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mestudent
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Comment #2846661
This is probably another unapproved translation as zed said his book was meant for teaching python and we need substantial changes for ruby. The other book basically translated the…
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Comment #2844636
I guess I am not the target audience either, but gnome2 remains my favorite desktop environment and once that is dropped from distros I will go another route, perhaps xfce but it d…
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Comment #2835935
For something as obvious as for gaming (where in the video other games have people running around while these guys are hovering around a static environment), I expect something tha…
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Comment #2830878
I try to make my websites work in ie6 but with minimal work, I'll let IE6 users use it but it will be a degraded experience and most of my website for normal people actually haven'…
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Comment #2804937
Maybe give a bit more of a description because I remember something similar but can't quite put it together with your description.
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Comment #2804164
To be honest I expect a chromebook to be priced similar or at the very least $200 for me to be competitive with a more powerful/portable netbook. His expectations aren't off, the m…
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Comment #2790965
And that trailing slash is exactly how it didn't get caught by the dupe filter.
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Comment #2790163
Is this[1] the "manifesto"? If not can someone post it so I don't have to get around the block. [1]: http://cdmirror.textfiles.com/JSTOR_01_PhilTrans/1st_READ.tx...
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Comment #2746897
To be honest the emails he got could have easily annoyed him and seem to have come from someone who believes he is not interrupting into someones time (especially after the first r…
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Comment #2740762
This isn't really anything to do with seo but make your front page static and move the rest (all the wedding pictures) to another page with a limit (maybe 5 or 10 a page). I though…
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Comment #2723890
That is my problem right now, I won't buy an android until cyanogen runs on it and it is easily rooted, so when my droid first gen finally broke I actually ended up buying an iphon…
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Comment #2712460
Because incoming still takes up bandwidth so it makes sense to count it is such. I however do remember it being free at some point in time.
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Comment #2703529
That is the way I use it, much better than the new one that requires javascript to do everything.
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Comment #2699599
Are you using linux, linux seems like a secondhand citizen with regards to firefox and that is where I see all my problems. I don't know if crashing is the right word but it does b…
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Comment #2699291
I try every new firefox release for at least a week, and to be honest I haven't seen an advantage of using it since chrome came out. It is just way too slow[1], it may have better …
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Comment #2696184
I've activated without installing anything with every broadband provider I have had as well and most of the time it is quite easy. Cable seems to be activated just by using their m…
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Comment #2693529
I haven't had any trouble with AUR any time I've used it, most of the time a simple makepkg -s does the trick, but maybe it is just similar enough to slackbuilds for me not to mind…
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Comment #2693486
You can't really pirate cs anymore than you can pirate tf2, css also runs on the same engine as tf2 so any of the kids that can get their hands on source can get their hands on tf2…
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Comment #2691253
You would be surprised by the amount of cheaters with multiple accounts in source games even though they weren't free.
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Comment #2691240
It depends on the game, play competitive counterstrike and everyone is a dick (source or 1.6)
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Comment #2677451
If you weren't around for the last discussion and haven't figured it out by the web client: dropbox encrypts and decrypts your data on their servers which inherently provides anyon…
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Comment #2676244
Customer acquisition and advertisement.
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Comment #2674666
I do this (also on prgmr) and manage backups with tarsnap+cron which with all my small repos costs nearly nothing even if I don't clean up old tarsnap archives.
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Comment #2671925
So much for "There are no chargebacks on BitCoin" Well this is trading through an intermediary, you can't really expect it to work that way otherwise something like this would have…
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Comment #2669644
I don't think it is eink but take a look at Pixel Qi screens http://www.pixelqi.com/