Something's wrong when the quality of a gift is dependent on the amount of money a gift costs rather than the thoughtfulness and time spent preparing the gift.

I use Photoshop and GIMP, and I prefer the gimp. To each his own, but I find it has all the same features that I use in photoshop. I'm not sure why anyone would refer to either one of those as a paint replacement. mtpaint would be more along those lines.

I'm not sure what you two are on about, but wine is something you install to run windows software.

My last comment was a year ago on the 2010 geek IQ test... That site still sucks and i'm still not clicking anything on that page.

I opened it and closed it a few seconds later because it was too hard to find test with all those ads and hideous page design. I'm not clicking a single thing on that page!

If blizzard releases a game with another flaw, the community will pick up the slack yet again. There will be a patch created by the gamers because it's the right thing to do.

Dude: How far do you have to drive every morning to get to work?
Homey: 10 miles
Dude: Can you get there in 1 or 2?
Homey: Nope

Then they gouge you with price hikes because the only way to get their advertised prices is to buy bundled services.

This innovation is due to legal rather than technological reasons. I'm happy Netflix found a workaround to get service to me earlier than this. http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/11/xbox-officially-the-only-console-able-to-stream-netflix-sorry/

It almost sounds like you're saying free and open source is more expensive in the long run, which isn't necessarily the case at all.

All I know is I'm not buying the next Call of Duty until I know it's not just another xbox port. Fool me once, shame on .. uh.. fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.