Quoting: rea987Lastly, installing Linux to my friends' computers in order to play with them? Sure, I would do that 6 years ago but not any longer; that's how you become "free of charge IT guy". No thanks.

Ah, it seems I neglected to put smileys on my earlier post suggesting such installation, having forgotten the unfortunate scarcity of levity-detectors among internet users.

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There's a bunch in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. The shantytowns grew up in the hills around the city with no urban planning involved so when someone finally decided to pay attention to the poor folks, not only was there the hills issue but there weren't really any roads. Punching highways through everyone's homes would have been more intrusive than just putting up a big pillar every so often.
So in the game, I suppose potentially they could help with districts where you made some decisions that, in hindsight, were really rancid transportation-wise. ;)

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Quoting: numasanCable cars I'm not sure how practical they are.

Well, I dunno about in the game, but in real life they can be handy in very hilly areas where roads have to meander and grades are too steep for rail.

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Quoting: cRaZy-bisCuiT.. but better have no port at all than a only partly functioning one..

I wholeheartedly disagree dude, I've been hoping for a Linux version since it was first announced. People can still enjoy the single player campaign and multiplayer with Linux and Mac, it's not like the lobbies will be empty. I do see your point that's its a shame we can't join matches with our Windows friends, but no reason not to release the game.

.. Maybe it's a good excuse to get them to switch to a better OS ;)

I was going to say--they'll just have to dual-boot Linux, that's all there is to it. Well, makes sense. I mean, for me to dual-boot Windows I'd have to, like, buy it, and the install would be painful and probably try to wipe my Linux partition and stuff. Whereas for a Windows person to add a Linux partition is free, and a breeze unless it's like Slackware or something.

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Quoting: lucinos

Quoting: Andrei B.Wow, 7nm.. Impressive.
Ten years ago we thought that 23nm was the physical limit.

I don't remember that. I for many years now remember the physical limit be considered around 5 nm (and it is getting there now as it seems). Moore's Law also considered to be halted in 2010s. 7nm is really impressive but not too unrealistic. Intel had stopped at 14nm for a some time now and either intel wanted Amd to catch up or already is getting proportionally way more difficult. Of course now I believe we Moore's Law is near the end and will not be continued in 2020s as already have happened for many years now with frequencies. In any case 1nm is very near the atomic scale.

As to why they might have waited . . . the brute fact is that while microprocessor factories can, once built, churn out nearly arbitrary numbers of chips for cheap, they are incredibly expensive to build in the first place. It's an amazingly capital-intensive business, and the smaller scale you get, the more expensive the factory. So they probably paused at 14nm for as long as they could get away with because they wanted to make some money on the existing facilities before spending it all on the next generation.

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Everyone's talking about Age of Empires . . .
I've always thought there should be a computer game about baseball called "Age of Umpires".

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I've been interested in Shogun 2 for some time. On my wishlist it goes, hopefully have money and time soon.

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Quoting: skinnyraf

Quoting: Crazy PenguinWiiU has a bigger market share then Linux :(

WiiU has sold ~14 Million Units and at the moment we have currently only ~2 Million Linux Players on Steam.

Puts things into perspective, doesn't it? :(

It does. This is the kind of reason it would be awesome if Valve relaunched Steam Machines at some point (with all the things everyone agrees they need for success) and they took off. Even if they were as successful as WiiU, that would still multiply the Linux gaming market share.

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Maybe they could change the name from Absolver to Abdicator.

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I have high hopes for this, it's been sounding very interesting.

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