If you had unlimited Income, what websites would you donate to first?

[Robert Ewing]

A lot of scientific and medical funds. Wikipedia, and of course the escapist :3.

I won't beat around the bush, all my money is going toward stuff that directly improve humanities development.

 

[Esotera]

- Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu ?
You mean Canonical ? The people that struggled so hard to create Linux for human beings, yet now with one, ahem, "bold" move ruined everything they gained and chose geeks and tablet users over common folk ?

Well...

Pft, everyone seems to have ruined the latest release of all the UIs. Personally I quite like Unity, but more importantly Ubuntu is a stable & powerful system that requires very little effort to maintain. You can always use apt to get other graphical shells...I have several installed at the minute.

 

[Epicspoon]

The escapist so that what happened to extra credits never happens again. granted they DO still have the show, it's just not here. also despite the infinite income I would only give them exactly what they needed. screw the four other sites, I'll use the money on a private jet.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

Wikipedia, so they can start up some cool new projects.

Various other game companies so they can MAKE THE GAMES I WANT THEM TO!

 

[JesterRaiin]

- Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu ?
You mean Canonical ? The people that struggled so hard to create Linux for human beings, yet now with one, ahem, "bold" move ruined everything they gained and chose geeks and tablet users over common folk ?

Well...

Pft, everyone seems to have ruined the latest release of all the UIs. Personally I quite like Unity, but more importantly Ubuntu is a stable & powerful system that requires very little effort to maintain. You can always use apt to get other graphical shells...I have several installed at the minute.

Oh boy...

Let's just say that if things were so easy like you want to think they are, there wouldn't be that much conversions from Ubuntu to other distros or... Windows. Remember, personal, subjective experience isn't by definition universal.

 

[Esotera]

Pft, everyone seems to have ruined the latest release of all the UIs. Personally I quite like Unity, but more importantly Ubuntu is a stable & powerful system that requires very little effort to maintain. You can always use apt to get other graphical shells...I have several installed at the minute.

Oh boy...

Let's just say that if things were so easy like you want to think they are, there wouldn't be that much conversions from Ubuntu to other distros or... Windows. Remember, personal, subjective experience isn't by definition universal.

It deserves the hate it got in the first few months (which is why I temporarily went over to PuppyLinux), but it's a load better now. There's a learning curve, but once you've got keyboard shortcuts set up, I'm finding it much simpler to use than Gnome2 or any traditional UI. Canonical only did this to offer something that other Linux distros can't by default, and as a long-term bet I reckon it'll pay off.

 

[J-Alfred]

Do I have to work for this income, or do I just have a never-ending bank account?

I'd donate to ThatGuyWithTheGlasses, SpoonyExperiment, Wikipedia, and some other sites.

But I'd probably blow most of my infinite cash on myself, to be perfectly honest.

 

[JesterRaiin]

<spoiler=Sorry for offtopic>

Pft, everyone seems to have ruined the latest release of all the UIs. Personally I quite like Unity, but more importantly Ubuntu is a stable & powerful system that requires very little effort to maintain. You can always use apt to get other graphical shells...I have several installed at the minute.

Oh boy...

Let's just say that if things were so easy like you want to think they are, there wouldn't be that much conversions from Ubuntu to other distros or... Windows. Remember, personal, subjective experience isn't by definition universal.

It deserves the hate it got in the first few months (which is why I temporarily went over to PuppyLinux), but it's a load better now. There's a learning curve, but once you've got keyboard shortcuts set up, I'm finding it much simpler to use than Gnome2 or any traditional UI. Canonical only did this to offer something that other Linux distros can't by default, and as a long-term bet I reckon it'll pay off.

What should be an option was chosen to represent the most popular distro "for normal people". Distros that chose this approach are in the minority, unfortunately some of most important players in this sector like Fedora or Mint followed Ubuntu and people lost their interest.

Seriously.
Beginners won't give a f*ck about stability or flexibility if they are repulsed by shell. Professional administrators aren't interested in Ubuntu and similar distros in the first place. Good job. :|

...Aw hell, this is best way to have a flamewar. :|

 

[Darknacht]

I wonder if GamersGate would give me permanent access to their whole catalog for a massive donation. I would have ALL the GAMES.

 

[Esotera]

<spoiler=Sorry for offtopic>

Pft, everyone seems to have ruined the latest release of all the UIs. Personally I quite like Unity, but more importantly Ubuntu is a stable & powerful system that requires very little effort to maintain. You can always use apt to get other graphical shells...I have several installed at the minute.

Oh boy...

Let's just say that if things were so easy like you want to think they are, there wouldn't be that much conversions from Ubuntu to other distros or... Windows. Remember, personal, subjective experience isn't by definition universal.

It deserves the hate it got in the first few months (which is why I temporarily went over to PuppyLinux), but it's a load better now. There's a learning curve, but once you've got keyboard shortcuts set up, I'm finding it much simpler to use than Gnome2 or any traditional UI. Canonical only did this to offer something that other Linux distros can't by default, and as a long-term bet I reckon it'll pay off.

What should be an option was chosen to represent the most popular distro "for normal people". Distros that chose this approach are in the minority, unfortunately some of most important players in this sector like Fedora or Mint followed Ubuntu and people lost their interest.

Seriously.
Beginners won't give a f*ck about stability or flexibility if they are repulsed by shell. Professional administrators aren't interested in Ubuntu and similar distros in the first place. Good job. :|

...Aw hell, this is a best way to have flamewar. :|

While we're at it I prefer nano to vim ^_^ (haven't learnt all the shortcuts yet)

I'd just say try it out again, and you'll be relatively surprised.

OT: if I had a 6th option I'd donate to something completely random, like CarpetRight. Everyone would be completely puzzled & maybe they'd start a philanthropic arm.

 

[vivster]

wikipedia... and right after that google
one would think that google wouldn't need a donation but it has given me so incredibly much in the past years for free i just have to give something back

 

[KorLeonis]

PETA, I want to see what next insane thing they'd do with massive funding...

Terrorism. On an "evil mastermind with a volcano lair" scale.

"Let's say that you've just won a huge lottery," alright, lets. "and now have more money than you actually need," that's a lot even for a hypothetical, but I'm with ya. "and wanted to donate some of your money" Whoa whoa whoa, you just jumped the tracks here, I'm all for hypotheticals, but that's just ridiculous.

Short of starting a website called I'mBuyingMeLotsOfShinyToys.com so I can brag about how much more money I have than everyone else, I don't think any website would be getting my cash.

 

[JesterRaiin]

While we're at it I prefer nano to vim ^_^ (haven't learnt all the shortcuts yet)

I'd just say try it out again, and you'll be relatively surprised.

On monday i'll have to start reinstallation of every Ubuntu based notebook in my second workplace. That's 40+ computers that switch to Windows 7. The management isn't happy with the current development of the Ooboontoo and feel that it's becoming nothing more than what i already said - a toy for geeks and tablet users.

Since more and more mainstream distributions express their willingness to switch to either Unity, G3 or similiar sh*t now or "in the near future", the management thinks it's better to give up on Linux once and for all.

And before you suggest, they aren't interested in KDE, or other shell like LXDE. Less known distribution combining stability with conservative approach to UI like AriOS or Peppermint are out of question too.

It's not about what i like or not, know or not, got used to or not.
I know what i mean. My hate is grounded in reality.


OT : One thing more...
I'd fund those sites that are promoting human rights in conservative Islamic countries. For the sake of all of us, those people need to know the alternatives. :|

 

[Smooth Operator]

Ya Wikipedia would be the first on my list, it is just one of those things that needs to be done well for the sake of humanity.

Since we are on a gaming website let's stay on track:

Spoiler: Second

Next would probably be a game design wiki, where all the features seen sofar in games would get a generous in depth description, possibly partner up with a reliable youtube animator that could provide everything with a the proper presentation.
Since most devs don't seem to remember shit that existed more then 2 years before I find this is very important, even more important for start up devs.

Spoiler: Third

Then I would finance an open source game engine, using all the latest open source projects and buy in some other stuff to bring it all together into a completely modular all platform supporting engine, all tools and licensing would be free.
We would also rope in a bunch of reliable youtube tutorial makers to give the learning curve a proper smoothness.

Spoiler: Fourth

Last would be a low profit Steam competitor platform (let's call it Scream... just a working title), essentially it would do the same stuff but earn only the bare minimum it takes to run and develop:
- light shell, when started it would only show a list of your games so you can start playing immediately, the rest would load in the background (or optionally not)
- the DRM would be completely flexible and designated by developers
- each game would come with a list of known major bugs, also be linked to reliable independent youtube reviewers (we would give them games upfront and they would get lots of money off views)
- any game that earns less then 1 mil would be on the service free of charge, all the big earners would give up about 10% (in case you wonder, Steam takes a 30% cut on everything)
- every month there would be a startup project competition, users would rate the alpha projects indie devs came up with and the winner would receive a hefty sum of money to make it happen, they would also get direct tech support from the engine experts and possibly game design support, only strings attached are a mandatory weekly project update so the community can keep track of what they helped create and it hasto be done at some point
- game trading, trade one game for another with friends (because I know someone will abuse this you can only trade one game once)

 

[spartan231490]

I probably wouldn't. I see no real point to it. I don't really do websites that don't rely on ad revenue

 

[Mr.Mattress]

urealms.com. Just so that way Rob can focus on Animating Unforgotten Realms and that way he can also not have to worry about financial issues.

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