That is more or less a Tim Minchin quote from 'Storm'. Very accurate to be tossing that out on this discussion since the whole thing is about using critical thinking to judge things.

Tim Minchin's catalogue as a whole has an impressive number of little gems hidden in there that debate blind faith in clever and amusing ways. Admittedly, it is just hidden within a collection of songs/comedy that seem to look to find something that offends just about everyone, not just the religious. All funny though.

A Freudian slip: When you say one thing and mean your mother.

If you do any gaming, even single player, you could run into problems with this. More and more games are requiring online activation even if the game has no online component. Requiring a games for windows live or steam account is common place and EA is rolling out their new service soon and looks like they are going to tie most of their games to it.

Wait, there are women on the internet?

I got into the trial of this as well and gave it a shot.

When I first attempted to connect I received a notice that my latency was too high and I may be out of range of their servers, which as the article mentions is obviously something they are trying to correct. A day later I attempted to connect again and everything went smoothly, so it must be fairly picky about only letting you get in if the quality is going to be up to par.

The resolution was a bit grainy compared to when I play the same title on my fairly hefty gaming rig, particularly at larger screen sizes, but I didn't experience any of the black boxes the poster above mentions, nor did I have any trouble with frame rate or render speeds.

I was expecting bad things from the controls but they were quite responsive and I didn't notice any real stickiness at all, which could have been a real killer in a (relatively) action heavy title. The beta gives you an hour and a half to play and includes saves which are taken past the initial cutscenes/dialogue so if you already know the game and just want to give the service a try you can have plenty of time to do it.

I didn't see any sort of NDA in effect and after the beta closes they ask for some quick comments, how you liked the game, the service, and if you would like beta keys you can share.

All in all I was pretty pleased with my trial and I think that it looks like Gaikai will be a great service for those who want to game on older computers or laptops and if they can bring in some good titles, they will be a strong competitor for OnLive since that seems to be one thing they lack a good variety of.

One of the big complaints about PC gaming is the high cost of entry, both financially and in keeping up with what is needed to run modern games. If these services are able to deliver, there may be a renewed market.