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Do you play MMOs?

Maybe that's true in Commie land.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/2...4&art_pos=3 So awesome.

Uh. Weird. Opera has always worked fine for me. BTW, download the new version, Opera 10. Perhaps that'll fix whatever the problem is. Edit: If you've set up a proxy on Firefox/IE then you need to do the same for Opera. But if that were the problem you'd be getting time-out errors, not blank pages. Still, check it.

The people who care have either moved on with their lives, or are sick of being angry with the fact that Bethesda now controls Fallout, for better or worse (hint: worse).

I hate pringles for their advertising. For the longest time they ran these ads insinuating that opening a tin of pringles was a ticket to PARTYVILLE and that music would start playing and your family would love you if you ate them, but oh no, cut to Mr. McGreasyHands who's eating regular chips and wiping his hands on his shirt as he cries off in a corner, sure in the knowledge that loneliness will accompany him to the grave. I generally hate any advertising, on a frightening and primal level, that insinuates that buying a product will in some way make you happier. To a degree this means I hate all adversiting, but some ad campaigns are much more blatant about it. I want to have your babies.

Nobody screams 'discrimination' here. Except maybe the Socialist Alliance. But no-one credible. Well, I think Australia does it right. You set limits, boundaries, and frameworks. We significantly lowered our intake of sub-Saharans at one point because they were simply not integrating well. It's completely reasonable to expect your immigrants to obey your laws, learn your language (but not lose their own), arrive with savings, and find a job (hence why skilled workers are given priority). I believe part of the problem in Europe, and I've done a little research on the Netherlands and France, is that in the 1970's or so (from memory), the governments of the time pitched these massive immigration pushes to places like Turkey and the Middle East for cheap labour at the height of the baby boom. Unfortunately they didn't bother to screen those arrivals, didn't bother to plan for what would would happen 10 years later (perhaps they expected them to simply go home?), didn't bother to ensure the arrivals had saved to pay for their stay, and didn't bother to integrate them from the start. Economic migrants are surely different to refugees? You can't expect someone who flees for their life to turn up in the same state as someone who plans it? There's a separate refugee quota that bypasses traditional skilled immigration laws, AFAIK. For example, of the illegal immigrants that are caught by border patrol, those who are judged to be genuine refugees are given permanent residence (or a temporary visa, something like that).

Hmm. Well he did mention he's being careful to limit what features he exposes. Personally since the game isn't a Stealther I kind of prefer they omit 'advanced' stealth. It complicates the game too much to the point of annoy-ment. Or at least I suspect it would. Deus Ex level stealth seems like a good balance.

It wouldn't greatly surprise me if that were true, but I find it odd that I've never heard of it before. Sources?

Unless, of course, it is a jedi engineer. Oh? Would you perhaps call him a Jengineer?

Really? I'd at least expect there to be cameras and alarm panels for guards to trigger.

Yes. Ubuntu has detected my wireless cards and networks properly since I first installed it 3 years ago.

I will now buy this game. That's one of the main things from Deus Ex I was hoping you'd emulate/improve.

Wait, what? I thought the game had unlimited ammo? Wait, what? What? They changed it? YES!

I think some people wish he had of committed crimes against humanity so that their neat little dichotomy of "communism evil, capitalism good" would be preserved. But most likely he just confused Lenin with Stalin. A pretty big confusion, true.

Strange how those who actually live there differ from your opinion. Turkey's not perfect. It's behind most Western European countries. But Morgoth's blanket vilification of Turks (rather than, say, the Turkish government, specifically the current Islamist party) is offensive. It's disturbing that he sees nothing wrong with that, either. At times he raises some valid points about integration of immigrant cultures but then he blows it by acting like a bit of racist jerk. I don't know, maybe Morgoth's language in this thread is fine with everybody else, but it makes my skin crawl.

Turkey seems one of Europe/Mid East's shining beacons. 90 years of secular democracy, NATO member, continually developing, good example for Arabs, etc. The animosity a lot of Europeans have for Turks (Morgoth being a classic example) is almost comical from where I'm standing.

Are you asking whether Bush was a bad president or whether Bush is an unintelligent person? Quite a difference, but you seem to merge the two in your tangent at the end. I don't really believe he is stupid, myself. I imagine he has an above average IQ (say, 110 or so). He doesn't appear to have strong willpower based on his substance abuse issues, and he didn't do well at uni. But a smart person could fail in these areas, too. I certainly think he's made a lot of stupid choices but what I put down to stupidity could simply be learned ideology which he's justified away in his head. It doesn't help that a lot of people saw him as a puppet of Cheney, myself included.

Don't make me come over there.

9.04 itself didn't exactly lag in performance improvements, either, but it's less than a month after the release of 9.04 and already the first alpha of Karmic Koala is zooming ahead! The performance increases vary from 5% to something like 200%. Specifically, the SQLite regression has been fixed as the kernel has been updated! That means Firefox and other SQLite-based apps will now run probably 2 to 3 times faster on Ubuntu (i.e. at the same speed as in OS X, Windows, and older Ubuntu versions). It's a shame they couldn't fit this into 9.04, because it really is pretty big. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=arti...lpha1&num=2 Also, Ubuntu has launched a cloud services package called Ubuntu One. It aims to tackle Microsoft. The first 2Gb of online storage are free, than $10 for 10Gb. It operates over Amazon's cloud it seems. Looks only available to Ubuntu users (of which there are over 10 million). I am not sure what the rest of its offerings are, but it makes clear it has a plans to branch out. Invite only beta atm. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10169249-62.html And in terms of the bigger picture between Ubuntu and software-as-a-service/cloud computing: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-10169249-62.html

My new Mac Mini doesn't run Beyond Good and Evil properly because the game wasn't coded with dual cores in mind. *sigh* I hope I don't have problems with the IE games. Haven't tested them yet.

Except it's not caught three times its "some random copyright holder (or note even) suspects you downloaded a copy of their work and gave you a strike". But hey, it might just be limited to Hollywood since Sarkozy is all powsy wowsy with them, so we're in safe hands right? Anyway, the EU has determined that this three strikes law is illegal, so it'll probably exist for all of 6 months if it gets passed (and heck, it might not even reach the EU if the French Supreme Court blasts it first, which is probable).

Well, I think Australia does it right. You set limits, boundaries, and frameworks. We significantly lowered our intake of sub-Saharans at one point because they were simply not integrating well. It's completely reasonable to expect your immigrants to obey your laws, learn your language (but not lose their own), arrive with savings, and find a job (hence why skilled workers are given priority). I believe part of the problem in Europe, and I've done a little research on the Netherlands and France, is that in the 1970's or so (from memory), the governments of the time pitched these massive immigration pushes to places like Turkey and the Middle East for cheap labour at the height of the baby boom. Unfortunately they didn't bother to screen those arrivals, didn't bother to plan for what would would happen 10 years later (perhaps they expected them to simply go home?), didn't bother to ensure the arrivals had saved to pay for their stay, and didn't bother to integrate them from the start. Well, these are the people who are growing up in a societity that despises their own moral believes and own agenda by living in anxiety because most classes (read above: up to 90% immigrants per class, most of them Turks) mob everyone else, thus making it impossible for these young people to develop their own strengths. If you get forced my Turkish kids to "play along" with nthem every day, you start to feel like an outsider, get frustrated and therefor lose any believe into a multi-culty society that theoretically could work well, but doesn't because there are these particular subjects that don't blend into society, but force everyone else to belnd to their believes. Integrationis an effort that has to work from both sides, but many muslim immigrants make this impossible. I'm all for a multi-culty society that embraces education, tolerance and performance, but having these parallel structures emerging that pulls your own culture down into the dirt makes this effort zilch. Multi-Culty yes, but there needs to be a larger EU wide dialog about if the Islam is even compatible with our western views. Uh...

Increased freedom? Increased tolerance? Increased opportunities? Increased knowledge of the world? I could go on, but I suspect you've already determined that you don't like multiculturalism. Now now, you sound like these neo-liberal dreamer politicians. We're talking reality. Who has to deal with immigrants the most? That's right, pupils/students. And when they grow up and always get mobbed, feeling like they're alien in their own country, do you really consider this an improvement? Um, neo-liberals are right-wing economic conservatives. I'm pretty sure I don't sound like them. Also, you lost me at the bit about students being mobbed and feeling like aliens?