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That's great, I can't wait to try it out! It looks like the link for http://download.stardock.com includes the comma, which means it's not a proper link, there.

Sounds great! The link for http://download.stardock.com in the original post has the comma at the end as part of the link; it is a bad link at the moment.

So far, most of the areas mentioned in the poll are getting better with each patch, which is great to see. One area that hasn't gotten a lot of attention: making the cities individually interesting, and overall joined as a culture. Having a lot of cities spammed all across the map, with even more area taken up by outposts, feels like a weak area of the game. As has been discussed elsewhere, individual cities should be given different options, to get more "personality" over

For anyone interested in IE 9, is it worth pointing out that these "preview" versions install alongside IE 8 -- they don't replace it. So you can safely install it to test it out, without it replacing a complete browser. IE 9 is not currently a full "web browser", it has no interface or other features expected in one. It's just a preview of what it will become as a browser. As for hardware acceleration, Firefox developers have been working on that for a long time,

Compared to the previous versions of IE, IE 9 is a tremendous leap forward. By the time it is finally released late this year or early next year, though, most of it's fancier features (graphics acceleration, wider array of HTML5/CSS3 standard support, etc.) will be matched by Firefox and Chrome, and the other modern browsers. The big question is whether or not Microsoft will actually update IE 9 with new standards and features throughout it's life, or if they're going to just sit on t

Civ 5 is "threaded", but not in the sense that most programs are designed. Instead, the overall tasks are split up into hundreds of tiny "jobs", not large threads that are designed to go on specific cores. There's a great video of a talk covering this , given by Dan Baker of Firaxis and Yannis Minadakis of Intel, from GDC 2010. (You can put in any info for the "registration"