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  1. Re:Wine is like GNUstep on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, Unity3d doesn't work under WINE anyways.

  2. Re:Communication is the key on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    The one who made the mistake is the one who is unhappy with the resulting situationThat oversimplifies it.

    The mistake was made by whoeever was not honest about what they were trying to do or were interested in.

  3. Re:Communication is the key on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    The "mistake" was not his... since it's not particularly a mistake to feel like you want to know a person before asking them out on a date. Some people are okay with taking somebody who is still practically a stranger on a date, not everybody is, and not everybody can feel like they know somebody that well after just a couple of online chat or emails.

    In fact, I'd argue the mistake is theirs, for not being communicative enough about their intentions. If they want somebody who moves faster, they should say so. Or at the very least, honestly let the guy go by telling him that they aren't feeling any sort of chemistry of connection with them, and admit that they think further communication would probably just be a waste of time at that point, as soon as they realize that they aren't interested in them, instead of just ignoring their messages.

  4. Re:Communication is the key on Marriages Spawned From Online Dating As Satisfying As From Traditional Dating · · Score: 1

    Or, you know, maybe some people are just more comfortable actually getting to know the person first.

  5. Re:Still sucks to own a phone in Canada on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    Of course they can. And that's what some of this new regulation will ensure.

  6. Re:Still sucks to own a phone in Canada on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    So, no. Okay... Thanks.

  7. Re:Wine is like GNUstep on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 1

    Then your distribution is broken

    More specifically, winehq does not particularly consider the distro worthy of supporting. That's a failing of winehq by my reckoning, not Slackware, specifically.

    you may want to build Wine from source in a 32-bit chroot.

    Running windows applications with various degrees of success (I've heard that .NET applications have a lot of trouble) is not sufficient incentive for me to create a 32-bit chroot that would offer me no other advantages, since I can already run 32-bit linux applications just fine.

    It's not like Wine is an emulator or anything

    It takes an existing binary compiled for a particular operating system/platform and runs it on a different one from that for which the binary was targeted. That makes it either a virtual machine or an emulator. Calling wine a virtual machine seems a bit of a stretch though. Is the only reason to not call it an emulator because its moniker says so?

  8. Re:Still sucks to own a phone in Canada on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    Three companies (Rogers, Telus, Bell) own absolutely everything, including the CRTC

    Do you have any evidence for what you've said here, especially what's bolded above, that's not going to end up sounding like a conspiracy theory?

  9. Re:How this will work on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    If the monthly fee for a cell phone costs any more with a phone you've bought outright vs one you are getting as part of a contract plan, don't bother locking yourself in with them at all.

  10. *NOW* they do this.... on CRTC Unveils New Wireless Code To Protect Canadian Customers · · Score: 1

    "Contracts are now capped at two years"...

    (sigh)

    My contract is 2 years old next month.

    I still have a year to go, and boy do I have grievances.

  11. Re:File bugs against both Wine and Unity3D on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 1

    Running something under wine does not qualify as runnable under Linux.

    Plus, I the distro I use doesn't support wine on a 64-bit platform yet.

  12. Re:Runs on Linux on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unity3d can build a target application that runs on Linux, but the development environment only runs on Windows or Mac

  13. Re:And Unity Still Sucks on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 1

    To be fair, they need to offer some sort of incentive to purchase it.

    Although I agree with you... it's annoying. Just saying I understand it.

  14. Re:Groklaw's Gas Pedal analogy on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 1

    A professional can easily figure out a different way of writing an API

    Can you provide any proof of that statement?

  15. Re:Groklaw's Gas Pedal analogy on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 2

    Developers *ARE* the end users of an API.

  16. Re:Still ? on Opposition Mounts To Oracle's Attempt To Copyright Java APIs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Already decided in court? Yes. Settled? Far from it.

    This is about Oracle trying to appeal the former decision.

  17. Re:yea right on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    By that reasoning, then, wouldn't not being allowed to own automatic weapons or nuclear weapons be an equal infringement of the 2nd amendment?

  18. Re:Anything to be done about the 30 minute recharg on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    Bathroom breaks don't take half an hour. And meal breaks are taken when the location and time of day is agreeable, which *MIGHT* be, but is not particularly statistically likely to be at the exact same point or time that you always need to recharge.

  19. Re:yea right on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    Because the Right was designed to allow citizens to defend themselves from the government.

    Where does it say this? Or is that just a plausible interpretation?

  20. Anything to be done about the 30 minute recharge? on Tesla To Blanket US With Superchargers In Two Years · · Score: 1

    While 30 minutes is great compared to waiting several hours, they need to really bring that recharge time down by a factor of 5 or more. Being able to stop for a recharge in many places is good, but for longer trips (which mentioning coast-to-coast travel seems to be pointing towards) waiting for half an hour every charging cycle will start to add up on your travel time.

  21. Re:I know of 20 elementary school children... on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    So... yes, then?

    Got it. Thanks. Good to know.

  22. Re:yea right on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1
    I don't know if that's applicable.

    If all manufacturers were required, by law, to follow the same standards, then the exact same facilities are equally available to everybody.

    Where in the constitution does it say that the right to bear arms should be equivalent to the right for the bearer to decide on the fundamental design or engineering of those arms?

  23. Re:I know of 20 elementary school children... on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 0

    I have to wonder... is a person who opposes this kind of technology being mandatory in citizen weaponry of the opinion that those children deaths are an acceptable price to pay for their continued freedom to bear arms of their own chosen design?

  24. Re:yea right on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    Which will get struck down by the supreme court the second it hits their docket.

    On what basis? They wouldn't be saying that citizens can't have guns, only that they can only have guns which have been approved for citizen use.

  25. It starts slowly.... on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    ... but before long, I expect that guns which are not classified as "smart" will be illegal for private citizens to manufacture or possess.