If somebody else has something that important to say, they can put it on their site, they don't need to destroy yours. Even if your site tries to gather different points of view.

Also, the press was never "press-like". It was always a matter of "if you have something to say, write your own journal".

No problem. São Paulo is underwater for 3 months every year. They probably know how to handle that.

I was just about to ask if the server would be run by the Agência Brasileira de Inteligência*, but your post is near enough.

*The brazilian version of NSA, that following its NSA trainning, nobody ever remember that exists.

This is slashdot, and even now, by 2013, it's not too much to expect that the average person around here knows what a C-like language looks like.

That said, 3 equal symbols will make you look like a Javascript programer faster than you can point to any less widespread reference, like Prolog. And even now, with all the buzz around it, that's not a good image to have.

And this needed a study?

Yes, it does need a study. It may be obvious for you, hell it may be obvious for everybody, but unless people make actual quantitative studies we won't know the details, or if it's really true. And there are plenty of obvious things that once somebody studies them we discover that weren't true.

Well, I live in Brazil. Here, the legislators are a caste on their own. When they say "quack like a duck", corporations quack. But even at the US, they create laws based on self interest, it's only that your legislator's self interest tells them to obey the corportations.

Anyway, I pay a lot more for my pension than private workers pay for they retirement here. And probably none of us will get it back in 30 years.

So, MS is being played? The big publishers care for nothing, except how many people that have one kind of console want to buy their game. They'll support the console that sells more (to a public that likes them - not the Wii), and ony them think about the second place.

I don't believe the other propositions given by xbone (being a media center without DVR functions) will ever matter enough for getting gamer money, but maybe I'm wrong.

I'm quite sure that you are right here. The price of media centers is going down fast, while the price of the X-Box is going up slowly. Altough some people got the Xbox 360 to use as media centers, it's very unlikely that any measurable number of people will do that this time.

That's not funny either.

I'd somewhat disagree with the perspective of a bureocrat. It's the legislators that write laws, the bureocrats are required to apply them and are often reluctant to do that. That said, bureocrats do write some rules, when the Law tells them to, and some of them do think that way... What's unexpected because despite your claims, normaly their salaries and pension isn't dependent on convoluted rules.

Sig. a bureocrat (that loves exposing stupid rules and already helped extinguishing my 3 previous work assignments - that means, nobody does them anymore, except for one that we couldn't completely extinguish, so there are 2 people locked on it, replacing a team of 21.)

Sorry, wrong name. It's telescreen.

Let me see it I got that right: Sonny p0wing your computer is just stupid, but MS making an always online console is weapons grade stupid? I got that right?

Also, why does nobody remember the "always on" feature of the MS Teleprompt?

I've just added deb-multimedia again to my PC because of dvdrip. Ok, I was just assuming that it wasn't there because it's illegal at the US, it could be because of several reasons.

what is better is that 4 days ago at E3 EA president said he wanted EA to stop being hated.

And I want to lose 10 pounds. Yeah, I'm eating all that desert with soda, but I still want to lose that weight - if it somehow is gone, I'll be happy.

Anyway, he's currently serving 404 for requests for the software repository. So, it's not malicious.

From the point of view of a user, it's a hard choice.

Yeah, d.m.o packages do break upgrades, creating extra work and making the system less stable. But then, the official repository does not carry lots of software that are prohibited by US laws... Well, not the entire world is subject to US laws.