'How lovely trees are.'

Why ruin such a good thing with boring applications that are not games?

Come on! Next thing you know I'll be forced to see Corel Draw! next to Skyrim in the store screen - I don't think anyone wants that.

Someone probably suggested this and I didn't read all comments, but here it goes:

Say I get myself a can of spraypaint. And say I spraypaint the walls of a children's hospital with words offensive to the man that lives right across the street from said walls. And say I take extreme care not to be seen and not to leave anything that can trace it back to me.

Will a judge fine the children's hospital? He should, because it's the same thing.

Fine the hospital, judge. Come on. I'd love to see you try.

Leave our internets alone.

I logged in to say just that.

Flash is not just about video.

My laptop gets at least 30min more battery on my Gentoo build than on XP.

Yeah, definitely, ASP is the way to go.

Oh, but you're failing to see the big picture.

Imagine all the ethanol you could extract from, say, the human fat resulting from all those liposuctions going around.

Soon you'll get fuel coupons when you take your wife for a lift.

"In Brazil, it is best not to say things like this - wiser to post anon" And why do you say that? Brazil is a free country, you know. Much more so than the US nowadays. And our dear president likes sugar cane and alcohol. Not for his rides though: he does enjoy da booze!

AFAIK, deforesting here in Brazil is mostly caused by illegal logging, which is a real problem. The amazon soil is not that good for growing crops of any kind anyway, so 'deforesting to grow food' is bullcrap. There is a map somewhere in these comments showing the areas used for sugar crane crops. See for yourselves.

And today ALL new cars come equipped with 'flex' engines, that run on any mixture of gasoline and ethanol - from 100%-0% to 0%-100%. The result is that brazilians can choose which one is best whenever we go to the station, depending mostly on the mileage and price of each of the fuels. My car, for one, has never seen gasoline.

Not necessarily nostalgia. I still play Castlevania: Symphony of The Night from time to time. IMHO, the greatest platformer ever made, and one of the greatest games ever made.

it wasn't an email, but an IRC chat with the boss and everyone else in a small game development company. The end read like this: "Do it yourself then. Goodbye and thanks for all the fish."

Sorry, but Valhalla is not greek.

People avoid using Linux (or anything not Microsoft) for the same reason people say "math is difficult": they are merely repeating something they heard somewhere. They won't even give math or Linux or Ooo a try.

I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and some ISPs here also hijack failed DNS queries. The main problem with that behaviour is that not all internet traffic is HTTP. For example, if you are trying an SSH connection and you input an invalid domain, you don't get the "no dns entry" response, but a valid IP address - which is not the one you're looking for, and that probably won't accept your connection. You won't get a "no dns entry" error, but a "server actively refused the connection", which is incorrect and might cause you to lose an hour or two trying to figure out what is wrong: a simple misspell. Or even worse: the server might even accept your connection and give you an authentication error. Internet service protocols exist for a reason. Simply ignoring them to "help users" will actually do much more harm than good.