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Steam Translation Community Slaving Away 214

An anonymous reader writes "Steam has decided to build a community effort to get its Steam platform and game files translated by the community, but here is the catch: Translators do not get paid. Millions could be saved by Steam by making the community work for free. The article describes basic estimates on how much is saved by Steam in translation costs."

Comment Re:Experienced only? (Score 2) 948

You're right... his statement was too generic.
Projects you did for an ASSIGNMENT should not count, unless it's "Come up with something new and revolutionary" and there's been no suggestions by the prof.
I agree with you... if you're doing an independent study or research project, and it's something you did all by yourself, it counts.

Comment You can't seriously... (Score 1) 13

... be surprised by any of this.

The thug's comment about intelligence is very telling... he's got no ground to stand on, so he attacks the intelligence of the opposing side. Par for the course for ANYONE who's not smart enough to hold a debate but who only feels strongly about a topic. (This holds true for so-called "conservatives" who go after abortion clinics, by the way...)

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Submission + - Dancho Danchev Returns? (blogspot.com)

mgessner writes: Following up on The Strange Disappearance of Danch Danchev, it appears that as of Friday, 21 January 2011, Mr. Danchev is once again posting on his blog. I was alerted through an email that his mailing list sent. There have been three posts since, including the one on 21 January 2011.

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