This is actually one of the reasons why the N900 was such an excellent choice.

Actually, it is. Slowly but surely. Unsurprisingly, one of the biggest obstacle to Linux adoption for younger people is exactly gaming. I know quite a few peopl whose systems are dual-boot between linux and windows specifically for this: they use Linux most of the time, and then switch to Windows to play.

And it's the kind of restraining order that forces you to be within a certain distance too http://xkcd.com/415/

I would like to use DDG too, but the only thing it has which is useful (at least as of now) is the zero-click info-box. The actual search results are quite horrible compared to what Google provides (probably because DDG relies essentially on Bing, which is having huge problems keeping their database in good shape).

Joking and April's fools aside, this is something that FriendFeed has had since something like day 1, centuries before being bought up by Facebook: you could define "virtual friends" which, given the feed-based nature of FF as a social network, was just a collection of feeds.

You mean GNU/RMS, of course, yes?

Are you talking about the remake of "The Omega man"?

Except for the fact that I'm not aware of cases when those who passed a law being actually held responsible for it when the law is then challenged in court or otherwise "be bad"

Same perplexity I have. What if the good results are linked to the host being a mouse, and in humans the same treatment would end up becoming some kind of auto-immune disease instead?

Just my thoughts. Why reinvent the wheel rather than expand and improve what's there already? (Note: I have never looked at or used VRML, so I have no idea what state it is in.)

The problem is not "if the users go for it". The problem is "if every major distribution tries to cram it down everybody's throat", with no alternatives or making it very hard to choose an alternative.

Except for the fact that 20 years ago you couldn't have Windows XP, at best OS/2 or WinNT.

The fact that Nokia (actually, Elop) is too stupid to sell N9 in all the markets (it's not available in Italy, e.g., except imported more or less legally from e.g. Switzerland) and the fact that the N9 is essentially the end-of-line product for Harmattan are two strong reasons that have strongly limited the sales of that fine product.

Damn, and here I was, hoping that NASA had had the Portal technology for some time and that they were finally releasing the schematics for the Portal gun ...

Many people with N900 didn't get an N9 because the N9 is EOL. Despite this, though, there are markets where the N9 has not been officially sold (like Italy) that have to go look for their N9s eslewhere (e.g. Switzerland) _and they do_ (there are quite a few online Italian shops that sell imported N9s).

Nokia expresselly killed their Linux line of phones, by making the N950 a "developer preview" only and only releasing the N9 in "selected" market. _Despite_ this, and their Lumia phones being everywhere, the N9 is still in high demand.