I hope it's just as good.

I guess you haven't seen the trailers yet. It's a tired, run of the mill FPS, most likely featuring an emphasis on multiplayer and a 4 - 5 hour campaign tacked on at the last minute.

Australia is right to ban this travesty.

Canonical will see a not insignificant number of Ubuntu users migrate over to Mint Linux.

PS4 and the next Xbox will be announced at E3, to be released in 2013.

Facebook will experience its first notable slump in active users.

it completely abandons geeky stuff like NoScript or Adblock

Oh boy, now I can enjoy adverts featuring rotten teeth and modal popups that insist I "like" them on Facebook again!

Seriously, if I wanted to put up with this crap I'd go back to using IE.

News anchor 1: "...The 24 hour shut down is in protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act."

News anchor 2: "And in other news, thousands of students across the world have delayed handing in their homework by 24 hours, claiming that they need the extra time to make finishing touches to their work."

OEMS: I takes time to integrate our own buggy, irremovable software into the kernel.

Just in case anyone hasn't noticed, Google are celebrating by making selected apps are available for 10 cents for the next few days (it started a few days ago so there's something like 7 days to go).

The selection changes each day so it's worth having a look. I picked up Toki Tori today.

The only reason why I have a landline is so I can have a broadband connection. I know you can get cable, but that's only through the large companies that throttle the living crap out of the bandwidth.

I get none to my cell, although I do get the odd "You may be entitled to compensation for the accident you had", but I just filter those out using GoSMS.

But generally, this is what happens:

1. Project is developed in-house.
2. Management notice that though the quality of the project is good, it's too costly and by outsourcing it, they'll reduce the budget by 90%.
3. Project is developed overseas, usually India.
4. Management notice that the quality of the project is extremely poor and decide to bring it in-house even though it will cost them 10 times as much.
5. Goto 1.

When Firefox appeared on the scene, it gave Microsoft the kick up the arse it needed to improve their crappy, aging browser.

When Chrome appeared on the scene, it gave Mozilla the kick up the arse it needed to improve their crappy, aging browser.

It'll be interesting to see if the same thing happens in a few years with IE.

What Braben and Bell did to get this running on the BBC makes for pretty interesting reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)#Technical_innovations

Yes it is! Look on the map, it's just to the right of Germany...

That's Australia! People always get those two countries confused.

Wouldn't it be great if the minutes from the hearing were typed up in OpenOffice :)

I want to have a guess! It would probably have been something relevant to what they do, and then they'd have removed the vowels (cunning), so:

wtr

Hatred towards Ubuntu seems to be focused on Unity and Gnome.

I use Kubuntu LTS and am more than happy with it. Sure, the LTS is pretty far behind (still on Firefox 3.6), but I don't have any real gripes besides this.

From the looks of things Mint supports KDE, but is there any real reason to jump ship?

Now we get to watch endless reality and talent shows in a different way.

I can't wait!