Probably get modded down for this.. for "atheism" has always struck me as a haven for the fearful, those who lack self-esteem, or narcissistic personalities looking for external justification for their insane behaviour.

When such an individual is confronted with the prospect of death.. all that doubt, self-loathing and regret must really feel like a burden they're happy to let go of.

No offense, but anyone who starts their post with "Probably get modded down for this" probably should get modded down. But then this is slashdot, so posting an article that can even barely be described as anti-religious is akin to posting an article saying "the PS3 is dying" in an XBox fanboi forum.

You're Doing It Wrong (TM)

The switch is painless and transparent to the end user and they can do everything and run any piece of software they did before the switch. Same goes for large scale business roll-outs as well as the home desktop.

Mormons would claim that Protestant/Catholic/Greek Orthodox Christianity is a cult of 1st century Christianity, because they such groups have departed significantly from their parent religion. As stated, Christians can be said to be a cult of the Jewish religion. And Protestants would be a cult with respect to Catholics. It seems to me that any belief which spawns from another becomes a "cult" of that religion. But what I don't understand, is why the need to point it out in the context of Mormonism?

And which computer these days has only 1 optical drive? Even the cheap emachines from 4 years ago came with a DVD-ROM and CD-RW. Um, how about owners of the XPS M1710, Dell's fastest consumer notebook. You know, the one the article is about.

When I tried their free trial, I got this:

http://cache.ultramercial.com/d/033-218/civic_hyb_ os_false.html

No, its not. The purpose of an MMORPG is to play a fantasy based game in an MMO environment. EQ brought the idea of progression being everything, before that Ultima and its ilk had very little progression.

Actually Ultima had quite a bit of progression only it wasn't in the levels we now know. Then it was fight more to get better strength so that you can fight better people, and be more powerful than the PK's. Or it was cast spells to get better intelligence so that you can cast higher level spells. It was always about progression. They just did it a different way so you weren't worried about your next level.

Wonderful. Thanks a lot. Now I need a nice, cold Mountain Dew to slake my thirst.