Ugh, no kidding. That's one of my biggest language pet peeves. (sig related)

Yes, there are open tools, but at the end of the day Adobe still controls the future direction of Flash as a format, platform, whatever. In the end though, all this Adobe/Apple stuff looks like two 500-lb gorrillas trying to piss all over each other, and customers may end up feeling it the worst.
 
Yet another part of me wants to say "You kids get off my damned lawn, I've hated Flash since it was owned by Macromedia!" :)

etc-update? I moved on to dispatch-conf a number of years ago, and thought everyone else did too. etc-update is a pain in the ass, and always has been.

 
It all comes down to update-grub on ubuntu. For reasons I don't know, the initial installation does not detect ANY other partitions -- Linux, Win, OS/2, whatever. Immediately after running update-grub as root, grub will detect partitions properly and add them to grub.conf (or whatever ubuntu uses). The Ubuntu team initially was going to rely on a zero-day kernel update -- which would force update-grub to run -- as a workaround for this problem, but they then decided to respin some (not all) ISOs.

FWIW, I think you should also include 2010. We are about to be 5 months into 2010, and we've had 30 deaths in ONE MINE ALONE so far this year (one more person died in the hospital several days ago relating to the UBB mine). Also, the day before Obama's UBB mine worker eulogy, a mine worker in a different mine in WV was crushed to death. So there's 31 deaths inside of one month's time for mining coal, in WV alone, for 2010.

Phew... now you've taken me back. I remember upping my 486/33 from 4M RAM to 8M so I could properly play Lands of Lore : The Throne of Chaos. It's funny to look back now; games truly drove all the upgrades back then. And as you said, when 3DFX and OpenGL hit? It was a whole new level. Now our machines are more capable, but are often less fun to use.

Yeah, me too. Your post brought back some nice memories for me, of the days when squeezing 150MHz actually mattered. 'Holy crap, Carmageddon runs GREAT now!'

HA! Excellent! I also had a BP6, but with 533's. Then I learned how nice having a bigger L2 cache is, got burned by terrible Creative drivers that couldn't deal with SMP, and switched off to a P3-800EB. Ahh memories.

Nitpick... back in the day, we oc'd those bad boys to 450. The 300's were 66MHz bus * 4.5 multiplier; they mostly all moved nicely to the 100MHz bus to get a 450MHz chip with tiny cache. Still, cheaper than a P2-450 or P3-450 at the time.

Doesn't that, then, speak volumes about Ubisoft?

Because the material is extremely porous?

That's why I loved my (486) DX-33. Built-in FPU! Thanks for the memories.

Didn't they already do a fair portion of the work with the PS3 port? It *had* to be OpenGL, necessitating redoing the engine (or just updating their old OpenGL renderer). However, I heard it was not very good on the PS3. Given the time that passed, I'd bet they used the PS3 engine as a jump-off point and have been optimizing heavily, around OpenGL 2.1 and 3.0 I'd bet. No coincidence 10.6.3 is supposed to have OpenGL 3.0 support.

Regarding the two droids holding hands, the impression I've gotten so far is that it relates to (1) the Glados personality overall (2) emotions and their presence in robots and (3) the mentions repeatedly by the Aperture Science CEO in decoded messages saying basically "no witchcraft!".

I think the computers (Glados) as well as androids (if that's what they are) have some rudimentary emotions established through "witchcraft". What we don't know is what "witchcraft" literally means in this context.