Congratulations on totally missing the point.

While I must admit to finding Notch's disinterest in the conservation of CPU and GPU cycles personally irritating, and the complications involved in installing mods (such as Kinniken's Millenaire) as frustrating as hell - the fact remains that Notch has created something that is extraordinary to millions of people - including me.

Perhaps you have some expertise that i am unaware of, but your attitude suggests you have little understanding of what makes a game worthwhile. Notch has created not only a virtual ecosystem, but also a real one that has spwaned excellent mods like Millenaire, texture packs, downloadable worlds, Portal homages - not to mention the brilliant BlueXephos & HoneyDew Yogscast, or youtube fanvids from PaperBatVG and SlyFox. And that barely skims the surface.

I don't think you "have seen everything" Khyber, you have missed the Romance in Notch's universe - it has it's own beauty. It insprires wonder and fear, frustration and anger - whatever you like. It also has awesome people who are willing to take a risk and put their hard work out there - just for the glory of it. I agree with unigrad_2000 - I'm proud that people like Kinniken are on slashdot.

I'm also proud of my son who made a Minecraft fanvid and posted it to youtube entirely on his own. Admittedly it is 2 minutes and 11 seconds of pig slaughter, but it is something. (and if the authour of a famous minecraft mod were to leave a vaugely encouraging message e.g. "pigs are awesome - keep making videos" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44OlF_qspP8 he would be *so* happy :)

Enlightened drivers are in versions SUSE 11 and Redhat.
Presumably some of these changes from MS are to facilitate enlightened drivers for any distro.
Makes a huge difference running private virtual networks

Try looking in the logs.

I can well believe you have had problems in your projects if you think that there are "known issues of TCP/IP message passing from Unix/BSD stack to a Win stack".

Every word in your post after the first sentence is utter bollocks.

What about Azure?

the only meme that springs to my mind is "sudden outbreak of common sense"

The innovation that interests me is that i can buy one of a range of handsets but my OS gets updated by microsoft.
If microsoft lives up to their promises i will have copy and paste, and limited multi-tasking, and presumably other cool stuff 12 months down the track.
I would love android to succeed but i fear it will be harmed when customers are pissed off paying $800 for a phone that their carrier refuses to update to the latest version only 12 months down the track. How may 1.5 owners will get 2.2?
apple got it exactly right with the iPhone - they deliver iOS updates. The downside being you don't have the choice with the hardware (not that the harware is bad - i love my iPod Touch).
The evil guys here are Telstra, Optus and Vodaphone (insert local equivalents). Maybe Google should step up to the plate for once and take some responsibility by distributing with the same model as Apple/Microsoft?

Do you mean more discrete, or do you mean 'Kolivax'?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/ms123401.aspx/ ... any good?

what you say would be true - if straight couples were not permitted to marry.

Microsoft will not have a closed app store model for winmo7 (although they will have their own app store). You can get an SDK and emulator right now - for free - and make XNA/Silverlight apps that can be downloaded to a winmo7 phone.

If you want to be an good Apple fan you should try not to spout nonsense - your ignorance makes Steve look bad.

This is not correct. Direct2D is a 2d graphics API that will be used in IE9 for rendering graphics and text (via DirectWrite). DirectShow (which i understand has optional theora support) will be used for video rendering.

clarified that for you