Happy birthday, Shadowrage! Hope you have a great day, and a fun celebration of another year going 'round the sun... ;-)

Crazy-cool stuff, Thols! Thanks for sharing!

Figured that's where you were going. It'd be like my grandma (who is very close to technophobe) trying to play...

all we need now is an old person trying to play wow. :D Define "old" -- I used to work with a grandmother who plays WoW, and had just gotten an uber-gaming rig that she was giddy about not only because it made WoW prettier, but because the company she bought it from wanted to brag about h...

Oh, I forgot (annoyed by this again in WoW today reminded me):

new) Can /follow NPCs. Freaking ROCKS on escort quests. Come ON, Blizz...

The new and different I noticed in a month of playing Rift (before I canceled the account, because I don't feel like paying for two monthly subscriptions right now): new) Much newer graphics engine, which means the graphics look very pretty if you go out and buy a new system that can keep up with it...

"I said, stop touching me!!!"

That was awesome!

Windows is the safest and most secure commercial operating system on the planet. References, please? :) {And please understand - my intention is neither to incite nor to attack; I am an engineer, and the data I have from decades in the computer industry drive my positions. That said, I am an engine...

In fairness to Microsoft's OS, I'll go on record that Mac OS X and Linux (and VMS, and, and, and...) are all pretty open to attack. ( pwn2own 2011 demonstrated that neither Safari nor IE 8 have what it takes to stop a technically advanced attacker .) However, Microsoft's approach of tightly integrat...

Personal preference: Avast! McAfee & Norton are both competent products. However, they both tend to resource hogging more than any other AV products I've ever used. I have a philosophical issue that prevents me from using MS Security products - it seems to me like asking the fox to guard the hen...