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  1. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    In that sense, I also installed through the internet, as the CD has only 28 packages.

  2. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    No, I noticed neither the complaints nor the necessity of mono on Ubuntu 9.10.

  3. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    Was mono ever part of the base install? Did one ever require mono to run Ubuntu?

  4. Re:More than once on Venus To Transit the Sun In June, Not Again Until 2117 · · Score: 0

    WW1 aces would look into the sun with no eye protection whatsoever, because the best place to attack from was with the sun at your back.

    If the sun is at your back, how can you look into it?

    (don't wear glasses or contacts)

    Even corrective lenses with UV protection?

  5. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    Got to have something to initiate the install. I've heard of doing a net boot, but does that work over the internet (as opposed to a LAN)?

  6. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    I searched mono on synaptic. There are a lot of mono packages listed. The change logs show activity from April 4th, 2012, and the person listed as making that change has an ubuntu.com email address. The mono packages aren't on the CD, but the CD has only 28 packages.

  7. Re:Isn't Mono dead? on Android Ported To C# · · Score: 1

    No. Ubuntu 12.04 includes a lot of mono packages, including mono runtime.

  8. Re:Excellent Question! Re:Licensing? on Oracle and the End of Programming As We Know It · · Score: 1

    Because the coding "to the other side" is being done by developers employed by the copyright holder? I assume that Oracle won't sue its own programmers.

  9. Re:My 3 weeks with Lumia on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    When I ran your post in view source, there were line breaks. Did you post as HTML?

  10. Re:Monumental failure. on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    Not recommended by whom? And for what reason?

  11. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    I find Windows 7 to be very polished. I just prefer Linux.

  12. Re:FIRE THEM AND MOVE PRODUCTION TO ALABAMA !! on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 1

    Is it really a good idea to use slaves to produce delicate electronics?

  13. Re:Brazil workers have more rights then ones in Ch on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 1

    Arabic (to communicate to their tormentors).

    Since when did Xe employees speak Arabic?

  14. Re:Translation on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 2

    And how is shutting the fuck up going to improve conditions?

  15. Whay would Marx say? on Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike · · Score: 5, Funny

    Workers of the world unite! The only thing you have to lose are your iPads!

  16. Re:Geometric on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    Are you saying that exponential growth and geometric growth are different? In either case you have f(n)=a*b^n, where a is positive and b is greater than 1.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_progression#Elementary_properties

  17. Re:So... on Gaming Clichés That Need To Die · · Score: 1

    A movie at a theater is $12 for two hours, songs aren't that expensive, and most books (for entertainment) would cost less than $5 an hour. What are the entertainment choices you had in mind?

  18. Re:That on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    She was born in Kiev. Would you settle for

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariska_Hargitay

  19. Re:Quote from article on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    If the only way that they can stay in business is by lobbying for such laws, what other response do they deserve?

  20. Nation's security needs? on Terminal Mixup Implicates TSA Agents In LAX Smuggling Plot · · Score: 1

    From the article:

    "The allegations in this case describe a significant breakdown of the screening system through the conduct of individuals who placed greed above the nation's security needs," said U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr.

    OK, the people who took bribes to let this stuff get through deserve to be prosecuted, but can we please stop appealing to so-called "national security"?

  21. Re:The missing piece on University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks · · Score: 1

    And people will be particularly unlikely to do it for free if it's going to be rewritten every three years, resulting in the need for re-reviewing.

    While specialized texts may need to be rewritten every three years, I'm not sure that would apply to other works.

  22. Re:The missing piece on University of Minnesota Launches Review Project For Open Textbooks · · Score: 1

    Again, how much harder is it to peer review an open textbook than a traditional textbook?

  23. Re:Nothing new? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    OK, what am I failing to understand?

  24. Re:Well, there you have it on Is Stanford Too Close To Silicon Valley? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does The Art Institute of Las Vegas teach you how to draw to an inside straight?

  25. Re:Nothing new? on Software Engineering Is a Dead-End Career, Says Bloomberg · · Score: 1

    No.