Portal is not an FPS, it's a puzzle game played from a first-person perspective and with traditional FPS controls.

For an FPS without violence, digital paintball comes to mind.

Thanks to the global interpreter lock, you can't have one python hunting more than one rat at a time :(

Or if we're still playing golf:
watch -n 1 date +"%s"

Considering that there's no shipping, no manufacturing and no middle-man, buying games on Steam should be *much* cheaper than buying them retail (they don't even pay for bandwidth, all the big ISPs here host Steam content servers) - and for me, here in Australia, Valve games are much cheaper on Steam. The orange box cost me AU$55 on Steam, when it was AU$100 in stores. It's just the other publishers that screw this up - COD4 was $90 in stores and ... $90 on steam. FAIL. So I bought it for $40 from asia - for the US version, including shipping. Why on earth is it less than half the price to have it shipped to me indirectly than for me to download it at basically no cost to the seller?

It doesn't matter if windows 7 isn't worth upgrading to; Vista was bad enough to be worth actively avoiding - I still get people asking me to install XP on their new laptop that came with Vista. If 7 is good enough that people stop searching for XP I'll consider it a success.

I find it rather amusing that "Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far" is a complete non-story.

The other problem with English audio in anime is that often the voice-acting just plain sucks. Example: Trigun is completely unwatchable with the english audio, because everyone just sounds incredibly annoying. Maybe this is less of an issue for Americans who are used to the accent, but I just find it so grating when everyone in an anime speaks with an American accent and an annoying matter-of-factly tone that I'd rather read the subtitles regardless of the quality of the translation.

But you can use apt-get to install the GNU toolchain...

But you can use the GNU toolchain to build apt-get...

OH GOD I'M SO CONFUSED!

Cut-and-pasting then. It's still a problem (though one that should be solved by the editor, not the language IMHO).

In python 3.0, since range has been replaced with xrange that doesn't actually create the list (it's a generator instead, so it just keeps spitting out the the next number as you iterate over it).

For python2.x the way to do it is

print sum(xrange(101))

Of course, that doesn't matter much with only 100 numbers, but for a few thousand or million it starts to hurt pretty bad.

Tortoise is also popular because it's very good. It's highly polished, easy to use, supports everything you ever want to do with SVN and is well integrated into windows.

It's certainly not just for lazy idiots, it's the way to do SVN on windows, and probably the best free VCS tool for the platform (I've never used any commercial VCS).

No, but anyone who's that interested CAN have one of these in their garage (or on their desk, more likely), and get their design fabbed by these guys fairly cheaply.

Sure, it's not quite as easy as hacking on open source, but hobbyist CPU design is definitely possible. Especially when you consider there ARE open source CPU designs out there.