What ever happened to your "don't be evil" mantra? Obviously you're dealing with a historically evil company, but don't stoop to their level.

No. Ever since that disaster (2 years ago?), prices decreased but they never returned to normal. It just seems like manufacturers never let the prices return to their normal rates after being forced to hike them up due to the floods. It's almost like they were given a second chance at re-pricing their goods after knowing what consumers were willing to pay.

As fatalexe said:

I recently used a USB drive as a boot-only type device to pull up the install screen, then installed all of the ports and packages over my network.

We can only hope. Recently HDD manufacturers seem to be coming up with any excuse possible to increase the price per unit and I could see them increasing the price just to lessen the blow of decreased sales.

That couldn't possibly be the reason!

Maybe Windows shouldn't have so many errors (even after a clean install).

XvT remake? yes please!

I don't know about you but I'd be shooting that thing with my PP7.... silenced.

You don't need a bachelor's degree to come up with any of this shit.

That's the most depressing thing I've read on /. and I've read a lot of depressing things on /. and now that I think about it, that is somewhat depressing as well.

We used these in middle school gym class and that was 11 years ago. No big deal at all.

FYI, we still play it and hold regular events.

SWBFII is the closest recent game with space combat but it isn't a "space sim" like XvT or XWA. Myself and many other people have been trying to get LAG to publish a new "space sim" for a few years but apparently most people don't want to play games that involve joysticks these days.

Wow and on top of this they raise their rates by ~$2 every 6 months or so. At least in the Arizona market they have been. I'm guessting we're funding this new hinder to our service :(.

Wouldn't you then have to devertebrate once more for it to be known as redevertebrating?