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Comment Re: Year Of Linux On The Desktop (Score 2) 183

Thatâ(TM)s not the only reason; the other two big ones are:

1. There is far greater parity between Windows and Linux in terms of stability and security over the past 15 years or so.
2. Linux has never had the software range MS
has had, and the best Linux software is also on MS plus a lot more.

Comment Re:Give it time (Score 1) 72

Thankfully, Duo is not the only way I'm learning German. I also have a private teacher, a class I attend (organized by my work place), as well as just trying to talk to people around me. Yes, I now live in a German speaking country (arguably. Opinions on what the German people of Switzerland speak vary). As such, Duo's way of teaching does not hold me back too much.

But, yes, I only recently figured out what "an" vs. "am" actually mean, and it was a lightbulb moment. Duolingo just asks you to translate stuff and they say WRONG!!!! without really explaining.

Comment Give it time (Score 2) 72

The anger over firing people may not affect their bottom line (though I, personally, avoided going paid for that precise reason), but the results AI produces may.

I'm studying German with it, and you can see the quality of the sentences slipping. It seems that they are stuffing their lessons, now that it's so cheap to produce more of them, and that affects how it feels to learn with the app. I've definitely started looking for other sources to learn German from.

Comment Re: Money (Score 1) 68

Dude, my claim isn't over some unknowable information lost to time; you can look at old game catalogues and gaming magazines and they have the prices right there.

Here's SSI's 1984 catalogue:
https://archive.org/details/Re...

Look at the price list for EA and all its companies from 1987:
https://archive.org/details/Re...

 

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