Comment: Re:just like speed writing (Score 3, Funny) 776
Funny how you misspelled "Gammar Nazi"
Comment: Somebody already fixed that for you (Score 1) 464
That's available through an extension on Thunderbird called "Thunderbird conversations". See here: https://github.com/protz/GMail-Conversation-View/wiki
Comment: Re:Sorry! (Score 2) 162
Also, while we're nitpicking, it's
Comment: Re:Man they screwed up! (Score 1) 121
I believe you made a slight mistake. If all of the 100.000 were year subscribers, then the tally would be on $8.000.000. And that number does not take into account the more expensive monthly subs. Again, I have no idea what running stuff like that costs, but would 8M *really* be not enough?
Comment: Re:Man they screwed up! (Score 5, Informative) 121
You have summed it up quite nicely here. I also was a beta tester. After the game was released I quit playing it since I was done (end of content). Next my wife picked it up and my two boys (6 and 10) loved playing it too. I didn't have a problem slapping down the 80 euros for a year subscription. It's a small amount if three people enjoy the game. Although it's very unfortunate you can't play together.
From what I heard about it they have 2 million players, of which about 100.000 are paying ones. I have NO idea what it costs to run a service like this, but you would think that 100.000 paying subscribers would go a long way.
What I really liked was the fact that you could win real Lego prizes. They had some fun contests that, if you were #1 after a week, would get you one or more real boxes of Lego in the mail. Our Lego collection has been updated with a few nice additions
I really liked the idea of introducing the MMO(RPG) concept to my children using Lego Universe. They see me playing LotRO so they have a good idea of how an MMO works. With Lego Universe they had a chance of doing the same on their own level. I am really sorry to see it go.
Comment: Re:Queuer the Drupal Haters (Score 1) 55
Oh the irony
Comment: Re:Does not work on nVidia-based machines (Score 1) 205
Ah ok, I thought it was a project from some developer who loved NVidia doing something nice for the Fedora community
Comment: Re:Does not work on nVidia-based machines (Score 1) 205
What about the Livna drivers for NVidia? They are a breeze to install (guides are everywhere). My Fedora 15/Gnome 3/NVidia 8800GT is running fine and fast with this.
Comment: Re:Is it Twelvember yet? (Score 1) 341
As you're on the subject, toilet paper goes with the loose end on the outside, i.e. not against the wall.
Comment: Benjamin Franklin said... (Score 1) 890
'Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.'
What's next? Full body scan and TSA style cavity search, nut-grabbing patdown when you pick up your kid from daycare?
AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra' 371
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kdawson
from the that's-our-culture-they're-locking-up dept.
from the that's-our-culture-they're-locking-up dept.
neonsignal writes "Iconic Australian band Men at Work have been ordered to pay royalties for an instrumental riff in their song 'Down Under.' The notes were sampled from a well-known children's song 'Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree,' written in 1934 for a Girl Guide's Jamboree. The Justice found the claims of the copyright owner Larrikin to be excessive, but ordered the payment of royalties and a percentage of future profits. Let's hope the primary schools are up to date with their ARIA license fees!"
Chinese Internet Addiction Boot Camp Prison Break 177
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CmdrTaco
from the make-a-run-for-it dept.
from the make-a-run-for-it dept.
UgLyPuNk writes "A group of inmates at the Huai'an Internet Addiction Treatment Centre decided they'd had enough of the 'monotonous work and intensive training.' Working together, they tied their duty supervisor to his bed and made a run for it. The 14 patients, aged from 15 to 22, hailed a taxi to take them to a nearby town — but were uncovered when the driver took them to the police station instead, suspicious of the identically dressed young men who were unable to pay the fare."
New Europe-Wide Radio Telescope To Look For ET 49
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samzenpus
from the phone-011-then-home dept.
from the phone-011-then-home dept.
astroengine writes "A new radio telescope is under construction, consisting of 44 stations (each consisting of several antennae) spread across Europe. The pan-European Low Frequency Array is half built and already returning unprecedented observations of cosmic radio sources. The best thing is, when it's complete, SETI will be able to use the array to seek out transmitting extraterrestrial civilizations in these untapped low radio frequencies."
Accidental Wii Suicide 1343
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CmdrTaco
from the guns-don't-kill-toddlers-do dept.
from the guns-don't-kill-toddlers-do dept.
Paul Taylor noted a story that I would have thought to be an April Fool's Day joke a few weeks from now, which makes it only seem more tragic. A 3-year-old shot herself with a gun after mistaking it for a Wii controller.
Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man 413
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CmdrTaco
from the well-that's-so-sad dept.
from the well-that's-so-sad dept.
alphadogg writes "Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the World's Billionaires." I'd still let the guy buy me dinner if he's ever in my town. He's probably still good for it even though he's fallen on hard times.