You can do IT by doing everything manually, OR you can write scripts to do most everything for you and collect a check for browsing Slashdot all day. Well, what the rich do is write a real-world script that makes money.
if rent-house-occupied = True;
then collect rent payments;
else advertise house for rent;
fi
Indeed; my friend manages a 7-11, and according to him they get charged a percentage of the transaction total (up to 4%, IIRC, depending on the card company). They don't charge the customer any debit/credit fees, so one of their mitigation attempts is limiting cash back to $10. 4% of $10 = $0.40, and when the purchase is a $0.35 pack of gum...
As a general rule, if someone in the free world just says "Korea," they usually mean South Korea. It's one of those annoying namespace pollution games...
That may be, but prepending "North" or "South" is so simple that very few people are lazy enough to drop it. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seen the term to refer to a country rather than the continent.
I can think of one way their claim can be entirely true, and not just another shortsighted statement like Duell's:
If they make it any smaller, they won't be dealing with visible light anymore.
And here, we have a sane choice done over some easily fixable detail (recompressing everything as.xz, already in progress, would allow Gnome3 to fit).
But such a general solution applies just as well to KDE or XFCE. GNOME takes up less space? XFCE took up less space to begin with, and now it's even smaller. Although honestly I have no idea what else they could possibly want to toss into the default install that would make a smaller DE enticing.
Don't choose "Expert Install" at boot time.
Here is a walkthrough. When you get to this screen, selecting "Desktop Environment" will install the default desktop. Currently Gnome on the "stable" set of CDs, probably now XFCE on the "testing" CDs.
If your network is slow, it's going to be slower to download a CD image that has packages you won't use on it than it is to just download the packages you need.
But downloading the ISO is a background task. Start the download and check on it every hour or so.
The netinstall may not download as much, but if you opt to install anything more than a base system then it'll download it right then and there. It'll take less time, overall, but your system will do nothing else while you wait.
It's a matter of using the right tool for the job. Valve will need to set some standards for their Linux environment, so that developers know what to expect on their customers' machines.
Creating their own distro or targeting an existing distro will accomplish this, though in a rather ham-fisted way (they seem to be going with option 2 atm, targeting Ubuntu). A better alternative may be to define a set of libraries and let the distros create meta-packages.
Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome.
It wasn't a threat.
Browsers are about as interchangeable as Legos. I wasn't using Firefox because it was "better". I was using it because it is open source and because of Adblock and NoScript. During the FF 4 beta, I decided Chromium's plugins were "good enough" and jumped ship.
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You can do IT by doing everything manually, OR you can write scripts to do most everything for you and collect a check for browsing Slashdot all day. Well, what the rich do is write a real-world script that makes money.
if rent-house-occupied = True;
then collect rent payments;
else advertise house for rent;
fi
And what, exactly, does this number mean?
Email a shell script. After that you're just down to the 45-minute "Download and double click" walkthough.
Startup script that launches the VM.
Kind of defeats the point of a handheld, if you as me.
Forget about strobe lights disrupting a brain; these muscles have epilepsy built right into the tissue.
Yes the binary should still run, and the SAME binary should run across several distros and several versions of those distros.
Agreed. Every time I buy a Humble Bundle, half of the games I try end up segfaulting.
We'll do 4.0 in three years maybe when the sub numbers have grown in the 20's and our feeble brains can't handle it.
If your numbers are going to be arbitrary, why not roll them over at 3.9?
Didn't KDE break for 4.0?
Indeed; my friend manages a 7-11, and according to him they get charged a percentage of the transaction total (up to 4%, IIRC, depending on the card company). They don't charge the customer any debit/credit fees, so one of their mitigation attempts is limiting cash back to $10. 4% of $10 = $0.40, and when the purchase is a $0.35 pack of gum...
And how is it different from "full retail"?
...confirming that nearly half of the previous staff had been offered positions at the new company.
I guess that sounds better than "we fired more than half of our employees".
As a general rule, if someone in the free world just says "Korea," they usually mean South Korea. It's one of those annoying namespace pollution games...
That may be, but prepending "North" or "South" is so simple that very few people are lazy enough to drop it. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've seen the term to refer to a country rather than the continent.
That tax break was probably the deal. They likely had to negotiate for it, and now they're saying nevermind.
I can think of one way their claim can be entirely true, and not just another shortsighted statement like Duell's:
If they make it any smaller, they won't be dealing with visible light anymore.
Likely, whatever Skype does to punch through firewalls didn't make it into the Google spec, and MS isn't about to reveal their special sauce.
Supernodes, or whatever you want to call them. You connect to Skype's servers, rather than P2P.
Surely they can fine-tune their banning.
So Steam is going from being a games repository to being a general repo. Halfway to a Linux distribution of their own.
If a CD download takes up a good chunk of your day (lower DSL tiers and down), a DVD will take all day and probably most of the next morning.
And here, we have a sane choice done over some easily fixable detail (recompressing everything as .xz, already in progress, would allow Gnome3 to fit).
But such a general solution applies just as well to KDE or XFCE. GNOME takes up less space? XFCE took up less space to begin with, and now it's even smaller. Although honestly I have no idea what else they could possibly want to toss into the default install that would make a smaller DE enticing.
Don't choose "Expert Install" at boot time. Here is a walkthrough. When you get to this screen, selecting "Desktop Environment" will install the default desktop. Currently Gnome on the "stable" set of CDs, probably now XFCE on the "testing" CDs.
They do make a KDE disc and a XFCE/LXDE disc.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.5/i386/iso-cd/
If your network is slow, it's going to be slower to download a CD image that has packages you won't use on it than it is to just download the packages you need.
But downloading the ISO is a background task. Start the download and check on it every hour or so.
The netinstall may not download as much, but if you opt to install anything more than a base system then it'll download it right then and there. It'll take less time, overall, but your system will do nothing else while you wait.
It's a matter of using the right tool for the job. Valve will need to set some standards for their Linux environment, so that developers know what to expect on their customers' machines.
Creating their own distro or targeting an existing distro will accomplish this, though in a rather ham-fisted way (they seem to be going with option 2 atm, targeting Ubuntu). A better alternative may be to define a set of libraries and let the distros create meta-packages.
Mozilla screws up and you threaten to ditch the browser in favor Chrome.
It wasn't a threat.
Browsers are about as interchangeable as Legos. I wasn't using Firefox because it was "better". I was using it because it is open source and because of Adblock and NoScript. During the FF 4 beta, I decided Chromium's plugins were "good enough" and jumped ship.