Nikaido

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by Nikaido 14y ago
> This is the future of gaming. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/obsidian/project-eternit... http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-... http://www.kic
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by Nikaido 14y ago
> 2) The "robots.txt" argument misses the point because the publishers never gave permission to use their content, so the presence of an "opt-out" mechanism is irrelevant. The mechanism must be "opt-in", i.e., Google must ask to use the
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by Nikaido 14y ago
The fact that Ubuntu is open source wouldn't change anything if those things were true. Just because you can look at the source does not mean you're looking at the source of the code you're running, because you almost certainly did not co
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by Nikaido 14y ago
You wrote 513 characters about a subject you don't know anything about. Why is that ? You didn't use dropbox, you don't know how it works (hint, what made it so popular is the desktop client that syncs your data in the first place. And it's
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by Nikaido 14y ago
Not if we're talking about the real world (implementation), rather than the theoretical capability of a language in itself. Perl and Ruby don't see much love on Windows, particularly with GUI toolkits and the like. Python is the only one of
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by Nikaido 14y ago
> I don't want this question to sound loaded and threaded with negative connotations for/against apple but why would you label the computer as "one of the best I have ever used" if one of the primary interfaces to the user is repeatedly
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by Nikaido 14y ago
I've had the same experience with my own family. I tried to fix their tv only to get yelled at because I was wasting the space on the screen with the black bars. They'd rather see distorted faces than black bars, over saturated colors over
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by Nikaido 14y ago
The markup on the typecover is hard to justify when looking at the competition. The keyboard on the asus transformer cost about the same except that it also has a big battery inside, extending the battery life of the tablet when used in lap
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by Nikaido 14y ago
1/ It's 2012 and Windows 8 has decided it can't play DVD movies. Yes, that's right. You now NEED to install third party software just to play a legitimately bought DVD movie ! VLC is even more necessary than ever.
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by Nikaido 14y ago
Aperture a professional staple? This is funny because I can see Adobe Lightroom installed everywhere but no aperture in sight. I'd say, the vast majority of pro photographers favor Lightroom.
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by Nikaido 14y ago
While there are some particularly bad examples of cult of personality in free software, I wouldn't say this is one of them. I think that people are relaying Linus's opinion on desktops so much because he's sharing our thought process and gi