Just as a note, when Steam was released for OS X, existing accounts could play all the games they had already purchased on a Mac without re-buying them (aka: Steam sells you a licence to play the game on any platform it is availible for, not a particular one) - so there is no reason to presume they wouldn't do that with Linux to. Hence the price would be the same, and you could play it where you want.
This is true for some games, but not for all. I have Steam installed on my primary gaming machine running Win7 and my personal laptop, a Macbook Pro. While my Civ IV and V licenses work on both machines Bioshock and Bioshock 2 only work on Windows despite there being a Mac port of both. As far as I can tell in this case Steam thinks they are a different SKU and therefore separate products.
It would seem that it will only work on both if it is initially released to Steam as such.
Programmers that are 40+ years old probably aren't even all that common...
You need to get out more. If you find a company that's been around for more than 10 years you will find it has lots of people who are no longer in their 20s.
... The "live VM" idea of Smalltalk was probably way ahead of it's time - with JITs and a much higher baseline of compute power even in smartphones, it's now high-time we start seeing code as beyond text files or db blobs.
I'm still waiting for a non-smalltalk VM to feature the power of the walkback.
Absolutely correct, and yet also so wrong. Yes, there are regional British accents, but when considered as a whole they are clearly distinct from American ones. Any fool can identify that someone from Cornwall or Glasgow is clearly not American, and if you take someone from New Jersey or Texas nobody is going to mistake them for someone from Yorkshire.
I remember using search engines before Altavista and I also remember how refreshingly better Altavista was. And then Google came along and blew it right out of the water practically overnight.
Though in fairness, I do collect historically-significant Linux distro ISOs.
Wow, I'm really impressed by that. Do you have the Linux disto that Jefferson wrote the constitution on or the one Hitler used to build the V2 rockets?
Oh come on, everyone knows that Jefferson ran BSD and Hitler insisted on OS/2.
My point is not that the Vatican is anti-science, (though it clearly has been frequently in the past) it's that if you're playing catch-up to Catholicism you might want to re-evaluate your decision making paradigm.
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As others have pointed out, all of Valve's games that I've tried on Steam work great on OSX.
Just as a note, when Steam was released for OS X, existing accounts could play all the games they had already purchased on a Mac without re-buying them (aka: Steam sells you a licence to play the game on any platform it is availible for, not a particular one) - so there is no reason to presume they wouldn't do that with Linux to. Hence the price would be the same, and you could play it where you want.
This is true for some games, but not for all. I have Steam installed on my primary gaming machine running Win7 and my personal laptop, a Macbook Pro. While my Civ IV and V licenses work on both machines Bioshock and Bioshock 2 only work on Windows despite there being a Mac port of both. As far as I can tell in this case Steam thinks they are a different SKU and therefore separate products.
It would seem that it will only work on both if it is initially released to Steam as such.
Programmers that are 40+ years old probably aren't even all that common...
You need to get out more. If you find a company that's been around for more than 10 years you will find it has lots of people who are no longer in their 20s.
Both are supposedly for our benefit, but always seem to be working against us.
I'm trying to promote the idea that what the CRTC does is unconstitutional. How can a government appointed body dictate how we may communicate?
Will you marry me?
Then you see an IDE in your IDE, in which you could create another IDE, and ...
... we could call it Eclipse!
... The "live VM" idea of Smalltalk was probably way ahead of it's time - with JITs and a much higher baseline of compute power even in smartphones, it's now high-time we start seeing code as beyond text files or db blobs.
I'm still waiting for a non-smalltalk VM to feature the power of the walkback.
Sing it brother.
No one NEEDS Java enabled in a web browser in 2012
Corrected that for you.
Java has always been a joke.
I would certainly agree that applets have always been a joke:
Yes there are exceptions, but I'm yet to see an applet whose customers were deliriously happy about. Usually the exact opposite.
... my kingdom for a mod point...
Very true, the best way to reduce tensions in India will be to educate and employ the poor.
From an American ear, Kiwi and Aussi (and oddly South African) is a million times closer to "British" than American.
Absolutely correct, and yet also so wrong. Yes, there are regional British accents, but when considered as a whole they are clearly distinct from American ones. Any fool can identify that someone from Cornwall or Glasgow is clearly not American, and if you take someone from New Jersey or Texas nobody is going to mistake them for someone from Yorkshire.
I don't know if you were aiming for troll, informative or funny. But you had me at contrapositive.
A little casual reading might help you out here.
Despite the foregoing, the human race by tens of thousands would be
knee-deep in the water around Zanzibar.
I don't know who you are, but get the hell out of my basement!
In 93 perhaps, but by 95 Windows had taken over the desktop and the CDROM was standard equipment.
I remember using search engines before Altavista and I also remember how refreshingly better Altavista was. And then Google came along and blew it right out of the water practically overnight.
Which reminds me, I never did try the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster...
Mt. St. Helens is practically a mini model of the Grand Canyon
I know I'm going to regret this. But can you explain this in short words?
Though in fairness, I do collect historically-significant Linux distro ISOs.
Wow, I'm really impressed by that. Do you have the Linux disto that Jefferson wrote the constitution on or the one Hitler used to build the V2 rockets?
Oh come on, everyone knows that Jefferson ran BSD and Hitler insisted on OS/2.
My point is not that the Vatican is anti-science, (though it clearly has been frequently in the past) it's that if you're playing catch-up to Catholicism you might want to re-evaluate your decision making paradigm.
You know you're in trouble when the Vatican is more modern and forward thinking than you are.
Working smarter is good
Evolving is good
Staying stuck in 1996 is not