Posts by Also McFly

PC recycler gets 15 months in the clink for whipping up 28,000 bootleg Windows 7, XP recovery discs

Re: Completely bonkers

"Legit" copies of Dell restore CDs go for $5 to $10 a pop on Ebay. Prison seems heavy handed, but I tend to agree, Lundgren's decision to make the discs appear to be original OEM sort of breaks his credibility, for me, at least. Even if he never intended to sell the discs separately, he's still basically taking a $25 Ebay sale and turning it into a $150 sale by conning customers into believing they're getting a full MS license and legit restore media with the system.

Sending the dude to prison is another thing entirely. MS could just as easily have threatened him with a lawsuit and politely and publicly requested he destroy the CDs. Instead, we have a guy being punished for doing something that Dell and MS should've been doing all along - which is creating a system that keeps working PCs out of landfills in the first place.

Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts

Hrm...

>Why would the US ask for it back and not just say it's a con job?

Didn't the US report a UAV lost to a malfunction? Even if the video is faked to make Iran look like super hax0rs, there's still the matter of the *actual* wrecked drone.

I thought most drones had pilots flying them remotely, shouldn't someone have noticed one of them drifting off course and given it a destruct signal of some sort?

BioWare Baldur's Gate

I don't know...

"That's not to understate the importance of BG1 - it arrived at a time when the Western RPG as a genre was moribund."

Er, there were some pretty great North American RPGs leading up to, and just prior to the BG series. Just a few that everyone should remember: The SSI Gold Box collection 1988-1991, Ravenloft: Strahd's Possession 1994, Menzoberranzan 1994, Daggerfall (Elder Scrolls II) in 1996, Fallout in 1997. When I think of RPGs of the late '90s, I think of the peak and slow death of the top down style of gameplay, not the rebirth of the genre. Pretty sure most of these were pretty mainstream, maybe the DreamForge titles in the mid-90s didn't catch on as well as they should have, but certainly Daggerfall and Fallout were mainstream RPG hits.