It there any browser to download that will let us try out WebGL on linux yet?
Would building the changes into epiphany or midori work?
I've also tried firefox's canvas3D, but haven''t gotten that to work yet.
Hopefully the WebGL api will be available from the python plugin in firefox. That would still require a plugin to download, but at least there would be a nice 3D web platform to develop in. (yeah, javascript is ok, but it's not great)

Quake live (and similar apps) require you to download a plugin.

Ideally, webGL will eventually be included in browsers so any webpage could use accelerated GL without requiring you to download a plugin first. (I'm not an expert, this is just what I've gathered so far, corrections are welcome).

That is a good idea. It's not quite the same experience as viewing them on the same display, where both people could point at the same object in the same 3D location in front of them.

I didn't say you were wrong.
The (active) stereo glasses are nice, especially with head tracking. It generally gives a good 3D experience.
The autostereo (no glasses) approach is a good idea, but I haven't heard of great experiences with them yet. They will probably eventually be more useful.

For multiple tracked stereo views, the really good display would need much higher refresh rates and specialized emitters and glasses.
Multiple tracked people seeing their own tracked view would divide the refresh rate in half for each extra person. For example, two persons' view (with 2 stereo eyes each) requires four images. A 120Hz refresh divided by four only appears as 30Hz. Maybe having two views is reasonable, but more than that is not likely (there are limits to eye and glasses refresh rates).

I can just see tomorrow's article about slashdotter road rage victims who took this article's advice. Luckily, if this happens to me, I have a plan to explain the logic in detail to calm the other driver down.

Ok, maybe it's not windows vs linux...

but Linux won!

The believe navit program has this type of more advanced "giving directions" feature (you can probably find more information on the navit website). I haven't tried navit much, since the other GPS apps such as tangogps have been enough for me..

I agree with you, although you have some sort of google account even if you haven't "joined" it.
Your interactions with google are associated with your computer and a google id. I still use google and facebook (although I resisted facebook for a while), but I wouldn't mind if they were both a little less big brother.
Here the first google privacy info I found: Search Privacy at Google

Great, with all these extra resources, they'll be able to get the linux ports like Quake Live done faster!
A win for everyone!

Seriously though, hopefully this turns out the way id planned, and the linux and open source stuff doesn't get canned.

If you act now and pay just $10 million more, you'll also get this giant tape player for free!

Are you saying professional chess players don't prepare for big matches by studying their opponent? (and their opponent's previous games)

I realize that players at that level probably mostly play from a memory of board states, but there are so many possibilities that knowing which ones to focus on let's you analyze the possibilities that are most likely. The unbeatable chess strategy you describe is for a computer with a ton of memory and a fast search capability, not for humans or human-like AI.

Back to the main topic, I think a self-learning system can be much more human-like and smarter, but if the task is simple or restricted enough (checkers, for example), learning may not be needed to win.

That makes sense, but don't forget that new/future things in real life are often "cool", too. Sure there are plenty of advances that are boring, but, for example, when people first got to drive cars, it was probably pretty interesting.

Cool science fiction ideas that are physically possible, may eventually happen.