But I've been to two Legolands, and I knew better than to even consider applying.
Let me give you some background: an entire room of my domicile is devoted to Lego. (Well, it's a walk-in closet, but it's a big walk-in closet...) Just my unsorted Lego fills 50 gallons of storage tubs, plus some. Sorted, I have organizers with well over five hundred small drawers of little parts, so I can always find what I need. I'm pretty ridiculous when it comes to Lego. I can build some pretty cool stuff.
But after going to Legoland in Windsor, I realized the master builders are so out of my league it ain't even a contest. I'm not worthy to carry these guys' baseplates. The stuff these people do is mind-boggling. Stunning. Amazing.
Every self-respecting geek may know about it, but almost all of us are gonna have to settle for ooohing and aaaahing at whoever does get the job and the spectacular stuff this person can build.
Can someone who has owned an IBM Microdrive comment on the reliability of ultra-small hard drives such as these?
I do own one. I've had good luck with mine-- even when I was using it in places I shouldn't. (technically, the weather station at Jungfraujoch is too far up to use a microdrive safely.) I'm probably not nearly as polite to my camera as I ought to be, though I know this and it lives on a lanyard instead of plummetting all the way to the ground.
But the thing that really drove it home was the story of professional photographer Bill Biggart. He didn't survive the collapse of one of the buildings of the World Trade Center. A picture of his Canon SLR digital was on the cover of... Digital Photography Magazine, if I recall correctly. It looked about what you'd expect a camera would look like after being in that situation.
The article in the magazine featured photographs taken with that camera-- the Microdrive survived.
Erm, why? Linux isn't a company. If Linux stopped growing, there'd still be thousands of developers and testers working on it. Cringely evidently doesn't understand the whole ethos behind the free software world; his comment is ridiculous.
Or perhaps not? Seems every three minutes, someone comes out with yet another piece of hardware that doesn't talk the same way as the last one. So Linux needs to expand to include device drivers for those things (grow), or people will quit using it, 'cause it don't run on their machines (die).
Ridiculous? Or should we be saluting Captain Obvious?
...none of the ESA's member nations use Imperial measurements for much of anything other than selling beer anymore, so there's no conversions for them to screw up.
I'm very surprised by the posters that say the Wright's flight was better publicized, because in fact the Wrights played their cards so close to the chest that, at the time, relatively few people heard of their flight.
I'm not so sure I believe this. Man's first powered flight was from Kill Devil Hill, NC. That's a small town in the Outer Banks.
Why does everyone say Kitty Hawk? That's where the closest telegraph office was to transmit the story back to the newspapers. All the newspapers carried a by-line saying Kitty Hawk.
I can't see why someone "playing close to the vest" would have newspaper reporters on-site to watch the thing, y'know?
...is that a Microdrive, which I believe is what they're referring to by "1 inch" hard disk drive is too large for cellphones, according to the article, but somehow, this.85 inch one isn't. That's not a huge difference in platter size. Is the associated electronic equipment in this one notably smaller? The article doesn't say, but that's the only thing I can think of--.15 of an inch (that's shy of four millimeters for y'all metric folks) doesn't seem like it would be a deal-breaker.
Not that it really matters to me. As long as my phone has a vibrate mode, I don't think I want a hard disk in it...
It is telling that the system was developed at the behest of one of the worst brewers on the planet... The system needs to be warmed up by a good ten degrees (farenheit) so we can taste out beer.
So what you're saying is that the beer sucks, but you want it poured at a higher temperature so you can taste it sucking?
Number one would have to be Outpost, by Sierra. I'd been playing Civilization, and one of the ways to beat Civ was by colonizing Alpha Centauri. So when Outpost came out, which looked like Civ in Space, I thought it'd rock!
It sucked rocks. I got the rock part right, at least.
Another huge disappointment, and one I'm glad I didn't buy, was The Tick for the SNES. Sure enough, instead of a game needing a theme, it was a theme needing a game. The gameplay was boring even for a sidescroller, and the most interesting parts were when the game locked up. And it's not like they can release a patch for a console cartridge.
A relatively recent disappointment was Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. I loved the old SSI Gold Box games, this one touted itself as being a modern version of one of those. Pain... suffering. Fortunately, Neverwinter wasn't too far around the corner...
You are never going to be able to take that many pic's without changing batteries so why not have a couple of cheaper 1GB cards and swap em out with the batteries? 1GB CF cards are as cheap as $228 you are paying a more than 50% premium for the denser storage.
Won't I? I already can almost fill my 1GB microdrive using just one BP-511 battery pack on my Canon G1.
The new SLR Canon cameras have an optional side-grip that holds two more BP-511s. And they're shooting much larger images. And when you're a professional (or semi-professional), which is what this product is aimed at, you're probably not shooting.jpg anymore. Plus, since this thing is CF and not a Microdrive, it sucks less power, as well. I'd bet you can darned near fill one of these things easily.
Add in the fact that this thing has some new technology write-to-it-faster-stuff, and there's plenty of reason for this product to exist.
After a game of risk the winner can not safely say they are strategically superior to the losers. In a game of Puerto Rico there is no doubt who is a better person.
I'm not entirely convinced of that. I have played three games of Puerto Rico.
I have won three games of Puerto Rico.
I still have no bloody clue how strategy is supposed to work in that game. I can only guess I've been living by the "If I don't know what I'm doing, neither can you" rule. And it's not like I'm playing a bunch of noobs.
Admittedly, Puerto Rico is a much better game from pretty much any game design standpoint than Risk will ever hope to be (note, I still enjoy a game of Risk now and again), but I'm not sure it's the be-all and end-all.
Movie studios like to tie in the DVD release with something else, since it ramps up the hype for both things. So the DVD for The Phantom Menace came out not long before Attack of the Clones in the theater; the DVD for Harry Potter and the [Philosopher's|Sorceror's] Stone not long before the second Harry Potter movie.
Keep the hype up, and you'll sell more of both. And with the short release cycles of movies these days (also intended to keep the hype up...), you can release a movie, release the DVD while people are still thinking about the movie, so increase sales, and then release the next movie while they're still geeked on having just watched the DVD.
If not, go to a website selling a new car. Lots of jibber jabber about power telescoping steering columns, intermitent windshield wipers, ABS, Limited Slip, 5.7 Liter V8, Sequential Fuel Injection, F55 Magnetic Selective Ride Control, Fully independent suspension with transverse springs, front P245/45ZR-17, rear P275/40ZR-18, 18 gallon tank, 6.5 quarts oil, 11.5 quarts antifreeze, 16.1:1 steering ratio, 2.66 turns lock-to-lock, 39.4 foot turning diameter curb-to-curb, 22.6 sq inch gross lining on brakes (front), engine with 5655 cc, 375 pound-feet of torque at 4400 RPM manual, 6000 RPM redline, 10.1:1 compression ratio, a firing order of 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3, head gasket thickness of 1.33mm, Bore x Stroke = 3.9 x 3.62 in, 19mpg city.
Though, in this case, you've gone out of your way to try to confuse people-- you note, for example, "5.7L V8", then "engine with 5655 CC", then bore-and-stroke figures with firing order, which is three instances of what boils down to the same information.
On the other hand, you have hit one of the nails on the head-- nobody cares about things like "6.5 quarts oil" and "11.5 quarts antifreeze" but we put crap like that on spec sheets all the time. It doesn't matter, but it fills space, looks technical...
Of course, I know you're not selling cars; you mentioned torque but not horsepower. You can't expect to sell a car without mentioning horsepower, people want to say "I have 345 horsepower!" People don't know what torque is, so even though it can have much more of an effect on the performance of the vehicle, nobody mentions it-- and the car market is once again doing what AMD's accusing the high-tech sector of doing. "I have 3.06 gigahertz!"
I'll use something much closer to Consumer Reports.
The tech sector could probably use something like this-- I've griped often about Consumer Reports, as they basically ignore all other factors of a car other than "How much like a 1990 Toyota Camry is it?" and, frankly, some people, when they buy a computer or a DVD player only need a Toyota Camry.
Bonus points to whomever can figure out what car I (arbitrarily) chose...
Smells like a Chevy Corvette to me. I wonder when they switched the firing order from 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2?
If I place my hand on the device in front of me, and I move my hand to the left, the car goes to the left. If I move my hand to the right, my car goes to the right.
There's a set of gestures I can make with my other hand to select something called a "gear". And the motion recognition even watches my feet, too!
-JDF
I spent six weeks in Europe a couple years ago...
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...and brought along my Canon G1 camera.
I brought back six gig of pictures-- but I didn't bring a laptop. I built a storage brick out of my iPaq: http://www.tjotala.com/hardware/storagebrick/
I didn't have to worry about crunching a large laptop screen (a PDA seems to be easier to pack safely), and the laptop was also good for listening to tunes and jotting notes on.
And so instead I used cybercafes to waste my evenings without worrying about digital cameras and such. Some folks go out drinking in bars, I hit cybercafes. And since I didn't have to worry about anything else, my cybercafe travel kit consisted of:
Local currency
Caffeine withdrawal
The local word for "coffee".
It worked well for me. I highly recommend it. While I didn't get to put my pictures online instantly this way, I figured it was probably better not to-- I only get so much time on vacation. I should probably spend it being on vacation...
My mom, about a decade ago, took a class on Word Perfect. She learned what all those F-keys do, which is really useful since nobody seems to use Word Perfect anymore Alas, she brought home one piece of information that is useful for pretty much anything having to do with computers, and only one such piece of information:
"Read the whole screen".
I never realized how much stuff I just scan through when I do something on a computer. Like, when you're installing something, it may note "This action will consume 100 megabytes of space on your hard disk drive and will take a few minutes. Continue? [Back] [OK]": My mother will specifically read the entire thing. She'll ponder on that hundred megabytes. She'll consider whether or not a storm is likely to show up in a few minutes. And as you know, no dialog box ever has that little text in it.
I see "100 meg", "few minutes", instantly click [OK] and wander off for another Coke.
My mother reads EULAs.
I click [I Agree] while crossing my fingers with the other hand.
And as such, it drives one or the other of us bonkers if I ever have to show Mom how to do something on the computer. Either she's frustrated 'cause she's not sure what's going on, even though I try to slow down, or I'm about to pull my hair out wondering why she just doesn't click something, ANYTHING, DAMMIT!!
Ahem.
Anyhow, whether or not Linux is ready for Mom, I'm not ready to try to teach Mom Linux.
From your post, it's obvious to me that you know nothing about this, and the only reason I'm replying is because it pains me to see such an uninformed post sitting at +5.
Actually, I was speaking as someone who played the Windows version for a few months and played through everything that looked interesting-- I particularly liked the first part of Witch's Wake, for example-- but, in typical short-attention-span gamer fashion I gave up on waiting for something else and moved to another timesink.
It is certainly possible that I'm the only one, but from what I've seen of the gamer community, we all tend to move on to another game after some period of time. Probably good for the game industry-- if we were all still playing Fallout they'd've never bothered to make Neverwinter Nights, it wouldn't sell. Not that we'd be playing Fallout; we'd still be playing Bard's Tale I... My point that I probably didn't make clear enough was that this tendency is exactly why more effort should be made to release the Mac or Linux versions of a game at the same time as everything else.
One of the great things about Neverwinter Nights was being able to play with a bunch of random folks on the Net.
With the Linux and Mac versions being so late, there's probably not nearly as many people still playing it now as there were, say, a year ago. Everyone playing the Windows version has played through the whole boxed module, plus a half dozen of the better fan-created modules.
The Linux gamers finally get the game, but they get a vastly diminished community. Contrast to, say, Enemy Territory, where all the Windows and Linux people are happily fragging each other and have been since even before the actual release.
I'm not sure anyone really cares that they're interfacing with Linux people or interfacing with Windows people, but having more people in the community playing the game can only make for better gaming.
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I have responded to all of the spam in my inbox over the past few years.
I have four thousand, two hundred and fifteen higher education degrees.
Sir Edmund Hillary wants to climb my boobs.
And between all the penis enlargement and viagra spam, I'm so long and perpetually hard that NASA wants to use my dong as a space elevator.
-JDF
...I've just been using my binoculars.
"Landmine spotted, check your command map."
I didn't even notice a "gardner" class in the limbo screen...
-JDF
But I've been to two Legolands, and I knew better than to even consider applying.
Let me give you some background: an entire room of my domicile is devoted to Lego. (Well, it's a walk-in closet, but it's a big walk-in closet...) Just my unsorted Lego fills 50 gallons of storage tubs, plus some. Sorted, I have organizers with well over five hundred small drawers of little parts, so I can always find what I need. I'm pretty ridiculous when it comes to Lego. I can build some pretty cool stuff.
But after going to Legoland in Windsor, I realized the master builders are so out of my league it ain't even a contest. I'm not worthy to carry these guys' baseplates. The stuff these people do is mind-boggling. Stunning. Amazing.
Every self-respecting geek may know about it, but almost all of us are gonna have to settle for ooohing and aaaahing at whoever does get the job and the spectacular stuff this person can build.
Can someone who has owned an IBM Microdrive comment on the reliability of ultra-small hard drives such as these?
I do own one. I've had good luck with mine-- even when I was using it in places I shouldn't. (technically, the weather station at Jungfraujoch is too far up to use a microdrive safely.) I'm probably not nearly as polite to my camera as I ought to be, though I know this and it lives on a lanyard instead of plummetting all the way to the ground.
But the thing that really drove it home was the story of professional photographer Bill Biggart. He didn't survive the collapse of one of the buildings of the World Trade Center. A picture of his Canon SLR digital was on the cover of... Digital Photography Magazine, if I recall correctly. It looked about what you'd expect a camera would look like after being in that situation.
The article in the magazine featured photographs taken with that camera-- the Microdrive survived.
-JDF
With the wages they get paid in Bangalore, a computer professional there can't afford a house, either.
"Linux has to grow or die"
Erm, why? Linux isn't a company. If Linux stopped growing, there'd still be thousands of developers and testers working on it. Cringely evidently doesn't understand the whole ethos behind the free software world; his comment is ridiculous.
Or perhaps not? Seems every three minutes, someone comes out with yet another piece of hardware that doesn't talk the same way as the last one. So Linux needs to expand to include device drivers for those things (grow), or people will quit using it, 'cause it don't run on their machines (die).
Ridiculous? Or should we be saluting Captain Obvious?
-JDF
...none of the ESA's member nations use Imperial measurements for much of anything other than selling beer anymore, so there's no conversions for them to screw up.
I'm very surprised by the posters that say the Wright's flight was better publicized, because in fact the Wrights played their cards so close to the chest that, at the time, relatively few people heard of their flight.
I'm not so sure I believe this. Man's first powered flight was from Kill Devil Hill, NC. That's a small town in the Outer Banks.
Why does everyone say Kitty Hawk? That's where the closest telegraph office was to transmit the story back to the newspapers. All the newspapers carried a by-line saying Kitty Hawk.
I can't see why someone "playing close to the vest" would have newspaper reporters on-site to watch the thing, y'know?
...is that a Microdrive, which I believe is what they're referring to by "1 inch" hard disk drive is too large for cellphones, according to the article, but somehow, this .85 inch one isn't. That's not a huge difference in platter size. Is the associated electronic equipment in this one notably smaller? The article doesn't say, but that's the only thing I can think of-- .15 of an inch (that's shy of four millimeters for y'all metric folks) doesn't seem like it would be a deal-breaker.
Not that it really matters to me. As long as my phone has a vibrate mode, I don't think I want a hard disk in it...
...is nothing; it's really kinda cool that there are that many.
1430 of them being unsecured, that bothers the heck out of me.
-JDF
Sure enough, last night, my internet connection went out, so I went to go read the article, which I'd thoughtfully bookmarked just in case...
They also say men are paid more than women for the same job, overall. And as a general rule, women are shorter than men.
I wonder if height is part of the cause or part of the effect...
It is telling that the system was developed at the behest of one of the worst brewers on the planet... The system needs to be warmed up by a good ten degrees (farenheit) so we can taste out beer.
So what you're saying is that the beer sucks, but you want it poured at a higher temperature so you can taste it sucking?
Number one would have to be Outpost, by Sierra. I'd been playing Civilization, and one of the ways to beat Civ was by colonizing Alpha Centauri. So when Outpost came out, which looked like Civ in Space, I thought it'd rock!
It sucked rocks. I got the rock part right, at least.
Another huge disappointment, and one I'm glad I didn't buy, was The Tick for the SNES. Sure enough, instead of a game needing a theme, it was a theme needing a game. The gameplay was boring even for a sidescroller, and the most interesting parts were when the game locked up. And it's not like they can release a patch for a console cartridge.
A relatively recent disappointment was Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor. I loved the old SSI Gold Box games, this one touted itself as being a modern version of one of those. Pain... suffering. Fortunately, Neverwinter wasn't too far around the corner...
You are never going to be able to take that many pic's without changing batteries so why not have a couple of cheaper 1GB cards and swap em out with the batteries? 1GB CF cards are as cheap as $228 you are paying a more than 50% premium for the denser storage.
.jpg anymore. Plus, since this thing is CF and not a Microdrive, it sucks less power, as well. I'd bet you can darned near fill one of these things easily.
Won't I? I already can almost fill my 1GB microdrive using just one BP-511 battery pack on my Canon G1.
The new SLR Canon cameras have an optional side-grip that holds two more BP-511s. And they're shooting much larger images. And when you're a professional (or semi-professional), which is what this product is aimed at, you're probably not shooting
Add in the fact that this thing has some new technology write-to-it-faster-stuff, and there's plenty of reason for this product to exist.
-JDF
After a game of risk the winner can not safely say they are strategically superior to the losers. In a game of Puerto Rico there is no doubt who is a better person.
I'm not entirely convinced of that. I have played three games of Puerto Rico.
I have won three games of Puerto Rico.
I still have no bloody clue how strategy is supposed to work in that game. I can only guess I've been living by the "If I don't know what I'm doing, neither can you" rule. And it's not like I'm playing a bunch of noobs.
Admittedly, Puerto Rico is a much better game from pretty much any game design standpoint than Risk will ever hope to be (note, I still enjoy a game of Risk now and again), but I'm not sure it's the be-all and end-all.
-JDF
Movie studios like to tie in the DVD release with something else, since it ramps up the hype for both things. So the DVD for The Phantom Menace came out not long before Attack of the Clones in the theater; the DVD for Harry Potter and the [Philosopher's|Sorceror's] Stone not long before the second Harry Potter movie.
Keep the hype up, and you'll sell more of both. And with the short release cycles of movies these days (also intended to keep the hype up...), you can release a movie, release the DVD while people are still thinking about the movie, so increase sales, and then release the next movie while they're still geeked on having just watched the DVD.
-JDF
I agree completely. All the Reagan and GHW Bush naming ceremonies seem a little premature and tactless.
Fortunately, tactless is a non-partisan thing, since the other day I drove on both Jimmy Carter Boulevard and the Cynthia McKinney freeway...
-JDF
If not, go to a website selling a new car. Lots of jibber jabber about power telescoping steering columns, intermitent windshield wipers, ABS, Limited Slip, 5.7 Liter V8, Sequential Fuel Injection, F55 Magnetic Selective Ride Control, Fully independent suspension with transverse springs, front P245/45ZR-17, rear P275/40ZR-18, 18 gallon tank, 6.5 quarts oil, 11.5 quarts antifreeze, 16.1:1 steering ratio, 2.66 turns lock-to-lock, 39.4 foot turning diameter curb-to-curb, 22.6 sq inch gross lining on brakes (front), engine with 5655 cc, 375 pound-feet of torque at 4400 RPM manual, 6000 RPM redline, 10.1:1 compression ratio, a firing order of 1-8-7-2-6-5-4-3, head gasket thickness of 1.33mm, Bore x Stroke = 3.9 x 3.62 in, 19mpg city.
Though, in this case, you've gone out of your way to try to confuse people-- you note, for example, "5.7L V8", then "engine with 5655 CC", then bore-and-stroke figures with firing order, which is three instances of what boils down to the same information.
On the other hand, you have hit one of the nails on the head-- nobody cares about things like "6.5 quarts oil" and "11.5 quarts antifreeze" but we put crap like that on spec sheets all the time. It doesn't matter, but it fills space, looks technical...
Of course, I know you're not selling cars; you mentioned torque but not horsepower. You can't expect to sell a car without mentioning horsepower, people want to say "I have 345 horsepower!" People don't know what torque is, so even though it can have much more of an effect on the performance of the vehicle, nobody mentions it-- and the car market is once again doing what AMD's accusing the high-tech sector of doing. "I have 3.06 gigahertz!"
I'll use something much closer to Consumer Reports.
The tech sector could probably use something like this-- I've griped often about Consumer Reports, as they basically ignore all other factors of a car other than "How much like a 1990 Toyota Camry is it?" and, frankly, some people, when they buy a computer or a DVD player only need a Toyota Camry.
Bonus points to whomever can figure out what car I (arbitrarily) chose...
Smells like a Chevy Corvette to me. I wonder when they switched the firing order from 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2?
-JDF
I already have this.
If I place my hand on the device in front of me,
and I move my hand to the left, the car goes to the left. If I move my hand to the right, my car goes to the right.
There's a set of gestures I can make with my other hand to select something called a "gear". And the motion recognition even watches my feet, too!
-JDF
I brought back six gig of pictures-- but I didn't bring a laptop. I built a storage brick out of my iPaq: http://www.tjotala.com/hardware/storagebrick/
I didn't have to worry about crunching a large laptop screen (a PDA seems to be easier to pack safely), and the laptop was also good for listening to tunes and jotting notes on.
And so instead I used cybercafes to waste my evenings without worrying about digital cameras and such. Some folks go out drinking in bars, I hit cybercafes. And since I didn't have to worry about anything else, my cybercafe travel kit consisted of:
It worked well for me. I highly recommend it. While I didn't get to put my pictures online instantly this way, I figured it was probably better not to-- I only get so much time on vacation. I should probably spend it being on vacation...
On the one hand, if Microsoft doesn't want to sell their product with Sun's Java, I don't think they should have to.
On the other hand, if they're gonna include something and call it Java, it should damned well BE Java.
-JDF
his patience is to be commended.
My mom, about a decade ago, took a class on Word Perfect. She learned what all those F-keys do, which is really useful since nobody seems to use Word Perfect anymore Alas, she brought home one piece of information that is useful for pretty much anything having to do with computers, and only one such piece of information:
"Read the whole screen".
I never realized how much stuff I just scan through when I do something on a computer. Like, when you're installing something, it may note "This action will consume 100 megabytes of space on your hard disk drive and will take a few minutes. Continue? [Back] [OK]": My mother will specifically read the entire thing. She'll ponder on that hundred megabytes. She'll consider whether or not a storm is likely to show up in a few minutes. And as you know, no dialog box ever has that little text in it.
I see "100 meg", "few minutes", instantly click [OK] and wander off for another Coke.
My mother reads EULAs.
I click [I Agree] while crossing my fingers with the other hand.
And as such, it drives one or the other of us bonkers if I ever have to show Mom how to do something on the computer. Either she's frustrated 'cause she's not sure what's going on, even though I try to slow down, or I'm about to pull my hair out wondering why she just doesn't click something, ANYTHING, DAMMIT!!
Ahem.
Anyhow, whether or not Linux is ready for Mom, I'm not ready to try to teach Mom Linux.
-JDF
From your post, it's obvious to me that you know nothing about this, and the only reason I'm replying is because it pains me to see such an uninformed post sitting at +5.
Actually, I was speaking as someone who played the Windows version for a few months and played through everything that looked interesting-- I particularly liked the first part of Witch's Wake, for example-- but, in typical short-attention-span gamer fashion I gave up on waiting for something else and moved to another timesink.
It is certainly possible that I'm the only one, but from what I've seen of the gamer community, we all tend to move on to another game after some period of time. Probably good for the game industry-- if we were all still playing Fallout they'd've never bothered to make Neverwinter Nights, it wouldn't sell. Not that we'd be playing Fallout; we'd still be playing Bard's Tale I... My point that I probably didn't make clear enough was that this tendency is exactly why more effort should be made to release the Mac or Linux versions of a game at the same time as everything else.
-JDF
One of the great things about Neverwinter Nights was being able to play with a bunch of random folks on the Net.
With the Linux and Mac versions being so late, there's probably not nearly as many people still playing it now as there were, say, a year ago. Everyone playing the Windows version has played through the whole boxed module, plus a half dozen of the better fan-created modules.
The Linux gamers finally get the game, but they get a vastly diminished community. Contrast to, say, Enemy Territory, where all the Windows and Linux people are happily fragging each other and have been since even before the actual release.
I'm not sure anyone really cares that they're interfacing with Linux people or interfacing with Windows people, but having more people in the community playing the game can only make for better gaming.