Say what?
I used to pick up my copies of 2600 at a local B&N years ago...
Sad.

No kidding.
See ya around Taco!

Because the guy who finds the BFG9000 he doesn't need/want is ALWAYS going to put it on the cash market, not the in-game one.

Frankly because I don't care if people doing an explicitly forbidden activity get ripped off.
Wrapping it into the game likely means that all the best items will get put in the cash auction house, and the in-game-gold AH will only have lesser items.

I'd love a separate server (cluster) for those who wanted to play in the real money economy.

I kind of have to agree...
I was a hardcore D2 gamer, almost failed out of college because of that game, and I've been looking forward to D3 Very Much.
But real money? No. I play games as an escape from thinking about things like my bank account.

Bliz, please rethink this.
Let a real money secondary economy evolve, but for the love of Pete don't enshrine it in the game.

Scroogle is back. Thanks to the help from three Scroogle users, I learned that there is a way to access that same simple interface with an extra parameter in the URL by using www.google.com/search (that param is &output=ie), instead of through the former static page www.google.com/ie without the extra parameter. It appears that both methods amount to the same thing.

I apologize for the title, "Scroogle has been blocked." It was in an old template, afterwhich the program went on to read a current text file. In the future it will read, "Scroogle is having problems with Google." We were IP blocked by Google more than once a couple years ago, but not all of our servers were blocked at the same time and we rerouted traffic, so no one noticed. We got those blocks lifted by Google within a few days.

-- Daniel Brandt, Scroogle programmer and sysadmin; president of nonprofit public charity Public Information Resarch, Inc., owner of Scroogle.org

I have to agree.
Investigated this for my last job, we did in fact end up doing SATA 1TB disks in a fireproof safe in the server room, but we had a lot less data to deal with than you do.
LTO5 should be out this year with 1.5TB native space, and it compresses very well. You could probably get one of your clients per tape.

LTO's got a long lifespan, and is readable with newer LTO tech for a few generations. There's a reason it's the industry standard backup these days.

It says so in the readme file, and it's a feature not a bug to keep you from hosing your system because you didn't read the readme...

When you first fire up the new VHD it replaces the disk ID with a new one so that it's unique. This causes much trouble if the computer has two of the same disk ID at the same time when it goes to change one, as you might imagine.

Same boat here. I have no certs, I've just been working in IT for over 10 years now with my 1337 skillz.

If a potential employeer overlooked my resume because it doesn't have any certs on it, it's likely not a place I'd want to be working anyway.

Except that you're talking about a series hybrid drive, and only the Chevy Volt works that way at the moment.

The Insight and the Prius are both parallel drive hybrids, which means the gas engine turns the wheels as well as powers up the batteries. The electric turns the wheels sometimes. The Volt's big thing is that it's a series hybrid, the drive is always electric and the gas engine runs at its high-efficiency speed to charge the batteries, then shuts off again.

Meaning that your comment would be correct if all hybrids were series hybrids, but as of now your comment would only apply to the Volt which isn't in production yet.

The Justice Department should also send a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to the University of Michigan. It's a public University, but all negotiations with Google were subject to nondisclosure requirements. That's the place where Google's book-grabbing arrogance, and the acquiescence by public-sector librarians, began in 2004. It took a freedom of information request under Michigan state law to even get a copy of the contract out of the University. In it, we learned that Google indemnified the University against all legal threats that may arise from the University's agreement to hand over all their copyrighted books to Google's scanners. Google now claims that the Settlement in nonexclusive, but that's only true if you have billions in the bank and can make the sorts of guarantees that Google made to the University of Michigan. You can read about this at www.google-watch.org/modify.html

Surely someone so interested in Blackberries as yourself would be aware that RIM has a new touchscreen blackberry about to be released called the Storm... http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/gsm-only-blackberry-storm-thunder-leaks-out/

Whether or not it's going to compete with the iPhone obviously has yet to be seen, but they're hardly resting on their laurels.