I must confess, I still don't get OnLive. Sure, you can have powerful hardware rendering immaculate frames, but then you have to use lossy compression to get those frames to the screen, so you probably end up with inferior visual quality (and a subpar framerate.) Not to mention the latency concerns others have mentioned here-- OnLive might be fine for a single-player game, where there's only one round-trip, but a multiplayer game? Not a chance.

I happen to know did a limited production run of these replicas, and gave some away to friends. (NOTE: long interview.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3fLntnhlgA

In fact, the author has become part of the free-market solution, by inadvertently "auditing" the quality of Yahoo and Hotmail's email service, and motivating their customers to demand better.

This story just goes to show, anyone can install and use Low-Orbit Ion Cannon, even if he or she doesn't understand how the Internet works. No matter where you fall on the "hacker" definition debate, it's pretty clear that these people aren't hackers.

Perhaps this *will* diminish Ada's contributions: http://www.answers.com/topic/ada-lovelace#Controversy_over_extent_of_contributions Choice quote: "Not only is there no evidence that Ada ever prepared a program for the Analytical Engine but her correspondence with Babbage shows that she did not have the knowledge to do so." The depressing lack of female role models in CS is a real problem, but revisionist history is not a valid solution.

And Cadbury was already licensing the technology, IIRC. I read the recipe in a magazine years ago (apparently invented by some schoolkids) and actually made it. The trick is to melt the chocolate down, mix in a little glycerine, and let it set again. It works pretty well, although my chocolate is pretty soft even when it's not melted. Could be I did it wrong.

I'm not saying for a moment that if you use an IDE, you're being lazy. On the contrary, not using an IDE is the lazier (and thus better) way to do it. When I tell people I don't use an IDE, they assume I don't use a build system, debuggers, profilers, static analysis, or language documentation. In some extreme cases of ignorance, people think I don't even use a compiler. Nonsense. I use all of these things. I just find them easier and faster to use when they aren't lumped together in one cancerous mass. The only features that really need to be built into the editor are multiple tabs per window, syntax highlighting, and auto-indent (matching paren highlighting and a shortcut to comment out the selection are nice too, but not mandatory.) The rest of my development environment can go in separate programs which are purpose-built to do one thing well.

They're playing Space Program! How cute. (Yes, I know about the Canadarm. Take a joke.)

World of Goo is a great kid-friendly game, in addition to being a good game full-stop. It is mouse-only, but some of the puzzles would be very challenging (in a good way!) for a small child. Don't expect him to beat the whole thing though. So that's a good first one. Another good game (although it requires some more advanced reading skills) is Wind and Water: Puzzle Battles: http://www.howtogeek.com/92615/wind-and-water-puzzle-battles-an-awesome-game-for-linux-and-windows/ I wouldn't pull this one out right after World of Goo though. So you should look for a few other games to put in between these two.

This release came just in time for no one to care anymore.

That's interesting. I can actually believe it. In my car, the engine is quite capable of making the rear wheels move against full-on brakes (yes the rear brakes are disks, no I did not try this more than once.) But the front wheels stay locked and the car doesn't move.

Well that's annoying. The brake/torque launch is great for getting a car off the line in a hurry. Details here: http://www.modernracer.com/tips/dragracinglaunchtechniques.html

Guy Fawkes masks. Everyone should start wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Liberty dies when the right to carry a gun goes away. Until then, you could always just shoot the UAV out of the sky.