Remember the UK has a ridiculous electronics import duty too.

> for the purposes of the GPL, a combined work is as good as a derivative work.

Except the GPL relies on derivative works for enforcement, so if it is not legally a derivative work; the GPL has no hold. The GPL applying via the 'shim' only holds when you cannot seperate the other half (the proprietary bit), or replace it with something else; and possibly only then if the seperated half derives enough from the original interface.

Actually it is, the post is 50%.

It's pandering to the Australian Christian Lobby, who are a bunch of self-important wankers and have far too much power for a country where 28% of the population puts down 'atheist/agnostic/no-religion/blank' on the census.

>It's bad that we have to choose between two parties, one who wants to be a dictator over my home life and one who wants to be a dictator over my work life.

Except we don't have to support one of two parties. Australia's first-past-the-post prefential voting system means if you vote for a small party (such as say the Australian Democrats), you can direct your preferences if they don't get elected -- effectively, vote for the party you want first, then vote for the lesser evils further down, and your vote still goes where you want it to.

> because if you can't fix a broken machine you don't understand how it works, and even sometimes if you can fix a broken machine you still may not understand that machine completely.

But it's not a matter of fixing a broken machine, it's a matter of copying it.

If I gave you a car; let you pull it to bits, examine each and every part (and yes there will be a lot of them), you could disassemble it, copy each part, and providing you took good notes; re-assemble a new car from your copied parts.

The idea of 'imprinting' like this isn't impossible; it's just a very complicated duplication effort - and I suspect it's an effort which is easier than solving mental illness; even accounting for converting electrical and chemical reactions into digital models of them.

I found the DLC's were entertaining - but they were really really really buggy.

OK, Point Lookout - great, the first three DLC were fun (albeit buggy).

But Alien Abduction? I know Fallout has always had tongue in cheek references to Aliens but this strikes me as jumping the shark here.

Pretty well off - however most of our staff commute in from neighbouring provinces in the morning (our offices are fairly near to a train station).

Certainly when I have stayed there (mostly during hiring season) we've eaten extraordinarily well with 2-3 course meals coming out to about 300 RMB for 4 people (~US$10/head).

We have a group in Shanghai - we've got pretty well qualified guys in our office, we pay them 14,000 RMB per month (~US$2,000). They get about 8,000-10,000 of that with the rest going to the government in payroll taxes.

More average developers come in at between 6,500 to 8,500 RMB per month.

Shameless achievement whoring.

"Too much time on their hands."

Better auto-aim, slower game speeds, wider 'fudge-factors' etc. are pretty common when porting PC games to the Console - mainly to make it easier to play with a controller.

It's not being run off someones desktop - the developer in question forgot to turn debug symbols off. Debug symbols in .NET include sourcecode filenames and line numbers on Windows.

You mean, like say C# or .NET?