Holy shit -- I actually agree with westlake. This Sam Imperial White must be some good beer...

Seriously, I don't have a problem with how Canonical is approaching this. They are making this license easily available to OEM hardware vendors, if the vendors wish to purchase it. That's important for vendors who want to sell consumer-ready devices with Ubuntu pre-installed, in countries like the US that lumber beneath the yoke of intellectual monopoly laws.

Intellectual monopoly laws are unjust, and we should all work to have them repealed or struck down. One could plausibly argue that, until they are overturned, conscientious citizens have a moral obligation to violate them. It is however much tougher to argue that a company such as a hardware vendor has a right, much less a duty, to civil disobedience.

I'm lucky in that I live near a MicroCenter store, and they are currently selling the i5-750 for $180 and the i7-860 for $200.

Since they both use the same socket, the extra $20 for a lot more performance (133-266MHz, depending on turbo-boost, plus twice the threads and better virtualization) is a no-brainer. Even with the $40 bundle discount on AMD CPU/motherboard from MicroCenter, Intel is still far and away the price/performance leader.

Yeah, they also had to pay off retailers to keep them loyal.

Things could have been considerably different today, with athlon beating PIII's (in performance and price), as well as netburst being a major fail on release (and arguably during it's entire lifetime). Crooks.

Same. $2/GB if you go over, too. You get a warning page at 75% and 100% (and the one time I went over without realizing it, I really wish they'd given another at 110%, if only so I wouldn't be so surprised by the bill)

And I'm sorry for my rude reply; I was out of line.

You know, a 15 second Google search would have turned up the results: http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=24630623195&sid=5000

Good idea. Don't forget to tell them why you didn't buy it.

Here's a link to the developer's (Proper Games) contact page: http://www.proper-games.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=55

And here's one to the publisher's (Capcom) contact page: https://shop.capcom.com/DRHM/servlet/ControllerServlet?Action=DisplayContactFormPage&SiteID=capcomus&Locale=en_US&Env=BASE&resid=S9FRGwoBAiMAAFFzqmEAAAAD&rests=1272009021063

If you'd actually read the article, you'd know why they consider it to be a next gen Apple phone (many parts inside branded APPLE, in a case designed to make it look like a 3G iPhone, behaves just like an iPhone when you connect it to a Mac, uses the Mac proprietary dock connector, etc, etc). Are you saying that everyone at Engadget had been fooled, or are you saying they are playing a late April Fools joke on us? Frankly I don't think either is very likely.

I'm pretty sure they meant remote as in "Look, good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living? That's something else."
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Remote

They make pretty good coworkers, I guess. They never seem to get tired but sometimes they float over and start zapping me. Usually when that happens I just put the blast shield down on my helmet and curl up into a ball.

Presidential records and emails were lost on other systems

That was by design. Then the sysadmin died under suspicious circumstances right before testifying about it.

The Iraq-Iran war was over 20 years ago. They could have rebuilt their refining capabilities by now had they chosen to do so.

Not that easy when the worlds industrialised nations have an embargo against you. Iran has to buy almost all its computer technology off the black market seeing as Intel and AMD aren't permitted to sell to Iran. Add to this the difficulty of getting in skilled Oil and Gas engineers, given the O&G engineering field is centred around Houston (US), Glasgow (Scotland) and Perth (Australia) all of these nations flatly refuse to do business with Iran.

It's not just a matter of choosing to do so, Iran would have chosen to do so by now to comply with their doctrine of no critical imports but it's not easy to build a refinery under ideal circumstances, it's nigh impossible to do it when you cant get the parts or the brains you need for the job.

In their patent they say that DC motors don't provide enough torque at higher speeds.

Guantanamo Bay hasn't been closed yet because the previous administration didn't care enough about many of the prisoners there to keep proper files on why they were there in the first place, and they don't want to release everyone on the grounds that they don't quite remember what they did. Granted, a lot of them shouldn't have been there in the first place, but they don't want to accidentally release some criminals along with however many presumably innocent people are there...the point is that they don't know whether releasing them or not would be really, really dangerous, and they're trying to find places to move them while they figure it out.

Similarly, with the health care reform...well, I don't know if you've heard, but there's been somewhat of a debate on the issue holding it up a bit? Nothing huge, it'll probably blow over soon.

Here is a link to another , earlier LCROSS article that could be combined and/or cross referenced with this particular submission if any LCROSS stories are published later today...

Nobody likes having their ideas dismissed as dumb. It also annoys the hell out of me how dismissive people can be of the way others are treated. A person being told to do things under threat of physical detainment and imprisonment is pretty harsh. I find it highly offensive that anyone would condone threatening another person with such violence without a damned good reason.

Lock up the child molesters, murderers, and rapists. Punish thieves, and fraudsters. However, they are locking up farmers and flower peddlers, non-violent people, who do nothing but provide a product that they believe in, and their customers want. That I can't support and I am sickened that you or anyone else can.

If it doesn't piss you off, you are part of the problem.

-Steve