I think that's the hard part.

Think about developing a handheld game that needs to work on all screen sizes (iPhone, iPad, Android, Simbian, etc etc....). There have been efforts to minimize these problems.

Then think about the UI for a web page or game. There have been some pretty successful results, while they are anything but simple.

Now think about adding a 3rd dimension to all those problems. It's not as easy as saying "just make it realistic". There is a reason why lives are spent on UI. It's not an easy task and it just got a 3rd Dimension.

Oh and was it just me or did anyone think it was just a 3D FPS (Like Tribes, Q3, you know.... All FPS?) and not a 3D Displayed FPS.

By your comment I cannot tell if you are a developer or someone not related to computers at all. Bug finding is not an easy task by any measure. Talk to your local Test Engineer.

I always thought that it would make sense to automatically adjust people's "plans" retroactively, based on your usage. A phone company having set plans to begin with tells us, as customers, that they're willing to accept X amount of money based on Y amount of usage. Now if I estimate poorly, or have an emergency and need to use my phone a lot more than I estimated, I shouldn't be unjustly punished for that. I should just be moved up a "plan".

Thinking about it now, maybe they shouldn't call them plans with this new system (what I'm suggesting is different than pay as you go). A plan makes it sound like you pay ahead of time, like renting an apartment or mortgage payments on a home.

Unlike the summary posted above, the article is very unbiased. I'm surprised how sensational slashdot has become on issues like this. This isn't about some hacker wanting street cred, it's about an agent of the government getting a criminal to talk. Salon even stops slander found in other articles that is just journalism upon journalism leads to US Government vs. WikiLeaks, which at this point looks completely ridiculous.

I for one congratulate Salon for this very well balanced article.

Apple isn't the only one... With these two companies relying on each others servers, it's no wonder that both are having issues.

Agreed. I started "coding" per se with Tribes. That lasted into Tribes 2 and I only grew from there.

But seriously, find something he's interested in. A 2-week program like some at digipen might be the most interesting for him to visit and learn a lot in a little time. If you can't make it to Seattle, then I suggest finding a local community college or hackerspace or LAN center, etc... and find what he enjoys to do. I've also found that mentors are a great help, even if they are just older kids.

Lawyers and Network Engineers.
In all seriousness, they're probably our best tool invented to date.

Like my professor said when I asked him if he had an auto-grader "Yes, it's called TAs".

His evaluation of all of these products is incredibly insightful. "Firewall friendly"? He means: "Can it get around firewalls without changing their settings properly?" Never mind the security issue of opening your desktop / server / whatever to a third party using something like LogMeIn.Thanks, Keith!

agreed. it sounds like to me that he stopped working on a website, stopped offering a service, and let everything expired. That leaves a great business plan for someone to start where you left off. If the people are paying for a service they aren't receiving, that's their fault. If the Russian "cloners" are actually providing the same service you did, then good for the Russians.

The only other issue I can see here is copyright / stolen corporate identity, which if you don't know what to do already (contact a lawyer and file an international law suit?) then there's nothing you can do.

too bad your tinyurl won't be archived. maybe if they did then you can set them up to recursively archive itself. hmmmmmm.

The term customers is simply ambiguous. In this case, it means customers of the "entertainment industry". It may also mean rapidshare customers, as rapidshare might get a cut for their redirect, depending on their business model. But yes, if a single person clicks on that redirect and purchases the software/music/movie legally, then the website has converted a would-be pirate into a legitimate customer.

Good. You couldn't use that on the moon anyways.

That's a very interesting case of customer service via twitter.
http://twitter.com/Newegg/

Looks pretty much like it's replacing a contact number. Contact support and complain to your friends at the same time!

LIFE already did: http://books.google.com/books/serial/7FQEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1

Oh and here's the best view for all the Popular Science "Books": http://books.google.com/books/serial/CzwEAAAAMBAJ?rview=1