not be capable of doing worse than FFXI again.

At least from a commercial perspective, XI is not bad at all, being still in operation and (partially) developed. Having played it for about 7 years, I would add that it was not that bad despite clearly a very unrewarding set up. In particular, the main scenario (and even more in particular the Chains of Promathia expansion) are well worth the FF name.

I beg to differ: I've run R600 and R700 (read: 3000 and 4000 series) cards with the FOSS driver and I find it miles better than fglrx: at least it does play nicely with all other components in the system.

I recently set up a wiki on a server of mine to be used to take notes to replace Google Notebook because I was afraid it might shut down, and now I read this.

Looks my hunch wasn't that wrong, after all.

at least the hysterical can plead ignorance. what's your excuse asshole?

That physics does not follow hysteria. The situation is serious, but the media are blowing it way out of proportion.

And as someone said, detectable means nothing. The detection systems are so precise they can identify the natural background.

Let's start with the fact that if this was a KDE message board, and I was to thoughtfully complain in any way, my message would be quietly deleted

Care to bring specific examples? I'm one of the administrators of the KDE Community Forums, and not once we have deleted a message we disagreed with. In fact all that's asked to users is to respect the Code of Conduct, their opinions can be freely expressed.

There is a keyboard layout applet for the panel with multiple configurable keybindings.

You'll need the pulseaudio module for bluetooth, enable the pulseaudio support in Phonon and then use the newly-released "bluedevil" (new version of the BT stack for KDE) to pair your headset.

This is AFAIK.

That is a limitation of Qt, which Okular uses to print, rather than in KDE or Okular itself. Odd/even pages should work on Linux at least, providing you use CUPS for printing.

The people PJ exposes fight dirty.

Perhaps not relevant to the discussion, but I have to point out that when PJ dealt with GPL v3 (many articles on Groklaw when it was being drafted), she did not say anything about her involvement in the process(and so, potential conflict of interest) until *after* the license was approved.

PJ was targeted with a very aggressive smear campaign (O' Gara and co.) that IMO went far beyond the limits of decency, but it doesn't mean she's perfect. That point I mentioned was a major letdown for me.

I like a lot the investigative side of Groklaw, but I like a lot less paranoia-induced articles like this one.

Are we talking about the same game? Because it has problems but it is enjoyable: however the community (the same FFXIV community) has been very hostile to people who play and enjoy the gaem (which are different from people who think that Square Enix is always right).

Anyone expected a western style MMO was deeply disappointed.

You expect Final Fantasy XIV to be a Western style MMO? I think you are looking at the wrong game...

The UI update has been already delivered, two weeks ago. The "anedocte" was also found to be completely baseless (an unconfirmed report on IM, without any other external sources).
Oh, and don't expect servers to move: the good thing about FFXI, shared with FFXIV is that the servers were cross region.

Yes, I said "was fired" because this is what is in practice, despite the announcement. The rest is always the same people, with different positions.

Personally, I find this announcement more worrying than the state of the game (which I've been enjoying, despite its flaws). The risk is that the "new" team will try to pull a "NGE-like" thing and scrap what was good and different about XIV to fix the problems the game has.

I'm not sure in which version it appeared, but at least I've seen it from 11.1 onwards (the first version I installed after trying 6.4 years ago).

You can easily select "community repositories" from YaST. No need to know addresses and everything. And zypper, the package management tool (command-line), is also quite powerful nowadays. Plus, you have the openSUSE Build Service to make your own packages (and with kde-obs-generator you can make ones without knowing too much about packaging as well), openSUSE and other distros alike.