I bashed wine quite a bit in the past, but I admit that 1.2 is a pretty good release.

I follow the wine project and source code daily,
I have my own patches to fix problems with multiple apps that do not work out of the box,
and I still think there are serious problems with how the project is managed.

But I admit that there is progress, and 1.2 could be a good starting point for people that never really tried wine out in the past.

yeah, I don't like the whole "appease the party" metagame.
The stat increases basically force you into doing it, but I hated every second of it.

But that's not the only thing I disliked about the game.
I had great hopes for it, watched the forums regularly and preordered.

But the "dating sim" aspect, the bland spellcasting (spells too balanced, too similar, too uninteresting compared to the unbalanced but FUN AD&D ones), and excessive huge fights with countless enemies and frustrating camera controls meant that I abandoned it quite soon without finishing it.

very Smarth of me.

I think you are Smarther Than They Are.

I find some of the features interesting, but until these problems are solved, I will not try it out.

https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gotchas

I never rated > 0;
I got either the ogres, or some sort of male or genderless body with tits.

The population is greatly decreased,
and now the odds are greatly increased,
that I may someday get a chance
to kiss your lips.

I thank the Lord each day,
for the Apocalypse.

Folks are mostly disfigured or dead,
but sugar I won't let it go to my head

My Mammas face has dripped down into the dirt,
but I'm still chasing chittlins, whiskey and skirt.

"A programmer who doesn't know C is like a doctor who doesn't know anatomy".

I will remember this; this is a very insightful comment.
Too bad I have no mod points, as I mostly do not bother to login anymore.

Missing the ground is fundamental in learning how to fly

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flying

See 3.

I also bought two OLPC, using the "give one, get one" program,
and gave the one sent to me as a Christmas gift to my nephew.

He used it and is still using it, but the main problem is: it is painfully slow.

The CPU in the XO-1 is an AMD / 433 Mhz and integrated graphics, with 64K Level 1 and 128K Level 2 Cache: I think that it simply cannot keep up with the amount of computation that its software components require.

And I do not think that Python is necessarily to blame here.
I cannot say for sure without profiling, but I think that for most interactive uses the perceived performance problems are not in tight Python logic loops, but in rendering and other basic stuff which mainly happens in C libs.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7951038502689013454

Great news for me, I'll be able to continue using my favorite distribution even in the 64 bit environment. After a brief initial experience with SuSe,
I went with Slack and never looked back.

I am happy of course to see that having a Linux native version is a priority at least for some developers.
Too bad I really don't like Quake-like games, or any FPS.
If only the RPG companies would have Linux in their mind. Like Bioware, which delivered Neverwinter Nights (thanks!), but now turned its back on us with Dragon Age.