Years ago, in order to help avoid losing an anti-trust lawsuit, Microsoft claimed that Linux (and even Novell Netware, I think) were competitors.

However, it wasn't true then, and, it isn't true now...

It's not scared of Linux and would have no reason to be... the only thing that can compete with Windows is Windows, there's no way anything which causes binary incompatibility with all those applications will ever be a direct competitor.

Does /. support OpenID?

I just ask because LiveJournal and the google commercial complex (youtube, gmail, blogger, and whatever it will assimilate tomorrow) all do... and with a name like OpenID, you'd think FOSS sites would be keen for it... yeah? Or... no?

I thought that /. had gotten rather pathetic, so this is the first time I've read it in months, if not years. It feels like eons.

The "talking to pirates" thing is especially interesting.

And, does anyone (still) read the /. journals?

I got like 2 replies in the entire time that I've had one.

I thought that I had something to say,
but now I realise,
I really have a many things to do.

Rather than being critical about
some of the problems I see,
I'll create something better.

Or learn something
whilst
trying.

Which would create
a better
me.

You said:

"Even by MS's own figures, Xbox Live players are still very much the minority of Xbox owners, so why is 40-50% of the gameplay that people are paying for only available to them?"

My opinion:

Although they're a very small minority in terms of sales, they carry more clout in terms of marketing, and marketing ability is what drives the games esp. on XBOX360, with it's US-centric (and thus, advertising-centric) philosophy:

A short while ago, I watched an episode of the new Dr. Who series. The signifigant thing about this is that I've previously never watched an entire episode of Dr. Who. I think the old series used to scare me with its eerie music and stuff (I was much younger then) and the new series just airs at some weird times; I only managed to catch it because I was channel surfing while waiting for "Firestarter" to show on TNT and there it was on a feed of Canada's CBC Toronto, or something.

There's nothing much to say.

It's hot, I've gotten a lot of stuff done,and there's yet more to do. My ability to set priorities has greatly improved. I'm almost totally over that "cold-like thing", where I was coughing and stuff, triggered by fatigue, overwork, and working with excessively violent dust.

I'm making this entry because I miss working on tech. stuff... but I'm on track to resume those types of activies.

I've been playing starcraft. what would it be like if I
had a lua console builtin?

Most of my journal entries here have been, at best, little notes to myself. I don't really think anyone reads this space, and most of the time, I forget I have it, totally.

However, right now I feel that the last post, back in feb. 2006, needs a bit more (or less) to follow it.

It seems I forgot to fix the space.