This and the "Microsoft sits down with Windows 7 Phone Jailbreakers" article make two positive articles about Microsoft in one day. Did I accidentally fall through a wormhole and end up in backwards land? Next you'll be telling me Linux will be the core of Windows 8 and Bill Gates thinks vaccines cause autism.

This is pretty much my experience with Java. If I am Joe Q Ignorant User, and every now and then Java is updated, and every time it's updated it displays an ad for OpenOffice.org, I am going to conflate it with those cheesy pop-ups my tech-head son says I shouldn't click on.

To the end user, Java means nothing. And why should it mean anything?

Well, almost nothing. If anything gets in between me and my Minecraft, worlds will end. And I mean that as hard as I can.

Having worked in the US before, too, and being someone who is currently changing jobs, I think the solution is pretty simple -- do not apply to companies in the US. There are plenty of opportunities in Canada and Europe.

Duke Nukem Forever is also going to use Unreal 2.5, Unreal 3, and Crytek! All merged together into one mega-engine! It's the only way to handle Duke! It's so crazy it has to be true!

That would be awesome! First, get a dark, moving, and awe-inspiring script. Then, go through round after round of fund-raising and make a bunch of reports showing how the funds have been used for a series of dark, moving, and awe-inspiring props and special effects for the film. Finally, the night before the big screening, run off with all the money. I can support this. Who wants to donate? You'll get an Associate Producer credit in the film!