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Interestingly, I have never -- NEVER -- heard a self-proclaimed "socialist" say that they define "socialism" as state control of the economy. The less educated types may say something weak, along the lines of "equality" or "fairness", but the serious ones tend to say something like common...

  It has been done before -- several times in the last few hundred years.

PyChart. Pyre. Funeral Pyre. Pyratechnic (this one may, in fact, be good). Pyrasitic.

Red Dwarf theme: Lister, Rimmer, Kryten 2X4B, Kryten 2Q4B, Cat, Talkie Toaster, Petersen, Chen, Selby, Kochanski, MacIntyre, Hollister, Toddhunter, Holly, Hilly, Legion, Spare Head 1, Spare Head 2, Spare Head 3, Simulant, GELF, Starbug, White Star, Nova 5, Death, War, Famine, Pestilence...

It carries the device for you.

London1666. Great fire. :)

Property is theft. Intellectual property is intellectual theft. This is fun. :)

I used DOSBOX. Perhaps I did not have a good configuration, but on ALL the games I have tried the mouse/cursor either does not exist or doing a left click causes it to jump some distance. This makes it difficult to play mouse-dominant games, which I expect to include Darklands and Betrayal at...

That is a bit of a shame -- I mainly had in mind for an HMD playing Doom, Heretic, Duke Nukem and Shadow Warrior (source ports permitting), perhaps Quake too. I am usually, let us say, less than enthused about new games (give me opinions filtered through ten years of experience and reflection!)...

Currently playing: Might and Magic 4&5: World of Xeen The Dig Super Metroid Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Heretic Want to play: The Ur-Quan Masters (Star Control 2) Final Fantasy Tactics (using the FFT: Complete mod, which gives the PS1 version the translation from the PSP version)...

I went to the Museum of Computing History in Cambridge some time ago. They have an Oculus Rift (DK2, I think) and the programs they had available were that Tuscan Villa demo and two rollercoaster simulators. The latter only barely made me feel sick -- about the same as a real rollercoaster...

Anyone tried GZ3DOOM with a head-mounted display yet? It is the first thing I intend to try when I get one of my own. Pinky attacks may even be scary! If I am OK with that, I may then do Brutal Doom with the HMD. :)

Why another Mario-style platformer for the Free World? Platformers that exist that are fully or partly FOSS: SuperTux (Mario-style) Super Maryo Chronicles (Mario-style) Mari0 (the original Super Mario Brothers but with Portals! -- legally dubious, but meh) Frogatto & Friends (I suppose that...

What does this do that Ekiga does not? (I use neither Egiga nor Skype, but I believe Ekiga is the prime FOSS competitor).

I would like a camera, but I never want my Pandora or Pyra to shut down through lack of energy on a long bus/plane/train trip or even in the course of a normal day if/when I forget to charge it during the night. It is the everything device: audio player, handheld gaming device, mobile computer...

My vote essentially says: I DO want a camera, but I would sacrifice NOTHING (except some money) for it. And I can live without it.

One of my points is that, given the audience of this forum, one should expect that almost all readers know the basic uses of a USB slot.  That is, on this forum, saying "the function can be achieved by using a USB device" is a truism, something so obvious that it is not worth mentioning --...

The "whining" is not entirely unjustified. As a pocket device, keeping all but the smallest USB-items semi-permanently inserted is intolerable, so for features that are envisioned to be in use quite often, or whose use would be significantly hindered by fiddling with USB connectors every time...

This thread is what FAQs are for, and then a thread like this can have one reply: a link to the FAQ. RTFM works when it is obvious where M is.

I think a more abstract approach is more appropriate, here, and requires less quibbling over details. That is, I prefer ible's approach. I particularly like the one on top row, second going left to right. The image, if used, is likely to be rather small on the screen, a lot of the time. It is a...