They're all in Java. The freely available version played in your web browser sucks and isn't at all representative of the fun you can have with the real game (though note that it's still in alpha and very buggy).
The range of visible and updated chunks around a player with visibility set to far is huge, though.
Well, Port is the actual name of the city, county and district. Oakland is Oakland, not Port. But even among other cities called Port, which I'm sure there must be several all over the world, any wine bottled there won't be nearly as famous or culturally significant as real port. You seem to have read my prior exchange of posts with the troll; You can see from the link I posted that Port is a wine not only drunk all over the world but with centuries of tradition. The entire region of Porto and the Douro valley is heavily based around the wine industry. If it fails, many people will lose their jobs and the standards of living (already low for many) will sharply decrease.
Well, a Google search yielded this in about 30 seconds: http://www.discovertheorigin.co.uk/port-wine/
According to this source, the wine drank by your Pepys was indeed imported from Portugal.
Port is the literal translation of the name of the city where the wine is bottled, Porto (it actually means that, as in a ship's port). The entire river Douro valley is part of the wine's production area, with big vineyards all along the river.
Champagne and port have been in the dictionary as generic terms for centuries. Just from the standpoint of IP law, pulling them out of the public domain where they've safely landed and re-protecting them is even dumber than retroactive copyright extensions--and even worse (IMO) is the attempt to legally redefine words that have widely used English meanings.
During most of that time, port has been produced only in Portugal, and within europe, the term was already restricted and not in the public domain (due to the european PDO system).
I'm from Portugal. We're a small country whose economy is in a terrible state (much worse than the global economy). One of the few exports we depend on is port wine. If the name of the wine is usurped freely, uninformed consumers merely looking for "port wine" will buy the fake, more widely marketed stuff produced by wealthier companies in wealthier countries and we'll grow closer to being bankrupt.
They're good.
Mrs. Lovejoy, actually! Maude Flanders is a different character who died several seasons ago.
Maybe he's a non-native speaker himself
Your argument makes sense when referring to many companies and games, but Machinarium is very good. I pirated it and then bought it, which very few people do according to them, and yes, I do not pay for games that suck (but I pay afterwards for almost every indie game I play because they're usually really good).
Amanita Design is the company that threw in a free game to all buyers of the Humble Indie Bundle at absolutely no profit for themselves (other than good PR of course). They seem to be talented and decent people and I hope more of their players will compensate them for their games.
Sorry if I'm wrong about this, but aren't slashdot stories submitted by users and voted up or down by users in the firehose? Editors just OK the highest rated ones... They don't do much else, from my observation.
You're right about wikipedia, of course.
The ability to track your usage and gather information about you.
Web browsers also support cookies natively, and it is possible to use these with html5 without explicitly requiring Flash to 'track your usage and gather information about you', and many, many advertising and other such companies do so. Flash sharedobjects are just a piece of technology. They aren't any more evil or suspicious than normal cookies. All this company does is store a copy of your cookies in a flash cookie so if you delete the one, they can restore it from the other.
I think you mean pseudomoralism... In any sane frame of reference, corruption is much more immoral than, say, violent videogames (you may argue these aren't immoral at all for you, as they aren't for me, but they are for some people). You can't be corrupted and moral at the same time, and from what I've seen the current australian government is so corrupted they don't even make a proper effort to hide it anymore.
They exist now, but a lot of people on the ISP side are thinking they should be making a lot more money from their success or be allowed to restrict the huge amount of bandwidth used by the traffic they have to send to those sites.
"All the people are so happy now, their heads are caving in. I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin" -- They Might Be Giants
