Yeah! They totally released these DRM free and cross platform so we should... wait a minute..

In all honesty, giving all to charity is a perfectly valid option to choose and THQ surely expects that some people may choose to do that.

How is this legal for them to pursue litigation for something I can get freely from legitimate sources? My local public library has all the same movies on BluRay I can get from TPB. I can watch all the same TV shows (more, in fact) online, streaming, from legitimate sources for free as well...

What you are describing is iconography, an entirely different beast than skeuomorphism. For examples of skeuomorphism gone wild (woo?) check out the ridiculous leather on the "Calendar" app for Mac OS X, or how the Address Book looks like a literal goddamn address book - that sort of thing is just not necessary, and you can achieve the EXACT same functionality without the skeuomorphism.

Essentially, it's FUD.

I think for most competitors, Apple is "how???"

Queue the sexual innuendo and/or constipation jokes...

It'd be easier to write to a database which uses the checksum as the index, you don't have to sort it then, and you can check for (possible) dupes very quickly.

Why not just cut the whole thing off then? Also, please provide source that this is a causal relationship.

As a fellow canadian, I feel your pain. :(

Psygnosis deserves much more than this. Shadow of the Beast, WipEout, Lemmings. These are all iconic games which I remember VIVIDLY, much more than most other games. Sad day indeed. :'(

They are trying to make Ubunutu more user friendly, showing console information on bootup is "scary" for a non technical user.

Whether they succeed in making it user friendly is another discussion entirely. However, you can disable the non-console bootup by removing "silent" from the grup parameters (as far as I remember, anyway, they may have changed it again)

sidenote: seriously slashdot? I have to format my comments in some pidgin html?

MariaDB is a drop in replacement for MySQL which was forked a while ago: http://mariadb.org/

FTFA:

I cannot believe someone could even remotely think that doing something like this would be a good idea. Someone else's body is not just an object. Jesus Christ people, get a fucking clue - this sort of attitude makes for a very poor environment all around.

Woah, slow down there - touch screens are magnificent for an interface because they can change the interface and interactive component dynamically. A keyboard and mouse is fantastic for traditional input methods, but don't rule out touch screens yet!

And yet, more people will probably die from obesity each day than all those combined.