Origin had a game called Omega, for the C64 amoung other platforms, to put it in historical perspective.

You built, then programmed, a cybertank. Basic procedural language with subroutines, conditionals, loops, and inputs from the tanks' devices.

Mindrover was similar, kinda, but used a visual metaphor of dragging lines from inputs to outputs. Not as cool.

Screw that. Require them to beat Impossible Mission. On a C64. Don't tell them about the bug that can render the game unwinnable.

Or better yet, just switch to a TDMA polling system. Clients talk when they're allowed to talk. Done.

It also can be counted as an advantage for RIMâ(TM)s platform over Android and iOS, at least until RIMâ(TM)s rivals begin to roll out similar solutions."

Well, if you want free wifi voice calling from iPhone to iPhone, start FaceTime, and put your thumb over the camera.

Given that the last thing I'd read was that very sentence, and the poll options, it was 'something online.'

Well, you just hit on the answer. E-voting, which prints out your ballot. You look at the ballot, confirm everything is copacetic, and drop it in a motherfucking ballot box.

The e-vote gives you your quick results, and hand-count gives you the final count a day or two later.

I dislike the fact that flat out tells me that video files 'are too big to play on your PC' when I can right-click, 'show in windows explorer,' and play the file with, say, WMP, no problem.

Well, is there any way that you could honestly mean to use the word in a non-insulting manner? That's kind of like saying 'Yes, I pointed the gun and fired it at him, but I didn't mean for him to get shot!' It's one thing to say 'you're fat' as an observation or factual statement, quite another to use a word with 100+ years of history and meaning.

Think of it as mens rea. If a statement is intended to be insulting, it's insulting, even if the person being insulted doesn't realize it. If a statement is not intended to be insulting, does it matter if the person being described finds it insulting? There's a difference between 'that's an insult' and 'I'm insulted.'

Would have ruined the entire plot of Heavy Rain, though.

By that logic, you have to go back to at least windows 1, if not even dos.

What does not upgrading a 5 year old OS have to do with running a 10 year old one?

Red Hat Linux didn't even exist when XP was released. Now they're on version 6. Obviously, one is intended to upgrade.

In other news, nobody here is running Red Hat 9, either.

Antialiasing fonts, and 'the iPad screen is SO DAMN SHINY you can't even see the pixelz through the HORRIBLE GLARE it's so EPIC FAIL LULZ'.

Demand creates a need that companies will then fill. Companies 'creating jobs' creates a surplus that consumers will not necessarily feel the need to take up.