Did any of these people, or I, start a long bloody war or burn anyone?

Can you explain to me how, exactly, sharing a belief with criminals who live far away or lived hundreds of years ago and who I never met makes me one?

If you like yoghurt and so did Hitler, can I reproach you for that? (I know, I know, Godwin.)

See Mersenne, who I mentioned in my previous post. He was a friend and defender of Galileo, mentioned by the OP. Galileo was persecuted by the inquisition, but defended by this theologian. Does it really make sense to stereotype them all into evil monsters? I don't think so.

Marin Mersenne

Gregor Mendel

Julius Nieuwland

Georges Lemaitre

You fanatic atheists are just as bad, if not worse, than fanatic religious believers. Your baseless hatred and uninformed blunders don't lend you a lot of credibility, you know?

True scientists are open minded. Fortunately for the world, both the people you mentioned and the people I mentioned were not like you.

Doctor Loboto!

If you read my post more carefully, you may notice it mentions USERS.

See, if I write a CMS for (let's say) a microchip factory, there is going to be a LOT less people using IE6 than if I make a website for, for example, a gardening store. In this second case, all my client cares about is that his users, who are his source of income, cannot view the website properly without taking action to change their browser first, and they will consider the website "broken".

The real problem here is that people doing the right thing may lose touch with part of their customer base.

But it's none of my business anyway, because I do NOT write nonstandard websites or IE6 hacks ;) I'd refuse the client.

I'm a web developer and I'm already doing that. However, people from certain areas of business may have the majority of their users still visiting through IE6. When that happens, your only choices are either to support IE6 or not to work for that client.

Nay, both games will ALSO be released on the good old PC.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/01/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition-coming-to-xbla-pc/

http://e3.gamespot.com/story/6210601/the-secret-of-monkey-island-special-edition-first-look

*I* am. Maybe you meant to reply to Mr. Nice Gui?

Also, sorry for double posting, but remember that the previous Monkey Island games are divided in self-contained "chapters", usually each being an island or ship. I think this makes conversion to episode format easy, although admittedly I'd also prefer to have just one full game...

All the people who used to work on these great games left LucasArts. I very much prefer to have a game developed by people with experience and emotional attachment to the previous ones. Also, it looks like this has been in the works for a while.

I'm not that crazy about Sam and Max in first place, and it's a different game, with different expectations and scheduled differently. Wasn't the new episodic game made for GameTap? I know from my experience with Uru Live that GameTap demands speed above everything and that can result in rushed work...

One of the original designers, the original composer and a few other members of the original team, plus the voice cast from games 3 and 4, are in this game's development team.

I'm hopeful.

Yes, but you can't go out into the sunshine and interact with someone on the other side of the world for free. Unless you hitch-hike there :P

And you definitely can't go out into the sunshine if it's night. Or raining (unless you have an airplane).

I hate MMORPGs, but I acknowledge they have some advantages PURELY in the socialization aspect. The gameplay tends to always suck. It's just pointless.

Because they own all of those...

Even if you are not connected to the internet, you should not use IP addresses that are not reserved for local networks. However, since they own the space, they can do whatever they want with it.

It's still a huge waste, though. A single /8 could provide enough addresses for the entire population of my country to have a computer connected to the internet... And there would still be millions left over.

Yeah, they should give up their second lives and get first lives.

Then they could spend them here on Slashdot like the rest of us.

Personally, I think Stallman exaggerates; that is not the issue.

Regardless of what wikipedia has accomplished, both the people in the foundation and many of its high-ranked users are anything but open-minded. And, though I do not have a wikipedia account, I say this as a frequent visitor (at least once a day) who *loves* wikipedia. I'm just sorry about many things I regularly see when browsing through it and some things I hear about it.

Am I the only one who laughed after reading this?