You must have been living in Wales.

o.O
Seriously?
Neither of you are slating the Prince of Persia movie as the unmitigated pile of crap that it was?
I'm now wondering if we've seen different films under the same name...
It was utter garbage. Truly embarrassing. From Gyllenhaal's hair (and the selection of Gyllenhaal as the prince in the first place), through the use of what for all the world looked like the font Papyrus (argh!) to the dagger being used precisely three times and not one of which was in combat or a time of great peril as per the major point of the bleedin' game.
I made the mistake of seeing that pile of trash at the cinema and both I and the missus (she'd played sands of time and enjoyed it thoroughly) were the closest we'd ever been to storming out of the theatre.
Having paid actual money to be there however, we stuck it out.
In retrospect, I wish we'd have left.

Interesting counterpoint: I've had an HTC Desire on Vodafone for a while now and the missus just got hers today. Since I got it, on contract mind you, it has not once actually flashed a vodafone logo at me. Furthermore (despite the hoohah vodafone caused with their *not really an upgrade* software upgrade) I've not got any vodafone 360 shovelware on my device and never have.
In addition to this, the missus' sim doesn't go live until tomorrow and while I was copying the contacts over by putting her pay as you go O2 sim into it, I found I was able to make calls with the O2 sim in the Desire. I don't know if this means that the handset is completely unlocked, or if it's just pre pay sims that work, but it made me smile.
Just thought I'd raise these points, not really in favour of carriers as I'm fairly sure they're all bastards, but it seems like vodafone at least didn't go the whole hog in the bastard contest for this particular handset.
YMMV and all that.

Debian and Ubuntu (and possibly others) have GUI package managers.
Been the case for a while.
Mighty handy they are too, since you can text search the repo in the GUI to find the package you want.
Plus the selected package will normally contain a description in the lower pane telling you exactly what it does.
Chimps could use it, I'm fairly sure.

It works bitches!

At least you made a neat gun!
I mean, seriously, the mice who are still alive will really appreciate it.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

I loved Uru, it was the business. Previous Mysty games were awesome too.
I'm a little excited now...
Shame I read this article just after getting in to work.
o.O
*drums fingers and watches clock*

Chatting him?
Perhaps with some online collaboration, the summary may have been improved.
Gah.

You're right to be disappointed by Spore, hell knows I was. Serious overuse of "shit" though considering you didn't even say the sequels were SimShitty.

"I'm one of those incredibly stupid, ignorant, Bible believing Christians" ... "I'm one of those "public school kids are awful" people."
Are these related? Serious question.
In a public school? 3D modeling in 6th grade? Is that an elective (electives in 6th grade?), or what? I really fail to see how educational games and teaching 3D modeling is going to help the problem of kids not getting a good education in rather basic things like language and grammar....
If I could've had a decent grounding in 3D modelling when I was a kid, instead of pissing about on Imagine on my Amiga (not that Imagine was a bad package or Amiga a bad platform, just that I'd have liked some classes in what I was actually doing), I'd probably have a more interesting job than I do right now.
and why inoculate them with Flash and Maya, since I'm on slashdot... why not, oh I don't know, Blender?
Because if they tried to teach them Blender, they'd end up learning a set of keyboard shortcuts that don't get used in any other package. It's great when you know all the shortcuts in Blender, but it's better when you know all the theory in *any 3D modelling program*, and preferably one that has buttons to ease the learning process.

Hee hee, "root" cause. Nice.

Once properly hacked out and compiled, your average(ish) citizen could run simulations to determine legal outcomes, making lawyers obsolete.
Download the latest Law API, set up your environment, run the "Bludgeon enemy with mallet" program and see the outcome.
Sounds like a cracking idea. Although, one could run enough simulations to find the loopholes/bugs that got transcribed into the package and plot the perfect crime!
Oh Hans, if you'd only waited!

Hee hee, I followed your link but misread the table and thought you meant that HR 3200 was like: "a very minor update to 3.0a that fixed a cosmetic problem with the Japanese version of Windows 95"
Good times.

Damn you I was just about to bring that up.
He's either applying a 'circumvention device' or disabling an 'anti-circumvention device'.
Silly author.

Aaaaaaaaaaaand, the terrorists have won.
Neat innit? How this sort of threat looks and quacks just like all the others and garners the same response.
Interesting really.