My main concern about this is that the desktop seems to be accelerated all the time. This is fine and dandy when you do general work, web browing and such, but if you play or develop games, it makes a slight difference. For example a quick blinking effect might get obscured somehow by the compositor slowing things down. This is more of a concern when developing, sure, but it's something I can do *now*.
Either unaccelerated window managers or KDE which allows dynamic turning off the desktop acceleration are good solutions, but what happens when everything gets composited no matter what, as it seems to happen with Wayland? I don't think not compositing full-screen apps is a good solution either, as you might play or test in a window for convenience...

So, the internet never forgets about that time you got drunk and posted stupid photos, but it forgets everything else? God damn.

An idiot with a gun is more likely to kill someone who is worth it than someone who isn't.

Guns are the worst that could happen to 3D printing. Because of it, all those greedy megacorps and not-so-megacorps have the perfect excuse to regulate the crap out of a 3D printer just so we don't pirate their supervaluable patented locked-in screws or connectors or whatever. We won't reach the day of affordable 3D printing without copy protection mechanism, DMCAs and whatnot. If they aren't downright outlawed.
Of course that's the reason it will be regulated, as they give 0 sh*ts about someone gunning down someone else.

Word. *brohoof*

Well...it's not to be used to find where people lives, but if it keeps wifi history, then it means it can find where people is *right now*
While it can have legit purposes, this could be bad in hands of stalkers, thieves and other criminals, specially when the potential victims have no clue. Also other less criminal but very potentially annoying/conflictive uses if this becomes common knowledge.

Most sensible thing ever said in the whole discussion.
I don't see why people has this compulsion to play games even if they require absurd things like always-on internet (which is a fantasy, there are a lot of factors that will cause downtime even in the best ISP-provided connections money can pay).

I just wonder what's on everyone else's head.

Seriously people, you have no self-control? We went from full titles to beta-quality releases requiring patching and with lots of DLC instead of actual contents. And you guys keep playing, purchasing, and giving the companies motives to think all gamers are a bunch of drones that will just do whatever they want (and still have fanboys defending them!). That's why they feel free to put less content in games, region-locking portable consoles, increased international prices for localized releases, always-on DRM, and all that.

That's simply because people keep buying their crap no matter how expensive or restricted it is.

And that gives companies the idea of going further until it doesn't work. But it keeps working even when the games are becoming little more than skinner's boxes surrounded by hollywood-like budget and hype.
But, alas, we seem to be dealing with the electronic equivalent of crack addicts here. They seem unable to vote with their wallet. I guess we get what we deserve as a collective.

Oh, but I am not falling for their crap. I decided to abandon most gaming to vote with my wallet. And I am doing very well, thank you. I don't get shivers when I get next to a game store or anything. Oh, I don't pirate the games either*. They aren't worth my time.

*Because voting with your wallet doesn't give you the moral rights to pirate the game. Just ignore it, it's a game, you'll forget about it eventually.

I don't think so. I still pick up some of their games every now and then, and they are as rightfully enjoyable as they were back in the date. Even new ones I never got around to try as a kid, I enjoy greatly now.
I think the word "nostalgia" has been shifting meaning as of late. Nostalgia is when you think of that summer in 1989 (random example). Something you only relive through your memories, if you will.
Perhaps if you relived that summer, it wouldn't be as memorable as you remembered.

However, this is videogames! Things you can pick up and play almost anytime. I still pick up games from the Genesis/Megadrive or SNES. I still find new obscure games that I never played as a kid. And know what? I love them! Because they are genuinely good, and nothing else.

This is not nostalgia. This is given credit where it's due.

Slashdot must be one of those few remaining places where the accented vowels are still a novelty...

>You Europeans submitted yourselves to the statists in Brussels. Enjoy having your minds set right.

Funny. I didn't submit for anything. Someone above me did that for me. It's funny that I didn't vote for them, yet I still have to obey their decisions.

I find it amusing that this is news but what about LuaForge? It allows you to do Minecraft stuff in Lua, a language that can't be easier to learn, and is also pretty fast out of the box.

I know you Mint users love your Mint, but is it really necessary to advertise it at every single occassion? And why isn't your comment modded offtopic? You are being like the noisy internet atheist stereotype. Not good advertisement for Mint.

And, all the "bad decisions Canonical has made recently" can be fixed from within Ubuntu with less than 10 clicks and typing a few words, so there's nothing Mint can offer me that isn't already available.
Such a Linux user you are if you don't know that Unity can be replaced from Synaptic, apt-get or even the Ubuntu software center.

A rebranded Ubuntu with different defaults doesn't impress me at all.

Funny, I am European and I am doing night shift 7 days a week.
And, even if I had a free day, breaking the sleep schedule just to play along with Nintendo is not worth the sacrifice.

3DS was horrible for their bizarre region lock that rendered the console practically useless for hardcore European gamers. Wii U looks even worse. Screw nintendo, they lost a long time customer.

But only in fullscreen? In KDE I have my games or whatever, let's say Minecraft, and a few extra windows, and it runs very well. In anything else with compositing, it almost halves its FPS. Even if I am playing a game I might need to not be isolated from my system or IM windows. And I think I am not the only one doing that.

Avoiding carnal temptation is not that hard. You just need to stop listening to your penis for a few minutes.