More than one month after release, many players still can't launch Dragon Age II because of a bug in the EA DRM software. Since the first few days, BioWare has ignored the problem entirely and provided us with no fixes or updates. More information: http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/300/index/6442590

To be fair, we only have four types of coins in common circulation. Some areas of the country still use the 50-cent pieces and the $1 coins (very large cities such as NYC and Boston love the $1 coins as change for subway passes!), but the majority of places that I've visited in the States use only 1c, 5c, 10c, and 25c coins. The situation is worse in Canada, in the UK, and in countries that use the Euro. They've got 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1, and $2 coins (replace c with p and $ with Pound or Euro, as necessary). The situation with bank notes is also quite worse.

Office 2007 has a free plugin available from Microsoft that exports to PDF just fine. If I recall, Adobe sued Microsoft to prevent them from bundling this functionality with Office because they didn't want the competition with Acrobat. I don't know if Office 2010 has a similar plugin, but I bet it does.

This is a positive change, folks. We can finally opt out of ReadID! If you want to keep it enabled for whatever reason, then at least you can opt out of the Facebook integration and the "friends of friends" feature. Why is everyone complaining about more privacy?

Just about every DVD in my collection here in the States has the warning in both English and French. I've always thought that it's because those are the two "international" languages. So, I doubt that you're seeing the French warning just because you're Canadian.

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I tried the linked demo in Firefox 3.5.3 on Windows 7 and it ran great. CPU usage capped at 13% and mostly stayed at about 2-4%. Fantastic! However, I noticed a strange bug. If I close the tab where the "video" is running, the audio continues to play until the end. That's incredibly obnoxious.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hs24szh9.aspx The Express Edition lacks a 64-bit compiler, OpenMP, profiling, and remote debugging. It also lacks a bunch of other stuff that I've never needed to use, but which others probably use regularly. Compared to the tools available on Linux, BSD, and MacOS X, VS EE is quite lacking.

Unless you want to compile native 64-bit binaries. In that case, Visual Studio Express Edition won't be sufficient.

Perhaps it does depend on the job. I was hired as an intern at Red Hat, working with the kernel development team. I received my first shirt in the welcome kit that was mailed to my home, the second when I went down to Raleigh for new intern training, a third during the "I am Red Hat" promotion before the summit in 2008, and a fourth during a viewing of The Show. Plus, my fedora. So that's four shirts and a fedora over three months. :)

That might not be sufficient, though. I recall downloading the MSDN release of Windows 7 while I waited for my physical discs from school. The ISO passed the SHA1, MD5, and size checks, but the burned disc contained errors that made the installation fail. Putting the image on a bootable USB stick solved the problem. So, it might have been a problem with the burning software or the drive itself.

I've traveled around the States and I've sampled the pizzas in New York, Chicago and elsewhere, but the best pizza that I've ever had was in Frankfurt, Germany. Fantastic.

Actually, I know of at least one school that DOES block everything but HTTP. Well, sort of. They actually block every port except for port 80. Even then, some protocols are blocked (like AIM). I've had quite the adventure these past eight weeks trying to get around the limitations. Fortunately, some awesome people started up http://www.meebo.com/ for my IM needs, and Gentoo includes emerge-webrsync as an alternative to emerge --sync. Still, it's terribly annoying. If my home university did the same, I'd seriously consider moving off-campus. Students pay a large sum of money to live in the dorms and apartments provided by the University (~$6k/year). Part of that money goes toward funding the Internet connection. At the moment, the only type of traffic that they throttle is streaming video. That's enough. I don't need my games throttled, too.