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Developing for SteamBox is a lot less scary than developing for "Linux".

Linux has even more hardware diversity than Windows, and the added complexity of multiple distributions and competing drivers (e.g. open source vs closed). And fans that will bite your head of if you don't support their favorite choices.

If Valve does it right, the SteamBox will define the baseline for gaming on Linux. Distributions targeted to home users will be sure to include the ABI's used by the SteamBox, and Linux gamers will buy hardware that is "similar, but better" than the SteamBox hardware to maximize the chance their Steam library will work on their PC.

There are advantages for readers as well. Assuming it will work like Google Local, then reviews from people you are connected to will be emphasized, and if you wonder about a specific review you can see a profile of the reviewer. Does he hate all Mexican food places, or only this one?

The direct disadvantages are for the reviewers, who are the ones who loose anonymity.

It mirrors what they did with Google Places, when they changed it to Google Local.

http://www.google.com/places/

Team Fortress 2 is free to play.

Here is a list of Steam games that already have a Linux client: http://steamlinux.flibitijibibo.com/

It seems only a few of those have (yet) been added to Steam. Notable missing are all the id Software (Doom, Quake) games.

Lots of Steam games play well, sometimes even best, with a game controller.

The UI formerly known as Metro also seems that it would work reasonably well, at least better than WIMP, with a controller. Have anyone tried to plug in a controller to Surface, and see if it works?

Not "Apple" but "Apple's poisonous touch". It refers to the touch interface (made popular by Apple), not Apple as a company.

The title matches the article very well, burying whatever substance there might be in innuendo.

That would be around 1 million potential voters out of 235 million total. My suspicion is that attention would shift towards numerically larger special interest groups.

The new politically correct name is "the mujaffa game". You can play it here:

http://www.dr.dk/spil/mujaffa/

The old name is still referred in the title page.

It was both. The view on depictions of Mohammed differ within Islam. Insulting Mohammed on the other hand, it pretty much universally condemned.

Maybe you think of this campaign?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxsMWnK1X7k

The tag line is "there is a lot of stuff women don't understand", and the format is a womans literal visualization of a sport metaphor. In this case, "giving away a goal". The campaign is still running, and considered one of the most successful advertising campaigns in Denmark.

The company behind it is 80% state owned. and 20% owned by the non-profit sport organizations. It used to have a monopoly on gambling. The profit goes to charity.

I would not generalize the Danish peculiar brand of humor to all of Europe. One of the advices to Danes going abroad is "stay away from humor, foreigners don't understand our brand of humor". Same for visitors, they are told "the Danish jokes are not meant as insulting as they sound".

In our own self image, we are so liberal and open minded that we can safely joke about all kind of stereotypes. E.g. Danish state owned children tv has a running gag about how lazy and incompetent Polish workers (our "Mexicans") are. It is probably also no accident that the Mohammed cartoons were made in Denmark. Although that particular incident taught Danes something about how different humor can be viewed in the rest of the world.

Edit: Two more details. 1) Most high profile ad campaigns in Denmark are based on humor. 2) This is the only one I can think of where women are shown as stupid. The common pattern is that the man is being goofy while the sensible woman is buying the advertisers product.

EU seems likely, the European Court of Justice recently ruled that customers have the right to resale on licensed Steam games. The reasoning was basically that a perpetual license equals ownership, and that normal ownership right cannot be limited by the license after the transaction.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-03-eu-rules-publis...

Might want to consider using the unambiguous term kibibyte instead.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte

It is a tradeoff, it avoids the need to explain which definition of kilo is used, at the cost of using a far less common term.

Speaking of the free variants of BSD only, and from my point as an interested bystander: Linus Torvals was a much better community manager than Bill Jolitz.

386BSD was extremely buggy, and Bill Jolitz was dismissive about the community effort to improve it. He appeared from his Usenet posts to be in some kind of emotional pain. Without a natural leader, the community fragmented. One group made a "patchkit" to collect fixes to the official distribution. Another group cut ties, making their own distribution (NetBSD). Eventually the patchkit group also got fed up with Bill Jolitz lack of cooperation, and released the patchkit version as FreeBSD.

Meanwhile, the Linux people seemed to have fun. Linux was even more buggy and far less featureful, but was improving fast from the collective effort of the community. Sometimes they made (for an old Unix person) atrocities like "color-ls". And their willingness to diverge from old Unix paradigms did make their software more convenient. color-ls is actually kind of useful.

The Linux developers seemed to consist of college kids being enthusiastic about a hobby they all loved. The BSD developers seemed to be hard working software professionals, making great personal sacrifices for a BSD cause. The first group was simply more fun to be around, so the community grew faster, especially among college students.

When the college students graduated, they took Linux with them to their new jobs.

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Come to think of it, it actually mirrors the early BSD vs SysV UNIX cultural divide. Or even early Unix vs pre-Unix OS's.

The dark, heavy furniture looks like what (Danish) furniture shops make for the US market, very different from the open, light, and minimalistic Scandinavian (mostly Swedish) design school used for products made for the home market. You know the design from IKEA, but there exists much more expensive (and somewhat higher quality) products.

My first reaction was that this might be a deliberate provocation against what would be considered good taste in Sweden.

35M * 4.36% / 1000 = 1526

The first "Humble Bundle" got approximately 20000 Linux purchases. I'd imagine Steam would get significantly more than that at release.

Columnists have always had the liberty to write stuff that doesn't reflect on the newspaper, often stuff that goes contrary to the official stance of the newspaper. This is not something new.

I guess what is new is that newspapers have been marginalized to a degree that otherwise well educated people no longer necessarily know the editorial conventions that govern them.

Only personal story and dungeons are instantiated.

The open world is shared, and very collaborative.

He was also a Linux user in 1998.

The main difference seems to be that he now uses Google Docs instead of Microsoft Office, and thus spends more time in the browser.

Danes. It is used by the government electronic id system (nemid), and is the only way to e.g. make corrections to your tax returns (they are by default filled by the tax authority). Most government and many private (e.g. banks) institutions use it.

https://www.nemid.nu/om_nemid/about_nemid/

The blog post is from the Google Apps team. Their customers are people who pay them money for using, among other stuff, Google Calendar.

Presuming it is the same as Google Ads:

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/onweb/

US. UK. Sweden. It is really hard to come up with countries where the government has been stable "for a couple of centuries".

YouTube on Linux without flash works fine these days.

You mean smartphone. My old Nokia 1200 did have two weeks battery time.

Assembler is so liberal that you have to be deeply conservative in order to write code for it.

The article isn't about guns[1], but about evaluation of risks.

[1] Or if it is, I totally missed the point.

I did notice that the proposed "Purely Digital" interface included icons representing an old style phone handle (which younger customers probably haven't seen), a physical letter (increasingly rare), and a paper wall calendar.

I had to change ".es" to ".com" in all those links to get anything.

On the other hand, the only region where Chrome is not leading MSIE, is North America.

In Europe, Chrome has a small lead. In Asia, a medium lead. In South America, a large lead. In Africa, both are dwarfed by Firefox.

One possible unfounded speculation would be that it is connected to the age of the widespread adoption of the Internet. In North America, most users have likely been on the net for a long time and therefore use older, more established technology. In India, Internet access is likely a new thing to many people (and businesses), and they are therefore less "invested" in older programs.