install adblock+....... what ads?

I believe they mean stuff like putting "favoured" search results at the top in return for cash. Either their own or partner/advertiser sites

It'll now be easier to camwhore all day without relying on unstable flash or java \o/

Borderlands 2
Starcraft 2
Diablo 3
steam +
Natural selection 2
Team fortress 2
Civilisation 4 and 5
Firefall
Minecraft

I've read alot about companies saying win8 is bad for gaming yet very few are actually willing to put their money where their mouth is and actually produce linux native games (or at least games that work perfectly well under wine). Couple that with the lack of installed userbase with capable hardware and the commercial aspects of linux don't really stack up. As much as I'd love to run mint full time its stuck on its vm currently or on underpowered hardware (where linux really shines as a desktop making old/low powered hardware useable!) neither of which are gaming capable.

I was watching this went out for a smoke saw something bright and green coming directly towards me. I live close to an airport so thought it was just a plane coming in to land at a funny approach. After a minute or 2 it started getting bigger and brighter still coming directly towards me then a piece fell off it with a massive trail and I realised what it was (late night i was being slow). Continued to watch it as it kept getting bigger and bigger. Almost directly overhead and it split into loads of little pieces from green to orange they all developed massive trails and then just vanished there was nothing blocking my view and I was looking almost vertical at this point so I must have just caught the end of it. Would be nice to know where it actually impacted as by the time it vanished it was bright enough it was actually lighting up the fields around me.

thats ok I guess this makes me a mass murderer with no friends :)

As many have said opengl. How about going down a slight variation of that theme though rather than doing ogl on the desktop or as part of another frame work why not approach it as more of a "game" ui where the elements of data are elements within a 3d world. your 2d data can be represented as "pictures" on a wall and your 3d date could be truely interactive. Perhaps ogre3d for your engine (or any other engine would work too) and awesomium (http://awesomium.com/) for your html rendering engine for doing the whole html5 stuff you mentioned.

Think this is my 5th account on slashdot over the years now for various reasons been reading since it started pretty much. Good luck in the future whatever you end up doing

was pretend i was one of those deaf-mutes

Not a single contradiction at all. I didn't say c# is "the only language" i said "pretty much the only" while the words are similar the meanings are different. and yes there are decades of projects written in java, c++, c unfortaunately that avoids 2 issues 1) he wanted web based which almost immediately rules of c++ and c for all but the most hardcore systems which the chances of landing a job in are basically slim to none and 2) java in the uk has never been massive especially for web work. there's a few exceptions to the rules obviously but same rules as above apply chances of getting a job is slim to none. So from a logical point of view we have to look at the bulk of the advertisements on sites like jobserve and monster for example. Without doing an exact count (so feel free to do that and correct me) and just taking a blind stab in the dark from a 30 second scan of jobs using the keyword "developer" or "software engineer" or "web development" you're looking at .NET (vb/c#/ado(asp.net coverall)) or PHP, with 1-2 ruby jobs I think i saw a python one but can't seem to see it again. There's a hand full of java but not web work more like embedded application development. With the take of of Sharepoint + Dyanamics both being web based and .NET based there's a massive push from big business for those skills. etc etc. Basically it comes down to do you wish to be employable. If the answer is yes then with stick with PHP or add .NET to you language base to give you best of both worlds as that perfect job pretty much isn't there at the moment (my comments only apply to the UK not else where as it may well be there just outsourced :) ) As for me personally after 15 years working for big industry as a contractor and having been an MCSD etc I said enough was enough, wanted the easy life now I do free lance stuff as/when and work from the luxary of a spare bedroom. Some days I work other days I don't and go fishing instead :) Think of it as quality of life > quantity of work

Poster obviously has no desire to be employed either. Love it or Hate it C# is pretty much the only langauge in demand by big business these days in the UK unless he's perfectly happy doing small freelance jobs etc which PHP is fine. Other languages he's mentioned are all pretty much unused apart from in the domain of nerds but certainly not by the majority of the companies recruiting. Ironically enough I reskilled from C# and other .NET oddities to PHP a few years ago purely out of personal preference.

i pay the tax man with cheque gives me time to get money sent straight off when the return is complete but still gives me 7 days to get money transfered out of savings account into main account. also all my clients with the exception of only a single one pay by cheque.

Give him a copy of VS with C# as primary language and set him some simple challenges to do. Perhaps start with something like "make a basic calculator" all of this can be done in the VS GUI without him having to go in depth for all the framework and structs of the project all he'd have to do is create the onclick events to take the 2 inputs and the action fairly simple and yet should be challenging enough to get him interested. If he can manage that kind of task in something simple like VS then you'll find it'll really get him interested and he'll then start poking around at the more complex stuff. Alternatively give him EditPlus and tell him to make you a simple signup and login website in something like PHP and MySQL again simple enough but with enough challenge he'll have to look up some stuff and read some docs etc.