We wrote perhaps a 9 months' work in three days and you think publishers will mock this in an effective way? The PR has been enormously great and this gives the book even better chances to improve. :) Cleaning, editing and some graphics are still to be done, but it will still have been faster and better than our current books. And yet another great highlight of open materials which the general public don't really know about.

Here's a English-language video from Vesa Linja-aho, the submitter and the main boss guy in this project: http://youtu.be/ThbUiky4AKA

It won't end up being a steaming pile of crap for a simple reason: it continues to develop for longer than this weekend. This sprint was a separate interesting idea from the book being open.

... am I the only one who first read the title as simply "Ubisoft To Shut Down"?

Oh, too bad. I just called my ISP. Took 2 minutes. Now I pay 20 euros per month for 100/10 connection. Hell yeah.

Why, oh why did you not tell me all this ten years ago? ;_;

Come to Finland. http://www.welho.fi/homes/broadband/cableandadslbroadbandsubscriptions/welho100m/tabid/72495/Default.aspx We've had that for about a year now. Oh, and look: http://www.welho.fi/homes/broadband/cableandadslbroadbandsubscriptions/welho110m/tabid/72504/Default.aspx

I'd say that we are not really able to evaluate how complex the evolution of intelligence is since it obviously (realisation based on Slashdot comments) hasn't developed very far yet.