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it looks like his personal domain is patrickg.com
soooo, lets see......

host -t mx patrickg.com
patrickg.com mail is handled by 0 poopsmith.retrix.com.

host poopsmith.retrix.com
poopsmith.retrix.com has address 69.90.28.179

whois 69.90.28.179

Peer 1 Network Inc. PEER1-BLK-08
69.90.0.0 - 69.90.255.255

Patrick Gibson PEER1-RETRIX-05
69.90.28.128 - 69.90.28.191

peer1 is a spammy shithole.

1840 complaints in NANAS for peer1 spam sightings.

http://tinyurl.com/6gvqw

and a whopping 37 sbl listings

http://tinyurl.com/52z4z

MAPS is the least of your problems buddy. You need a new isp, and soon. A lot of mail admins (including yours truly) block peer1 on sight.

it looks like his personal domain is patrickg.com
soooo, lets see......

host -t mx patrickg.com
patrickg.com mail is handled by 0 poopsmith.retrix.com.

host poopsmith.retrix.com
poopsmith.retrix.com has address 69.90.28.179

whois 69.90.28.179

Peer 1 Network Inc. PEER1-BLK-08
69.90.0.0 - 69.90.255.255

Patrick Gibson PEER1-RETRIX-05
69.90.28.128 - 69.90.28.191

peer1 is a spammy shithole.

1840 complaints in NANAS for peer1 spam sightings.

http://tinyurl.com/6gvqw

and a whopping 37 sbl listings

http://tinyurl.com/52z4z

MAPS is the least of your problems buddy. You need a new isp, and soon. A lot of mail admins (including yours truly) block peer1 on sight.

Credit for Internet funding by Vinton Cerf & Robert Kahn:

http://tinyurl.com/65ssc

Done.

I'd like that in Turkish Lyra (Not New Turkish Lyra!) please... I need to go impress some strippers before the government hunts me down...

Patching satellite photos taken at different times...
http://tinyurl.com/44dn3

I wonder if this is done automatically?

http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu

http://tinyurl.com/45q26 or just plain: http://www.newpath4.com/societyalsurvivalultimatee ngineisnotcombustionenginenotgasolinenginenotdiese lengineandefinitelynotpropulsionenginesplusstoppin gicbmsandasteroids.htm#icbmskillerasteroidsdualsol utioninterconnectedringedlasertrapbolo . Solved that months ago. I ASSUME someone is working on it. I spend my time nowadays selling other ideas: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=144755&cid=121 28228

Well given that every 62 million years on earth there is a catastrophic destruction of Life world wide. Combined with the fact that the last time it happened was 65 million years ago. You need to be careful what you wish for. Oh and as a side note. If we end humans, despite what people have told you since elementary school. Geeks are human too. We don't get out of jail on this one. For more info click here

I have a PDA that I used to read books on, and then an iPod that I used to read books on. Then I discovered book folds.

Print that sucker out. Our campus labs use Word which does two things I've never figured out how to replace on Linux:
1) Text editing on linux (as far as I can tell) only does things line by line. In Word I can treat the whole document as one big string which makes converting a Project Gutenburg text to a sensibly formatted document involve 3 find&replace commands. (newline to |, || to newline, | to space)
2) Book fold printing. I put the text at a <8pt font (i can read at 4pt), give it 0.2" margins, and set the page as a book fold of 12 pages. It prints out double sided and I simple fold every three pages together to create a physical book. The latest Harry Potter book cost me 35 pages which folded down into a neat little booklet I can fit in my interior coat pocket.

I highly recommend this book as both an educational tool and a reference book for any math-geeks bookshelf:

'Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers'
Jan Gullberg

http://tinyurl.com/633y2

you can find used copies on AmazonUS for ~ 14 dollars US - I haven't checked other online sources for non-US but I'm sure you can find them used for less than 20 euros or equivalent

Point is, they're not all just horrible ripoffs designed to fuck you in the ass. Get overyourself and take off the tinfoil hat.

Okay, you got me. I'm blinded by my rage towards Best Buy. However, they are designed to fuck me in the ass - that is where "fucking in the ass" involves taking my money.

It's a business, do you think they ever have my best interest at heart? I'm talking corporate policies that are made behind closed doors that revolve around numbers, not people. It's not that insane to think that they try to think of ways to make money. Is it?

And getting over myself... I'm not taking it personal. It isn't just me they are trying to "fuck in the ass", it's you too. You know, sometimes it's a real deal... but caveat emptor. If it sounds to good to be true, it likely is. All that jazz. Besides, I don't shop there.

I bet right now however that the Seagate ST3120026A (yeah, this one for less than $70) will come down to that low $49 price pretty soon, two weeks tops. Do you think Best Buy makes it a practice to sell items at a loss?

Maybe they stopped rebates because they realized they were paying people to shop there... get real.

Imagine a Beowolf cluster of people???

Yes. It's a logistical nightmare, trust me.

The perp doesn't have to die in your house. The statutes in Texas say you can use lethal force if a reasonable person would believe that himself, a 3rd party, or their property are in danger of bodily harm or theft without the possibility of recovery. If you steal my TV and I see you running down the street, I can shoot you in the back a half a block away, and as long as a reasonable person would believe that it would be impossible for me to recover the TV, it was justified lethal force. In Texas, criminal mischief after dark is grounds for lethal force. Case in point (I don't have a reference handy), a man shot someone in the back from the second floor of his home because the person was going through his garbage out on the curb. Yes, walking through my yard after dark is grounds for me to shoot you. Don't believe it, look it up, it's in the Texas Penal Code, specifically Chapter 9 Section C: Protection of Persons. A few tidbits:

Deadly force is justified "to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery."( 9.32 B), and "to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime."( 9.42 A), and "to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property." ( 9.42 B) These all apply to protecting a 3rd party's person or property as well.

See: http://tinyurl.com/5l87e for reference.

Mirror

It is the same thing with the Real ID Act of 2005 legislation (HR418) by Sensenbrenner. Section 203 requires that states must participate in the Driver License Agreement (DLA). Also states will be required to keep information on personal information like social security numbers, addresses, and driving record items such as license suspensions, points (both redundant since it is done already) and all other violations (moving, non-moving/equipment, parking) and share them with ofhter jurisdictions. In addition, it would require states to punish their drivers for out of state and out of country infractions (Canada & Mexico so far).

Not known to many people is the data will be shared with Canada and Mexico as a start. Reference DLA at the AAMVA. Look on page 4, item 11 defining jurisdiction.The sharing of personal info like SS#'s would be a great bonanza for foreigners and US people alike to abuse such as identity theft.

The Senate so far has refused to pass the legislation so it was attached to the emergency funding for Iraq War and Tsunami Relief (HR1268) since it is a must pass legislation. The House will attempt to pigeon hole the Senate to pass this contrary to their reseversations for this piece of draconian legislation. It will come up for discussion in the second week of April when the Congress reconvenes from their Easter break.

The time is now to speak against this. Contact Congress

Slashdot kills the # character in the URL: prefetching faq

Natocom is not what it used to be. I've been attending for the past couple of years seeing how it transformed into "just another con". I made a huge post at my blog and can't be arsed to copy/paste.

You can read it here. Just don't slashdot it damnit!

A buncha "D" cells. Yes, a buncha "D" cells. What do you think are in some of those nifty sealed battery packs, anyway, these days?

http://www.thomas-distributing.com/cta-d-rechargea ble-batteries.php

has rechargables, Ni-MH "D" cells rated at 12 amp-hours; yes, 12,000 milliamp-hours each, if you hafta be Green. However, the Real Deal, eTanium(TM) is rated at 21.5 AH each:

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/x95.pdf

and even your buy-them-at-three-AM-from-7-11 variety alkalines develop 20.5 AH

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/e95.pdf

Buy once, run down, throw them away. Cheap, cheap, cheap. You don't need a gauge; your spendy laptop has one.

Add two of these
http://tinyurl.com/4m6my

a little soldering, the right length of cord & the right-sized connector tip
http://tinyurl.com/5x4om

an Bob's Yer Uncle.

Don't add more than you need, and jump across the contacts if you only need seven cells to make the optimal voltage, instead of going over your laptop's rated voltage by more than a volt. The voltage regulator would just have to step down the power, which makes extra heat in your laptop, which slows down your processor, and accelerates battery drain.

Seven of the el cheapo "D" cells plus a jumper wire give me 20.5 AH for $10, plus $2 in parts and the connector I scrounged off a blown power supply. That's 10.7 times the capacity of the standard battery (2 hour run time) on my Fujitsu Lifebook. Geez, fly to Oz on those suckers. Then, I can go to a 7-11 there, buy another set of "D" cells, and have juice for the flight home.

If you're neither handy nor handsome, Mouser
http://tinyurl.com/6wq7g
has every power connector in the Twelve Colonies,
http://scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast
everything the Lords of Kobol ever designed. Or, pay $10 to The Shack for the aforementioned iGo tip, cuz, well, iGo tips are right there in the store, where the rest of your parts are.

Too bulky? You can downsize it to "C" cells, or even "AA" cells, as seven "AA" batteries exceed the capacity of my spendy, storebought factory battery pack by 50%.

But, then, I'm a ham, one of the crash test dummies of the electronics world, and we do these things so you don't have to.

A buncha "D" cells. Yes, a buncha "D" cells. What do you think are in some of those nifty sealed battery packs, anyway, these days?

http://www.thomas-distributing.com/cta-d-rechargea ble-batteries.php

has rechargables, Ni-MH "D" cells rated at 12 amp-hours; yes, 12,000 milliamp-hours each, if you hafta be Green. However, the Real Deal, eTanium(TM) is rated at 21.5 AH each:

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/x95.pdf

and even your buy-them-at-three-AM-from-7-11 variety alkalines develop 20.5 AH

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/e95.pdf

Buy once, run down, throw them away. Cheap, cheap, cheap. You don't need a gauge; your spendy laptop has one.

Add two of these
http://tinyurl.com/4m6my

a little soldering, the right length of cord & the right-sized connector tip
http://tinyurl.com/5x4om

an Bob's Yer Uncle.

Don't add more than you need, and jump across the contacts if you only need seven cells to make the optimal voltage, instead of going over your laptop's rated voltage by more than a volt. The voltage regulator would just have to step down the power, which makes extra heat in your laptop, which slows down your processor, and accelerates battery drain.

Seven of the el cheapo "D" cells plus a jumper wire give me 20.5 AH for $10, plus $2 in parts and the connector I scrounged off a blown power supply. That's 10.7 times the capacity of the standard battery (2 hour run time) on my Fujitsu Lifebook. Geez, fly to Oz on those suckers. Then, I can go to a 7-11 there, buy another set of "D" cells, and have juice for the flight home.

If you're neither handy nor handsome, Mouser
http://tinyurl.com/6wq7g
has every power connector in the Twelve Colonies,
http://scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast
everything the Lords of Kobol ever designed. Or, pay $10 to The Shack for the aforementioned iGo tip, cuz, well, iGo tips are right there in the store, where the rest of your parts are.

Too bulky? You can downsize it to "C" cells, or even "AA" cells, as seven "AA" batteries exceed the capacity of my spendy, storebought factory battery pack by 50%.

But, then, I'm a ham, one of the crash test dummies of the electronics world, and we do these things so you don't have to.

A buncha "D" cells. Yes, a buncha "D" cells. What do you think are in some of those nifty sealed battery packs, anyway, these days?

http://www.thomas-distributing.com/cta-d-rechargea ble-batteries.php

has rechargables, Ni-MH "D" cells rated at 12 amp-hours; yes, 12,000 milliamp-hours each, if you hafta be Green. However, the Real Deal, eTanium(TM) is rated at 21.5 AH each:

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/x95.pdf

and even your buy-them-at-three-AM-from-7-11 variety alkalines develop 20.5 AH

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/e95.pdf

Buy once, run down, throw them away. Cheap, cheap, cheap. You don't need a gauge; your spendy laptop has one.

Add two of these
http://tinyurl.com/4m6my

a little soldering, the right length of cord & the right-sized connector tip
http://tinyurl.com/5x4om

an Bob's Yer Uncle.

Don't add more than you need, and jump across the contacts if you only need seven cells to make the optimal voltage, instead of going over your laptop's rated voltage by more than a volt. The voltage regulator would just have to step down the power, which makes extra heat in your laptop, which slows down your processor, and accelerates battery drain.

Seven of the el cheapo "D" cells plus a jumper wire give me 20.5 AH for $10, plus $2 in parts and the connector I scrounged off a blown power supply. That's 10.7 times the capacity of the standard battery (2 hour run time) on my Fujitsu Lifebook. Geez, fly to Oz on those suckers. Then, I can go to a 7-11 there, buy another set of "D" cells, and have juice for the flight home.

If you're neither handy nor handsome, Mouser
http://tinyurl.com/6wq7g
has every power connector in the Twelve Colonies,
http://scifi.com/battlestar/downloads/podcast
everything the Lords of Kobol ever designed. Or, pay $10 to The Shack for the aforementioned iGo tip, cuz, well, iGo tips are right there in the store, where the rest of your parts are.

Too bulky? You can downsize it to "C" cells, or even "AA" cells, as seven "AA" batteries exceed the capacity of my spendy, storebought factory battery pack by 50%.

But, then, I'm a ham, one of the crash test dummies of the electronics world, and we do these things so you don't have to.

You probably haven't spent much time following what has been happening the .com/.net affair. I suggest you take a look at this link before spreading FUD.

You do realize what all can be done with just a "simple" cookie?

No? Take a look at this site.

there was a story a few minutes ago about a report that Windows security was better than Linux but then it came to light afterwards that it was MS funded but undislosed.

it seems to have disappeared and been replaced by this advert for MS doing good things for security?

Not really.

It's just not accessible without a small registry tweak, but there are apps that do this also.

There's a rumour that Ubuntu's (technical) project leader Jeff Mallrow will jump on the Debian ship. Makes sense as Ubuntu is probably the best Debian distro.

I think I've seen your work

http://www.newpath4.com/formulaeperpetual_perpetua ltimeperpetualspaceperpetualpowerperpetualmomentum perpetualmotion_3plus4equals5.gif or if that doesn't work use this one: http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu . Flying cars and non-propulsion transtellar ships both use the same engine... an Engine that doesn't use fuel; it IS the fuel. -Riley 3/28/2005

Not to be completely outdone, I launched a few eggs myself this past week: http://www.newpath4.com/formulaeperpetual_perpetua ltimeperpetualspaceperpetualpowerperpetualmomentum perpetualmotion_3plus4equals5.gif or http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu . Then I posted 2 more eggs: http://tinyurl.com/44h5p and http://tinyurl.com/4faag . Point of fact, I've been LAYING EGGS SO LONG I FEEL LIKE THE GHOST OF GIANT CHICKEN. All these links and more are on my website. Where we tackle any deals. hehehehehe

Not to be completely outdone, I launched a few eggs myself this past week: http://www.newpath4.com/formulaeperpetual_perpetua ltimeperpetualspaceperpetualpowerperpetualmomentum perpetualmotion_3plus4equals5.gif or http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu . Then I posted 2 more eggs: http://tinyurl.com/44h5p and http://tinyurl.com/4faag . Point of fact, I've been LAYING EGGS SO LONG I FEEL LIKE THE GHOST OF GIANT CHICKEN. All these links and more are on my website. Where we tackle any deals. hehehehehe

Not to be completely outdone, I launched a few eggs myself this past week: http://www.newpath4.com/formulaeperpetual_perpetua ltimeperpetualspaceperpetualpowerperpetualmomentum perpetualmotion_3plus4equals5.gif or http://tinyurl.com/4sjmu . Then I posted 2 more eggs: http://tinyurl.com/44h5p and http://tinyurl.com/4faag . Point of fact, I've been LAYING EGGS SO LONG I FEEL LIKE THE GHOST OF GIANT CHICKEN. All these links and more are on my website. Where we tackle any deals. hehehehehe

This is stupid - have people not heard of Tiny URL?

It even supports mailto: as well as standard http links. I think using tinyurl to directly link to your content is better than having to send an email to some crappy site and then get a link to the content.

This is stupid - have people not heard of Tiny URL?

It even supports mailto: as well as standard http links. I think using tinyurl to directly link to your content is better than having to send an email to some crappy site and then get a link to the content.

This is stupid - have people not heard of Tiny URL?

It even supports mailto: as well as standard http links. I think using tinyurl to directly link to your content is better than having to send an email to some crappy site and then get a link to the content.

If this works at all, which it does... it's DoublePlus Good.

As a website operator, I've been looking for this type of thing for a long time. Google'n "GNU FDL" doesn't get me the right results and I don't like raping Wikipedia, which I have done and will continue to do.

I'm always looking for free content that I can edit, improve upon or parody. I wish this could be extended to GPL code and GNU FDL documents as well.

What? It's like two more radio buttons right?

Yes, and it to this I say "thank you".

From all aspiring web sites out there that must use some sort of ad scheme to stay alive thanks you as well. X10.com thanks your service. GoogleAds, Party Poker, Amazon, Gratis Network and the rest thank you...

Some of us just filter out ads, and for that I thank evolution. We filter out near-IR along with other "colors" and evolution has produced specimens such as myself that don't notice that OKI advertisement at the top printing messages to me...

Joking aside, I suspect that the ability to filter out unwanted visual elements really does have something to do with the ability to use modern windowing systems. I notice I'm always telling some people where to look for dialog boxs (!) or where the "File", "Edit", "Help" drop down menus are...

They just see a bunch of text and garbage and can't respond. You have to walk their eyes to the right part of the screen. (sorry can't spell check, survivor is starting~~)

I do reviews for globetechnology.com, and I wrote a review of an earlier model of the Scribbler, which is here: http://tinyurl.com/4q4do In a nutshell, my verdict was great battery life but a few too many other flaws for my liking.

The Atacama desert is in this region. I think that link will work, at least it did on my machine.

Clicky!

Remember, sites tend to have rotating banners, could be that it just didn't load the ad that was causing the popup. Now that I think about it, the worm... well... http://tinyurl.com/4slbr Make sure your wife isn't around. Click random links, eventually it takes you to a site that changes the main page to some ad site and loads java. Make sure you have you antivirus ready.

http://tinyurl.com/4h63t

I invented this process a long time ago and wrote about it somewhere, probably in my novel... Although I didn't come up with that nice catchy name. I've been so busy taking down OPEC I had to just write some of my stuff out for free, that's all. http://tinyurl.com/66u6b, http://tinyurl.com/5u3nu, http://free.seekon.com/RileyAskInventor/ . You guys. You don't have ANY IDEA how much stuff I've written out for others to make so I could get to my destination on time. Well, no sense trying to list it all but I sent the idea to the MRI people 7-8 years ago that they could split a frequency in two so it could be aimed harmlessly thru the skin to cross paths underneath, melt subcutaneous fat and sculpt the human body. They did build it but they're not using it for the Masses of obese people as I suggested them to do. They made it to burn inoperable cancers inside the brain. They did good work but they chose the limelight instead of "cosmetic" (Boo). You have to maximize your effort, even if it means LOSING FORTUNES. Worldwide Health has to be PRIORITY NUMERO UNO, not pursuit of Riches like SlashDot. My last engine that does anti-gravity will pay me well enough to make up for all the give-aways... http://tinyurl.com/4sgnk . Woodrow Riley, http://www.newpath4.com/ . It's true, my delivery is amateur. Doesn't mean my inventions aren't real though.

I invented this process a long time ago and wrote about it somewhere, probably in my novel... Although I didn't come up with that nice catchy name. I've been so busy taking down OPEC I had to just write some of my stuff out for free, that's all. http://tinyurl.com/66u6b, http://tinyurl.com/5u3nu, http://free.seekon.com/RileyAskInventor/ . You guys. You don't have ANY IDEA how much stuff I've written out for others to make so I could get to my destination on time. Well, no sense trying to list it all but I sent the idea to the MRI people 7-8 years ago that they could split a frequency in two so it could be aimed harmlessly thru the skin to cross paths underneath, melt subcutaneous fat and sculpt the human body. They did build it but they're not using it for the Masses of obese people as I suggested them to do. They made it to burn inoperable cancers inside the brain. They did good work but they chose the limelight instead of "cosmetic" (Boo). You have to maximize your effort, even if it means LOSING FORTUNES. Worldwide Health has to be PRIORITY NUMERO UNO, not pursuit of Riches like SlashDot. My last engine that does anti-gravity will pay me well enough to make up for all the give-aways... http://tinyurl.com/4sgnk . Woodrow Riley, http://www.newpath4.com/ . It's true, my delivery is amateur. Doesn't mean my inventions aren't real though.

I invented this process a long time ago and wrote about it somewhere, probably in my novel... Although I didn't come up with that nice catchy name. I've been so busy taking down OPEC I had to just write some of my stuff out for free, that's all. http://tinyurl.com/66u6b, http://tinyurl.com/5u3nu, http://free.seekon.com/RileyAskInventor/ . You guys. You don't have ANY IDEA how much stuff I've written out for others to make so I could get to my destination on time. Well, no sense trying to list it all but I sent the idea to the MRI people 7-8 years ago that they could split a frequency in two so it could be aimed harmlessly thru the skin to cross paths underneath, melt subcutaneous fat and sculpt the human body. They did build it but they're not using it for the Masses of obese people as I suggested them to do. They made it to burn inoperable cancers inside the brain. They did good work but they chose the limelight instead of "cosmetic" (Boo). You have to maximize your effort, even if it means LOSING FORTUNES. Worldwide Health has to be PRIORITY NUMERO UNO, not pursuit of Riches like SlashDot. My last engine that does anti-gravity will pay me well enough to make up for all the give-aways... http://tinyurl.com/4sgnk . Woodrow Riley, http://www.newpath4.com/ . It's true, my delivery is amateur. Doesn't mean my inventions aren't real though.

http://tinyurl.com/48ok3 The Schrodinger equation plays the role of Newton's laws and conservation of energy in classical mechanics - i.e., it predicts the future behavior of a dynamic system. It is a wave equation in terms of the wavefunction which predicts analytically and precisely the probability of events or outcome. The detailed outcome is not strictly determined, but given a large number of events, the Schrodinger equation will predict the distribution of results.

http://tinyurl.com/48ok3 The Schrodinger equation plays the role of Newton's laws and conservation of energy in classical mechanics - i.e., it predicts the future behavior of a dynamic system. It is a wave equation in terms of the wavefunction which predicts analytically and precisely the probability of events or outcome. The detailed outcome is not strictly determined, but given a large number of events, the Schrodinger equation will predict the distribution of results.

http://tinyurl.com/48ok3 The Schrodinger equation plays the role of Newton's laws and conservation of energy in classical mechanics - i.e., it predicts the future behavior of a dynamic system. It is a wave equation in terms of the wavefunction which predicts analytically and precisely the probability of events or outcome. The detailed outcome is not strictly determined, but given a large number of events, the Schrodinger equation will predict the distribution of results.

The Bruce Perens' Open Source Series is designed to give a voice to up-and-coming Open Source authors. Each book in the Series is published under the Open Publication License, an Open Source compatible book license. Electronic versions will be made available at no cost several months after each book's publication.

I use "using namespace std;" in the common include files of all of my home-built programs.

They propogate down into every .cpp that includes your library's headers, whether or not the calling programmer wanted to import the entire std namespace.

Some programmers may have their own classes called map, or string, or list, or a dozen other things, and a single using statement buried in a nested .h can cause unanticipated namespace collisions.

In general, it's safest and most polite to refer to classes canonically in header files (std::string, etc), and keep the using statements in your implementation files.

Sources: "Accelerated C++" (Koenig, Moo); comp.lang.c++ (sample)

I am working on a tool to make ldap (along with kerberos, sasl, samba etc.) easy to deploy for actual humans :-). At the moment it targets Debian/Ubuntu, but support for additional distros is coming soon. If anyone is interested in making ldap/kerberos ultra-simple to deploy, i.e. easier than AD, check it out: EDSRealmAssistant

-Mark

Or, do one better and join Gamefly. From $13.95/month for unlimited rentals, and you can keep them as long or as short as you'd like. Not having to actually drive anywhere is nice, too :)

I've been insanely happy with their service. I used to buy a couple games a month, but now I'm down to one every few months just because few games will actually grab me enough for me to want to buy them.