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  1. Re:Canonical, home of Linux vaporware. on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 1

    They did ship, but:

    1) the products were not made available from the main site. They were hidden so that you couldn't find them unless you knew exactly where they were.
    2) after some time, they dropped them.

  2. Re:Who uses Ubuntu anyway? Explanation: on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 1

    I literally see hundreds of people using Ubuntu every day.
    And that's in a computer science research laboratory.

  3. Re:This is a good thing on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 1

    Debian actually changed the default desktop.
    I think it's either LXDE or XFCE, don't remember.

  4. Re:Unity on Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash · · Score: 2

    It does somewhat, yes.

  5. Re:Pay the $3.99 on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? · · Score: 2

    Actually, you only need to

    Pay the 3.99
    post it for 1.35 on play

    Sell the app 3 times.

    Profit!!!!

    There is no need to do a small modification or to obtain the source for this.

  6. Why not use another method? on NZBMatrix Closes Their Website · · Score: 0

    It's not like NNTP is the best way to download stuff anyway.
    Bittorrent, HTTP and IRC/DCC all have their advantages, and they're alive and well.

  7. Re:People just doesn't get it on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    The limit between good and crazy is sometimes very thin...

  8. Re:FUCK YES on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 2

    Of course it's not top notch, you ruined it by reading on a screen.

  9. Re:Soooo... on Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux · · Score: 0

    what OS X application is worth running on Linux?

  10. Re:I read the article on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, you have.

  11. Re:FUCK YES on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    I tried playing MotB not long ago. I gave up 2 minutes in.
    The camera controls were a mess, the game was unplayable.

    It doesn't matter if you've got a good story, if the game technically sucks and you cannot bring it to an audience, it's just useless.

  12. Re:"League of Legends gaming franchise" on For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More accurately: isn't it just one rip-off?
    It's just DotA.

  13. Re:FUCK YES on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    Books have text printed on paper, not on a screen with a bad resolution and bad font rendering.

  14. Re:FUCK YES on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    See, you just got my hopes up. I thought you meant this was a mod that replaced textures with higher-resolution versions; that is clearly not the case, it's just a widescreen mod (which is of course clearly indispensable, but not sufficient to make it visually tolerable).

  15. Re:properly functional mail client on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    Too arcane to use.

  16. Re:Why do we need a desktop client? on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Desktop clients are just much more powerful, don't require an Internet connection, and are not tied to a particular email service provider.
    If you're not using one, you just aren't a power user. That's all there is to it.

  17. Re:Thunderbird works on Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? · · Score: 1

    It works, but not well.
    It frequently uses a lot of disk space, RAM, and CPU. All of which abnormal.
    It also still sucks at searching, and there are frequent problems with the editor.

  18. Re:I'm not hopeful... on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    Just trying to build some hype and get the planescape fans to into the project

  19. Re:Good luck with that on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    Many japanese games require a lot of reading and are commercial successes.
    But then, they have cute girls in them.

  20. Re:FUCK YES on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 2

    Don't hype it too much, you're unnecessarily raising the expectations of new players.
    For someone used to modern video games, it's just not that good.

  21. Re:Planescape or Baldurs Gate? on Sequel To Planescape: Torment Planned · · Score: 1

    Do you want a good hack&slash game with boring story, or a good story with boring action?

  22. Re:Exceptions in C++ on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    Note that I didn't say renaming files, I said swapping files.
    On POSIX, the function called "rename" allows to swap files. On Windows, it doesn't.

  23. Re:The third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    I don't typically catch exceptions in C++ either. I only use them for graceful shutdown.

  24. Re:I read the article on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    file1's destructor will close the file.
    Oh right, you guys program in Java or some other POOP, so you don't have destructors.

  25. Re:error handling in functions on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    For a case without function composition, consider the following C++ code:

    void f()
    {
        T a;
        U b;
        V c;
    }

    I haven't even started actually doing anything here, and there are a lot of problems writing this without exceptions:

    int f()
    {
        T a;
        U b;
        V c;
        if(T_init(&a) == -1)
            return -1;
        if(U_init(&b) == -1)
        {
            T_free(&a);
            return -1;
        }
        if(V_init(&c) == -1)
        {
            U_free(&b);
            T_free(&a);
        }
        V_free(&c);
        U_free(&b);
        T_free(&a);
        return 0;
    }

    and that's making the assumption that the destructors cannot throw. If they could, the C code would become even more complicated...