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I think/hope it will be some of those "chinese phones" which is quite interesting. Even the big ones of them like Huawei, make really good phones for good prices. Thats why I did not understand the hype about this Motorola thing for 200 bucks or something. Those china guys do this for quite a while and are now really pushing here (europe) in the market with really quality and competitive phones.

PS2, Dreamcast had online games. From what I read some of them can even be played.

I miss Playstation 1/2 days, where you just insert disc and play. No install, no online registration, no social sharing whatnot crap, endless downloading, paying for services you don't need/want.

I am gonna pull a Stallmann here and say it does matter how you are introduced to coding or even computers in general. I know a few younger people which are "educated" through this whole company driven, web-service addicted and golden cage world. For them it is completely normal not to have any content on there devices - just have it on some web service, they don't know anything else than closed ecosystems and so on. They have no incentive to even think about criticizing things like closed app stores, fees for publishing, licensing issues, censorship and so on because it's all the know.

Seriously stop make these accusations without any proof. Where is the hostility? Just because there are a lot of white males™ doesn't mean there is hostility against other people.

If you are worried about this, just save your passwords outside your browser with a password safe like KeePass. Of course this doesn't protect you if your whole system gets compromised. And if you are worried about Google spying, why you use Chrome anyway?

Because there are parts of the driver (from 3rd party providers too) which contain patented stuff. So they don't want to expose this. S3TC is one famous example. Thats the only reason (apart from some company specific politics).

just put the facebook addresses in your hosts file, f.e.

0.0.0.0 www.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 facebook.com 0.0.0.0 login.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 www.login.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 fbcdn.net 0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.net 0.0.0.0 fbcdn.com 0.0.0.0 www.fbcdn.com 0.0.0.0 static.ak.fbcdn.net 0.0.0.0 static.ak.connect.facebook.com 0.0.0.0 connect.facebook.net 0.0.0.0 www.connect.facebook.net 0.0.0.0 apps.facebook.com

Thats why I avoid flying in the US/stopping there. I often visit Central America and just take the flight which don't go through US territory. I had some incidents with us customs too, those guys are nuts. If they want, they put you in interrogation room for hours or just don't let you pass for shady "reasons". Or literally harass you with questions. Thanks.

Because php is widely used to make absolute ugly garbage. It may not be the language itself, but a lot of people saying: "hey I can write 10 lines of terrible php crap which somehow kinda works, I am web dev now!". There are tons of people out there like this.

I am not sure if thats "cool"

Huawei makes pretty good (Android) phones in that price range too, if you spend ~250 you get a "high end" (spec wise) one. From what I can tell, their build quality is good too.

Why would you want to be logged in while searching via Google?

You have to work with white-lists, not black-list when dealing with such high numbers of shitty apps. In theory this should be done by the app store provider, just let in non-malicious software.

china

I tried it with, I think, 13.04 and you could see they need people testing it. For a raw Gnome distro Fedora is the better choice.

My parents use Xubuntu because it's the closest you can get to WindowsXP ;)

People use default Ubuntu with Unity? From what I see, most people use a variant (X/L/K) of it and those are really well put together without (most) of the Canonical crap.

There are >4000 known bugs in the kernel. They would be probably busy fixing just the significant ones until "4.0" when just doing bugfixing.

The easiest thing to do is to report to the bugtracker of your distro and see.

Soundtracks or instrumental stuff in general. Everything is ok for me if it has no lyrics/singer etc.

The only real bloat I know are vendor specific programs that come for free with certain hardware. I don't know who writes such shit sotware. From the HP Windows driver suite (not the driver itself but all those useless programs which come along with it; funny enough hplip is the best thing on linux), horrible tools which come with motherboards ("omg make the ui look like it is a spaceship cockpit"), shitty tools from laptop manufacturers for wlan, bluetooth and so on. who the heck writes these!?

Commercial programs are mostly not bloated and don't scatter around the whole system.

GM vehicles are also very US focused. There is nobody who drives a Chevrolet or something here.

Don't forget they bought Saab and basically ruined the brand within a couple of years with poor quality and no innovation.

Since Ubuntu is just "let's sync repos from debian testing every 6 months and add our own crap" just use debian testing. You even get rolling release.

Btw, I know nobody who uses standard Ubuntu. Everyone uses some variant like Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. which are really well put together distros for the average user.

since doom 3 bfg engine is os:

https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/RBDOOM-3-BFG

the newer virtual texturing stuff is much more interesting

http://s09.idav.ucdavis.edu/talks/05-JP_id_Tech_5_Challenges...

edit:

http://mrelusive.com/publications/presentations/2012_siggrap...

She is really a horrible person. Also don't forget she's supporting all kinds of shady stuff like SOPA etc.

There is almost no content for the "big" devices available (TV, PC etc.). At least no content which is important enough for people to change, everything is centered around 1080p atm and the majority of people are just adapting this (upgrading their "hd ready" tv, new consoles, switching from dvd to blu ray etc).

Also it's coming to devices which don't have to rely on 3D performance. It is an astronomical hit rendering on such high resolution, because you still need anti-aliasing.

or https://gnunet.org/

>A high-profile file-sharing site

I have never heard of that site and after looking at it, it really looks like a shitty scam site for dummies.

I don't name a specific model, because if you buy a monitor which is not the cheapest of the cheap it doesn't make that much of a difference, just a couple of tips:

First make sure you have a monitor with a quality panel - no TN. If its IPS or some S-PVA/P-MVA doesn't matter. Maybe take a look at different panels in a shop. I am personally very happy with my MVA-Panel monitor because of the good black levels. Try to avoid glare panels AND glare frames around the panel.

Next, make sure the monitor can be adjusted, not only in height but also tilt. I found that really useful adjusting the monitor to my seating position.

Regarding eye strain, the most common cause of this is setting the monitor backlight too high. Especially with LED backlights. Even in a normal lit room I only have set the backlight to around 10%. You may need to get adjusted to this first if you are used to normal settings (e.g. the default settings of the monitor which are always way too high), but for me it helped great deal with eye strain and headaches.