I hope this is the case, as I can barely get steam to work properly under wine. Steam being available on OSX is a huge move to being available for Linux. The majority of the work that needed to be done was changing all the DX calls to OpenGL, now that that's done it shouldn't be too hard to whip up a Linux version of some of the more popular games.

To me it seams obvious that is statistic IS suggesting that the index starts at 0. Because we can choose between ground floor, ground, and floor N and basement. The only option that is missed out is the roof, so I just substituted floor N to mean roof.

Apple's up and coming iPhone will be able to easily compete with the Bold. Hell, with the 25 watt microwave transmitter they are installing it should be able to heat a bowl of noodles in 6 hours. Sadly the battery will only last 5-10 minutes on "iNuk" setting, but Jobs is confident that this will lead to further gains in the smart phone market.

It's bad enough that overzealous law systems stop school from doing their job, but now it looks like schools feel they have the right to invade students privacy (perhaps to save face on a possible lawsuit??)... ah the irony of an institution that teaches the constitution and doesn't feel bound by it. No matter how "good" the intentions of the school, this should NEVER be allowed.

I think I will have each limb ripped off and then my guts spread about. After that I want some exotic tree that's linked to networks of other trees to be planted in my chest. With any luck I'll be able to post crappy responses on Slashdot for thousands of years to come.

It's been my dream to go this way.

Sounds like old new to me!

There is something incredibly belittling about trying to comprehend the vastness that vehicles like that help us explore.

In all my experience of converting people from Windows to Linux, the real n00bies (the ones that tell you things like my computer is to slow to run the internet) aren't the problem, it's the people that think they know what they're doing in windows that are the problem. For example, I've tried converting a few of my kinda tech savvy (as in they know the parts of the computer and could probably put together a desktop) friends by having them dual boot... It was a disaster. They were asking all the questions one would expect: Why can't I run exe's, where's the C drive, why should I unmount disks before I pull them out, ect.

After giving up for a bit I changed the crowd I was trying to "convert" to people that had never conceptualized that Windows isn't the computer that it's just software to help (some would argue) the computer to run. This went over incredibly well. It usually works the same way every time: Person comes up to me, says something like "My computer is really slow, I think myspace gave my a virus ... fix it" I respond "How about I install something called Linux which will fix all your problems". After 10 minutes of helping them understand the basics of computers they're sold. I've done this with at least 5 people and I have had maybe 7 questions in the last 2 years. I check in every once in a while and I hear the same thing "My computer is still fast!", "I haven't had a problem with it", "Why doesn't everyone use Linux?" , "I can't believe I was going to spend 1000 on a new computer" ... the list goes on.

It's my personal hypothesis the less someones knows about computers the better the are to learn to use gnu/Linux because they are already used to being uncomfortable with computers and have no preconceptions of how the interface should look or where the "C" drive should be. So don't worry about the look and feel of the OS, just make sure you explain it's different, and why it's different then you should be fine.

It's been a while, but I seam to remember ford writing A LOT more than just "Mostly Harmless"... but after the editors got to it, that was all that was left.

I don't think this is a strictly "human" trait. My dog doesn't have a problem listening to me over other people calling his name at the same time. Whether he can partake in the utter waste of time called "small talk" is still, however, unknown to me.

Oh god, I have a feeling we're about to find out what every bored slashdot'r (would || can || will) do naked.

That's a good point, but paper isn't stuck in filing cabinets forever. I work a pretty lame job of filing such papers (at least I have a job right?) that have been moved from some company to the one I work for, for 10 year storage and destruction. Day in and day out I sort through 10 kilo plus, boxes of random paper and no one will probably ever care about again.

We've been using consumable paper since the Egyptians first wrote on papyrus. You think a few millennia later we would have something better eh? It may not be perfect ATM, but having a re-usable option is a great step in the right direction IMO.

College students every mourn.

What a waste of time and money. Boredom is completely self defined. One person could be "suffering" from boredom, while the next person who is experiencing the same as the first could be peeing their pants from excitement. How they managed to put a study together baised out of this ambiguity is the only impressive thing here.