why there is even a question of "Why isn't there more gaming on Linux?" Look at how many desktops Linux currently occupies. I don't have the numbers in front of me but it's pretty small compared to Windows and Mac. Now look at how many of those users are going to be interested in playing games. Comparatively, not many. Hell, they already chose a free OS with mostly free apps, why would they pay for a game? The logic may not necessarily hold up, but I can imagine thats how the game companies see it. Nobody is going to put all the time, effort and resources into creating a port of a game for Linux when their return on investment is almost guaranteed to be negative. How people can't see this is beyond me. It's simple economics folks.
I have a windshield mount for my Droid and plug it in to the auxiliary audio port of my car which makes it work quite nicely hands-free because the mount turns on the speaker-phone. So there's a few people out there who do stupid things like texting while driving and now we just have to shut down cell phone use in cars period? Even for passengers? Give me a break. This will never happen, there will simply be too much public outrage over it....I hope.
"issues which make it hard to recommend that you roll your own Diaspora server just yet."
It's not even alpha yet people, of course there are going to be issues that would cause one not to recommend you roll your own server. Dayum.
Because there is an increasing belief in this country, fostered by one side of the political spectrum, that believes that their jobs belong to them and not the employer who created the job.
This is just the modern day equivalent to them tailing a person. They used to have to sit in a car, wait for the person to go somewhere and follow them hoping they don't get noticed. Now they just tack a gps transmitter to the car. I don't see how this is any more of a problem than tailing was/is.
...let it take on UPS and FedEx." While technically true, it could never happen. I work closely with the USPS as I own an independent pack & ship store and I've seen first hand the culture of sloth that exists at the USPS and my mail carrier even complains about it. If they were ever to compete against UPS or FedEx they would have to drastically adjust the attitude of many of their employees. I would like to say that this culture exists due to the USPS being unionized and essentially being a government agency where it's impossible to get fired but it's not that simple either. I talk to my UPS driver all the time when he stops in to do pick ups and UPS is also unionized and it's damn near impossible to get fired from there as well, yet they operate efficiently and profitably. I don't know what the fix is for the USPS, other than to fire everybody and start over if they want to compete with UPS and FedEx.
"and users informed of the issues of placing all of their money in the same account that their debit card has access to."
Ever heard of not putting all of your eggs in one basket? I keep enough money in my checking account to cover me and the rest securely in a savings account. People shouldn't have to be told to have common sense.
I actually think it's pretty cool that they rewarded the people who paid attention. Granted, I never read those things because what is the likelihood I'll ever run afoul of it, but the fact that they rewarded somebody for simply reading the agreement and opting out is cool.
Did I not say that I am opposed to government sanctioned monopolies? You should learn to finish reading a post before you stick your foot in your mouth.
It's not really a setback considering the legal framework for it doesn't exist. Looks like the net neutrality movement now has a Square One to begin from. I'm on the fence when it comes to net neutrality as I believe it's a corporations right to charge how they see fit and if customers don't like it they can go elsewhere. On the other hand, many of the ISP's are government sanctioned monopolies which I don't agree with at all.
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You clearly don't have access to guns or 3 year olds. I'm not sure what particular model of gun it was, but a quick Google of "Smith & Wesson.380" shows me lots of models without hammers but instead strikers that are always cocked when a round is chambered and since the father had "just been investigating a prowler", it probably had a round chambered. Also, my 3 year old nephew most definitely has the strength to hold the gun and pull the trigger, he does not however have the ability to easily tell real from fake.
It is pretty suspicious to me though that the article says the mother was just 3 feet away. How can one be 3 feet away from both a 3 year old and a loaded pistol and not realize it? And even worse, what in the hell was the stepfather thinking placing a loaded weapon on a table with children in the house? My gun is never out of my control unless it's locked up in it's safe. As with many other posters, this was gross negligence on their part. I'm not sure I agree with a call for criminal charges though as he's got to live with it for the rest of his life knowing his negligence killed that little girl.
Set your anti-capitalist feelings aside and look at this objectively. Yeah, he screwed them over, but his goal in life wasn't "I'm going to screw these people over so hard and it's going to be awesome!!!!111!" His goal was money and the employees happened to get screwed over by his lust for it. I'm all about entrepreneurship, I'm a small business owner myself, but you can't force people to have a conscience. Even in a socialist society, the workers get screwed over, just for other reasons. People are always more interested in looking out for number 1 and the economic setup just determines how they screw others.
...Nothing! This firearm is a dead father waiting to happen. If you can't properly secure your firearm WITHOUT something like this, you shouldn't be handling a firearm.
Either you can't read, or somebody can't write. I've actually been complimented on my cursive by people sayings it's pretty. When I'm writing at a normal pace it's actually quite legible but when I'm scrambling to take notes it's terrible, but it's still a hell of a lot better than my print which I just can't do in a hurry because I've been writing in cursive since the 3rd grade in 1988.
Ditto. The only time I ever had to reboot my router on a regular basis was when I had Windows DNS settings point to my router as the DNS provider and I was torrenting a lot. Once I put my ISP's DNS servers into my windows settings, I stopped having to reboot it all the time.
Well, they aren't free. This is pretty standard practice in a lot of places. The runaway bride here in Atlanta had to pay the county back for her search. It's a sad situation for sure, but somebody has to pay for it and it shouldn't be the taxpayers.
The US Constitution, the Magna Carta, all those other lovely documents all over the world were written with one purpose in mind - to give you the illusion of freedom So you were present during the creation of these documents then? Please share with us your method of time travel. Seriously, nobody can say what those documents were written for beyond the face value which is freedom. I'm sorry you're just too jaded to appreciate that those were the intentions and those intentions have been perverted.
Why not just send all the kids TI-89's and teach them how to program those. I can't imagine anybody creating a PC of any worth for less than the cost of a graphing calculator.
Piracy has been socially acceptable for a long time in Brazil. I was down there in 2002 and there are flea market-like places that are laid out in a bit of a more upscale manner that have vendors who openly sell pirated games, music and movies. While I was there I even saw police officers browsing and buying. My friend who I was there to visit said that any time there's going to be a raid the operators are tipped off and close up shop for the day before it happens.
The fact that they are asking for it means they know they acted irresponsibly with their customer's info, and illegally. I disagree. I think what they're trying to do is protect them from superfluous lawsuits that our culture seems so fond of these days.
I'm not suggesting anybody mourn them, but at least show a little bit of respect for the dead regardless of what caused their death. Sure there's a bit of irony in how they died but it's nothing to joke or mock. Just because it's words on a computer screen and not a funeral procession makes no difference.
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why there is even a question of "Why isn't there more gaming on Linux?" Look at how many desktops Linux currently occupies. I don't have the numbers in front of me but it's pretty small compared to Windows and Mac. Now look at how many of those users are going to be interested in playing games. Comparatively, not many. Hell, they already chose a free OS with mostly free apps, why would they pay for a game? The logic may not necessarily hold up, but I can imagine thats how the game companies see it. Nobody is going to put all the time, effort and resources into creating a port of a game for Linux when their return on investment is almost guaranteed to be negative. How people can't see this is beyond me. It's simple economics folks.
I have a windshield mount for my Droid and plug it in to the auxiliary audio port of my car which makes it work quite nicely hands-free because the mount turns on the speaker-phone. So there's a few people out there who do stupid things like texting while driving and now we just have to shut down cell phone use in cars period? Even for passengers? Give me a break. This will never happen, there will simply be too much public outrage over it....I hope.
"issues which make it hard to recommend that you roll your own Diaspora server just yet." It's not even alpha yet people, of course there are going to be issues that would cause one not to recommend you roll your own server. Dayum.
Because there is an increasing belief in this country, fostered by one side of the political spectrum, that believes that their jobs belong to them and not the employer who created the job.
This is just the modern day equivalent to them tailing a person. They used to have to sit in a car, wait for the person to go somewhere and follow them hoping they don't get noticed. Now they just tack a gps transmitter to the car. I don't see how this is any more of a problem than tailing was/is.
...let it take on UPS and FedEx." While technically true, it could never happen. I work closely with the USPS as I own an independent pack & ship store and I've seen first hand the culture of sloth that exists at the USPS and my mail carrier even complains about it. If they were ever to compete against UPS or FedEx they would have to drastically adjust the attitude of many of their employees. I would like to say that this culture exists due to the USPS being unionized and essentially being a government agency where it's impossible to get fired but it's not that simple either. I talk to my UPS driver all the time when he stops in to do pick ups and UPS is also unionized and it's damn near impossible to get fired from there as well, yet they operate efficiently and profitably. I don't know what the fix is for the USPS, other than to fire everybody and start over if they want to compete with UPS and FedEx.
"and users informed of the issues of placing all of their money in the same account that their debit card has access to." Ever heard of not putting all of your eggs in one basket? I keep enough money in my checking account to cover me and the rest securely in a savings account. People shouldn't have to be told to have common sense.
I actually think it's pretty cool that they rewarded the people who paid attention. Granted, I never read those things because what is the likelihood I'll ever run afoul of it, but the fact that they rewarded somebody for simply reading the agreement and opting out is cool.
Did I not say that I am opposed to government sanctioned monopolies? You should learn to finish reading a post before you stick your foot in your mouth.
It's not really a setback considering the legal framework for it doesn't exist. Looks like the net neutrality movement now has a Square One to begin from. I'm on the fence when it comes to net neutrality as I believe it's a corporations right to charge how they see fit and if customers don't like it they can go elsewhere. On the other hand, many of the ISP's are government sanctioned monopolies which I don't agree with at all.
It is pretty suspicious to me though that the article says the mother was just 3 feet away. How can one be 3 feet away from both a 3 year old and a loaded pistol and not realize it? And even worse, what in the hell was the stepfather thinking placing a loaded weapon on a table with children in the house? My gun is never out of my control unless it's locked up in it's safe. As with many other posters, this was gross negligence on their part. I'm not sure I agree with a call for criminal charges though as he's got to live with it for the rest of his life knowing his negligence killed that little girl.
Set your anti-capitalist feelings aside and look at this objectively. Yeah, he screwed them over, but his goal in life wasn't "I'm going to screw these people over so hard and it's going to be awesome!!!!111!" His goal was money and the employees happened to get screwed over by his lust for it. I'm all about entrepreneurship, I'm a small business owner myself, but you can't force people to have a conscience. Even in a socialist society, the workers get screwed over, just for other reasons. People are always more interested in looking out for number 1 and the economic setup just determines how they screw others.
...Nothing! This firearm is a dead father waiting to happen. If you can't properly secure your firearm WITHOUT something like this, you shouldn't be handling a firearm.
Either you can't read, or somebody can't write. I've actually been complimented on my cursive by people sayings it's pretty. When I'm writing at a normal pace it's actually quite legible but when I'm scrambling to take notes it's terrible, but it's still a hell of a lot better than my print which I just can't do in a hurry because I've been writing in cursive since the 3rd grade in 1988.
Put up or shut up bud. If you've got the stories, tell them to support your claim.
THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
THEN THEY CAME for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
THEN THEY CAME for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.
-Martin NiemÃller
Ditto. The only time I ever had to reboot my router on a regular basis was when I had Windows DNS settings point to my router as the DNS provider and I was torrenting a lot. Once I put my ISP's DNS servers into my windows settings, I stopped having to reboot it all the time.
Well, they aren't free. This is pretty standard practice in a lot of places. The runaway bride here in Atlanta had to pay the county back for her search. It's a sad situation for sure, but somebody has to pay for it and it shouldn't be the taxpayers.
...so why is this on the front page?
Why not just send all the kids TI-89's and teach them how to program those. I can't imagine anybody creating a PC of any worth for less than the cost of a graphing calculator.
Anybody caught consulting Youtube for health information should be sterilized. I kid of course, but seriously, who does that????
Piracy has been socially acceptable for a long time in Brazil. I was down there in 2002 and there are flea market-like places that are laid out in a bit of a more upscale manner that have vendors who openly sell pirated games, music and movies. While I was there I even saw police officers browsing and buying. My friend who I was there to visit said that any time there's going to be a raid the operators are tipped off and close up shop for the day before it happens.
I'm not suggesting anybody mourn them, but at least show a little bit of respect for the dead regardless of what caused their death. Sure there's a bit of irony in how they died but it's nothing to joke or mock. Just because it's words on a computer screen and not a funeral procession makes no difference.