huh.

my laptop is old (2003), and i lived off the grid for a while, during which time it was often plugged into a generator that didn't give very a clean (or constant) quality feed. it now lasts for 12 minutes on a "full" charge, and won't even hold that charge for more than 48 hours of being unplugged and off.

having only tried TF2 via wine once about a year ago, i'd be inclined to agree with the AC. i got it running, and semi-playable, but the graphics were a little sluggish and stuttery - even on low settings, with directx adjustments and all the other tweaks recommended on winehq. it was enough of a performance hit to make me resigned to running a dual-boot system.

i'll check out playonlinux though, thanks for the link.

(hopes to god that it works, since my win7rc is expiring, i only own a copy of winXP 32bit, and having an entire second OS solely for the purpose of playing 2 or 3 games is getting old regardless...)

unceremoniously dumped in the woods.

YOU!

i'm willing to bet that she wouldn't describe those 5 minutes as "good."

bas doot

another vote for savage 2.

s2 games is also working on heroes of newerth, a dota clone/fork/somethingorother (currently in beta). it runs (on all low settings) on my pentium m 1.8ghz mobility radeon 9700 old laptop. much nicer on my new desktop, but playable on weaker hardware. in short, s2 games gives me hope for the future of linux gaming.

also:
world of goo (amazing)

http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080510052539217/Games.html
http://whdb.com/2008/top-25-linux-games-for-2008/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_gaming

fork it dude, let's go bowling.

when proselytizing for open source, you might want to avoid comparisons to slave-built structures.

so fox news will still be free, since it clearly MUST be cheap, and they long ago cannibalized their ability to produce good reporting.

"managing flows" unburied a memory of a tampon commercial.

could you at least read the TITLE of the post you're replying to?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=Property&Subcategory=20&Description=&Type=&N=2000190020+1309821317+1301919996&srchInDesc=&MinPrice=&MaxPrice=&PropertyCodeValue=3098%3A21311&PropertyCodeValue=3098%3A21317&PropertyCodeValue=1099%3A17865

yeah, man. the military, police, firefighters, national park/forest system, local parks, judiciary, cia, roads, and schools are a real fuckin' drain. never did me any good; but goddamn, those bourgeois grunts and jarheads sure are living the high life (at the expense of the rest of us) in baghdad and kabul.

generating wealth isn't the only measure of usefulness. i agree with a lot of the other stuff you said, but the part i quoted is downright asinine.

I lasted less than a year in my programming job after college. The work was interesting (I love coding), and I worked with good people for a great company - I just couldn't stand being inside all day, cooped up and sedentary.

I went on to work for a general contractor, eventually working on every phase of projects from estimating/bidding to finish carpentry. Then I worked for the US Forest Service, building and maintaining hiking trails in the frontcountry and deep wilderness (by far the best job I've had work-wise, but I recently left due to my inability to comprehend or deal with the machinations of the ass-backwards bureaucracy).

I am by far the happiest when I'm using my mind and body in tandem, instead of putting one on the backburner, be it body in office, or mind in base grunt work. My only regret? Not staying with the coding just long enough to pay off my student loans, and build up a decent nest egg (I'm still glad I went to college, I just struggle with the debt). My first job out of college paid $65k a year - since then, I've not made more than $22k in a year - but I'm astoundingly happier.