That's impossible because Al Gore has no rhythm

I understood it as using 1M to gather up groups (unis and such) to gather together and use the joint gathered funding to build the place and get it running.
So yeah, 1M to gather groups together to work on it MIGHT maybe. Get 2 Big Unis with some clout. Or 4 or 5 smaller Unis together to help. But still 1M in comparison to the Ivy League Schools that might actually have some powers to make it happens to mean little to nothing.

Laws can change. Just Bugger the Elected Officials / Local Warlord enough.

Would learn to drive stick.
OR
Sell it for a new Car.
Either way. They can steal and my car any day if they bring it back like that
BUT it's a one out of a million chance. Couldn't of happened to a nicer person.

They y'know could offer services based around the product to generate the needed revenue then improve the product by hiring developers to fix the issues.

Ubuntu is a very nice starting distro to get into the knowledge of Linux. I'm glad they make it work as well as they have (in my experience I had minor issues between 9.04/9.10)
I hope they can find a way to make proper funding and really make improvements to the other flavors (KDE variant Kubuntu being sometimes quite broken)

Oh my... It seems I have been mistaken. Thank you for correcting me (may this statement also apply to sqtrock in addition)

Funny story - true story. You buy the retail box, then upload the Key to Steam and download and install that way. So really once Steam gets some proper Linux support for their games (through testing as mentioned by others by the various means)

As a full time Linux user. I for one welcome the advance of having Steam run on Linux. Since that'll take from the fan boys of not having the gaming abilities. Linux CAN in fact be a all purpose desktop. Just because it's naturally born as a Server OS doesn't mean it can't be brought to the masses at large, just like everything else it takes time.

Which is why I work hard at my bug reports on my desktop and laptop to help get a Linux Desktop to become a reality. I even suggest based on my test bed editing and compiling of tools that are breaking. (in a VM, but still it counts if it's not a hardware direct issue and if the devs aren't complete dicks)

Personally, OpenGL is fairly flexible and it's used already in a lot of engines that span MANY systems (like the Unreal2 and as par rumored but yet released for Linux Unreal3) which both tend to use SDL for Audio and inputs from X11 (which is required for the GUI which comes with most modern Linux Distros) All else fails ask the guys who worked on Unreal2 how they did it in their engine. Or dismantle the Quake3 engine and see how It keeps up since the engine from ID hasn't changed by ID since it's release [others have but I won't get into it] If it's been done by others it sure as hell can be done by Valve. Hire a Small Team of Linux Devs if need be. I'm sure there's more than plenty who'd be willing to take a shot at it. (Hell give me 2 or 3 years and I can have the programming knowledge for just that exercise if Valve is willing to pay me when I have the sufficient knowledge and degree to back it up) And if you're going to only support limited distros, I recommend you hit the big ones first y'know like Ubuntu, RedHat, SuSE and their (if not already) open variants

I would be one of the many Unix based boxes who would and have gladly pay for Steam Games and steam based games if they had support for my OS (which is Linux)

"You think I'm going to sit here and count? or... "X = CowboyNeal"

I'm the last person to stick up for them, but they're just doing what they think is right. Of course I think they should be added on to the list of terrorists. I don't care about their beliefs and I don't agree with their morals and what they do. They teach their children to hate the homosexual which for all we know may be just as natural as skin colour. Extremists in all forms are dangerous. It's where we draw those lines are important. All peoples have the right to believe what ever they want. It's not their right to shove it down my throat and expect me to like it. From my studies Christianity (originally) taught that you have to learn to seperate yourself from the rest of the world to attain "salvation" reading St. Augustine and all that (long before the bible was cannonised). From what I've read. The teachings of Jesus is fine and is a good ethical code, but the entire bible needs to be taken with a massive grain of salt for it to be palpable to me. Theses nut cases have pretty much thrown 90% of Jesus's teachings out. Calling them real Christians is like calling Al-Queda real Muslims. It's offensive to those who actually use their faith in a positive well mannered way. Of course, I'm a mixed bag of beliefs, I think I'm best summed as a Spiritual Humanist, but maybe that because I get what Caul Sagan was saying.

So... Y2K+10 would be more correct?