Also there's no one developing Linux kernel code that isn't aware of Torvald's style in this respect.

I'm not sure why we Linux users need Steam. There's only two games: TuxRacer and "Find the Dependencies."

But seriously, I'm really looking forward to what Steam can do for Linux.

We'll just go back to editing the HOSTS file.

Niche is the secret. In Norfolk, VA there's a place called Naro Expanded Video. I've only been in there once but I was incredibly surprised than in 2005 I could walk in and buy a like-new copy of Mickey's Christmas Carol (albeit on VHS) from 1983. I believe it was finally released on DVD in 2009.

If a country wants to lure more businesses inside its borders, it needs to make it worthwhile for the businesses. Taxes are simply an expense. Like any other part or material, a business is likely to shop around for the best deal. Rather than trying to use the law to penalize businesses for sound business practices, a country should seek to make its tax rates competitive on the global scale.

As a business, it takes work and costs money to reduce your tax burden. Clearly Apple has been quite successful at this but it didn't happen for free. Compliance costs might even make a rate here in the US higher than 2% make sense for them and save them money. Clearly our unreasonable 35% rate is enough to make most large businesses jump through myriad hoops to save money and makes for an inhospitable economic environment for many companies who used to be based here.

We need to find what rate would allow companies like Apple to keep their money here and adopt that rate immediately.

That's not a shortage - that's just market forces. And the cost of a given product has to rise in order to maintain the profit involved in creating said product. If people can't make money doing it, they won't do it. Then we'd have a shortage.

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If it's Windows, you should be able to boot any Linux distro off a thumb drive and chew up any directories you'd like.

With every virtually every federal election lies the possibility for massive changes. The fact that such important research was based solely on the availability of government funds shows exquisitely poor planning.

I work outside. I'm pretty well acclimated. I just adjust my fluid consumption accordingly. 85 on up all feels the same to me - although one friend suggested that was probably neuropathy.

My 10-year old single-core P4 plays best with lightweight stuff. Mint 13 with Mate is a pretty perfect fit for my antiquated hardware. I'm getting married in October, honeymoon in November, then shelling out for Christmas. Sometime the first of the year I hope to build a Hackintosh so I can run whatever I find works best.

Mint developers have also created Cinnamon, which has wide adoption rates from those on Ubuntu, Debian and even Fedora-based distros.

Made me think of a new justification: if you're buying your internet access from your cable provider, any video you download is just using an alternative method of delivery for the content you've already paid to view.

You could always get it like you want it and stick a copy of your profile directory in Dropbox. Skip the cache directory, however.

The first thing I do after installing Firefox on a new machine is turn off Tabs on top, move the Home and Reload buttons to where they belong then hit about:config's browser.tabs filter and change insertRelatedAfterContent to false and closeButtons to 3.

"Listen, all of y'all, this is sabotage."