proland

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by proland 13y ago
I think you may have missed the subtext of the article.
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by proland 13y ago
It usually takes distro developers a while to vet kernels and ensure stability with their userspace stuff. 3.7 and 3.8 had a few regressions, and were skipped by a few distros. 3.9 only made it into Debian Stable last month (as a backport f
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by proland 13y ago
I'm not talking about recording anything off your sound mix. It's significantly easier than that. As in right click and save easy.
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by proland 13y ago
How long until they fix their security so it isn't trivially easy to download an mp3 of every song that gets played?
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by proland 13y ago
Not if everyone phoned home, then cut the cord every 24h.
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by proland 13y ago
So charge $5 (or whatever the cut they would get from a used game resale) to convert it.
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by proland 13y ago
So, rather than sharing with up to 10 people it's now 11 (and the 11th can never go online, because the key for the disk has been burned)? Alternatively, sell your physical disk used and buy the digital copy off live.
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by proland 13y ago
This really just looks like sour grapes from Microsoft to me. There's no reason they couldn't have both... Buy a physical disk? Trade use it like you always have, but you don't get to make use of all the fancy cloud features.
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by proland 13y ago
Console won't boot without it plugged in. It's also not clear if there will be a physical power button, meaning the only way to turn the damn thing on will be for Kinect to hear the phrase "Xbox On", meaning stuffing it
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by proland 13y ago
If someone has had their real name on their profile at any time, and later changed it, it's pretty easy to still find using the real name. Trivially so if they chose a username that contained their real name.
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by proland 13y ago
It would be the car dealers protesting... I'm sure other car manufacturers would love to be able to sell their cars direct to consumer again.
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by proland 13y ago
Anyone else find it ironic that the article opens with Apple being the victim of a broken patent system, when they have a long history of using the same broken system to their own ends?
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by proland 13y ago
The ring is a registered symbol of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens, and wearing or displaying one without their permission (via having been obligated) or attempting to sell one is illegal in exactly the same way that using any other en
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by proland 13y ago
Actually it is the right word. The ring is a registered symbol of the Corporation of the Seven Wardens, and wearing or displaying one without their permission (via having been obligated) or attempting to sell one is illegal in exactly the s
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by proland 13y ago
It is illegal to wear the ring in any fashion if you are not a practicing engineer (as you should have been told when you were obligated).
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by proland 13y ago
If you're going to change the title, at least add NSFW to it...
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by proland 13y ago
I wonder if this is related to the myriad of "NO SD CARD, NO REPLACEABLE BATTERY, NO BUY" type user comments that littered positive reviews for the HTC One.
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by proland 13y ago
I agree, seeing vert.x with it's other language options would be interesting.
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by proland 14y ago
She was comfortable enough to publicly shame them and call them ass clowns...
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by proland 14y ago
Notice how it says 23 injured, not 30 killed? That's the difference.
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by proland 14y ago
"Or tell me how to live my life, ethically or morally" Is this really the duty of politicians though? Certainly there's been a lot of discourse about this in the current landscape, especially from those attempting to impart their personal e