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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Developing for SteamBox is a lot less scary than developing for "Linux". Linux has even more hardware diversity than Windows, and the added complexity of multiple distributions and competing drivers (e.g. open source vs closed). And fans t
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There are advantages for readers as well. Assuming it will work like Google Local, then reviews from people you are connected to will be emphasized, and if you wonder about a specific review you can see a profile of the reviewer. Does he ha
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
It mirrors what they did with Google Places, when they changed it to Google Local. http://www.google.com/places/
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Team Fortress 2 is free to play.
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Here is a list of Steam games that already have a Linux client: http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com/ It seems only a few of those have (yet) been added to Steam. Notable missing are all the id Software (Doom, Quake) games.
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Lots of Steam games play well, sometimes even best, with a game controller. The UI formerly known as Metro also seems that it would work reasonably well, at least better than WIMP, with a controller. Have anyone tried to plug in a controlle
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
Not "Apple" but "Apple's poisonous touch". It refers to the touch interface (made popular by Apple), not Apple as a company. The title matches the article very well, burying whatever substance there might be in innuendo.
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That would be around 1 million potential voters out of 235 million total. My suspicion is that attention would shift towards numerically larger special interest groups.
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The new politically correct name is "the mujaffa game". You can play it here: http://www.dr.dk/spil/mujaffa/ The old name is still referred in the title page.
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It was both. The view on depictions of Mohammed differ within Islam. Insulting Mohammed on the other hand, it pretty much universally condemned.
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Maybe you think of this campaign? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxsMWnK1X7k The tag line is "there is a lot of stuff women don't understand", and the format is a womans literal visualization of a sport metaphor. In this case, "giving awa
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EU seems likely, the European Court of Justice recently ruled that customers have the right to resale on licensed Steam games. The reasoning was basically that a perpetual license equals ownership, and that normal ownership right cannot be
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Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte It is a tradeoff, it avoids the need to explain which definition of kilo is used, at the cost of using a far less common term.
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Speaking of the free variants of BSD only, and from my point as an interested bystander: Linus Torvals was a much better community manager than Bill Jolitz. 386BSD was extremely buggy, and Bill Jolitz was dismissive about the community effo
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The dark, heavy furniture looks like what (Danish) furniture shops make for the US market, very different from the open, light, and minimalistic Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) design school used for products made for the home market. You kn
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by abrahamsen 14y ago
35M * 4.36% / 1000 = 1526 The first "Humble Bundle" got approximately 20000 Linux purchases. I'd imagine Steam would get significantly more than that at release.
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Columnists have always had the liberty to write stuff that doesn't reflect on the newspaper, often stuff that goes contrary to the official stance of the newspaper. This is not something new. I guess what is new is that newspapers have been
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Only personal story and dungeons are instantiated. The open world is shared, and very collaborative.
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He was also a Linux user in 1998. The main difference seems to be that he now uses Google Docs instead of Microsoft Office, and thus spends more time in the browser.
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Danes. It is used by the government electronic id system (nemid), and is the only way to e.g. make corrections to your tax returns (they are by default filled by the tax authority). Most government and many private (e.g. banks) institutions
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The blog post is from the Google Apps team. Their customers are people who pay them money for using, among other stuff, Google Calendar.
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Presuming it is the same as Google Ads: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/onweb/
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US. UK. Sweden. It is really hard to come up with countries where the government has been stable "for a couple of centuries".
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YouTube on Linux without flash works fine these days.
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You mean smartphone. My old Nokia 1200 did have two weeks battery time.
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Assembler is so liberal that you have to be deeply conservative in order to write code for it.
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The article isn't about guns[1], but about evaluation of risks. [1] Or if it is, I totally missed the point.
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I did notice that the proposed "Purely Digital" interface included icons representing an old style phone handle (which younger customers probably haven't seen), a physical letter (increasingly rare), and a paper wall calendar.
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I had to change ".es" to ".com" in all those links to get anything.
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On the other hand, the only region where Chrome is not leading MSIE, is North America. In Europe, Chrome has a small lead. In Asia, a medium lead. In South America, a large lead. In Africa, both are dwarfed by Firefox. One possible unfoun

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