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Not if you're surrounded by Wi-Fi networks, all waiting for you to jump in undetected (mostly). Think of it as a sort of free hosting.

I see no love for AC here. *sadface*Surely some of you have heard/played it? It's a mech combat game with heavy emphasis on customization. Almost every game of the long-running series (all the way from the original PlayStation) has had over 150 parts to mix, match, switch and play around with. You have humanoid legs, reverse-jointed ones, four-legged and tank designs.It's got a pretty active community backing it up.So, anyone?

Zetaboards has been out for a month or so. Just in time for the end of the year. I took a gander at the software back when it was in open beta, and while stylistically things have improved, usability-wise I think it's taken a bit of a dip. Things just seem to take a bit longer to finish. There's more layers of fluff, to be honest. In IF things were a bit simpler, and more to the point. The Admin CP in ZB looks amazing though. It's more fluid than its predecessor.

Agreed, go with Python to start things off. Real easy to learn, real easy to create programs with. Post your finished projects out for download on some game development sites. There are a lot of those on the web. Hopefully you understand the time and resources it takes to pull something like MU off, and even MU's not that great lol. Start small, finish something, build on your experiences and advice from others. And probably most important of all, get help! By the time you've finished a simple 3d game on your own a team of 5-10 could've made 2 or 3. I speak strongly on this because I plan to make games for a living one day too. A pipe dream, yeah, but a dream nonetheless. Good luck! EDIT: Oh. Damn. Almost half a month late.

Hmm, I would have to go with what the majority have said and recommend Ubuntu to the ex-Windows-power-user-and-now-Linux-newbie. Ubuntu does most of the hard work for you, install's snappy and very well documented, hardware support is generally great and it's got GUIs for almost every little thing that you need to tweak in the system. At the same time, it has this certain window of commands that, if you want to be efficient, can be done through the command line; thereby making new users learn that the real power to any Linux distro lies in the CLI.Plus, Ubuntu ships with GNOME as the default desktop environment, and we all know how most people know their way around menus.That's basically what Ubuntu is, a distro built on sensible defaults, but with enough flexibility to give way to the user's choice.I agree though, Gentoo is something that's only for the brave... or those who have a lot of free time.

Man. Wow. The Japanese sure are great inventors. I agree with Arbitratry though that it all just seems for show. I mean, it's great eye candy and all, but at the end of the day you just want to watch shows on your TV, not watch your TV. As a techie consumer, I feel all warm inside from just looking at the wafer-thinness (is there such a word? lol) of the thing. But as a practical buyer, I just don't see myself shelling out for one of these anytime soon. Not unless they make it, like, 50 inches wide and solid as a rock.

I believe this site is a bit more comprehensive: https://linuxappfinder.com/ Seriously, with developers actively producing ports of programs you used to only find on MS's OS, Linux on the desktop is really coming soon. Although many say that kind of prediction's been done to death before, it's only really now with the surge of Ubuntu, gOS and the other user-friendly distros that it's finally coming to light.

Linux user since Feisty Fawn. So you might call me a bit of a newb, but I've really taken a liking to using Linux. It's on both my desktop and laptop right now, dual booting with Windows for the necessary programs of course.What made me switch? Well, it's mostly because I was tired of having to keep up with all the antivirus software that Windows needed. Plus the actual scanning was just too much of a burden on the system, especially when I'm doing something else on it. Also, I'm an MIS major. You could say that it's in my blood. :rolleyes:Other factors: Vista's price. Too high.It's just fascinating to see how much performance you can squeeze out of your box when you put a Linux kernel on it. And how much more stable it suddenly seems. I'm off to install Gentoo.

Yahtzee has a great review of this game, which seems totally spot on. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ If you don't know who Yahtzee is, shame on you.