You have to accept that when you're using workarounds to get software running on an OS it wasn't designed for you will often run into some issues. Steam runs great on Windows or Mac (there are those who hate the DRM but that has nothing to do with how the client actually performs). If Valve made a Steam client for Linux I'm sure it would run quite well, the problem is which distro do they make it for? So far as I know (and I am admittedly a novice when it comes to Linux) it is not easy to release an application that will run on any distro without releasing it in source form. Like it or not most game companies would not want to release their source.
The number you're referencing is worthless without statistics. Maybe they only sold ten linux copies but one buyer paid $100 while everyone else only paid pennies.
It's not worthless at all in this context. It was posted to refute the statement that "Linux users refuse to pay for their software". Say what you want about the statistics but one thing that is clear is Linux users did pay for the bundle.
I just don't store them in the "My Pictures", "My Music" etc... folders. Thus far I haven't run into any disadvantages from not storing them there in my own use cases.
No offense but if you've been keeping decent backups (and seeing as we are on/. I would expect you to) it would probably be a lot faster and easier to simply wipe the drive, install Windows, and restore from backup. I find it helps just to get rid of the crap I wasn't using to do a fresh install once a year or so. If you've partitioned properly (aka all your data is not on the system drive) then all you really have to restore are application's settings anyway.
I assume you mean stock Android? My Nexus One came with it and is still available through Google. You have to buy the phone unlocked with no carrier subsidy though, on the plus side you don't have to sign a two year contract.
Comcast is a business taking advantage of a monopoly situation to gouge customers for larger profit. If you actually support our free market system you would recognize that the free market breaks in the case of a monopoly and requires outside interference (usually government) to restore competition to the market.
Here's the relevant post for those who don't wish to brave the horrors of that site's design:
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chernobyl motorcycling fake!
( on 4/30/2004 11:22 PM )
Chornobyl "Ghost Town" story is a fabrication
e-POSHTA subscriber Mary Mycio writes:
I am based in Kyiv and writing a book about Chornobyl for the Joseph Henry Press. Several sources have sent me links to the "Ghost Town" photo essay included in the last e-POSHTA mailing. Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.
I am sorry to report that much of Elena's story is not true. She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle. Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration. She made one trip there with her husband and a friend. They traveled in a Chornobyl car that picked them up in Kyiv.
She did, however, bring a motorcycle helmet. They organized their trip through a Kyiv travel agency and the administration of the Chornobyl zone (and not her father). They were given the same standard excursion that most Chernobyl tourists receive. When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone. When it turned out that the motorcycle story was an invention, they were even less pleased about this fantasy Web site.
Because of those problems, Elena and her husband have changed the Web site and the story considerably in the last few days. Earlier versions of the narrative lied more blatantly about Elena taking lone motorcycle trips in the zone. That has been changed to merely suggest that she does so, which is still misleading.
I would not normally bother to correct someone's silly Chornobyl fantasy. Indeed, correcting all the factual errors and falsehoods in "Ghost Town" would consume as much space as the Web site itself. But the motorcycle story was such an outrageous fiction that I thought the readers of e-Poshta should know.
Mary Mycio, J.D.
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Hey this is too much trouble to get logged in to your website to make a posting. I have known Elena for years, so I know how much is fake and how much is true. I know that her birthday is Feb 24, 1974, so she is 30 and not 26. I know that she cannot even ride a bike. the bike is her ex husbands. She has been divorced for 5 years. she can only ride a bicycle or little scooter.
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I'd imagine the police in that county are going to have a very tough time getting information out of people now. Informants trust that the police will protect their identities, that trust has now been broken.
The military has historically defended our country and stands ready to today. While I'm not going to make any arguments involving the current wars and defense of the country if we had never had armed forces I assure you that our country would not exist today. We're unlikely to fight against a true threat of invasion anytime in the near future as trying to invade one of the world's largest military powers is borderline suicidal.
Your ire seems misplaced to me, take a look at the people at the top running the show, not the men and women in the field risking their lives.
I would just like to point out that the very people you're currently lambasting are the the reason you even have the freedom to say this. Think about that for a bit.
This presents a problem when you wish to send a message to Mastercard, Visa, and Paypal. Take those three out of the equation and you are very rapidly running out of options to buy anything on most sites.
I've tried writing my Congressman before. All you get is a form letter that may or may not have something vaguely to do with the issue you wrote about. I don't know that the DDoS attacks constitute a viable alternative but then again, the legitimate options seem to be more of a farce than anything actually listened to.
Lawyers love to make idle threats and request compensation that they know they have a snowball's chance in hell of actually collecting.
It's too bad there's no penalty for doing this. Seems to me the court system would function better if there were less frivolous garbage clogging things up.
Sometimes it seems like you can get away with saying anything in your commercial so long as the practically unreadable text at the bottom of the screen contains the right legalese...
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To play devil's advocate here the US is a sovereign country (as are other UN members). There is no requirement that they do what the UN tells them.
You have to accept that when you're using workarounds to get software running on an OS it wasn't designed for you will often run into some issues. Steam runs great on Windows or Mac (there are those who hate the DRM but that has nothing to do with how the client actually performs). If Valve made a Steam client for Linux I'm sure it would run quite well, the problem is which distro do they make it for? So far as I know (and I am admittedly a novice when it comes to Linux) it is not easy to release an application that will run on any distro without releasing it in source form. Like it or not most game companies would not want to release their source.
The number you're referencing is worthless without statistics. Maybe they only sold ten linux copies but one buyer paid $100 while everyone else only paid pennies.
It's not worthless at all in this context. It was posted to refute the statement that "Linux users refuse to pay for their software". Say what you want about the statistics but one thing that is clear is Linux users did pay for the bundle.
Those who don't vote are simply ignored.
In the cloud I give up control of my own data as well. While there are some things I don't mind using the cloud for I don't want everything there.
I just don't store them in the "My Pictures", "My Music" etc... folders. Thus far I haven't run into any disadvantages from not storing them there in my own use cases.
No offense but if you've been keeping decent backups (and seeing as we are on /. I would expect you to) it would probably be a lot faster and easier to simply wipe the drive, install Windows, and restore from backup. I find it helps just to get rid of the crap I wasn't using to do a fresh install once a year or so. If you've partitioned properly (aka all your data is not on the system drive) then all you really have to restore are application's settings anyway.
Then no that doesn't come pre-installed but you can install it yourself.
That just might beat Orgasmo for most ludicrous superhero/porn cross-over ever.
It's loading instantly for me right now, if anything was happening it appears to be over already.
Trying to DDoS amazon though was always going to be like pissing at a thunder storm
Anyone unlucky enough to be struck by lightning while attempting that would either be dead or wish they were dead...
I assume you mean stock Android? My Nexus One came with it and is still available through Google. You have to buy the phone unlocked with no carrier subsidy though, on the plus side you don't have to sign a two year contract.
I hope you never eat granola, talk about data corruption...
Android OS doesn't submit anything to Google unless you allow it to. You don't have to believe me either, you can view the code for yourself.
Comcast is a business taking advantage of a monopoly situation to gouge customers for larger profit. If you actually support our free market system you would recognize that the free market breaks in the case of a monopoly and requires outside interference (usually government) to restore competition to the market.
I assumed GP was referring to getting a tour from a nuclear scientist when he mentioned wanting a tour member that speaks Russian.
Here's the relevant post for those who don't wish to brave the horrors of that site's design:
I'd imagine the police in that county are going to have a very tough time getting information out of people now. Informants trust that the police will protect their identities, that trust has now been broken.
Who peed in your corn flakes this morning?
Snow did. No wait... Hmmm, we're not in Soviet Russia by chance, are we?
The military has historically defended our country and stands ready to today. While I'm not going to make any arguments involving the current wars and defense of the country if we had never had armed forces I assure you that our country would not exist today. We're unlikely to fight against a true threat of invasion anytime in the near future as trying to invade one of the world's largest military powers is borderline suicidal.
Your ire seems misplaced to me, take a look at the people at the top running the show, not the men and women in the field risking their lives.
I would just like to point out that the very people you're currently lambasting are the the reason you even have the freedom to say this. Think about that for a bit.
This presents a problem when you wish to send a message to Mastercard, Visa, and Paypal. Take those three out of the equation and you are very rapidly running out of options to buy anything on most sites.
I've tried writing my Congressman before. All you get is a form letter that may or may not have something vaguely to do with the issue you wrote about. I don't know that the DDoS attacks constitute a viable alternative but then again, the legitimate options seem to be more of a farce than anything actually listened to.
Lawyers love to make idle threats and request compensation that they know they have a snowball's chance in hell of actually collecting.
It's too bad there's no penalty for doing this. Seems to me the court system would function better if there were less frivolous garbage clogging things up.
Sometimes it seems like you can get away with saying anything in your commercial so long as the practically unreadable text at the bottom of the screen contains the right legalese...