Good question. According to this blog, "30 yuan will buy you 4000 minutes of gametime and 15 yuan will buy you 2000 minutes of gametime. That's $0.06 per hour played."

That works out at US$4 for 4000 minutes, which would be about £3. Obviously, Chinese pricing reflects the local economy. 4000 minutes is 66h 40m, so say that's 2 hours a night for a month. Lowest UK monthly subscription is £7.69, so if I could get 4000 minutes for £7-£8 that expired after 90 days, I'd probably go for it.

What prevents me from getting into playing WoW are the payment options available to European (and US) players. It's either a monthly subscription or a 60-day timecard. With either option I'd feel obliged to play nearly every day to ensure I was getting my money's worth. I don't always have the time to do so every evening. In China, they buy game hours, which is a model that would suit me better.

Fedora has a rolling, rolling, rolling release called rawhide.

I hope you kept away from the fish.

With milk?

The early BBC Model A machines shipped with OS version 0.9 and would have had BBC BASIC I. The Model B came with OS 1.2 (IIRC) and BASIC II. You could buy replacement ROMs for the older machines to upgrade to this version. Heh, swapping ROMs as a way of upgrading your computer's OS.

BBC BASIC II had PROCedures and FunctioNs. It was one of the better 8-bit BASICs.

So you don't have the bandwidth to verify it legitimately, but you do have the bandwidth to download a cracked copy?

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Where_does_Akonadi_store_my_data.3F

    Where does Akonadi store my data?

Akonadi merely acts as a cache for your data, the actual content stays where it has always been, .ics/.vcf/MBOX files, local maildirs, IMAP- and groupware servers. There is only a limited amount of data stored exclusively in Akonadi:

        * Data not supported by the corresponding backends, such as email flags in case of maildir/mbox. This is comparable to KMail's binary index files stored alongside these files in pre-Akonadi times.
        * Internal meta-data used by application or resources, such as information about the last synchronization with a backend or translated folder names.
        * Data that has been changed while the corresponding backend has been offline and has not yet been uploaded.

I hopped off the KDE4 train at 4.2 when Akonadi required MySQL as a dependency. IIRC, it can now use PostgreSQL as well, but the point stands: Why do I need a RDBMS to run a desktop?

I misread the headline as 'Best Way To PUNISH an "Indie" Research Paper?'

I was thinking, 'Oh, is it full of errors or plagiarised?'

I gave up on KDE4 with KDE4.2. Did a 'yum update' on my Fedora-running laptop to upgrade KDE4.1.4, noticed that MySQL had been pulled in as a dependency. Tracked it down to Akonadi. Did some research and found that the KDE devs had decided that you now need a full-fat RDBMS to run a desktop. As far as I could tell at the time, they're not even using MySQL to hold any information, just to pass data between applications.

There is a theory that Ozymandias deliberately set a weak password.

I've had my Gmail account since 2003. Used it a few times when posting to Usenet via Google Groups. I've also used it to subscribe to a couple of mailing lists, which don't mask email addresses for their public archives.

Going by the rolling 30 day spam folder on my Gmail account, I've currently got 167 spam emails in there. Last year, it was regularly rolling along at 800+.