How much would you be willing to pay per game hour?
Good question. According to this blog, "30 yuan will buy you 4000 minutes of gametime and 15 yuan will buy you 2000 minutes of gametime. That's $0.06 per hour played."
That works out at US$4 for 4000 minutes, which would be about £3. Obviously, Chinese pricing reflects the local economy. 4000 minutes is 66h 40m, so say that's 2 hours a night for a month. Lowest UK monthly subscription is £7.69, so if I could get 4000 minutes for £7-£8 that expired after 90 days, I'd probably go for it.
What prevents me from getting into playing WoW are the payment options available to European (and US) players. It's either a monthly subscription or a 60-day timecard. With either option I'd feel obliged to play nearly every day to ensure I was getting my money's worth. I don't always have the time to do so every evening. In China, they buy game hours, which is a model that would suit me better.
The early BBC Model A machines shipped with OS version 0.9 and would have had BBC BASIC I. The Model B came with OS 1.2 (IIRC) and BASIC II. You could buy replacement ROMs for the older machines to upgrade to this version. Heh, swapping ROMs as a way of upgrading your computer's OS.
Akonadi merely acts as a cache for your data, the actual content stays where it has always been,.ics/.vcf/MBOX files, local maildirs, IMAP- and groupware servers. There is only a limited amount of data stored exclusively in Akonadi:
* Data not supported by the corresponding backends, such as email flags in case of maildir/mbox. This is comparable to KMail's binary index files stored alongside these files in pre-Akonadi times.
* Internal meta-data used by application or resources, such as information about the last synchronization with a backend or translated folder names.
* Data that has been changed while the corresponding backend has been offline and has not yet been uploaded.
Does it still require you to install a RDBMS?
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I hopped off the KDE4 train at 4.2 when Akonadi required MySQL as a dependency. IIRC, it can now use PostgreSQL as well, but the point stands: Why do I need a RDBMS to run a desktop?
I gave up on KDE4 with KDE4.2. Did a 'yum update' on my Fedora-running laptop to upgrade KDE4.1.4, noticed that MySQL had been pulled in as a dependency. Tracked it down to Akonadi. Did some research and found that the KDE devs had decided that you now need a full-fat RDBMS to run a desktop. As far as I could tell at the time, they're not even using MySQL to hold any information, just to pass data between applications.
I've had my Gmail account since 2003. Used it a few times when posting to Usenet via Google Groups. I've also used it to subscribe to a couple of mailing lists, which don't mask email addresses for their public archives.
Going by the rolling 30 day spam folder on my Gmail account, I've currently got 167 spam emails in there. Last year, it was regularly rolling along at 800+.
Rather than having brakes that would stop the QE2 or various drive-by-wire rules governing if or when you can shift into neutral, what we need is some way to disengage the engine from the drive wheels. Maybe some sort of lever or a pedal the driver could operate with their foot?
As any serious diver will tell you, generally speaking, a shark sighting is a cause for excitement and anticipation, not panic. Leave them alone, and they'll generally leave you alone.
Unless there's ominous cello music playing in the background.
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(I'd be moving to Fedora but RPM is a known ingredient in software of mass destruction...)
The 1990s called. They'd like their preconceptions about RPM back.
How much would you be willing to pay per game hour?
Good question. According to this blog, "30 yuan will buy you 4000 minutes of gametime and 15 yuan will buy you 2000 minutes of gametime. That's $0.06 per hour played."
That works out at US$4 for 4000 minutes, which would be about £3. Obviously, Chinese pricing reflects the local economy. 4000 minutes is 66h 40m, so say that's 2 hours a night for a month. Lowest UK monthly subscription is £7.69, so if I could get 4000 minutes for £7-£8 that expired after 90 days, I'd probably go for it.
What prevents me from getting into playing WoW are the payment options available to European (and US) players. It's either a monthly subscription or a 60-day timecard. With either option I'd feel obliged to play nearly every day to ensure I was getting my money's worth. I don't always have the time to do so every evening. In China, they buy game hours, which is a model that would suit me better.
Fedora has a rolling, rolling, rolling release called rawhide.
I hope you kept away from the fish.
With milk?
The early BBC Model A machines shipped with OS version 0.9 and would have had BBC BASIC I. The Model B came with OS 1.2 (IIRC) and BASIC II. You could buy replacement ROMs for the older machines to upgrade to this version. Heh, swapping ROMs as a way of upgrading your computer's OS.
(and IIRC, you didn't have functions, so had to endure the horror of GOSUB/RETURN).
BBC BASIC II had PROCedures and FunctioNs. It was one of the better 8-bit BASICs.
I don't have the bandwidth to install, decrypt and update the game before I can play it.
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I think I'll get a cracked copy, do you hear that, Steam?!
So you don't have the bandwidth to verify it legitimately, but you do have the bandwidth to download a cracked copy?
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Where_does_Akonadi_store_my_data.3F
Where does Akonadi store my data?
Akonadi merely acts as a cache for your data, the actual content stays where it has always been, .ics/.vcf/MBOX files, local maildirs, IMAP- and groupware servers. There is only a limited amount of data stored exclusively in Akonadi:
* Data not supported by the corresponding backends, such as email flags in case of maildir/mbox. This is comparable to KMail's binary index files stored alongside these files in pre-Akonadi times.
* Internal meta-data used by application or resources, such as information about the last synchronization with a backend or translated folder names.
* Data that has been changed while the corresponding backend has been offline and has not yet been uploaded.
I hopped off the KDE4 train at 4.2 when Akonadi required MySQL as a dependency. IIRC, it can now use PostgreSQL as well, but the point stands: Why do I need a RDBMS to run a desktop?
I misread the headline as 'Best Way To PUNISH an "Indie" Research Paper?'
I was thinking, 'Oh, is it full of errors or plagiarised?'
I gave up on KDE4 with KDE4.2. Did a 'yum update' on my Fedora-running laptop to upgrade KDE4.1.4, noticed that MySQL had been pulled in as a dependency. Tracked it down to Akonadi. Did some research and found that the KDE devs had decided that you now need a full-fat RDBMS to run a desktop. As far as I could tell at the time, they're not even using MySQL to hold any information, just to pass data between applications.
There is a theory that Ozymandias deliberately set a weak password.
I've had my Gmail account since 2003. Used it a few times when posting to Usenet via Google Groups. I've also used it to subscribe to a couple of mailing lists, which don't mask email addresses for their public archives.
Going by the rolling 30 day spam folder on my Gmail account, I've currently got 167 spam emails in there. Last year, it was regularly rolling along at 800+.
I wonder what serious western businesses will want to invest in such a corrupt country.
Why not, they invest in the US, don't they?
What shores?
Thanks, I'll have a pint of McEwan's.
(1980s UK TV advert)
Hangs up his orange suit and crowbar.
Somebody stole my Star Wars episodes 1-3
And nothing of value was lost...
Rather than having brakes that would stop the QE2 or various drive-by-wire rules governing if or when you can shift into neutral, what we need is some way to disengage the engine from the drive wheels. Maybe some sort of lever or a pedal the driver could operate with their foot?
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin - 1775
You keep using that phrase. I do not think it means what you think it means.
How long before someone launches a class action lawsuit against EA/DICE?
As any serious diver will tell you, generally speaking, a shark sighting is a cause for excitement and anticipation, not panic. Leave them alone, and they'll generally leave you alone.
Unless there's ominous cello music playing in the background.