Totally. The 'nixes & C are incredibly huge contributions to our technology filled world. This guy gave us so much of what we take for granted every day. Rest in peace.

Agreed, it is off topic and this is not the place for breaking news. Some news, however, is orders of magnitude bigger than others. I think the news of Denis Ritchie passing is big enough that it warrants an intrusion into an unrelated thread. This is a chapter in the history of computer technology coming to a close, and warrants a breaking of the rules IMHO. Your opinion may differ.

Agreed. If there was ever cause to hijack a thread, this is it. Dennis Ritchie was the R in K&R for pity sake. He helped create Unix & C. _This_ is news for nerds.

Shame on whoever down-modded this. Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix & C dies and not only does it not rate a mention on the front page of /. but some genius down-mods the first mention of it.

I must have got the new guy when they called me. The caller claimed to be "from Windows" and wanted to fix my PC blah blah. I asked him again who he represented, and again he said he was "from Windows". Oh dear. Hanging up now.

Better watch out for extonic sunlight when lowering the leisure palace from orbit. Oh, and it is probably inhabited by the odd unnamed voice-stealing malevolent entity. Looks like Doctor Who was right all along.

The mere fact that apple is adjusting their prices based on exchange rates is a very welcome move as far as I am concerned. Australian consumers pay crazy money at local retailers for games, dvds & such despite our dollar having been on parity with the US dollar for some time. Heck, I'm just glad to see prices that don't include an inexplicable "you are in Australia" price hike.

As an Australian, a long time fan of violent video games and as an indie game-developer, I would just like to say that IT'S ABOUT BLOODY TIME!!! Too long has the Australian video game industry suffered under the tyranny of the uninformed do-gooders & 'think-of-the-childrens!' political types. (This all comes a couple of months after outspoken anti porn/violence/video game/whatever crusader the honourable rev. Fred Nile being caught surfing porn from his office 'net account. Totally a coincidence, but fun non the less!)