Interesting. Next time my mother wines about the computer perhaps I should take a ubuntu live cd over to her place and show her around... I've tried this many times but I think I have to simplify ubuntu further to get her to not nod it down as too complicated, like for instance removing the multiple desktops which are ace when you know how, but just "where did my window go?" for beginners...

I made sure she ran firefox and her mail is web based plus she mostly uses the computer to manage photos.. perhaps you have a good solution for that? I'm currently running digikam but that's almost to complex.. perhaps I could use dropbox for galleries..

And then they wonder why they can't play their newly bought game? Or the game that someone gave them on x-mas?

I'm an avid linux user, but I'm yet to push it onto my family or friends because they have other needs than me. As parent said, windows compability is key for those people.

Tho, it should be said that with the new webgl to html5 there will be a LOT of change I think, regarding to games. If you can play a game safe in your browser, why use seperate executables? I think this is a whole new era, so devs: get your webgl skills up to date ASAP!

Really? No print option? What's the point. Fcuk the ads.

Just an icon with a chair would be funny and insightful at the same time :-)

Learn from the guy, you update to a newer version of course.

I also want to add that not all users wants to connect to the internet - at all.

I bought the ps3 so that I could try linux on it and to play single player games. In my book that's where I get relaxation, I just get more stressed when playing against others (and in some cases against time). That's why I loved the game skate for instance. No pressure, just cruising around for a few hours etc. I don't need to be "social" in the ps3 - in fact I don't need to be social at all when using a computer. That's why off line mode is important to me.

Actually I got bored with the ps3 and the lack of games that I sold it and got back to using the ps2 which is a fucking great console also. The guy that bought the ps3 was happy that I hadn't even connected it to the internet once. Sure, I might have lost some of the magic with the console from updates and trials etc, but I didn't feel that was important to me.

I feel the future consoles isn't going to offer as much to me as the previous ones did. Call me old, after all, I'm half way to retirement ;-)

When you watch people crashing into world trade centers, you expect people to die. When people get down into fighter jets, you know something could happen. When you're watching sports, or taking a part in it, you're not expecting anyone to die. Especially not that sudden. Yeah, it was a horrible crash.

That is a wonderful movie :D

Actually, if you have been a registered member for long enough, you get this option anyway.

Yep, and I click the chekbox to enable the ads again to still support the site, and I would think it would be alright with an ad at the bottom or top of every page on wikipedia too.. it's not like it wil be less awful than the one with wales, and I don't see how that would be a worse thing than the companies editing the pages "anonymously" anyway.

By the way, anyone care to make a guess how big my Windows partition is?

If you're a true slashdotter, about 0 bytes.

There is a pretty cool software that emulates electronic circuits which a friend wrote: http://sol.gfxile.net/atanua/ .. not sure if it has been featured here but it definitely should... great to experiment and is getting really evolved, and it's free as in be^M^M pepsi.

Also, I think you could extend the lego playground to use spaghetti and glue to build bridges and see if they support the load of the lego cars perhaps. Simple and easy and don't requite much funds to try out...Paper mache etc could also be a nice treat.. make masks off eachother or something to make it more fun.

The lack of a good career mode in GT3/GT4 is something that is really missing from the series... IMO the career mode was even better in GT3 than GT4... you should start out as a racing rookie and build your career. Learning how to adjust all the settings to your driving style etc. GT3 made that good, but then they just seemed to focus on the racing sim bit in GT4.

I might be mistaken but I felt that GT3 was a more fun game than GT4, but perhaps my expectations just was too high. Which brings us to GT5. It has to perform _really_ great to live up to the expectations after that long of a wait. The PS3 is already dead to me. I waited for GT5, I got bored in the meantime and sold the console.

Watt is. The important is how much current he can get from supplied voltage. In any case why not just use the fucking stove.