I don't care much about the german law either, but forcing people to use his real name in the internet is just wrong. With your real name you can have people know everything about you, while you don't even know that exists. May pull other data from other sources, like your taxes, where you live, who is your family. Is unhealty and a big risk, probably the motives has ben made a law in germany (making it a law is a bit excesive, I think). Revealing your real name open the floodgates for anyone to easy reveal all other data, and start connecting the dots.

New consoles are going to release in a year!. Buying a console now (except the Wii-U) is the worst thing a gamer can do!.

In a perfect world Microsoft would not exist, or where a different company.

But the Microsoft that exist fight standards, and create propietery protocols or closed programs, and created huge dependencies for these, so people with one of his programs must buy the others. Microsoft fiery defend other companies, but not on quality, but on poisoning the well.

OpenGL was one of the key pieces to code a game once, and play it everywhere, and Microsoft succefully made it secondary with Direct3D. It has continued fighting all standards, to destroy them, and in games have a unmitigated success. Games are a world of Microsoft libraries, and game dev's don't know how to build games withouth these libraries, and the games created don't withouth these libraries (or libraries that emulated them).

At this point Microsoft is a cerebral parasite, and removing it would kill the host.

If you release a lot of crappy software, sooner or later, somebody will have to pay the bill. The secret of Microsoft is that make so the customer is the one paying this bill, but sometimes Microsoft has to pay part of it. Imagine if Microsoft where forced to retroactivelly pay for all the lost because of OS crash, and all the expenses because of antivirus software. But we don't live in a world where Microsoft is being forced to pay for his crappy products faults.

Because have learned how something is done, but not why, and refuse to learn a different way that perhaps is better ( or just new ).

We have police to stop crimes, not to commit them. What this dude just did, was proposing the commit of a crime at big scale.

So much of western sci-fi have pilots of fighters in a style that looks more WW1 than anything else because is good for storytelling. And most "sci-fi" is optimized for that.

Not all of it, you have some anime series where you have something probably more realisitic, like hordes of ships with computers doing the firing, mostly lasers.

Popular science-fiction is sorta "pop culture", and is for the most part very "pulp".

Mixing free software and commercial software can sometimes work wonders. Sadly sometimes is a misunderstood thing.

Angry Birds, the most popular paid app, its position 53. Its not even on the top 50. And since the market is horrible to discover new apps, apps neet a strong marketing. So this is a market of free apps with a strong marketing inversion. Not a market really atractive, I say.

Dude in San Francisco buy 50$ game, with amazon shop credits, and pay 20$.
Dude in Sydney pay 150$ for the game.

Dude in Sydney get the exact same version, binary exact version.

Fuck regional pricing, fuck them in the ass!.

If a search engine abandon neutrality this way. Then why not avoid violent sites? porn sites? sites with bad spelling? sites that are not political correct? where is the line here?. You must have a line, that you will never cross, because some people will push you more and more.

The other day I was surprised wen talking about Debian to a friend. Debian is represented (misrepresented perhaps) as using only stable versions. This make so every new version of Debian is very rare. While other distros can live more on the cutting edge of tech and include more modern versions of all software.

He said that this is low quality. And I suppose kind of make sense. Quality can also be a attribute of delivery. Good code now is much better than the perfect code 10 years from now and having to pay 20 million dollars. For most uses, we write and use good code, and the perfect code is beyond what everyone need.

Typing all that much, because like games that way. Is possible to balance games where less clicking is desirable, but koreans get expert in "micro", controlling the units directly to impose tactical on how the units play.

The Source engine is a evolution of the Quake engine, that was a OpenGL engine. So this is like "undoing" a port to OpenGL.

Actually disregard that.

Here we have just a few lines of text in a blog. Is just anecdotal evidente. Good news, but lets wait for more people to have similar experiences to consider if this can be anything else than a artifact/pure luck.

I think Gnome is the best desktop, better than Windows 7 because the virtual desktops. Better than Unity because Unity is optimized for tablets. Better than OS/X because uses the windows standards, that are more natural for most people because are what know better.
Because lots of details like this, Gnome is the best desktop.

Just now desktops are tryiing the tablet thing, with Unity and Windows 8, but is a fad. Desktops are going to return to maximizing productivity, and then there will be some convergence, the more advanced a desktop will be, the more like Gnome will look. And perhaps this is the problem, Gnome is "done", theres not much else to do.