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Comment Re:Not true (Score 1) 569

If you get enough people wound up about something, you can get the backing and momentum to really have an effect.

I don't get it. If you hate EA, why do you give a shit? You're getting upset because a company isn't doing something you wish they would do? Who gives a fuck? You're not buying their shit anyway.

It's like you've gone all obsessive about a beautiful but super-cunty woman and you hate her SOOO bad because she won't give you a blow job, so you rant and rave about it. That's mental illness, bub.

It's very simple. We don't like seeing our retarded fellow humans being taken advantage of by companies like EA.

Comment Re:Reform plea bargaining. (Score 2) 443

Court time are extremely variable. How long do you think it would take to explain to non technical people all the technical aspects of a case like Swartz's? Definately more than an hour.

Assuming you are talking about the Jury, this should not be a problem if it really was a Jury of one's peers.

Comment Re:Compatibility - Serious Question ... (Score 1) 474

"And then when you update your Linux once and the entire thing crashes and burns, you'll go back to Windows. At least, that's what keeps happening to me when I try to switch to Linux."

I hear this comment a lot or variants of the theme - and i just dont get it - I've been using Linux since ~2000 - now back then things could be a problem and a comment like the above would have its place. But as an experienced Linux user - i find "it just works" (tm) . I dont have to screw around installing drivers or fanny around with settings at all. Compare that with a windows box or a OSX and , if you've been using Linux as long as i have and plug say a (for example) midi interface into a windows or OSX box you be astonished to find yourself hunting for drivers etc like wtf ?. On a modern linux distro that sort of thing "Just Works" and thats the kind of experience I have with Linux. The same can be said for updates for the most part are pretty damn reliable - I have an ubuntu box thats running 12.10 and i've upgraded every time theres been a distro update over the last 3 years and it usually goes without a hiccup.

So whats the deal here? Im no Linux newbie but im not doing anything special - i mean - its been that long since i edited Xf86config i've forgotten what half of it does.

I would geniunely like to know what these Linux newbies coming over from Windows are actually doing to screw up there systems so badly - its pretty difficult do to that nowadays?

Anyone care to comment - im sure if we can get to the bottom of what is happening to these guys that we as a community can do something about it!

N.

Look, you just said your self it "usually" goes without a hiccup. Which sounds like you occasionally have something go wrong... Now when you consider that even the latest LTS release of ubuntu doesn't install cleanly due to nvidia driver problems you should not be so surprised that occasionally there are problems.

I'm at the point where I do not update my work linux machine for fear of it breaking. I will only update when I know I have the time to fix any problems that will occur.

Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 395

How?

As a long term investor, if I want to buy, I buy at the current ask price, if I want to sell, I sell at the current bid price.

Why?

It sounds like you are relying on a third party to match your trades when there is a perfectly good exchange (that you're already using) that can match your trades just as well.

Is there a problem with ignoring the HFT and placing your order at the price you want?

Comment Re:Yet another YOTLD estimate (Score 1) 363

By default Ubuntu will use the open source video driver called Nouveau for your NVIDIA graphics card.

Usually you will see a notification and/or an icon in the top panel, reminding you that restricted drivers are available.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia

Going to be hard to spot that notification icon when the installer doesn't even work...

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