I would. Step 1 is make a large size of games available for Linux (and make them easy to install; no CLI shit!).
There is no "Linux" in the sense that there is a Windows - how badly does that affect game distribution? I know Linux users are generally self-sufficient - they have to be - but which game maker wants to field the complaints when a buyer finds a game that refuses to work on Spanko or Plop or <insert obscure favourite distro here>?
(Not sure how a Pi is a better choice for a budding programmer than an Android phone.)
How many Android phones can you quickly and easily plug a keyboard into? And a mouse, and power the phone at the same time? And get a decent resolution on a monitor? Can you put your text editor up on one side of an Android screen and your terminal on the other? Just how much programming is actually possible using only an Android phone (on which you probably won't have root without jumping though hoops) anyway?
I was interested in one, once, but you can get a much more powerful Android phone for the same price as a Pi
Really? Without a contract? I wouldn't mind a link to one.
While Apple and Samsung fight over patents and prototypes, other copyright trolls are waging an X-rated battle on users, some of whom may be innocent
Now I'm not defending these tactics in the slightest - it's utterly ridiculous - but are we really to believe that not a single one of the people targeted actually illegally downloaded what they're said to have downloaded? C'mooooooon.
I wouldn't have even known about the troll's post if the first reply hadn't been modded up. Shouldn't warnings only be modded to equal or just above the score of the troll, i.e. 0? (someone mod me down please;) )
Homer: “Hmm; how does it work?”
Lisa: “It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!”
Homer: “Uh-huh.”
Lisa: “ but I don’t see any tigers around, do you?”
Homer: “...Lisa, I want to buy your rock.”
The question not answered by the article - or at least the shorter translation since I don't read German - is who exactly is making this assumption. Is it the German government? Or is, in fact, just this newspaper?
12 members of the general public found the Birmingham Six guilty.
Juries also found Ian Huntley, Rosemary West and Harold Shipman guilty. What's your point?
If a jury can be swung one way it can be swung the other.
Why do you believe this jury swung the wrong way?
Way to miss the point, coplicker.
Way to descend to an ad hominem attack, although I'll grant that I did miss your point first time around.
It should have been a murder trial.
Why? How much of the information that the CPS used to come to their decision did you see? Did you read all of the statements of everyone involved?
"No police officer has been convicted for manslaughter for a crime committed while on duty since 1986."
So? How many were suspected? Arrested? Charged? Put on trial? Is there some magical level of convictions that would convince you that the legal system was working properly?
Yeah yeah, I know, if you don't already know and can't be bothered to go looking, you must therefore be a dribbling buffoon who should not dare to even use the internet let alone visit the hallowed and sacred Slashdot, but:
OAuth is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically supplying username and password tokens instead. Each token grants access to a specific site (e.g., a video editing site) for specific resources (e.g., just videos from a specific album) and for a defined duration (e.g., the next 2 hours). This allows a user to grant a third party site access to their information stored with another service provider, without sharing their access permissions or the full extent of their data.
I like Mint, but on my last install I had to trawl forums to find out why I couldn't get the Cinnamon desktop working. Turns out I had to install the Nvidia drivers which were available, but not installed by default. Fine and perfectly understandable. But when I installed said drivers, not only did I not get the Cinnamon desktop as I'd hoped, I also lost my taskbar entirely. More forum trawling - the drivers may not be compatible with my Nvidia card - but no working solutions.
This isn't meant to be anything against Mint - I've had the same kind of problems installing every distro I've ever tried, and it's crap like this that holds Linux back. Greatest weaknesses/greatest strengths and all that.
Slashdot Mirror
To be fair, it looked fine to me - until I tried it in IE.
"When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
So what the hell kind of chance have you got?
I would. Step 1 is make a large size of games available for Linux (and make them easy to install; no CLI shit!).
There is no "Linux" in the sense that there is a Windows - how badly does that affect game distribution? I know Linux users are generally self-sufficient - they have to be - but which game maker wants to field the complaints when a buyer finds a game that refuses to work on Spanko or Plop or <insert obscure favourite distro here>?
1888: Jack the Ripper active
1913: The eve of the First World War
1938: Hitler annexes Austria
1963: Kennedy assassinated
1988: The Lockerbie bombing
It's 2013 we need to worry about, sheeple!
(Not sure how a Pi is a better choice for a budding programmer than an Android phone.)
How many Android phones can you quickly and easily plug a keyboard into? And a mouse, and power the phone at the same time? And get a decent resolution on a monitor? Can you put your text editor up on one side of an Android screen and your terminal on the other? Just how much programming is actually possible using only an Android phone (on which you probably won't have root without jumping though hoops) anyway?
I was interested in one, once, but you can get a much more powerful Android phone for the same price as a Pi
Really? Without a contract? I wouldn't mind a link to one.
Yeah, I know, it was a Family Guy thing that I got slightly wrong... never mind.
He just wanted thousands of dollars...
While Apple and Samsung fight over patents and prototypes, other copyright trolls are waging an X-rated battle on users, some of whom may be innocent
Now I'm not defending these tactics in the slightest - it's utterly ridiculous - but are we really to believe that not a single one of the people targeted actually illegally downloaded what they're said to have downloaded? C'mooooooon.
According to new data discussed this week at an IETF conference, there are more IPv6 users in the U.S than anywhere else in the world
Ooh, aah. What does that mean, then? In case anyone hadn't noticed, the U.S. is pretty big among countries. From the more useful article:
PNIC's global survey as of August 1st has IPv6 penetration in the U.S at 1.35 percent.
Romania currently tops the APNIC list at 8.73 percent
So yeah, go America. You're only doing 6.5x worse than Romania on this one.
Sensibility!=sense
Hmmmm, maybe the comma's
The comma's what? :p
Don't worry, it's time for him to explode.
Burma!
I wouldn't have even known about the troll's post if the first reply hadn't been modded up. Shouldn't warnings only be modded to equal or just above the score of the troll, i.e. 0? (someone mod me down please ;) )
on about 80% of the clicks Facebook was charging us for, JavaScript wasn't on
You (a human) wouldn't be able to click on the ads if you couldn't see them in the first place.
This is pretty much going the same direction as Star Wars
Yeah! Except, no, it's not, is it? This is a pre-release change to production, not a money-grubbing revisionist scourging of a sci-fi classic.
Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary?
That's Political Science.
Damn you HTML formatting!
Homer: “Hmm; how does it work?” Lisa: “It doesn’t work; it’s just a stupid rock!” Homer: “Uh-huh.” Lisa: “ but I don’t see any tigers around, do you?” Homer: “...Lisa, I want to buy your rock.” The question not answered by the article - or at least the shorter translation since I don't read German - is who exactly is making this assumption. Is it the German government? Or is, in fact, just this newspaper?
You should be more interested in your dosage.
12 members of the general public found the Birmingham Six guilty.
Juries also found Ian Huntley, Rosemary West and Harold Shipman guilty. What's your point?
If a jury can be swung one way it can be swung the other.
Why do you believe this jury swung the wrong way?
Way to miss the point, coplicker.
Way to descend to an ad hominem attack, although I'll grant that I did miss your point first time around.
It should have been a murder trial.
Why? How much of the information that the CPS used to come to their decision did you see? Did you read all of the statements of everyone involved?
"No police officer has been convicted for manslaughter for a crime committed while on duty since 1986."
So? How many were suspected? Arrested? Charged? Put on trial? Is there some magical level of convictions that would convince you that the legal system was working properly?
OAuth is an open standard for authorization. It allows users to share their private resources (e.g. photos, videos, contact lists) stored on one site with another site without having to hand out their credentials, typically supplying username and password tokens instead. Each token grants access to a specific site (e.g., a video editing site) for specific resources (e.g., just videos from a specific album) and for a defined duration (e.g., the next 2 hours). This allows a user to grant a third party site access to their information stored with another service provider, without sharing their access permissions or the full extent of their data.
Since all the usages are part of a quote, there's not a lot an editor can do. Inasmuch as the editors do anything at all, that is.
What was that about the cheesemakers?
And of course the ammunition is perfectly safe even when being wielded by an over-excited three-year-old...
Oh, wait.
I like Mint, but on my last install I had to trawl forums to find out why I couldn't get the Cinnamon desktop working. Turns out I had to install the Nvidia drivers which were available, but not installed by default. Fine and perfectly understandable. But when I installed said drivers, not only did I not get the Cinnamon desktop as I'd hoped, I also lost my taskbar entirely. More forum trawling - the drivers may not be compatible with my Nvidia card - but no working solutions.
This isn't meant to be anything against Mint - I've had the same kind of problems installing every distro I've ever tried, and it's crap like this that holds Linux back. Greatest weaknesses/greatest strengths and all that.