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On the other hand, if you indadvertedly hover the box, with someone overlooking your screen while you have something embarrassing in the clipboard.... Oops

This does feel a bit wrong to me, however, I've used ubuntu for two years, and most of our test machines at work run ubuntu, and nor me nor anyone at work have actually donated anything to Canonical. So I guess I can understand that they are trying to find some other means of survival.

However, if I used Ubuntu with any graphical shell (unity in particular), I would disable this "feature". Doesn't make me feel very good about myself, though

Actually, that's not that bad of a deal, if the post is commercial in nature...and you have over a million subscribers.

It's my personal account. I ONLY friend people that I know. I have 226 friends. I do NOT friend people I don't know. Of those, probably half are inactive. Dunno exactly.

So, $10 for a personal post? Seriously? WTF?!?


But Hell yeah! If I could reach out to a million people for $10, that would be a great deal. I'm not talking about that though. $10 for probably 100 people? For a personal post? Of no commercial nature?

Actually, I'd say that if that post is set to public visibility (if it's an ad, probably it wouldn't make much sense not to be, right?), your friend's friends might also see it, if it was promoted. Also, if any of those other friends-of-friends like or comment the post, it'd reach their friends too and so on. So, depending on how many friends your friends have and how many of those overlap, you might actually reach a pretty large number of people.

From what I read about promoting pages, the price is based on how many fans the page has, so I suppose that those 10$ are related to the potential reachability of the post too. It'd be nicer if they actually said how much people is certain to actually see the post.

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I've been wondering if it really is useful information, or just a little prank from the engineers?

If it was caused by an exception, it could be a stack trace? I guess if it's encrypted, there's no way to distinguish if it's random information or not, right?

It's even funnier when you forget to start a thread in a multi-threaded program. Just happened to me. Twice

lol, is that posted in the wrong thread (or am I missing something?)

Well, the image is from the Wikipedia page on "Tilting at Windmills". Also, it's funny how in the smaller size, I confused the horse with a dragon..

According to CC's faq (here), it is not recommended that you use their licenses for software. That's the license I use for GridMove, though. Mostly because I'm lazy

o0, Who moved it back? lol

According to the moderator log, it was mouser himself

TL;DR

Yep, really is too long. I also haven't seen the whole thing. But if you didn't already, try zooming out to the max just to have an idea of how large it is

Anyone know how it's done?

I actually tried - to no avail - to get the large image from the source of the webpage. From what I understand, it's JavaScript.

What impresses me the most, though, is how the artist (Randall Munroe) managed to draw all that and include small gags everywhere. That's an impressive amount of work.

Today's XKCD is pretty awesome: http://xkcd.com/1110/

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But this makes it even better: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/

The second one isn't a hoax. Quantum levitation is real. The hoax was that the Wipeout course was computer generated and not really using quantum levitation. Or at least that's what I understood from your link.

You are absolutely right. Sorry for the mix-up, I remembered seing that one of these quantum levitation videos was a hoax and assumed the whole technology didn't exist. Then the videos are really awesome!

Don't know about the first video, but that second one is a hoax: http://www.robots-dreams....-hoax-revealed-video.html
Hopefully, the first one is real technology

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Not disagreeing with you on how the article is filled with misinformations, but here's some clarifications:

1) Laputa... The Spanish word puta means little girl. Yes, it is also being used as slang for whore, but that doesn't change the innocent original, except for the dirty-minded.

I'm portuguese and no specialist in spanish, but in portuguese puta hasn't meant little girl for at least decades, it only has the curse word meaning. I believe the same is true for spanish.

2) Pajero: "Penis"? No, it does not mean penis   in any language!

Nope, but it does mean homosexual (in an offensive way) in spanish, and it's also close to the portuguese "paneleiro" (which means the same). AFAIK, the Pajero does have a different name in spain: Montero.

5) Ascona. Ascona in Switzerland is located on the shore of Lake Maggiore. The town is a popular tourist destination, and holds a yearly jazz festival, the Ascona Jazz Festival.
Google Spanish-English Translator has nothing to say about ascona.

Actually, in Portugal this car was sold as the Opel 1604, since "Ascona" has some resemblence with the portuguese curse word meaning vagina, "cona". According to wikipedia, it was sold as the Ascona in Spain, so I assume that curse word doesn't exist in spainish.

Yes, the same occurred to me. It makes sense, not only to protect themselves but also to avoid any leak of private data that might happen in an error occasion.

Have you tried to decode it?  It looks like encoded data... could be an Easter egg...

Apparently not an easter egg. It looks like base64, but doesn't decode to anything readable. More info here: http://www.cambus.net/dec...e-http-error-500-message/

@kalos: I think it all depends on what you're doing. For most of the stuff, you can just go to the "app store" (or whatever its name is), search for what you want, click install and you're done.

re:compiling: depends on the distro you choose. The most user friendly ones (ubuntu, suse, red hat, fedora?) use pre-compiled packages, so no. If you use something such as gentoo, I believe you can choose but many people compile from source.

re:dependencies: I never fully understood why this is a problem. Maybe because I arrived too late to experience the problem, but for me, the package managers always sorted out the dependencies for what I asked them to install and then installed them with no trouble.

Also, here's superboyac having fun with installing stuff on linux: http://www.donationcoder....31076.msg294867#msg294867 notice that when he uses the "app store", it's really easy. When he installs from source, well... Not so much

Black Mesa and 9 other games have gotten the Greenlight!

Good news! Thanks for the followup!

Will AHK allow you to execute commands via the run dialog?

I believe it does. You should only need to put the .exe in a folder that is in $PATH.

4. Is already part of the Apple philosophy

Not really, they are just incapable of making (buying?) decent CD burners and decided to say "it's the future" not tu use them
Just yesterday, my MacBook destroyed me 4 CDs (while attempting to burn linux, actually. maybe it's selective?)

 
Thanks for the heads-up!

Don't forget to vote it up on Steam Greenlight so that you can get it, appropriately, on Steam.

http://steamcommunity.com.../filedetails/?id=94128543

Cool! Voted up to

Most of the developers at my current job are on OSX laptops. A bunch of them started cursing some months ago after installing whatever-cat-named-update because their systems got bogged down (disk paging, beach ball icon, and sometime systems so unresponsive they had to hardboot them) - seems like Apple messed up the memory manager, majorly. Not something you'll see if you're just drinking caffè latte and not using your shiny laptop for facebook and hipstagram - but definitely if you're actually using the machine.

As someone who has been using OSX for over two years (an imac and a macbook pro), I can confirm this. Memory management in OSX makes no sense, the system is constantly paging stuff even though there's more than enough free memory for everything. Almost every time I leave eclipse open during the night, when I return on the next day and set focus on the window I have to watch the beach ball for a few minutes while it pages back stuff; also, usually it's faster just to kill eclipse and reopen it than wait for it to be paged in again. Also, we have 20+ macs at my workplace, and around 50% of them have had to go back to apple for fixing various stuff; all the 2year+ ones have serious marks all over the screen similar to sunburn, despite the fact that none get direct sunlight.

A related complaint: I see the beach ball at least once a week, apparently for no reason: in this situation usually the memory is half free and the CPU isn't being used at all. Also, I can see more youtube videos at the same time in my girlfriend's phone than on either of my macs (more than one is pushing it). And I can't use this awesome stuff with any of the macs because it's simply too slow (both macs are dual cores with 4gb ram) and the laptop will burn a hole on whatever it is resting on.

Sorry for the rant, but I really could go on forever on why you do not want to buy a mac. The fact that it runs something that looks like unix is awesome, though. (and the touchpads, mice and keyboards are the best invention ever)

Pics? Links? I have no idea what you're talking about.

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http://www.engadget.com/2...ghz-snapdragon-s4-cpu-wi/

His answers:

http://www.reddit.com/user/PresidentObama

Some guy collected both the questions and answers into one post: http://www.reddit.com/r/I...the_united_states/c60o0iw