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Comment Re:Face Reality: (Score 1) 946

It's been slow that people have been toeing into Linux to be sure, but to shut them out entirely, I fear, would make them all clam up for another fifteen years. I'm hopeful that Steam and Source on Linux will take off, but if I can only get 60% of the framerate on Linux that I get on Windows then sticking with Windows is cheaper because I can put off new video cards longer.

Comment Re:Books worth more than games (Score 1) 103

Not really. There are two pay scales on which credit card companies charge fees to merchants, either a flat fee per transaction or a percentage. (Very rarely both.)

The flat fee is usually on the order of 50 cents per transaction. Possibly closer to 30 cents, I'm not exactly sure. Percentage is usually something like 5%. Both are higher for Amex and Discover. (One of a few reasons they're less often accepted.)

The reason gas stations and convenience stores often don't accept credit cards for sales less than $10 is that their margins are tight enough that they usually aren't making a dollar off of you until you get up to at least $10 so between paying for the cashier, rent and fees they're losing money on you.

It's possible that in this case $0.01 is -$0.39 or so but it's more likely that the Humble Bundle is on a percentage scale at about 6%. So $0.01 is $0.0094 instead. They probably don't get rounded out against except maybe by $0.01 per day.

Comment Re:Face Reality: (Score 0) 946

Then it will be either GPL or nothing at all.

And you're okay with that? Because last I looked Linux still held a single digit market share on laptops and desktops. "Sorry, but your graphics experience is shit until some super-hackers reverse-engineer the most complex subcomponent of the PC." isn't going to win many new users.

Comment Re:But that's not the real problem. (Score 1) 1651

In both of the two states where I have resided bicycles are vehicles and are allowed to take up a full lane as such. In addition, I believe that in the state I currently live in bicycles are encouraged to go to the front of the line at a stop light.

I do, however, agree that bicyclists need to observe the same rules as other vehicles such as stopping at stop signs and red lights and signalling.

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