I'm not sure how much your labor is worth but you can buy a built server on the cheap ($599).
Plus you'll be supporting a vendor who "officially" supports Linux. It looks like Dell has their motherboards custom-made by Intel, which is another open-source-friendly company.
If Asus and Gigabyte don't want your money, then don't give it to them.
GNU is for steers and queers. And I don't see any steers around here.
Good lord, you can't even troll right. "And programmers don't have horns" might have been slightly better. Please try harder next time.
The prototype had a watch-sized wristband that had to be behind the gun for it to be able to fire. This was maybe 10-15 years ago. The fact that it is still not out shows how difficult these kinds of countermeasures are to bring into practice.
Hold on, Mr. Intruder, while I put on my little bracelet here...
Those people probably didn't need an automatic
There was a time not too long ago in our nation's history when fully automatic machine guns were perfectly legal. Yet, they were not used to commit mass killings inside schools.
The shooter in this case (apparently) used two 9mm pistols.
This seems to suggest it's not the mere availability of "assault" weapons which is the problem, and banning them won't prevent nutjobs from having the will or the means to kill lots of people. The problem needs a different approach.
Seriously, the only people who still bring this up (and mod it "Insightful" on
My friend, you are either "utterly ignorant of reality" or intentionally muddying the waters. We're talking about two entirely different things here: 1) buying an app from an app store, and 2) paying for digital goods within that app (or free apps).
Everyone agrees 30% seems to be a fair, market based price for the former. Microsoft's problem is with the latter. Niether Google Play nor Windows Marketplace nor Amazon nor RIM force all developers on their platform to give 30% of everything sold within their apps.
Apple has NOTHING TO DO with providing SkyDrive service to Microsoft's customers, yet they are demanding that Microsoft give them a 30% cut of it merely to have an app on their platform.
But if you want to reach 90%+ of all devices you'll have it on the play store.
Humble Bundle seems to be doing just fine bypassing the Play store (and Google's fees) entirely.
Of which very few people are going to ever do.
Again, this is what Humble Bundle does.
Nope. Google prohibits using 3rd party payment processors for in-app purchases. Google is acting no different than Apple.
Again, this is only for apps sold via the Play Store. You're welcome to bypass the Google ecosystem entirely. And they take a very small percentage of the transaction, which is more in line with typical credit card fees, nowhere near close to the 30% Apple charges.
Google is acting nothing like Apple.
Amen!! Forget sharks, I want a goddamn pigeon-eating catfish with a laser on its head!
This is the problem that Nexus devices are designed to solve. You get updates directly from Google as soon as they're released; no carrier to get in the way. (Well, unless you're on a CDMA carrier, since they still withhold the signed CDMA drivers. Which is why Google has stopped releasing CDMA versions of Nexus devices).
So buy a Nexus device directly from Google Play, hook it up to an uber-cheap T-Mobile prepaid plan, and you'll be up-to-date for as long as your hardware can physically run the latest version of Android.
It's based on a business technique that's as old as the hills: Give away free stuff to crush the competition until people become dependent on your free stuff, then you put on the squeeze. Google is just a private company trying to make money, not freaking Santa Clause
You put on the squeeze by... letting them keep using it for free? No one is being "squeezed" here; people who aren't using it already aren't dependent on it either.
I used to run all my own email etc. on a server in my house, but a year or so ago I moved it all onto a 'google apps for business' account.
A year ago?? Good Lord man, how did you put up with it for so long? I ran my own SMTP server until about 10 years ago but between constant break-in attempts, keeping on top of the latest spam-filtering techniques, outgoing mail not getting delivered because of the # of hosts that just silently drop email from residential IPs... it just wasn't worth it.
Specifically to your post though, with the rate at which they're integrating Google+ and Circles into all their web apps, I imagine that's their solution for families who want to have "trusted groups" of users. Yeah you don't have the admin control though which is a shame.
I don't really enjoy telling some random company out there that I'm currently trying to find a condom and doggy treats. Especially if they don't know that I have to occupy my dog somehow while I have someone in my bed so he doesn't bark, it kinda kills my mood.
But now you just told the whole world you date guys who like to bark like a dog in bed? Kind of a strange way to make a case for privacy. Wait, let me read that again...
Ten feet from where I am sitting right now, a man is watching videos of packaging machines in operation and drawing the mechanisms on a CAD program. He is in the R&D department.
Using a fully licensed copy of AutoCAD, no doubt.
When it comes to mobile phones, the US market is highly controlled and restricted, the China market is open. Yes, you heard that correctly: communist China's market is much more open than capitalist US's market. In China, like most of the rest of the world outside the US, you buy a phone, and then you buy a subscription to a network. They don't come bundled. So it's much easier for newcomers to put a model on the market - they don't need to care about having a carrier's blessing.
You can do the same thing here in the U.S on GSM carriers (AT&T and T-Mobile being the big ones). You don't need the "carrier's blessing" to put any phone on their network. Now for whatever reason most people seem to prefer subsidized phones but that's a different matter.
But it's still the free market at play, not some nefarious "control & restrictions". Anyone can buy a top of the line Android phone for $300 and use it contract free on whatever network they choose. If more people did that then you'd see more carriers promote that model but as long as people willingly choose to support carrier lock-in (because it lets you pay slightly less up front) that's what we're stuck with.
Sounds like 2013 will be the year of the Windows desktop!
I've wished for a long time that Google would buy T-Mobile. I'm wondering if they'll take a major stake in them once they go public as a separate entity as a result of their merger with MetroPCS. Here's hoping...
Top Ten Things Overheard At The ANSI C Draft Committee Meetings: (5) All right, who's the wiseguy who stuck this trigraph stuff in here?
