Just curious, but what problem do you have with the W7 activation?

I would argue that purchasing software with painfully invasive DRM and then pirating the same software with the DRM stripped out would be a legitimate use (Example, recent Ubisoft PC games). You've already purchased the software, you just don't want to be fully reliant on the publisher's servers to authenticate it…

I picked up a used copy of Jet Grind Radio for my dreamcast last year, and I played it for a few hours... It really didn't do anything for me. The music was cool and all, but the gameplay didn't provide any enjoyment to me.

Because a subjective opinion on the coolness of ship design and technology based on sci-fi physics is important to the writer's argument concerning the narrative and ideological merits of Mass Effect's universe.

That's probably why then. In a more typical consumer environment it wouldn't have static images like that running for so long as part of its regular use.

dammit... now i want a bowl of golden grahams... thanks a lot!

u mad bro?

Is it just sitting there displaying a slide show day-in and day-out?

Burn-in on plasmas hasn't been a factor for years. IIRC, CNET did a test 3 or 4 years ago on a middle-range plasma and had to leave a static image on it for well over a day to get any kind of burn in, and that was fixable with one of those high contrast recovery dvd's

Looks like somebody stole the keys to the low orbital ion cannon...

yes, because in the original cut when you only hear a single shot... that was totally greedo?

Way to keep beating down on the startup.

This

And there could be be a theme park! With blackjack! And hookers!

Get offa my lawn!

If your upset, solve it the old fashioned way: Make a better commercial having a high-milage F150 towing a smoking high-milage Silverado =D

My money is on a flag with a company logo.

I'm getting about $1500 back. Its all going straight on a credit card before being spent on some major scheduled car maintenance and a new SSD because my primary hard drive is pushing 3 and a half years.

We'd better nuke it from orbit; its the only way to be sure.

How many system resources does HTML5 Pandora take up anyway? Task manager shows 55MB or RAM in its own Chrome tab, around 250MB for Chrome altogether... In a modern PC with over 4 gigs of memory (6GB DDR2 in my case), does it matter all that much?