Ubisoft's PC series that are not ports are the Settlers and Anno series, which are high strategic real-time city-building games that SimCity abandoned long ago because they realized there is no market. That demographic probably is mainly advanced users.

That being said, I hope Ubisoft does not give up on those series, as those are my favorite types of games. I have every Anno game despite the incredibly shitty DRM.If Ubisoft gets out of this market the only thing left of the genre is Tropico, which isn't doing so well as 4 was just a psuedo-expansion of 3 and didn't even add new music.

You seem to think the US government isn't already doing something like this, automatically searching for and reporting terrorist/anarchist/militia keywords.

Editors get a lot of shit around here but he actually improved my submission by adding an additional relevant hotlink.

I know this is regarding AU, but I really think we need a privacy amendment to the US constitution. Right now cops in California can hook up a device to your phone and obtain all of its contents, without a warrant or probable cause. This type of stuff is just getting started.

A program doesn't have to start up when you start up the computer, you can use task scheduler to start up or update programs at certain times of the day

Probably because the iPhone 5 comes out in a month or two and they need something that works now. I'm sure once they have something stable they will switch to an in-house solution.

The same thing exists in the US, but for some reason everyone only considers AT&T & Verizon, which I consider more business-class operators. Do you really need access in bumfuck nowhere, or do you use your cellphone 99.9% in metro areas? We have lot of other providers that have cheaper services, offer more benefits such as unlimited data, and while they might not have the iphone they do have android phones. One example is metroPCS, unlimited everything including 4g for $40-60. Sprint has something similar for $70. Boost mobile has unlimited 3g/calling for $50. But no, we Americans like to have the latest and greatest and have the same cell phone service everyone else has, so we stick with the same two providers, happily pay $0.15/text message, consider 2g caps a steal, and wonder why we continuously get shafted.

If they are similarly enforced, my dog has a facebook page, so I think as long as you use any realistic sounding name it doesn't have to be linked to your real identity at all.

This is a committee vote, which I'm pretty sure is based on seniority, so the freshmen tea partiers wouldn't have a part. Save your anger for when the house/senate inevitably vote on it, and call/write (do not email or use chain-letter forms) your congressperson to prevent it from passing, which hopefully we can do, although I'm cynical.

Arizona already passed that law, employers hiring illegal aliens can lose their business license.

Lord of the Rings Online is a good deal if you can find the boxed Mirkwood expansion in stores. You can essentially play the majority of the game for $20-30. It won't include the midrange level quests but those are discounted all the time and you can either buy those with points you get just for playing or grind mobs (all areas are accessible).

The free to play model can work pretty well if done right. You can buy some stat increases, but those are not very significant (and can be earned in game). The rest of the shop is mostly cosmetics or "stuff you can get if you have the time".

However, I'm not sure if they are giving enough points to subscribers or adding new items to make it worth it in the long run. However, I am having fun and if you're on the Crickhollow unofficidal-new-RP server add my character Tromad as a friend.

People don't seem to understand that bad science does way more harm than no science, as bad science convinces others your error is true.

Ubuntu and knoppix. Next time I'll try openSUSE.

Windows tablet PCs get shit on all the time here but they solve this problem by converting to portrait mode. I have a convertible notebook, so when I want to read a document on the go I convert it into a tablet and read them in portrait orientation. When I need to do actual work, I have a real keyboard ready for me. If it didn't need a stupid pen and had Apple's UI I'd be in heaven.