Wasn't it Google's former CEO who talked about children who are growing up now needing online aliases (having to change their names)? To separate their digital and real lives.

Why is misused in quotes?

I was reading the article, and the phrase "The White Man's burden" suddenly popped into my head... Did this happen to anyone else? In the context of the US being such a strong force for democracy and peace in the world, I found a number of the following lines from this totally unbias and impartial article quite humorous: "In order to please our European allies and our Third World critics" "America's special role in managing the Internet is good for America and good for the world." "Until now, the management of the Domain Name System has been largely apolitical" then almost immediately after this factoid "Political questions like "Who is the rightful government of Pakistan, and therefore the rightful owner of the .pk domain?" are settled by the U.S. Department" "There have been no serious complaints about American stewardship of the Internet, no actual abuses perpetrated by American overseers." "Britain, CANADA, and Australia all have mandatory nationwide blacklists of banned sites, managed by nongovernmental regulators with minimal political oversight." "If we give control of the Internet naming infrastructure to an international organization, we must expect attempts to censor the Internet" "Most countries lack our First Amendment tradition" This one really made me laugh... I would go on,but, I am practically copying the article verbatim. Oh and by the way, who needs citations or footnotes? They are as useless as things like facts, and proof, and research. Irony is a wonderful thing.

This 'article' seems more like someones day dreams, this article belongs in an MMO forum somewhere, not on the front page of slashdot. There is nothing of substance, mostly its just this person's musings on what their wet dream of an MMO would be. They randomly state 100 million as a development cost for this 'new technology' for a single shard world. Amateurish is the most flattering word I can think of to describe this post. The ideas arent that new or interesting, and again, it's mostly a post about what someone wants to see in an MMO, very little in the article actually talks about the concept of single shard MMO's, or the technology needed to create them, which is the main headline of the article!

Or just skim over it? "The first impression of this book is its heft---at 935 pages in the hardback edition, you'll need strong arms, or a good support, just to read the thing. But otherwise, this is a sharply printed, well-bound book. The official retail price is $30, but you can find it for around $24, less if you buy it used. Anathem is set on a fictional planet called Arbre, which is very similar to Earth, in a fairly distant future. Much has happened, as we discover during the course of the story. World wars, revolutions, climate change, etc... During all these tribulations, religious orders have provided a certain amount of continuity, and have pursued theoretical scientific research. They still live like monks and nuns, even though there are occasional glimpses of highly advanced technology (materials, genetics, etc...). " That whole description is just wrong... Well not all of it but its such an over simplification, and the fact that you called the 'Concents' religious orders goes to show that you didn't understand some of the fundamental premises upon which the story is built... Im sorry but this review is quite lacking. I really can't believe this was posted.

What exactly are you looking to do? If your doing develpment with Java, Xen would be a natural choice, and the hardware you need to run a xen Dom0 and some linux guests is trivial. You can go virtual with older hardware. I have a dual Intel 700 with 2 gigs of SD ram running in the office that I use as my own web server and that I experiment with. Currently there are 3 guests running and they all run smooth as silk. CentOS 5 machines. Some of our devs have the same setup and use a guest as a build server and another one for testing and QA. If you want to run Paravirtualized hosts that is. If you are looking for fully virtualized hosts, you might have to splurge for some newer hardware (processor specifically). I might also look into KVM and Fedora since Xen is getting boxed with the release of RHEL6 I believe.

No mention of the fact that this game won't be ported to PC? A bit of a let down for PC gamers...