Create a puzzle that will require the cooperation of all the recipients to complete. The contents of each drive should be tailored to the individual. Computer-savvy people could have an encrypted document or image on their drive; computer dunces could have a simple text file that says "Call Joe at 870-555-1234 and tell him to give the password on his drive to Mark at 901-555-4567." Put hints on some drives, and images, and text files, and passwords, and instructions that, if all are followed, will result in the final unveiling of something cool.

The "something cool"? I don't know. If you have some money laying around, it could result in uncovering a bunch of $10 iTunes gift certificate codes on some web site somewhere. (But it'd have to be done in such a way that each person involved can claim exactly one certificate.)

Ideally, build some redundancy into the puzzle so that even if 10 or 20 people don't participate, the remainder can still get something cool in the end.

If you choose to do this (and I must say I think my idea is pretty awesome), keep me posted on what you do. My contact info is on my /. profile.

The anti-competitive behavior is not the bundling of IE itself, but rather the conditions Microsoft imposed upon OEMs who wished to install/default to other browsers. It has at times entirely disallowed other browsers and at others given a substantial discount for making IE the only/default browser on new systems.

I don't know to what extent this crap is still the case today.

They sort of do get more chances to win; if the winner doesn't respond within 48 hours, they randomly draw a name from all entries. If the winner is an app downloader, who knows if they'll be paying enough attention to reply? They may even think it's SPAM and delete the "You won!" e-mail.

(Now that I read it, the second sentence is equally poorly written. It seems I'm not immune to being struck with the stupids when I see "Comments (0)" on a new post.)

(*"THAT". The reason is simply THAT netbooks have changed from a etc. Not "because." Yeesh.)

Of course the actual reason Linux's share of netbooks has dropped is simply because netbooks have changed from a nerds' thing into a mainstream thing.

UNIX's marketshare of all computers did the exact same percentage decline over time as netbooks are having now. It's the early adopters, stupid!

Whenever I try to click the header to go back to the homepage, I get some AJAXy crossfadey filth and a big white box with a small black link that says "Click to Unpause."

What is this garbage? I've supported all the upgrades Slashdot has made since Discussion2 was first tested, but this is some horrific love child between 2009's web techniques and 1995's web incompetence.

Anyone else out there with me on this?

Your writing is actually pretty horrible if this post is any indication. Maybe English isn't your native language? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

But let's assume that a lot of people wanted to read books' worth of your writing, and let's further assume that most of them decided to download their copy instead of buying it. Did you provide an easy-to-use, well-designed downloadable version of your book?

If not, then you did not provide what there was obviously demand for, and therefore have few to blame but yourself for your books' failure.

People still buy books they want. People still buy things they want. You just have to make the things you sell worth it.

I think what SuperKendall is trying to say is not that the words are pronounced phonetically differently, but rather that the word is emphasized the wrong way. It's sort of like the difference between "HE told you that?!" and "He told YOU that?!" Same words, same pronunciations, different meanings.

Topical? Super Mario Galaxy is a Nunchuk game, not a Classic Controller game.

GGP was not talking about games on a specific controller; he was just saying that the Wii needs more good games, period.

For shooters like Ikaruga

Non sequitur. Did you even read your parent post? He said he was talking about first-person shooters.

You fail, dude. He was on your side. He was sarcastically saying that yes, we had wireless Gamecube controllers seven years ago and that you're right: we should have them today as well.