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Indeed. Something like Steam was bound to happen. I think we should be very grateful it was Valve that built it first.

You know what really gives me the warm and fuzzies over this though? And it's got nothing to do with Iraq. It's Chinese dissidents deciding to build their own leaks website to document Chinese government abuses. Now that is going to be powerful. Although I have to question the Chinese founder's choice of pseudonym... they call him 'Deep Throat'. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/artic...04851f6b44a.ad1

Iraq, what a joke... they couldn't even be bothered executing an ethical war. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...e-Iraq-War.html You know what, screw all you neo-cons ranting about how evil Wikileaks is. YOU are the evil ones for trying to defend violent abuse of enemies and civilians as par for the course - what, do you not consider Iraqis to be as human as you? And heck the worrying thing is that without Wikileaks the extent of the malicious streak of such war-mongers wouldn't have even really come to light in the first place. Any doubts about Wikileaks's methods (which it's turning out are pretty reasonable) are immensely overshadowed by the sheer brutality of the material they are releasing. This is not how civilised Western countries should be acting - and some people wonder why the West has little stomach for war any more. Perhaps in time the good done in Iraq will outweigh the horrors, but I am not confident of that any more (especially with Iran digging their tendrils in - probably another result of Coalition abuses turning the populace against us). This is not how Iraq should have went. The Western world should do better or not at all. I'm praying this will bring some heightened scrutiny to the Afghanistan mission.

Steam connects fine over routers. Your problem is particular to you.

This thread is a load of ****. PC gaming isn't dying. In fact, it's thriving. And Valve is at the forefront of it.

It's kind of surreal reading this thread. Over here the thing the people are most concerned about is the fact that too many people have jobs (full employment) causing inflationary pressure on prices and thus requiring the Reserve Bank to raise the interest rate above 4.5%. Oh, and the dollar. Our export sector is pissed off that we're at parity with the USD because their goods no longer have a competitive advantage in currency exchange rates. The rest of the country is too busy buying **** from America at half price to notice... or care.

Move to Australia.

Joke's on you Archie as the original poster is actually your mother.

Well, a peace prize based on results versus one chosen with the (vain) hope of changing things. The committee has a long tradition of being activist. To me it would be a completely pointless trophy if it was only after the fact, but to each hos own I guess. Trying a lot is not the same as succeeding a lot. That's a ridiculous post. In the case of Obama there is clearly a point to be made that he didn't deserve it - assign the award for long-standing work towards peace, not potential for work towards peace. But this guy Liu, counts as much as anybody to receive this prize, Wals. He has not achieved democracy in China, but he has provided hope and determination to others to achieve it by unswervingly and peacefully defending human rights in the face of the extreme oppression of a totalitarian regime. FOR TWENTY YEARS. All of them in China, each day knowing what they might do to him at any moment.

If you bought DX2 because DX3 got you excited, prepare to be disappointed. DX3 looks far more like DX1 in style and thoughtfulness of design.

Except to, you know, the large tourism industry of most countries...

Heh heh heh

I love DoTA and HoN. Will buy this when it comes out.

"We must respect the original" - Deus Ex 3 devs http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=269503 Good article, worth reading.

Ridiculous.

So... bloody China... making a stupid ass of itself on the world stage as usual.

I shall destroy you ALL.

I have no counter-argument.

The fundamentalist Christian lobbies were onto Ass Rights Management loooong before DRM came along.

From my observations of Australia: multiculturalism works if successive natural-born generations amalgamate both parent cultures - if the kids are receptive, everything will be fine and Aussies will be happy to adopt a bunch of aspect of their culture in turn. If this doesn't happen (the kids don't fit in) then the immigrant culture's size as a percentage of the population should be held below a certain percent to prevent racial tension building up - this basically means limiting how many you accept as immigrants per year in future for a while. Australia is a good example of multiculturalism working remarkably well at a certain level. Specifically: 25% of the population weren't born here, 40% of the population's parent's weren't born here, 10% of the population is Asian, an even larger chunk of the population are non-English Europeans typically from the oppressed and low socio-economic countries of the 1900's. Despite all this, or in fact because of it, we have one of the most socially and economically advanced countries in the world. Australia is also an (unfortunately) good example of multiculturalism working remarkably poorly in the past in various forms too, so we know a thing or two about it.

The JWST is a baby compared to this sucker (which coincidentally will also be paired with the most powerful super computer in the world - once it's invented!) problem with that is that it's under the atmosphere and thus gets interference from several sources compared to the space scopes which have much clearer pictures. The sheer resolution and multiple redundancy of the SKA make up for that so many times over it's not funny, though! EDIT: Not to mention that the reason it's going to be built in the Australian outback desert is, surprise, because of the vast radio silence out there! It sure as heck won't be because the middle of nowhere is a convenient place to lay thousands of kilometres of fibre optic cable to... cables which will be - at any one instant - carrying the current Internet usage bandwidth of all of Europe in day. That's exabytes of data per day, which IBM is inventing an exaflops supercomputer to process at the site.

Bah I loathe the RIAA.

The JWST is a baby compared to this sucker (which coincidentally will also be paired with the most powerful super computer in the world - once it's invented!)

Region-locking is just another stupid form of DRM, and my thoughts on that are pretty clear. Tigranes: multiple people have directed me here for cheap US-priced games. Apparently it is reliable. FO:NV is just 40 bucks. http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/fallout-new-vegas-game-pc Civ 5 is $43 http://www.ozgameshop.com/pc-games/sid-mei...ion-v-5-game-pc