since a week after I bought it. It was also a clone of a Warcraft 3 mod that had other clones produced shortly before or after it.

More like deciding which Ferengi is going to continue to profit off of you.

Obviously, the answer is Cthulhu. "Why settle for the lesser of two evils?"

Mind the tacos though. They're tasty, but non-euclidean.

Agreed, although research in those fields (particularly embedded systems) also get you a lot of the experience.

The flavor of coding you want to do is a major factor here--lower-level development (particularly embedded systems work) is much easier to get into as an EE (and a heck of a lot more applicable than most CS work). If you want to be a nuts-on-bolts applications developer, then get in line behind the cheap foreign workers (if large company).

Sociology is a widely applicable field--understanding and research into how people (groups) think and act has applications from helping people quit smoking (tons of money in that research) to working with special-needs children to managing a workplace.

Friend of mine finished his sociology master's degree just now and has been working multiple, related, jobs as an intern.

Stay with your interests--Comp Sci will get you more theoretics, engineering more practical. Otherwise, there's a lot of crossover. If you liked engineering, stay with engineering.

I'd say do a MS in EE or computer engineering--several universities offer a non-thesis option (thesis will introduce you to more research).

Hehe, slammed my university too. Wonder if it'll affect the decision campus IT makes regarding renewing the contract at the end of the fiscal year more than inertia/kickbacks/fellatio.

I'm also quite pleased with myself that I called the "false positive" scenario when the issue was first noticed here.

Right. So you're telling me I should purchase your game, sight unseen.
That all I have to go on is whatever your marketing department has cooked up?
I just love knowing that I'd need to pay you for the privilege of finding out that your game is garbage. Here's my counter-proposal then: You discount my purchase of your demo against the finished product and/or allow me to return your crippled product if it does not perform to my satisfaction.