Valve's Steam & Games coming to Linux->
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Phoronix has confirmation of a GNU/Linux Steam Client-> 1
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Comment: Re:Daisey's Response (Score 1) 332
Listen to the TAL followup story. He admitted, eventually, that he lied. Except that he seems to be physically incapable of saying the word "lie," instead trying to weave a web of bullshit about there being different levels of truth, and that his version was (to paraphrase) "stage true" vs. "true in the traditional sense." Ira Flatow even told him that that was not a normal viewpoint when it comes to whether something is true or not, and he just hemmed and hawed. If that's not the definition of a pathological liar, I don't know what is.
Comment: Re:Refreshing (Score 4, Interesting) 326
"At that point, we should've killed the story," says Ira Glass, Executive Producer and Host of This
American Life. "But other things Daisey told us about Apple's operations in China checked out, and we
saw no reason to doubt him. We didn't think that he was lying to us and to audiences about the details of his
story. That was a mistake."
That sounds like, "We got it wrong," to me.
Comment: Re:Do they support much older Linux? (Score 1) 113
Minimum requirements: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/295.20/README/minimumrequirements.html
[sorry for the poor formatting]
Software Element Supported versions Check With...
Linux kernel 2.4.7 and newer cat
XFree86* 4.0.1 and newer XFree86 -version
X.Org* 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12 Xorg -version
Kernel modutils 2.1.121 and newer insmod --version
glibc 2.0 ls
* It is only required that you have one of XFree86 or X.Org, not both. Sometimes very recent versions are not supported immediately following release, but we aim to support all new versions as soon as possible.
binutils 2.9.5 size --version
GNU make 3.77 make --version
gcc 2.91.66 gcc --version
Comment: Let me elaborate on that (Score 0) 125
Don't do it.
Really, just don't do it, please!
Comment: There are DisplayPort-to-* converters (Score 4, Informative) 704
DisplayPort can be converted to HDMI or single-link DVI with a cheap, passive adapter.
You can also convert it to VGA or dual-link DVI using active adapters (they show up to the computer as DisplayPort devices).
Comment: Isn't it a "Windows Phone 7 phone"? (Score 1) 349
The name of the OS is "Windows Phone 7", so this is a "Windows Phone 7 phone", not a "Windows 7 phone". This is is the sort of dumb naming that leads to things like, "Plug your monitor into the DisplayPort port," or "point your web browser at http://slashdot.org/".
Comment: Re:What am I missing here... (Score 4, Insightful) 166
Part of it is that it's hard to actually make anything using in-game redstone wiring, in the same way that it would be tricky but nerdily rewarding to make a 16-bit ALU using discrete transistors and wires on a breadboard. It also requires digging around in interesting and often surprising environments to actually *get* the redstone to make this stuff, so it's makes a good time sink for addictive personalities. It's pretty different from writing a mod for a game in some scripting language.