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Jaunty Jackelope is certainly worth a download. I've been using it on my eeePC 900 with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) for a month and while its got its shortcomings, overall its the best OS I'v used with my netbook.
The greatest plus is Ext4. I know that isn't an Ubuntu exclusive upgrade or anything (Fedora 11 is going to offer the option of installing to a Ext4 partition) but combine that w/ my SSD and I boot in like 23 seconds flat...I don't even bother "putting the pc to sleep" since I boot so quick, I just shut down.
The downfall that I found with this release, and Intrepid Ibex, is w/ the eeePC hardware and graphics tiling. Basically the kernal being used in the release candidate has some issues threading the graphics processing and you get signifigant and annoying lag in the UNR interface...but only there. If you open any app it runs as normal, but the UNR interface lags like a son of a bitch. A patched kernal update did fix this however that fix was reverted due to other issues and as of yet a new kernal patch addressing all issues has not been released. You and review the details of the bug here. The.41 kernal is what is shipping and the.40 kernel is what works w/ the eeePC. If you want to install your own kernel you can get the.40 here.
The use of Ext4 makes this a true upgrade and a reason to install a new build. Enjoy!
So your argument is solely focused on the desktop? While I'd agree that Linux will probably never achieve a mass user-base in my lifetime you've still gone way to far in your assumptions. Yes, the kernel changes and adapts. Yes this causes hardware conflicts (my eee900 is having issues with tiling while using the.41 kernel) from time to time and there is a lot to work out but if it wasn't for gaming I'd use primarily Ubuntu anyway. I've used a lot of configurations and a good Linux build is so adaptable and easy to configure its silly to not give it a try or to lambaste the option the way you did.
The Windows vs. Apple vs. Linux argument is like BBQ via gas grille, charcoal grille, or open fire. Each option is progressively more technical to achieve than the previous yet yields a more powerful flavor. The ones who use the Linux (open fire) are always proud of what they achieve (and unlike charcoal it IS a challenge every time) and the flavor of their food...but some talented people just like a gas or charcoal grille better. Nothing wrong with any of that.
With that analogy set in place I reiterate: Vista was a miss, Ubuntu is a gem, and there are a million reasons why that is true. Windows 7 seems like it's going to be the true XP successor just like XP was Windows 2000/Win98 successor. Fedora 10 is great; Jaunty Jackelope is great; and the "stagnant" kernel and Ext4 has yielded a 17 second boot time for that Jaunty Jackelope and Fedora 11. You'd need a truly bad-ass system with a good SSD to even come close to that kind of boot speed with Windows, and that's just one awesome new feature! I don't see it as black and white as any of you fanboys. MS or Linux or Mac (though I just HATE Macs...good luck getting service once Jobs bites it and the company goes under!).
Anyway, good dialog! Let's keep it going! Besides the changing kernel what do you see as the damning of the Linux desktop?
What I said was in jest...but now that you bring it up...
I've used copies of XP, Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. and my experiences were what anyone would expect them to be. I'm not a fanboy simply touting the praises of any one OS over another for the sake of individuality or to be a part of a group, but I will share my experiences for the sake of function and progress. You say that Linux has some shortcomings and is some sort of joke...have you used Vista? Have you used XP on a netbook? Have you used Windows Server?
I'll be the first to admit that I have XP on my home PC, Ubuntu (UNR) on my netbook, Vista on my wife's laptop, and I admin a Red Hat server and a personal Ubuntu server (oh, and I've got WM5 on my Treo and a Blackberry...and an Xbox 360 running Leopard...j/k). I can give you a list of comparisons a mile long giving you "troll" reasons why Ubuntu sucks and XP rox; I can give you a list explaining to you how Vista fails in every department (though it would seem W7 is the XP to Vista's ME); I can give you proof that from a server side almost nothing compares to the flexibility and awesomeness that is Linux...but why should I bother? As much as many Linux fanatics have made up their mind on their freedom of choice, you've made up yours on the state of your proprietary empire.
You can't call something that is EVER CHANGING like Linux stagnant...especially when each distro is constantly evolving in different directions. Your comment invalidates itself by making erroneous claims like that! I'm with you that Windows isn't some evil thing that should never be used but if you're trying to convert people from a fanatical left it just isn't going to happen by making generalized and slanderous comments.
So I close by recognizing that I've said nothing specific in this post but I do want to ask you: what specifically are you referring to in each of your arguments? Give me examples of how Linux has done nothing and Microsoft has continued to push innovation. Explain to me why an OS that is present in the vast majority of cell phones and web servers is irrelevant? Does your argument even extend to such products, or are you simply arguing the desktop? And finally: have you seriously tried Ubuntu vs. Vista? Go 64-bit with it, take some time with it, and then honestly reflect on what you've played with. I prefer XP (mainly for gaming reasons) on the home desktop, but there is no comparison between Ubuntu and Vista...really, Vista just wasn't very good.
And I'm sure there were plenty of posts in this thread that made serious arguments, but my post wasn't one of them. It was a joke. Lighten up.
Isn't Cali in the midst of a friggin' drought? Instead of stopping Hurricanes (traditionally an Atlantic Ocean problem) why don't they try and get some rain in California and leave us on the East Coast to our Hurricanes!
When the camera was turned off Mike Rowe would pour honey and salt all over us on the floor while whipping those who hadn't been covered with his devil concoction. He would do this while violently screaming, "You're all dirty, dirty, filthy workers and you deserve to be cleansed!!!!" He later took his obsession for clean workers to the airwaves in the Discover Channel hit TV show "Dirty Jobs." It is unknown as of this writing whether or not he's abandoned his practice of whipping and tourturing those on "his" set.
I meant to say "wares" (wares - A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market) but subbed the "z" out of habit.
HD didn't stand for "High-Definition" at QVC but "High-Quality Domestic-Products". You see we were on the cutting edge.
I should've said "wares" not "warez"...force of habit. I don't even remember what Warcraft went for back in those days. I worked there right before Frozen Throne came out...and since I was still in my delirium from the drugs in the air at the QVC building I thought The Frozen Throne expansion was adding Rivers to Warcraft as the overlord and master as we at QVC believed she was.
I only did network and system admin stuff but it was QVC...there were TV's all over the floor tuned in to watch Joan Rivers peddle here warez in HD!!!!...oh the horror...the horror...
I've got Verizon FiOS in Baltimore (were WiMAX is available...with no cap!) and the funny thing is that I've got 10/2mpbs service as part of Verizon's version of a triple play! I pay $130 a month for TV, 10/2mbps connections and phone while its $150 a month for 10/1mpbs for Time Warner! I feel very sorry for people who don't have access to Verizon. With the number of people who are switching to such great offers it is amazing that other companies are adapting the less-profitable throttling/capping models.
I had Comcast--who was 1st in the throttling department--and there is no comparison on the quality of the service and the quality of the company offering those services. I don't know why companies like Time Warner and Comcast believe they "own" the Internet just because they offer a gateway to it?
But I can say I get a lot of my daily news from my RSS ticker and Google's general news feed is my main source. If companies pulled themselves from that source I simply wouldn't read their stuff. I wouldn't click on ads on their site. I wouldn't have anything to do with them and they'd loose out in the long-run. I don't think I'm the only one who gets their news this way, and in fact I'm pretty sure as time goes on more people will be doing this. Business models are changing, adaptation is key to survival.
March of the Penguins sucked! Morgan Freeman's soothing baritone only fueled my immense hatred for the penguin, it's struggles, and the stupid ice it lives in! Penguins kill at least 3 people every 3000 years`! We need to kill all of those non-flight bastards before they kill again!!!!
Its like they're asking for money simply to have it!
The printing press killed the practice of paying for indulgences since people could actually read their own Bibles, and now the Internet is killing the tangibly printed word because fact is fact regardless of who says it, and most of us would rather hear about it as it happens rather than a day or week later.
Other outlets are capable of doing the EXACT same thing as newspapers yet they don't have to cut down trees to do it. Now that the jig is up its like they want to be paid for the nostalgia factor...lame.
That's a very interesting article. Last night after I took my netbook back to square one and installed some available patches I ended up with a fully up to day Jaunty build on ext4 with a gig of swap space. So far nothing has caught on fire, however there isn't a jump in performance in either direction compared to what was going on with my signifigantly smaller (300MB) of swap space.
I am very lazy. I really hope that the swap size really won't kill me considering how I'm using this netbook. I really only use it to hop online and listen to some NPR at work. The interface still lags like crazy, but I found a bug report detailing the issue. It looks like a patch is coming to fix this lag issue. I may have done all the work formatting and rearranging and of-the-such on a fools errand...especially after reading the link you sent!
That's what I thought too...why would the swap matter, especially when it comes to this problem? I was poking around trying different forums to see if anyone has had a similar problem and everyone seems to say it has something to do with how the gma950 processes the graphics of the interface, and apparently increasing the size of your swap to at least the same size as your RAM fixes the lag. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm planning on messing with this netbook a bit more this weekend now that the beta is more out there (there will more forum posts of bugs, fixes, and challenges to fix:) ). I am skeptical that this will solve the lag problem, but we'll see.
I installed this a month ago almost by painstakingly finding the i386 iso of Jaunty and installing the netbook remix stuff independently.
I've got a eee 900 with the 16GB SSDHD and let me tell you: this thing boots and runs quick! I've tried XP and the UNR Ibex version and the Jaunty build using ext4 filing system blows everything else out of the water with all variations of start-up times. There are problems, however, with certain aspects of the remix.
There is significant lag issues with the interface itself. I believe this may have something to do with the size of my swap partition, but thus far I've been too lazy to format or change anything since the partial upgrade a few days ago.
Its only the remix that reacts slow, everything else is fast, fast, fast! ext4 certainly adds something to boot times and it looks like this Ubuntu build will really be one, coupled with netbooks, that can somewhat pierce the Microsoft stronghold on the general public....eh, probably not.
I had not read the books...
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I saw it last night at midnight. I was vaguely familiar with the story of Watchmen from looking it up on Wikipedia before hand...but I had no idea what I was walking into.
To say it blew my mind would be an understatement. I walked out of that theater disgusted with humanity, but apathetic towards any attempt at making things better. Its like I'm pissed off at everyone but I don't care. Its a very, very weird feeling.
I feel the way I do, but that overwhelming sense of despair is coupled with a new appreciation for my child and wife. My wife has a disorder which doctors told her would make it 100% impossible for her to have kids...well we had a daughter. I've always found my daughter's existence to be the closest thing to a miracle I've seen in my life and the philosophies that dabble into the subject of life as a miracle only reaffirmed my adoration for her life and my wife.
This story has changed me. I cannot credit the movie for this, and I will read the book, but all the same I feel different from watching this...I saw a bit of myself in every character's good and bad points. I hate myself yet feel superior to my friends and colleagues. I have to go since I just peed my pants.
An area man Bernie Maydoff was shocked today to find out his wallet--the trusted home of his money, credit cards, and old pictures of his children--had bitten him square in the buttock.
"I was just minding my own business when suddenly: BAM! I thought I sharted, or at least just let an amazing amout of gas go in public...I was wrong...boy was I wrong" Maydoff was quoted. Maydoff has recently been the source of a wall-street scandal where he helped the wallets of many other individuals bite them in the ass. "I never thought it would happen to me. Sure, I helped a lot of other people get their cheeks gnawed, but I always figured I was safe, you know?"
Upon further investigation into the happening it turns out that Maydoff's wallet bit him because of his own doing. A tragic end to a bizzare story: man gets himself bitten in the ass.
This is why God didn't have an answering machine before. Now you can be like, "but I left you a message! I know you got it, and yet I STILL have the herpes!" It will make for awkward times later.
Unreal in particular has a lot to do with console games. What engine do you think powers the almighty Gears of War franchise or beleaguered Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe?! I recommended Half-Life...why? because the Source Engine powers games like Left 4 Dead. Unreal III IS on XBox anyway. WoW is up for debate, but as far as Unreal is concerned it definitely deserved a place in there.
"Hold on I've got another cod....Hello? Yes, I am interested in saving on long distance! Hold on I have a Cod on the other line....Hey Bill? Yeah I'm going to have to call you back. The Cod on the other line is offering amazing deals on long distance!!! I've already saving money with Geico, now this Cod could save me even more money per month!"
What this fails to mention is that this woman is single-handily responsible for the economic downturn and so the USA has given her a portion of the stimulus to help spark the global economy. Cornelia Johansson's credit card purchases amount to 83% of the Sweedish economy so to strengthen US-Sweedish relations President Obama included Johansson's refund as a part of the recent stimulus bill.
Madden
Half-Life 2
Unreal
Wolfenstien
Everquest
Civilization
Sim City
Half-Life and Unreal DEMAND their precense there simply because of the ENGINES THEY'RE BUILT ON! How many games right now run on the Source Engine? The Unreal Engine?! GTA IV has the Euphoria Engine so that deserves to be up there, but come on!
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Jaunty Jackelope is certainly worth a download. I've been using it on my eeePC 900 with the Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) for a month and while its got its shortcomings, overall its the best OS I'v used with my netbook.
The greatest plus is Ext4. I know that isn't an Ubuntu exclusive upgrade or anything (Fedora 11 is going to offer the option of installing to a Ext4 partition) but combine that w/ my SSD and I boot in like 23 seconds flat...I don't even bother "putting the pc to sleep" since I boot so quick, I just shut down.
The downfall that I found with this release, and Intrepid Ibex, is w/ the eeePC hardware and graphics tiling. Basically the kernal being used in the release candidate has some issues threading the graphics processing and you get signifigant and annoying lag in the UNR interface...but only there. If you open any app it runs as normal, but the UNR interface lags like a son of a bitch. A patched kernal update did fix this however that fix was reverted due to other issues and as of yet a new kernal patch addressing all issues has not been released. You and review the details of the bug here. The .41 kernal is what is shipping and the .40 kernel is what works w/ the eeePC. If you want to install your own kernel you can get the .40 here.
The use of Ext4 makes this a true upgrade and a reason to install a new build. Enjoy!
You may have used the wrong word then: Definition of stagnant
So your argument is solely focused on the desktop? While I'd agree that Linux will probably never achieve a mass user-base in my lifetime you've still gone way to far in your assumptions. Yes, the kernel changes and adapts. Yes this causes hardware conflicts (my eee900 is having issues with tiling while using the .41 kernel) from time to time and there is a lot to work out but if it wasn't for gaming I'd use primarily Ubuntu anyway. I've used a lot of configurations and a good Linux build is so adaptable and easy to configure its silly to not give it a try or to lambaste the option the way you did.
The Windows vs. Apple vs. Linux argument is like BBQ via gas grille, charcoal grille, or open fire. Each option is progressively more technical to achieve than the previous yet yields a more powerful flavor. The ones who use the Linux (open fire) are always proud of what they achieve (and unlike charcoal it IS a challenge every time) and the flavor of their food...but some talented people just like a gas or charcoal grille better. Nothing wrong with any of that.
With that analogy set in place I reiterate: Vista was a miss, Ubuntu is a gem, and there are a million reasons why that is true. Windows 7 seems like it's going to be the true XP successor just like XP was Windows 2000/Win98 successor. Fedora 10 is great; Jaunty Jackelope is great; and the "stagnant" kernel and Ext4 has yielded a 17 second boot time for that Jaunty Jackelope and Fedora 11. You'd need a truly bad-ass system with a good SSD to even come close to that kind of boot speed with Windows, and that's just one awesome new feature! I don't see it as black and white as any of you fanboys. MS or Linux or Mac (though I just HATE Macs...good luck getting service once Jobs bites it and the company goes under!).
Anyway, good dialog! Let's keep it going! Besides the changing kernel what do you see as the damning of the Linux desktop?
What I said was in jest...but now that you bring it up...
I've used copies of XP, Vista, Windows 7, Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. and my experiences were what anyone would expect them to be. I'm not a fanboy simply touting the praises of any one OS over another for the sake of individuality or to be a part of a group, but I will share my experiences for the sake of function and progress. You say that Linux has some shortcomings and is some sort of joke...have you used Vista? Have you used XP on a netbook? Have you used Windows Server?
I'll be the first to admit that I have XP on my home PC, Ubuntu (UNR) on my netbook, Vista on my wife's laptop, and I admin a Red Hat server and a personal Ubuntu server (oh, and I've got WM5 on my Treo and a Blackberry...and an Xbox 360 running Leopard...j/k). I can give you a list of comparisons a mile long giving you "troll" reasons why Ubuntu sucks and XP rox; I can give you a list explaining to you how Vista fails in every department (though it would seem W7 is the XP to Vista's ME); I can give you proof that from a server side almost nothing compares to the flexibility and awesomeness that is Linux...but why should I bother? As much as many Linux fanatics have made up their mind on their freedom of choice, you've made up yours on the state of your proprietary empire.
You can't call something that is EVER CHANGING like Linux stagnant...especially when each distro is constantly evolving in different directions. Your comment invalidates itself by making erroneous claims like that! I'm with you that Windows isn't some evil thing that should never be used but if you're trying to convert people from a fanatical left it just isn't going to happen by making generalized and slanderous comments.
So I close by recognizing that I've said nothing specific in this post but I do want to ask you: what specifically are you referring to in each of your arguments? Give me examples of how Linux has done nothing and Microsoft has continued to push innovation. Explain to me why an OS that is present in the vast majority of cell phones and web servers is irrelevant? Does your argument even extend to such products, or are you simply arguing the desktop? And finally: have you seriously tried Ubuntu vs. Vista? Go 64-bit with it, take some time with it, and then honestly reflect on what you've played with. I prefer XP (mainly for gaming reasons) on the home desktop, but there is no comparison between Ubuntu and Vista...really, Vista just wasn't very good.
And I'm sure there were plenty of posts in this thread that made serious arguments, but my post wasn't one of them. It was a joke. Lighten up.
So he's asking people to get a recent Ubuntu build instead of Vista?
Isn't Cali in the midst of a friggin' drought? Instead of stopping Hurricanes (traditionally an Atlantic Ocean problem) why don't they try and get some rain in California and leave us on the East Coast to our Hurricanes!
So stem cells have cured masturbation related blindness? That's awesome!
With the kinetic energy powering the device having my phone die during lengthy phone sex calls is a thing of the past! Yaaaay!
When the camera was turned off Mike Rowe would pour honey and salt all over us on the floor while whipping those who hadn't been covered with his devil concoction. He would do this while violently screaming, "You're all dirty, dirty, filthy workers and you deserve to be cleansed!!!!" He later took his obsession for clean workers to the airwaves in the Discover Channel hit TV show "Dirty Jobs." It is unknown as of this writing whether or not he's abandoned his practice of whipping and tourturing those on "his" set.
...also he would sing opera to us all the time.
I meant to say "wares" (wares - A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market) but subbed the "z" out of habit.
HD didn't stand for "High-Definition" at QVC but "High-Quality Domestic-Products". You see we were on the cutting edge.
I should've said "wares" not "warez"...force of habit. I don't even remember what Warcraft went for back in those days. I worked there right before Frozen Throne came out...and since I was still in my delirium from the drugs in the air at the QVC building I thought The Frozen Throne expansion was adding Rivers to Warcraft as the overlord and master as we at QVC believed she was.
I only did network and system admin stuff but it was QVC...there were TV's all over the floor tuned in to watch Joan Rivers peddle here warez in HD!!!!...oh the horror...the horror...
I've got Verizon FiOS in Baltimore (were WiMAX is available...with no cap!) and the funny thing is that I've got 10/2mpbs service as part of Verizon's version of a triple play! I pay $130 a month for TV, 10/2mbps connections and phone while its $150 a month for 10/1mpbs for Time Warner! I feel very sorry for people who don't have access to Verizon. With the number of people who are switching to such great offers it is amazing that other companies are adapting the less-profitable throttling/capping models.
I had Comcast--who was 1st in the throttling department--and there is no comparison on the quality of the service and the quality of the company offering those services. I don't know why companies like Time Warner and Comcast believe they "own" the Internet just because they offer a gateway to it?
But I can say I get a lot of my daily news from my RSS ticker and Google's general news feed is my main source. If companies pulled themselves from that source I simply wouldn't read their stuff. I wouldn't click on ads on their site. I wouldn't have anything to do with them and they'd loose out in the long-run. I don't think I'm the only one who gets their news this way, and in fact I'm pretty sure as time goes on more people will be doing this. Business models are changing, adaptation is key to survival.
March of the Penguins sucked! Morgan Freeman's soothing baritone only fueled my immense hatred for the penguin, it's struggles, and the stupid ice it lives in! Penguins kill at least 3 people every 3000 years`! We need to kill all of those non-flight bastards before they kill again!!!!
Its like they're asking for money simply to have it!
The printing press killed the practice of paying for indulgences since people could actually read their own Bibles, and now the Internet is killing the tangibly printed word because fact is fact regardless of who says it, and most of us would rather hear about it as it happens rather than a day or week later.
Other outlets are capable of doing the EXACT same thing as newspapers yet they don't have to cut down trees to do it. Now that the jig is up its like they want to be paid for the nostalgia factor...lame.
That's a very interesting article. Last night after I took my netbook back to square one and installed some available patches I ended up with a fully up to day Jaunty build on ext4 with a gig of swap space. So far nothing has caught on fire, however there isn't a jump in performance in either direction compared to what was going on with my signifigantly smaller (300MB) of swap space.
I am very lazy. I really hope that the swap size really won't kill me considering how I'm using this netbook. I really only use it to hop online and listen to some NPR at work. The interface still lags like crazy, but I found a bug report detailing the issue. It looks like a patch is coming to fix this lag issue. I may have done all the work formatting and rearranging and of-the-such on a fools errand...especially after reading the link you sent!
That's what I thought too...why would the swap matter, especially when it comes to this problem? I was poking around trying different forums to see if anyone has had a similar problem and everyone seems to say it has something to do with how the gma950 processes the graphics of the interface, and apparently increasing the size of your swap to at least the same size as your RAM fixes the lag. I haven't tried it myself, but I'm planning on messing with this netbook a bit more this weekend now that the beta is more out there (there will more forum posts of bugs, fixes, and challenges to fix :) ). I am skeptical that this will solve the lag problem, but we'll see.
I installed this a month ago almost by painstakingly finding the i386 iso of Jaunty and installing the netbook remix stuff independently.
I've got a eee 900 with the 16GB SSDHD and let me tell you: this thing boots and runs quick! I've tried XP and the UNR Ibex version and the Jaunty build using ext4 filing system blows everything else out of the water with all variations of start-up times. There are problems, however, with certain aspects of the remix.
There is significant lag issues with the interface itself. I believe this may have something to do with the size of my swap partition, but thus far I've been too lazy to format or change anything since the partial upgrade a few days ago.
Its only the remix that reacts slow, everything else is fast, fast, fast! ext4 certainly adds something to boot times and it looks like this Ubuntu build will really be one, coupled with netbooks, that can somewhat pierce the Microsoft stronghold on the general public....eh, probably not.
I saw it last night at midnight. I was vaguely familiar with the story of Watchmen from looking it up on Wikipedia before hand...but I had no idea what I was walking into.
To say it blew my mind would be an understatement. I walked out of that theater disgusted with humanity, but apathetic towards any attempt at making things better. Its like I'm pissed off at everyone but I don't care. Its a very, very weird feeling.
I feel the way I do, but that overwhelming sense of despair is coupled with a new appreciation for my child and wife. My wife has a disorder which doctors told her would make it 100% impossible for her to have kids...well we had a daughter. I've always found my daughter's existence to be the closest thing to a miracle I've seen in my life and the philosophies that dabble into the subject of life as a miracle only reaffirmed my adoration for her life and my wife.
This story has changed me. I cannot credit the movie for this, and I will read the book, but all the same I feel different from watching this...I saw a bit of myself in every character's good and bad points. I hate myself yet feel superior to my friends and colleagues. I have to go since I just peed my pants.
An area man Bernie Maydoff was shocked today to find out his wallet--the trusted home of his money, credit cards, and old pictures of his children--had bitten him square in the buttock.
"I was just minding my own business when suddenly: BAM! I thought I sharted, or at least just let an amazing amout of gas go in public...I was wrong...boy was I wrong" Maydoff was quoted. Maydoff has recently been the source of a wall-street scandal where he helped the wallets of many other individuals bite them in the ass. "I never thought it would happen to me. Sure, I helped a lot of other people get their cheeks gnawed, but I always figured I was safe, you know?"
Upon further investigation into the happening it turns out that Maydoff's wallet bit him because of his own doing. A tragic end to a bizzare story: man gets himself bitten in the ass.
This is why God didn't have an answering machine before. Now you can be like, "but I left you a message! I know you got it, and yet I STILL have the herpes!" It will make for awkward times later.
Unreal in particular has a lot to do with console games. What engine do you think powers the almighty Gears of War franchise or beleaguered Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe?! I recommended Half-Life...why? because the Source Engine powers games like Left 4 Dead. Unreal III IS on XBox anyway. WoW is up for debate, but as far as Unreal is concerned it definitely deserved a place in there.
"Hold on I've got another cod....Hello? Yes, I am interested in saving on long distance! Hold on I have a Cod on the other line....Hey Bill? Yeah I'm going to have to call you back. The Cod on the other line is offering amazing deals on long distance!!! I've already saving money with Geico, now this Cod could save me even more money per month!"
What this fails to mention is that this woman is single-handily responsible for the economic downturn and so the USA has given her a portion of the stimulus to help spark the global economy. Cornelia Johansson's credit card purchases amount to 83% of the Sweedish economy so to strengthen US-Sweedish relations President Obama included Johansson's refund as a part of the recent stimulus bill.
Half-Life and Unreal DEMAND their precense there simply because of the ENGINES THEY'RE BUILT ON! How many games right now run on the Source Engine? The Unreal Engine?! GTA IV has the Euphoria Engine so that deserves to be up there, but come on!