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Half Life 2 Available, Delays Not Valve's Fault
Evil Avatar has the word that even Best Buy is selling Half-Life 2 boxes at this point. If you're planning on picking this one up it should be available pretty much anywhere. Voodoo Extreme has news from Steam that in no uncertain terms are the delays in opening the game to customers their fault. From the article: "This is not Valve's choice. Vivendi is insisting that the game has not yet been released, and has threatened that Valve would be in violation of its contract if we activate the Half-Life 2 Steam authentication servers at this time."
I played halo 2 for about six hours tonight in cooperative mode, completed 9 of 15 missions. It's not highly replayable, but I'm going to finish the game. I thought it was pretty good. I think the last really good game was "deus ex".
Moderators: you ought to look at Gabe Newell yourself and take the joke before you start modding people down.
Try to remember what the offtopic mod is designed to do; it dissuades users from posting things like GNAA, "x is dead. Truly an American icon," etc.
A couple degrees of separation from the root topic is acceptable. Therefore, the parent post, and even this one for that matter, is acceptable material. Stop abusing Slashdot.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Who is the official body that decides what is correct? Where do I go to register a new word or phraze if I coin one? There is no such thing as official correct English. If we were talking about French, it makes sense to talk about correctness. There is an official body in France which oversees the preservation and development of the official French language. Even assuming there was such a body in England, would that dictate correct English for the USA or Australia? What if there were official bodies in both the USA and in England? Who's definition of correct would trump the other? When I'm in Canada? When I'm in Germany?
It's popular to believe that there is such a thing as correct English. That doesn't make it so. And, while I agree with most of your points, I do feel that "begs the question" is perfectly valid as it is most commonly used. Pompous and Aweful used to be compliments. Language changes. Deal with it.
As long as I'm being a grammar jerk ATM, I want to introduce the word wherm to you all.
Since "whom" is used to indicate an interrogative object, I think we should regularise all interrogative objects. "To whom are you speaking?" (Because "who" is 'incorrect' !) "To wherm are you going?" (Same logic - regularise by adding an M at the end if it is used as an object instead of a subject!)