Quoting: EhvisFor $40 you can still get alpha access from their website.

Interesting... [External Link] :D

Edit: well... I bought it ;)

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Quoting: CorbenFrom what I've seen the goal is not to move across planets or even star systems, it's more about to survive on your planet and crafting your own shelter, vehicles etc.

In Liam's article he says that:

Building a spaceship capable of interplanetary travel is the first end goal

I'm not fluent in English, but doesn't that say that the first goal is to get out of the planet, but then you'll be able to travel across planets as well? I personally really like the idea of interplanetary travels, it still makes me dream ;)

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@Keyrock: I started to play with friends (two of whom have more than 3000h) and although it's extremely difficult to follow them when I play with them, it's also extremely teaching! You're right about the skill ceiling, it's ludicrously high and (maybe it's my masochism who speaks) I tend to like it very much in the end :D

I watched the semi-final today, it was simply A-MA-ZING! That last game! WOW!!

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193h, but I started this winter :D

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Quoting: tmtvlWhat about people who installed plain Ubuntu and afterwards installed the superior Plasma DE themselves?

I thought of that, but I wonder how many people installed Ubuntu and then switched to another DE. It would have been the first version of Ubuntu with Unity, I wouldn't argue, but it's been a couple of years that Unity is coming by default with Ubuntu, so the people know that now and they know that if they want another DE, they'd better get an alternative spin (i.e. Ubuntu-GNOME, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, etc...)

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BTW, it would be nice if more people were to set their desktop environment.

There are 349 "vanilla" Ubuntu, but KDE is first in the DE's list. Considering the distributions stats, we should have Unity on top, then a fight between KDE and GNOME.

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Quoting: liamdaweI actually had the survey this time, so it's not a myth!

Quoting: KeyrockIn a related story, I got the survey for the first time in about a year yesterday.

Quoting: melkemindI got the survey this time too. I was pretty shocked.

I think we've got our +0.02% :D

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Anyone against Linux would have said the same kind of "in five years, they'll control the whole universe!" would have been accused of FUD [External Link]'ing.

We've got to be fairplay and not accept this kind of arguments because it pleases us.

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Still waiting for the drivers to find their way to the Fedora's repositories before I buy the card ;)

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I must admit, I've read several articles, but not the one linked by GoL. So I just read it and I agree that the conclusions are far less catastrophic than what I've been used to read. It says that the power consumption isn't that high compared to other cards, and good custom cards that will be sold later should fix the problem by adding a 8-pin connector.

That being said, even in regards to this reading, I'm still disappointed by AMD who advertised a low-power consumption GPU and apparently tried to squeeze the card into this definition by using a 6-pin connector and being just above the limits of the PCIe specs. That is bad PR. It gives the impression that the GPU, although a brand new architecture, has already reached its limits. And it also gives bad press to the cards. It would have been better to have a product a bit less on the edge, at least for the first revisions. Now a lot of users won't even look twice at those cards because of what happened.

Because I really prefer AMD over NVIDIA for several personal reasons, I will continue to follow closely this topic and hope for a brighter tomorrow with the custom cards that seems to be on the way. But if the problems aren't fix by then, I'll be extremely disappointed by AMD.

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