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I spend most of my time playing games, but none of the ones you pay for. I just play simple browser games like Awakened Lands. These types of games are great for when you want to have fun but don't want to spend cash or invest hours at a time online. Do they even count this type of game, or is it just the games that people know of like WoW?

I've never even heard of the first one. Now they basically give them free pub by banning the 2nd game? Nothing says "buy me now" than a banned game.

Dude 1 : "Don't look now, but that girl behind you is a snaggletooth."
Dude 2 : *looks immediately*

Now that it's banned, more people will try to get it. Way to go. I run an online text game called AwakenedLands and many of the players are in the UK. The premise is to beat other people to death and commit crimes. But since it isn't made by Rockstar I won't get banned.

The reason we get all this spam is because it apparently works. If it didn't, people wouldn't waste resources on it. Yes, people DO read this crap.

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The Windows site appears to be http://preview.local.live.com/, although since I use a Mac it didn't work properly.

Coming from a proponent of open-source and linux, the parent post has some truth.

Windows XP is a very stable OS. I've used linux as my primary OS for the last 3 years, and manage plenty of clients' using WinXP. The biggest problem is people running as administrators. Get that out of the way and WinXP has rarely given me any troubles, and BSOD are usually the result of hardware failure. I have more problems with linux programs crashing on my desktop than I do with 100+ WinXP workstations being used in a business setting over months. In fact, I've experienced more crashes with MacOSX (especially their built-in update utility) crashing the entire system on a handful of laptops than I have experienced with all the WinXP workstations combined over the past year.

If I had to rate the stability of WinXP, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and MacOSX where users are running things as limited users, then they'd be in this order...

1. WinXP
2. Ubuntu (any version)
3. MaxOSX (the latest)
4. Gentoo (stable branch, which isn't stable)

Have the WinXP users run as default admins, and they are a step above Gentoo, but not by much.

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You mean Zune'n'Squirt don't you?

PS3 will either change the entire landscape of consoles forever, or it will bomb. I don't think there is any way around it. If it succeeds, all the other companies will jump on the bandwagon.

Which makes me just want to play stupid, addicting, text-based web-browser like Awakenedlands.com . Check them out.

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