Those lazy bastards just want to save money on not having to design and print the manuals. This makes me feel old but i still fondly remember the time when games came in big cardboard boxes and the manuals were thick as novels. Ah, those were the times. "Get off my lawn you whippersnappers!" *shakes fist*

As long as you write your own code and make your own graphics you should be allowed to create whatever you want. In this case, "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" fits perfectly. Copying someone elses work also increases competition which is good for everyone, especially the gamers.

Because audio files usually come in a human readable, XML based format, of course.

Is your Phil Collins greatest hits collection sounding a bit like a German industrial band? Probably chose the wrong code page for the conversion!

For as long as there are people trying to scam people, and there are bots sending out spam, it won't be gone. But spam is still a thing of the past because of very effective spam filters. My gmail spam folder shows 873 mails in the last month of which none has gone through to my inbox.

Spam in a can on the other hand... yummmy!

360 is only failing in Japan. I'm in Europe and most of my friends have a 360. I only know 3 people with a PS3, compared to 11 with a 360. VGchartz might not be totally accurate, but theyre pretty close. In comparison shots, most games have better graphics on 360. Also, I wonder who loses more money on it's console, MS or Sony. Hint: It starts with an S. Now go back under that bridge from where you came. The hobos are wondering where you went.

I tried Ubuntu for the first time in January. it was also my first real experience with Linux. All was fine and everything else was working perfectly as i wanted except for my ATI card. For the life of me I could not get the drivers installed. I think i fought for about 2 days on and off with it before giving up. It was a Radeon X800 that I wanted to replace anyway. So I got an GF 8800gt because i had been meaning to get one anyway and the linux drivers for it had just been released. So I got home thinking that this would be a blast and I had heard that Nvidias linux drivers were a million times better anyway... FAIL!

Ok, this next bit happened at least 6 times: I installed the drivers according to instructions, and X booted up extremely garbled, unusable. Then I had to manually restore my xorg.conf file to get back to gnome.

There. Somewhere during or after those times i had to reinstall Ubuntu 2 times because I just didn't know what to do anymore and wanted a clean start. Yes, I tried installing them from scratch, with instructions on a clean install. Did not work. After a unspecified amount of time and despair I simply gave up. I called a friend who knew enough to get them working but not after extreme pain. And the card never worked perfectly. For example I could never get Metacity working properly, just complaints about the drivers.

So no, Ubuntu or any Linux for that matter, is NOT ready for the masses.

It's not so bad, there's OpenOffice (I know I know) and for Creative Suite ... only Pixel Image Editor is Photoshop alternative on Linux - http://www.pixelimageeditor.com/