Fine, Creationists want to play scientists. I wont be mean and will keep an open mind.

Please give me a scientific experiment that can hold up to the Scientific Method that is in direct relationship to Creationism.

Oh, and the final answer cannot be God, since God does not exist on this plane of existence and thus God's existence cannot be proved nor disproved. And you will also lose points for say that because the eye is complex, there must be a creator. Give me an actual experiment that can pass the scientific method peer review please.

What part of your body were you shaving to make you think of '6666'?

Go into the C:\ and delete anything that is not a picture file or an *.exe.

When I did support for Dell, I actually got a call for 0xDEADBEEF. I walked up to my boss and told him I quit (I didn't quit though). I don't remember what my resolution was though, except that there was no reason for them to have it on their computer.

Also changed the path directory of My Documents to the D:\

I think most of you who have replied to this post have don't get the point.

I myself have a parent that uses XP, but I also have a background in tech support for Internet and OS, and I can tell you that few people like to change to something different. I can agree Ubuntu is safer and better, but some people, especially those advance in their years, refuse to learn and will panic at the first sign of trouble.

Those few that have helped your parents to use Ubuntu, I think that is an achievement, but not everyone can be as successful as you. And just because someone chooses to use XP instead of a Linux distro for their parents doesn't make them a troll or a n00b, they just know it is easier for them to have them use XP.

This is how I feel about my mother, she is use to the Windows Interface. If I switch it on her, no matter how much training I give her, she would never be happy with it. It has taken me years just to teach her to use Firefox, and yes I know Ubuntu is more secure and as I teach her how to do things with it, she wouldn't have as many problems, she would not be happy with it and just refuse to do anything to help herself.

There are few people who really want to learn anything about computers, they simply want it to do what they desire and that's it. And once they get use to a certain feel of something, that's all they want to do. I remember back when I did dial up support (the horror), I had a customer call in that wanted to help as they didn't understand how to use it. So I set up their dial-up through IE and got them online but they were disappointed as there was no interface like AOL had and decided to cancel just for that reason. I could have tried to explain how this was better than AOL and you could get all of the same kind of AOL features through the internet, but they hung up before I could try. They were comfortable in their little bubble and that is how most computer illiterate people are.

Built for gamers, bought by old people who think the more money something is, the less that will go wrong with it (and boy are they mad when they have to call into tech support).

When I did support for Dell, a few years back, I use to joke that their XPS top of the line machines, mainly the 700 series, was more of an overpriced space heater than an actual computer.

Believe it not, nerds may be the target audience, but nerds don't buy these kinds of computers. Generally it is old people who buy these kinds of computers.

Basically it comes down to, the more money a computer it is, the assumption that there will be less wrong with it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true when it comes for computers.

That is awesome, I already have MechCommander 2, and I know Microsoft released the Source Code for MC2 for XNA, but actually releasing the games legally, that is awesome.

You have a couple of choices, as I am sure many will give you.

You can do shareware, while they do limit total gameplay, it is free and there are some out there that are really fun.

You can do demos. Now an days they are time based, but back in the day they were level based.

There are also Open Source games that have been released in the last few years, such as Freespace and Freespace 2. Of course, they had their source code released but people have made some good mods off of those. You can try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

You can also try abondonware games, though the trick there is not all will work with XP properly and you would need to use an emulation software such as DOSBox.

Another option you can do, which is not a game in it self, and was recently a discussion on Slashdot is GameMaker. You can download a trial for it and provide some tutorials for it and kids can make their own games.

Actually, I have used this program to teach younger kids, between the age of 8 - 15.

It was a summer class broken up into two week segments, I was there for the first two weeks. The website for game maker has tutorials and we taught them that, we had a better understanding of the tutorials so we could give them more insight. After two weeks they were able to make their own games understanding how to use the tools.

GameMaker is good in the respect that while there are tools to set up gravity or movement, the tutorials help set up if/then statements for collision detection and loops. After the tutorials, there is a programing language in GameMaker that can allow you to do more, I didn't teach that but I do believe it can be taught to kids, at least the ones who excel at GameMaker.

It is simple and very good to for children in learning, and from there can be directed to other languages.

I believe somewhere Abrams was quoted as saying that he was going to make some fans angry, either that or that he wasn't using the Trek lore. I think the problem is that all stories in a sci-fi TV show and movies have already been done and what we see is people copying eachother. I started to see the same show between all the different series like Star Trek Voyager and Star Gate, so I concluded they started to run out of ideas and stole from others. So enters JJ Abrams. He was instructed to do something new, and instead of trying to do something new in the given franchise, he decided to change the franchise and do something new. I am very skeptical about that and seeing the trailer I am certain to be disappointed as I am myself a big fan of Trek despite the disappointment of Voyager and Enterprise (and just for note, I actually loved Voyager when it was on TV but within the last year I realized they only have a few solid episodes and most of the others was just pointless plot). I am giving JJ Abrams a chance to tell a Trek story, though so far I am disappointed. If he blows this chance I am giving him, I will then refer to JJ Abrams as another Uwe Boll: Destroyer of Franchises.