Did you even read what he said? When steam displays the date he last played it, it reads some data. That data tells the program the date he last played it. As he said, if that data is set to 0 or NULL, then it is extremely common the program will read that as Jan 1 1970. Jan 1 1970, as was linked in the wikipedia article, is the unix epoch. Basically the start of all time according to computer languages.
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You are the idiot, or just trolling.
The 1th Jan 1970 is the date where all programming languages start to count.
Theese timestamps you maybe have seen already are the seconds from that date on, so the 1th Jan 2013 0:00:00 has the timestamp 1356998400, so it is 1356998400 seconds after the 1th Jan 1970 0:00:00.
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You know what? I don't know if you're just dump or trolling, but you're blacklisted now.
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How was it clear? It wasn't funny at all what this guy wrote..
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I admit it's not funny at all if you don't know I'm joking, but it was meant to be funny in an ironic way because I was indignantly calling everyone else an idiot (or rather, an "idito" or an "idoitt") and acting like I knew everything, while in fact I was the one being a dumbass.
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It looks like spelling, grammar, and punctuation also need to be taught in elementary schools.
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Why should that be taught in schools? It's not useful information at all except to people who want to learn programming. The past tense of teach, however, is useful information that they do teach at schools which you seem to have missed out on.
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Gabe Newell is god, when he created all man-kind Steam was created along with it.
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ofc Steam exists for a really long time, I mean water + fire = steam, it was even there before mankind :O
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You're terribly mistaken. Most languages follow strict rules that make them easy to navigate. English adheres to no lingual laws. Though I don't know German, so I can't say for sure. I've heard Chinese was the most difficult language to learn, and English second.
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I'm from China and I don't even know how to read or write chinese. Too many lines and shit. And there's also a "correct" way of writing their words! Holy crap! I got scolded by my parents for drawing a line from the left to right instead of right to left or something...
I don't even know anymore...My parents tried to get my to participate in a college Chinese course but I've grown a phobia of the written language...=.=
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German is my mother tongue and I myself find it a bit harder than english, but they are very close to each other because they're both germanic languages. Japanese, which I've been learning for a few months now however differs a lot from them ^^
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That's no bug... That's proof that zombies are real, and the events featured in L4D2 are just recordings of what happened that year...
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Steam was originally a secret military project by Gaben's father in the Cold War against the Russians, they would put games really really cheap for Russia and that would cause more people spending time on games than on war. Which proves that we are still in the Cold War, and the fact that it has ended was obviously a lie.
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Remains me of "make love not Warcraft" episode of South Park.
Probably Gaben has something to do with Episode 3 too, like keeping the Americans busy thinking about theories and figuring out crazy ARGs so they won't try to end this war. He doesn't want the Russians to stop paying him, after all.
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I don't get people here bashing on "Errungenschaftsfortschritt". There is no better name for that, if your language has the feature that you can attach nouns to other nouns like a boss. (e.g. Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung)
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there are listed names of companies (facebook) in the duden? ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY TRANSLATE NAMES!!!
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It is because English splits words up, which discribe one thing. Door bell, is just 'deurbel' in Dutch. Splitting up words that should not be split up like that is actually called 'English disease', or well, in it´s Dutch equivalent off course. :P
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I was there when Steam was introduced, and that was long after 1970.
(And yes, I was sad when the dinosaurs died.)
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Silly human, steam has always existed. Haven't you ever boiled water?
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