You are nothing close to civilized. For someone to advocate for women, children, and the elderly (these groups are the largest recipients of government subsidized health care, food, and welfare programs) to suffer a die is just outright evil. If people want evidence that evil exists in the world, this "civilized" guy is a perfect example. Nothing else could possibly motivate this selfish and narcissistic person more. You romanticize this idea of a perfect utopia where everybody is only responsible for themselves and ones that they directly care about. Where taxes are low or non existent. Somehow you think that this is going to lead to prosperity and happiness for everyone. There are plenty of examples in this world where that type of society exists. This lawless land where the central government is weak or non existent. Where there are no social safety net programs. Where the government just stays out of the citizens lives. They exist in many countries in Africa as well as Asia, and in the history the American West. Afghanistan and Somalia are ripe examples. These countries, and the people living in these conditions are generally not prosperous and happy. They live in constant fear of dying and struggle with the basics to just live. In many of these societies, radical and malevolent gangs and groups come to power and suppress large populations of people. See if you think this way of life is so ideal I invite you to move to a place like Afghanistan or Somalia to see if it is really that much better.

Sounds like this was a tragic loss for not only Oculus but for the developer world as well. I hope Oculus will be able to continue and my thoughts are with the Reisse's family as well.

I would highly recommend OpenStack (http://www.openstack.org/). It is much cheaper than the other solutions recommended here (VMware, Hyper-V, Citrix, etc.). It is backed by giants such as NASA, Rackspace, HP, RedHat, CERN, AT&T, Dell, and even VMWare. It is open source software and built with Python so it is very "scriptable". It uses a web based user interface and can leverage commodity hardware or specialized server hardware. Did I mention this is the same system many of those giants use for their own IaaS products both internally and as a public product?

AWS has many options. You can deploy a single micro server for free for 1 year and stacks of technology and server resources that scale horizontally or vertically very easily. The really were the first successful "Cloud" (IaaS, PaaS) service provider and are probably the cheapest, especially if you want to get your feet wet.

1. Change.org 2. Put pressure on the administration to change the censor policy: Get your fellow students and the faculty to sign a petition, then present the petition to the university of the president. Use social media to get the word out. Try to get an article in the local or national press. 3. Transfer to another university that does not block basic access to information, and write a letter to the president explaining why you are transferring and how you are going to encourage all of your fellow students to do the same.

I am seeing a lot of arrogance in the replies to these posts. Maybe it is because the original article mentioned the idea of getting a job after completing these lessons. Maybe its because some people feel threatened. Maybe its because some people can't conceive of the possibility that another person might be able to be as good or better than they are because they didn't share the same experience. CodeAcademy is a great idea. It is a relatively ease and free way of learning the BASICS of programming and software engineering. It easy to see how someone could complete a course or two and dive further into the art of software development. They might take a course at their local college, MIT OCW, Khan Academy, etc., get involved in an open source project, or just have a greater understanding of complexities of what make our digital society work and more respect for the "real" programmers. Get over yourself.

I highly suggest using Linux Mint. The best way to "try it out" is to use a program called UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/). UNetbootin can be downloaded and run inside any version of Windows or Mac OS X. UNetbootin will allow you to both download and "install" Linux Mint (as well as most other popular Linux distributions) on to a memory card (I suggest a USB memory card AND one that is at least 2GB is size). The memory card will need to be blank, because everything on the memory card will be erased while UNetbootin is creating the Live USB Linux drive. Once complete UNetbootin is finished downloading and creating the Live USB drive, you need to reboot your computer. Either go into the BIOS or select the newly USB drive from the initial boot prompts/options, and Linux Mint will boot from the USB drive into a “Live” version. USB is better than burning a CD/DVD because you can save changes to the system and USB generally runs faster because most modern USB drives have fairly fast transfer rates and absolutely faster seek times. Even if you don't choose Linux Mint, you can download and create Live USB drives of other Linux distributions (i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.) By the way, this the same method I use to both try out and install new versions of Linux on my computers. Good luck, and welcome the outstanding community of simply the best OS on the planet.