Don't do it... He'll just sit in class playing WoW all day. at least 50% of my classmates did.

Sorry but that's just wrong. there is a HUGE difference between stealing credit for a work and stealing a copy. when "stealing credit" the original creator of the work is losing the recognition as the creator. when stealing a copy of a work, nobody loses anything.

So he turns to TV for help and for guidance
A lot of his virtues he picked up from Linus
Fonzie taught him what it means to be cool
From Doogie he learned that he must go to school
Three's Company taught him that just acting gay
Could lower the actual rent he would pay
Cops showed beating your wife and your neighbor
Could immortalize you and your double wide trailer

Vandals Anyone?
Yeeeeeeah

ummm.... it *is* 911 here in Canada, and I believe the US too.. I dont understand the point you're trying to make there.

If you're not intetrested in recording or cable TV, XBMC is BY FAR the better solution.

XBMC ONLY Uses mplayer on the XBox, under linux it uses its own DVDPlayer software for everything. that being said, DVDPlayer also plays everything that you throw at it, just as well as mplayer. but its not mplayer.

Mod This Man Up! F Spot might be okay for some people, but I for one completely agree with AC's sentiments,nobody wants a photo manager.

You're wrong, because there are plenty of gimp users who have never used photoshop more than a handful of times.. I dont see any appeal in photoshop whatsoever, gimp does everything I need, and I LIKE the UI. I've never found it to be confusing or unintuitive, it works quite well, I probably wont even use single window mode when 2.8 comes out, it just wouldn't be all that useful to me, the current setup works quite nicely.

Not everyone is a recent windows convert who needs to make their linux install function like their windows install used to. I haven't touched in a windows box in 5 or 6 years, I dont miss any of the software I used to use over there.

The first time I ran the gimp a friend of mind gave me the kind suggestion "When you can't find sommething, Right-click on the image" thats all I needed to be a productive gimp user, I find photoshop to be a nightmare to use.

oh and his dad used it to check his email, and didn't even realize it was different, he asked "Did you do something to the computer downstairs?, it seems a lot faster now."

i did a clean install on my laptop (non-essential machine and a clean install goes a lot faster). The process was very quick and painless, by far the most pleasant ubuntu installation yet. the only issue I've had, which seems to have cleared itself up, with some updates, was that ctrl+C wasn't working in my terminal,it wouldn't do anything at all...

overall i think the improvements in karmic are more significant than many of the previous releases, everything looks and feels better. thumbs-up to the chocolate brown color, the orange was starting to get played-out. a friend of mine was here when I did my reinstall, when it booted up to a beautiful, fully functional desktop just 20 minutes after I started the install, he was so impressed he took the live CD home and installed it for himself.

Its been 3 days and I've yet to have a single question or complaint from him.. everything is working including his sound card, which wasn't working under windows. he even figured out how to get mp3/xvid support all by himself. I'm both proud of him and of ubuntu. things have come a long way.

I know that you were saying it was used in normal conversation.. I was disagreeing, I can pretty much assure you that it was used as a joke, probably because they knew Americans were in the game with them. seriously, nobody uses that word, not since Bob and Doug McKenzie themselves and a handful of people who rolled with it for far too long.

Lol, Ok you're right, the only time a Canadian has ever used the word hoser was for the benefit of a listening American, solely to perpetuate that stereotype. we DO say 'eh' all the time though. wtf is a hoser anyway? its such a stupid word..."Check oat the hoser eh?" note the use of 'oat', NOT oot.

contrary to popular belief, Canadians dont use the word hoser, ever.... like seriously, no canadian has ever said it. also the accent is more like "A-boat" then "A-boot"'

My intention wasn't to be rude, only to point out that all of this material that you claim to have no use for really is important, and that the other developers aren't assuming that you have an MIT Education, they're simply using the terminology that they need to in order to properly convey such advanced concepts. They're not going to spoon-feed you because you can't be bother to understand the material.. University education or not, everyone is capable of understanding anything they truly want to understand, and it sounds to me like you were just on IRC looking for shortcuts, didn't get them, and so you managed to get by on your own. I sincerely applaud you for that, I too would be completely lost trying to learn OpenGL, but you are calling people "stubbornly elitist" for no good reason... I truly want to know what you expected from them other than links to advanced reading material, because thats what it takes to understand opengl.