Comments on: Technopolitical news

By: Ray Ingles

Ray Ingles — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:40:12 +0000

Greg, Annick wasn’t kidding. Microsoft puts out the XBox and runs the XBox Live network service.

There are plenty of reasons to dislike Sony (which offers the Playstation and the Playstation Network), but this story isn’t one of them.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:19:38 +0000

He plays the flute.

By: The Science Pundit

The Science Pundit — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:13:57 +0000

What does Barney Fife have to do with any of this?

By: John Swindle

John Swindle — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 09:57:34 +0000

If there still are any who haven’t heard, a fork of KDE3, called “Trinity” is available for Ubuntu and a few others. It works well for me. I keep hoping that KDE4 will develop into something I can use, but I have yet to see a version of it that I can live with. Trinity is available here:
http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:40:36 +0000

The last overview I read is the most recent issue of Linux Journal (on desktops). KDE fills more memory before you’ve run your first app, but gnome isn’t a lot better. Interestingly, Xfce is the same as gnome.

I’m thinking of running my laptop with a simple windows manager and nothing more.

By: Marion Delgado

Marion Delgado — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 03:35:52 +0000

RE: KDE, I agree, but before Ubuntu’s growth spurt, I think it was a minority opinion (somehow Kubuntu’s not kept up).

I wonder if there isn’t some convergence. I always avoided KDE because it seemed to make you load too many libraries (gnome is bad enough). But how different are they now?

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:36:30 +0000

I always wonder about people who do things on Wii Mario Kart that are not possible. I figure they work for the company.

By: Dave v.

Dave v. — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 02:03:43 +0000

According to the article, the boy was banned because his account was (apparently) used to cheat after he admittedly gave his login info to another player to get some special armor.

Microsoft made statements that they had not banned the account because he was “too good”, but because there was a pattern of game achievements that were not technically possible in offline play — unless the software had been tinkered with. That’s the basis of the cheating charge.

I’m no fan of Microsoft, but based on the info provided they appear to be acting reasonably given the prevalence of cheating in online games.

By: Annick

Annick — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 01:17:14 +0000

Uh… that would be Microsoft, not Sony.