I foresee how the FPS aspect could come into play when dealing with pirates or aliens boarding the ship, for example. I hope he keeps that aspect of the game.

I'm very happy to see that those who got the games were able to keep them. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks that maybe this was a marketing stunt, but Occam's Razor tells me it's just a mistake and they were a good sport about it.

I think it's a bit of both. EA is aggressively trying to lure people over to Origin, they figured, a free game for a survey would be an enticing offer, but after they realized something was wrong they had a choice of letting it slide or cracking down. If they cracked down on the people exploiting the code they would have done the opposite of converting people to Origin. However, now that a bunch of people have multiple games in Origin, they are invested and will likely buy more games in the future.

No point in clicking unless you're subscribed to Scientific American.

Ouch, my bad, sorry! Didn't notice it when submitting, likely due to institutional access.

Wait, being open and forward to strangers on the internet means I'm addicted? Well, that explains a lot...

I think you got the wrong news item, buddy :P

I think that was the point - an ironic title for a post that goes against the types of articles with exactly the same caracteristics.

I'm English, so I understand irony just fine. There are still ways to write interesting headlines without going Howard Stern on us.

I'll confirm that this seems to be a case of people not knowing what the hell they did years ago... I looked at everything I had in my timeline, and there are only posts from people who have always, and will always, write only on my wall instead of messaging me privately.

"Destroys" is a much stronger word than what happens here, "Laughs at smartly" is probably better.

... thus prompting hackers worldwide to quickly create a version of Linux that will run on the Clover Trail Atom processor. Just to piss them off.

Linux can already run on the processor, it's just x86.

The processor was built with new windows kernel features that allow the OS to issue "hints" to allow the processor to make use of special power states.

Basically if you use it with Windows (for which it was designed), you'll get good battery life.

If you use it with Linux, you'll get poor battery life because none of the advanced features exist in the Linux kernel.

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that this statement was actually a calculated move by Intel, designed to goad Linux hackers into getting the OS to support these features sooner.