So basically we are damned if we use Microsoft's products because of various other reasons, and damned if we use FOSS ? Wheres the middle here ?

yeah its there. That being said, I RTFA and I honestly dont know what the article was trying to make a point of, they ramble on about story lines in games being important and then try to throw in some garbled message of how much play mechanics matter and ends the article about how much they cant wait for a game from a lionhead, ok..... Honeslty i havent played any of the games they mention except for Burnout Paradise, and the thing that makes it fun to play for me at least is the fact that it's mindless fun, smash, crash and slam your way to the finish line in the races, and watching yourself crash during some of the stunt runs is great. The online part of the game is just as fun as well with everyone competing in races to just pulling off some trick to hit the goal. It's the first game I have ever bought points for just to be able to buy the extras they are now offering, from the new cars and motorcycles to opening a new part of the city that was previously closed. It's the best $30 that i have spent on a game in a long time.

I need more coffee, I spelled Stephen Hawking wrong..... Dont worry, I have already taken the appropriate amount of points off my geek card.

All of them, now that they know they can charge extra for it. But honestly, how many people want Stephen King to sound like Steven Hawking ?

very colorful matrix id ? If you have worked in any kind of manufacturing enviroment, these have been around for a while now. Seems Microsoft have just made it look more trendy ?

This quote should be the official tag line for for stories like this from now on.

What he said :) Plus I don't sell my games, I still have and play on a regular basis Unreal Tournament 99, 10 year old game and still has plenty of replay left in it.

Maybe I will purchase EA games again. I gave up on them after I tried to no end to get Battlefield 2142 to run just half way decently. I now buy most of my games through Steam, which means I miss out on a few titles, but the advantages of Steam far out weigh missing out on them for me.

Speaking of Adept and/or APT I'm going to have to pull out my fanboi card on this one, once I discovered how much better this was I never looked back, I used to use Mandrake when it was still called Mandrake, urpmi in mandrake went a long way to addressing some of the issues with installing/removing RPM's but in my opinion APT was just so much better, even PCLOS uses APT with RPM's which is great.