I don't know what country op is from, but Denmark is a good example of a country with free healthcare and a thriving pharmaceutical sector, literally eclipsing its GDP.

Fuck the Olympics. All the nice core values it was created to support, Excellence, Friendship and Respect have been steamrolled by the increasing escalation in cost, the need/desire for massive all encompassing sponsorship deals and the general arrogant douchery of the IOC.

At most the host city will benefit from some upgraded infrastructure, probably long overdue, but very rarely will the host come close to recouping the cost they have put in, and a lot of the money goes to waste, meaning that if they had spend the money purely on improving their citizens live, it would have gone much further. Supporters counter this by saying that the host will get more back in the long term from business promotion and tourism, but this claim is dubious at best, but being a very hard thing to quantify it's also impossible to refute, but considering it's mostly held in cities that are already some of the most popular tourist destination and business hubs, it's hard to see what real difference is being made.

At the end of the day, the Olympics have very successfully branded themselves as a must have event, however the only ones who really benefits are the sponsors who gets a venue where a country's normal safeguards and laws are completely nullifies, the politicians who get to stand on the grandest stage of all and proclaim how awesome they are and the of course the members of IOC who gets to take home fat bribes.

Again, fuck the Olympics. The great white elephant of the modern age.

Arrrrrrgrgrrgrgrg!!!!

Why would you do that?

Not really counter to your argument, but Song of the South was released outside the US, at least in the VHS days. I remember a promo for it on my Aladdin or Lion King tape bought in the UK when I was but a wee boy :)

I'm currently in Beijing and yeah, Google always works less than optimal when you go to .com and even .hk, but I found that google.co.uk works better (and works today.) My VPN (that I set up on a VPS in Tokyo) stopped working yesterday though :(

I struggle to see what part of a comp sci degree would require Windows. I went through mine with only a Linux laptop without any issues. Even if your university is a C# trojan, mono likely will be sufficient.

The advantage you have with something like BBC, which might not be so obvious, is that when it doesn't rely on ads, you, not the advertisers become the customer. That allows for the possibility of a much broader appeal in programs and importantly (if done right) and independent media that does not have to worry about advertisers opinions, or what market segments a particular program should fit into to maximize profit.

I know you're trolling, but if they make their own Steambox based on Linux but also support the standard Linux Desktops, I can not see anyone object. If their Linux effort on the other hand becomes limited to a closed console, although based on Linux, there will be a lot of disappointment out there, and rightly so.

There is certainly a lot to hate in the current market of locked down systems and no privacy. The point is that Windows Phone is not helping, so why should I be using it? It does not have the cool factor (yeah I know) that Apple does, nor the geeky fiddle with it mentality of Android. Thus it positions it self as a phone that doesn't real appeal to any specific segment, except perhaps corporate.

If you not on a battery device, you're not longer the target group. Suck it up dinosaur; the future is using your Windows(tm) tablet while skydiving so you can tweet about it and update your Facebook status.

To me it seems their favourite was Windows 1.0...

They need to smack some DRM on those nets so those brown people will use them as god intended!

Worth noting that this revived the stale port of AGS for Linux.

Another Kickstarter... I thought I was kinda burned out one these, but I really want to see this one happening. Space Quest were some of my favourite games when I was a kid...