A 1.5GB binary? That obviously includes the OS.

Seriously now:

I cannot fathom how, why or where-in-gods-green-earth such a large binary exists.

An average 50% CPU reduction is notable, yet the data encompassing that claim seems to be the exact same width, height and breadth of a White Elephant, a deployment nightmare, and a bandwidth raper, Frankensteined.

It is a grotesque salute to everything unjust, immoral and plainly fucked up in the coding world.

If you know enough basic coding paradigms like variables, loops, functions and the like, then you can just Dive Into Python.

The page says it's for experienced programmers, but it's a simple indemnity that translates into "common sense about basic coding paradigms"

A monkey hitting keys at random on a keyboard for a finite amount of time will almost surely code a 10 Million LOC program, such as the complete works of Intuit.

* adaptation of the Infinite monkey theorem

Thanks for that little gem of folklore! Adding that to my library next to "The story of Mel" :-)

I spent a few years writing integration systems between QB and in-house software. I gave it the benefit of the doubt at first. I won't ever get those years back.

After aeons of debugging against their "API", and "UI", battling with their licensing and development "support" dept's, submitting bug reports (resulting in delaying their releases), I have concluded: Their code base is rubbish. It's flaky at best, likely contains yarns of spaghetti and unused cruft, is highly flammable and is likely to cause hemorrhaging if swallowed.

Best to apply the GNU / Linux patch first thing for newly acquired hardware.

The closest match 8ta.com has on offer is a 2GB deal.

It's a good deal if it is real, we'll go interrogate the drones in-store later today about this...

Surfer is eaten alive by sentient algae blob. Story at 11!

This is genius! Want to team up and cash in selling snowcones in support of project "iceage"? :)

Its no worse an idea than say ocean trawling or deep sea oil drilling.

A great genre that engages your imagination. These modern games in question are obviously not inspired by the art of storytelling.

Its more like boilerplate text they use to glue cutscenes.

In Southern Africa I pay (via Vodacom) R150 (127 SEK, 18 USD, 15 Euros) for 500 MB. No unlimited on offer.

A 10 GB bundle would cost as much as R1630, 1387 SEK, 200 USD, 162 Euros. A 20 GB bundle more than double that.

Pointing out my OP did not refer to the "Indie game makers" aspect within the HIB, but specifically to the DRM-Free aspect. I just used HIB as a measuring stick, as I believe a great portion of the game buyers believed in the principal of DRM-Free content.

It may be a fallacy to assume everybody will be carting their consoles wherever they go, yet I agree that PC's are the best choice for most of us here. Well said, Sir

Would that include the cheap knock-off Golden China consoles?

These skeptics can't string two original thoughts together: fuss-potting on the DRM aspect, which is clearly not the main focus of this new console!

Time to wake up, The Humble Bundle statistics prove that DRM-free games are indeed wanted.

Similarly, and open gaming platform is much needed. The corporates are just afraid of losing their fatty grips.