What a shame, I have just noticed that they are in the same top-level domain. I hope I don't lose my geek card over it.

The website hosting the text file was also slashdotted. That's a truly impressive achievement.

del Toro making movies about the stories from the Silmarillion. Seems like an excellent idea, but it might lose some of the awe. Reading about how beautiful the silmarils were, for example, is one thing, actually seeing them on the big screen is another. It's a very delicate path, but if done well, I would kill to see that movie.

I think you misunderstood the concept of "The Force".

And don't forget to put a big sleep call to make the installing process look important. Unfortunately they wouldn't be the firsts to do that.

From the rulebook (pdf file):

That's how contests with multiple language choices almost always work. It's really easy to implement a naive solution in C that performs 10x better than a good solution in Python, even for fairly large inputs.

With that rule in mind, I say go for Python all the way.

What you probably know as "python" is actually the Python Interactive Interpreter. This tool is used only when you need to make a quick "import os; dir(os)" call to make sure that you are spelling a function name correctly, or when your friend REALLY wants to know how much is 3^21.

The actual use of python consists of text files with .py extension, working just like any other interpreted language.

According to your definition, we would never be able to compare two programs that weren't created at the same time.

Doesn't sounds, but it is. Using a car analogy it's like saying that windscreen wipers could cost hundreds of dollars because they allow you to drive during rain, and it "improves your quality of life so much".

Overpricing products based on their importance (not that it's the case here) is also called profiteering, or more informally, extorsion.

That's stunningly silly.

Hanlon's razor man. Hanlon's razor.


And in your system, what happens if a virus compromises a white-listed application?

And how are you going to distinguish between the program firefox.exe and a virus named firefox.exe? If you go with checksums, all software companies on the world would have to ask permission for the anti-virus companies before updating their application, which certainly wouldn't make them happy and would only increase the time gap between exploit detection and patching, making the system not only annoying but also less secure.

Remember that this is a Flash game-like project. 10% of a small code is acceptable, considering that the platform specific code is more or less fixed in relation to the project size.

Wait there. What he said was:

You seem to have interpreted it as "we had to ban too many people", although all stories refer to only one person being banned for this.

I read it as "people were not joining us because of this", which for me makes more sense.

It does, but I don't think he would refer to a single person as "part of our Xbox LIVE community". Remember, this is the reason they updated their Code of Conduct. Would they do this because of one person?

As far as I know only one person has been banned for that, which certainly doesn't account for the "part of our Xbox LIVE community" that Marc Whitten referred to.

From my point of view, both phrases share the same amount of sexual orientation statement. One doesn't stand as much as the other, but I'm certain that their terms don't include "stating non-heterosexual orientation".

Sure, the second guy is going to get some bad responses from the community, but it's not as if the Live terms were keeping him out, which is the discussion here.

My point on the exhibitionism was that the only people that will join the system because of this measure are the ones doing so just for attention.

And my question was if the XBox Live's General Manager phrase was truly referring to this kind of people, if there are other people that he could be referring to, or if it's just management's cliche statement badly used.

How come? Did gay people avoid joining because they couldn't state that they were gay?