throwaway64

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by throwaway64 14y ago
Be careful with model or even revision numbers, always check hardware compatibility lists. very often times the difference between something like a "653" and a "653+" can be an entirely different (and not supported) chipset.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
You do not receive the Google Docs login prompt if your browser is not logged into Google at all. You do, however, receive the login prompt if your browser is logged in through another Google service (like search). Check to make sure nobod
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Replay from Intermernet who is dead: Yes, but being inspired to write a similar book is now a grey area. As a some-time composer / musician, I like to play around with existing themes and thus create new themes. Many of history's greatest m
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by throwaway64 14y ago
I belive there is a real moral hazard to selling addicting/impulsive products, especially to children. After all this is part of the reason why zynga has such a bad reputation.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the issue is, if you have a cluster of games/etc managed by steam in your home directory that is already not under the control of package management, what do you gain by splitting out the steam client itself? it is easier from valve's persp
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by throwaway64 14y ago
theoreticly you could work around the library/datafile issues with LD_PRELOAD hacks to make it load stuff from your home directory instead, but thats pretty awful.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
The problem with this is that with many steam games (such as TF2) the game data itself updates constantly aswell.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
how is it irrelivant? if people are wanting games and stuff to be distributed through the package manager, all these issues very much apply. Even the steam client package itself is something like 100megs, so it becomes painful without diff/
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by throwaway64 14y ago
ah the power to unilaterally change terms, knowing your customers have essentially zero alternative.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
path prefixes only generally apply to ./configure scripts when you are generating makefiles. As paths to libs and stuff are hardcoded as part of the ELF spec, it becomes difficult to implement something like this and ive not seen a package
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Steam has a package so dependancies can be satisfied easily without resorting to "install xyz beforehand", and it runs an installer into your home folder because the user has to be able to modify the games directory for many, many games on
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by throwaway64 14y ago
"we both recognize that wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world, in part because the mobile marketplace is more competitive and changing rapidly. In recognition of the still-nascent nature of the wireless broadba
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Its best to always remember this, Google was not on the side of "internet freedom" when they recommended to the FCC that wireless networks didn't need net neutrality.
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Adventures in Microsoft UEFI Signing(blog.hansenpartnership.com)
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by throwaway64 14y ago
this ends android as an open source project frankly, open source means freedom to fork, end of story.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
for not feeling comfortable with perscriptive posts you certainly make a lot of them
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by throwaway64 14y ago
My personal favourite comes from apple AVPlayer *player = <#A configured AVPlayer object#>; CALayer *superlayer = <#Get a CALayer#>; AVPlayerLayer *playerLayer = [AVPlayerLayer playerLayerWithPlayer:playe
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by throwaway64 14y ago
its not about putting ads on the homescreen? they have done exactly that with xbox already, 50% of the homescreen is composed of ads https://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/50... Whats more they try to justify it with si
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by throwaway64 14y ago
namecoins fit the bill rather nicely, its essentially bitcoin, but applied to DNS. http://www.dot-bit.org/
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by throwaway64 14y ago
you might want to take a look at MenuetOS, its written in x86 assembly, and expressly created for clarity and learning. http://www.menuetos.net/
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by throwaway64 14y ago
unfortunately, these devices have no AD integration, or other Enterprise deployment stuff that typically makes windows appealing to businesses.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
not certain how much of a market for chrome books there really is I had previously heard rumours of sales of only 50000 units worldwide (Cannot source atm) http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/few-buy-chromebooks...
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by throwaway64 14y ago
the problen with this viewpoint is that metro represents a fundamental shift in the window system. Stuff like appstore only, forced sandboxing and tons of restrictions that have never been an issue on windows before. Microsoft has made it v
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by throwaway64 14y ago
At the kind of scales that OP is operating at, you are almost certainly going to need a system administration person with either option.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
The problem with this idea when applied to this case is the motivations of people wishing to use some alternate definition. There is a real profit motive in being able to call stuff "open source" when it doesn't grant its users the same kin
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by throwaway64 14y ago
Open Source a term with a single, specific definition. It is damaging to the ideas of FLOSS to allow stuff like "shared source" to be called open source. EDIT: Removed reference to "open source" being trademarked, it is in fact not, apologi
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by throwaway64 14y ago
those statements were not about specific games, they were about steam itself, offline mode is very broken for many people.
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by throwaway64 14y ago
This kind of armchair criticism is not particularly enlightening, or productive. You can still make useful and largely correct predictions without understanding all of the dynamics in a system. After all, all science amounts to an approxima
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by throwaway64 14y ago
not everyone shares your, or apples ideas, about what constitutes a "good practice"
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by throwaway64 14y ago
>here doesn't seem to be anything that openness would have provided him. you are clearly not familiar with the history of minecraft, they have a long history, especially in the begging of pushing out features very rapidly, along with th

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