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Comment Re:To be fair (Score 1) 282

There is some truth in that, but you also have to be weary of their accounting. Its full of dirty tricks, where they can make a massive profit look like a loss. Sometimes in reporting the profits along the pipeline, they only talk about the profits of one part of their company. The crude oil department may only make .25 cents, but the refinery also makes .25 cents, the delivery division makes .25 cents, the retail gas station company makes .25 and so on.

Comment Re:I guess Minecraft will stop using it (Score 1) 115

Well, considering G+ didn't exist when Youtube was purchased... Its not that good of an analogy.

Try comparing it to the Microsoft skype purchase.

Funny note, Microsoft is now hosting developer video hangouts over G+. Despite owning skype outright, and owning a part of facebook.

I also hate the Youtube G+ Integration, for the opposite reason. G+ is great, youtube and the comments there are horrible and shouldn't be brought to light anywhere civilized people gather.

Comment Re:To be fair (Score 1) 282

Play with the cost to run a car on gas vs electric. There are several calculators out there, including one on tesla's site where you can adjust milage on the gas car, miles driven, cost of electricity, cost of gas. .

This is my argument:
It cost less to use electric. Someone will make less money if we were to switch from gas to electric. I'm guessing that someone will be an oil company, even if an oil company supplying natural gas to the electric company.

Comment Re:Sarcasm (Score 4, Insightful) 173

Within the insane homeopathic industry, that's correct. However, penicillin isn't always a helpful ingredient to everyone. Some are deathly allergic. So for those people it would "help" according to people who lack any cognitive function measurable by modern science.

Also relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment Re:Linux Only :( (Score 1) 83

Yeah, Linux seems to be killing BSD and all flavors of UNIX on the desktop that don't have an apple logo on them. I'm not sure why Non-linux support is really needed. However, if it is needed, it kind of makes sense to get it working rock solid and tested on the largest of the three ( linux, BSD, UNIX), before starting a port to the others. When Gnome and KDE have made the transition, then I think it would probably be ready for BSD & Unix Ports.

Comment Re:To make it easier: (Score 1) 285

Well, they all are. The soil peppers are grown in has a huge influence in the resulting scollvilles of the pepper. My friend grew a ghost pepper last summer. We sampled it ... and it was right about the same heat as an average habenero. Certainly not the death we were preparing ourselves for.

Comment Re:Depends on the dish (Score 2) 285

Yeah, that was my house too. No Heinz ketchup, no black pepper, no cinnamon flavored anything, no garlic, no peppers of any kind ( including sweet bell peppers). Taco meat was ground beef seasoned with ... nothing not even salt. Taco bell meat by itself was too spicy. KFC was too spicy. Ginger bread was made ... without ginger.

Life is much more flavorful now, but the transition to "spicy foods" was kind of traumatic. Friends watched in delight as I reacted violently to the most mild of spices

Comment Re:Personal blog (Score 1) 202

Users, using applications on ubuntu will care when those applications break because of the Mir backend. They'll care. A number of them will probably report that the apps don't work to the application writers, when the real issue is in the MIr support for the toolkits that Ubuntu will have to write. Thus, app developers will have to spend some time trouble shooting the problem.

This is the argument the KDE guys are advancing. It makes sense to me, but I must admit, I don't know the guts, nuts or bolts of Mir, Wayland, GTK, QT, xorg or the like.

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