VonGuard

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by VonGuard 9y ago
The games press has always had one central problem: their main source of revenue is advertisers of games. When a bad game gets a bad review, the advertisers pull their ads, and the outlet goes down. I was fired for exactly this type of bull
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by VonGuard 9y ago
This is absolutely the best comment on HN in years. OMM turned game reviewing into a SCIENCE with TTC ratings.
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Wha.... what if you ARE a reporter?
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by VonGuard 9y ago
My friend uses the Windows Media Server, which was discontinued in 10. He still runs 8 for it. It's his DVR, and it spreads live TV around his house. I believe it requires Windows Media Play on all playback devices. This would make his
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by VonGuard 9y ago
I made the jump off of HFS+ a few months back, as soon as I heard a new FS was coming. After years of keeping TBs of data on Mac OS on HFS+ as a home file server, I was just completely fed up. My external volumes were dead without a Mac. No
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Small claims court. If they don't show up, you win. They can't show up to all of the cases brought against them.
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Social Security card is made of paper, has nothing but the number and your name, and 99% of people in the US have lost, destroyed, or never carried it to begin with. Stupid paper card even says "Do not laminate" but mine is lamina
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by VonGuard 9y ago
OpenOffice was 100% garbage from day 1 until Libre actually showed up. It was never viable under Sun's watch. Source: I used it full time for 6 years, filled with hatred.
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Agreed. Oracle does kill products and end teams, but no more so than other large acquireres. Hell, it is NOTHING compared to Yahoo! or HP. HP is the absolute kings of ruining products and teams long term, while Yahoo! has killed more acquir
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by VonGuard 9y ago
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Neat))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Shit, it's not working...
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Just installed my second Mint machine for desktop work yesterday. Really cannot complain. The difference in desktop responsiveness between this 7 year old Mint machine versus a brand new PC or Mac is night and day. Every modern OS needs a m
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by VonGuard 9y ago
I am almost ashamed to admit I have read these forums for years as a sort of exercise in voyeuristic schadenfreude. I just love reading about drug culture, watching drug movies, etc. Just like I love gangster movies. I can't explain it
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by VonGuard 9y ago
So that the two parties who voted for this to be the case can have unfettered access to their potential voters, go to their houses, send them things, and know for sure they're only hitting up people in their party, so as not to mobiliz
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by VonGuard 9y ago
SF Main is an example of a library gone wrong: it's literally a homeless camp, and smells horrible because of it. Oakland has better control: they have a bit of standards, and don't allow homeless people to impede the use by regul
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Spend just an hour at a local library in a struggling section of the largest city near you, and you'll see that this is where the poor come to interact with modern society. 1000's of people come here to access the Internet, get he
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by VonGuard 9y ago
The American experience is as a consumer, not a citizen. We are all dollar bags walking around with corporations trying to grab bucks out of our centers. We have no value to them other than this, and our government has seen fit to take this
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Open Alpha of Habitat (MMO from 1986) Begins June 2(facebook.com)
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Apple buying BBEdit would make me soooo happy... A return to their roots. Very, very old roots.
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Well, I can certainly see you've put a great deal of work into it!
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by VonGuard 9y ago
I think the fundamental reason people latch onto it as "Late Stage" is because they see the future of this way of building a society as very grim. And I am inclined to agree with them. Capitalism is one thing, but fundamentalist c
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by VonGuard 9y ago
It's very interesting to see so many people on the Internet complaining about Marissa's golden parachute. Honestly, the only remarkable thing about it is that she's a woman. These types of rewards are handed out all the time
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by VonGuard 9y ago
Those guys in black mopping up after the Navigator just set everything off with a "WTF" quality above and beyond the weird-ass monster thing in the box, right? Love that scene. The whole room is gorgeous, and the various people ru
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by VonGuard 9y ago
The complete director's cut is fantastic. It has all the little touches book fans say are missing, and really lays out the universe in the beginning with a 10 minute preamble with handdrawn, courtroom style pictures. Just a magnificent
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by VonGuard 10y ago
Yep. That's also because their software is crazy advanced. Basically automates the whole plowing and such. Big market differentiator.
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by VonGuard 10y ago
My wife and I have dealt with these goons before. Their favorite trick is missing a payment, leaving it on a desk and then despoiting it weeks later, after charging fees. Or, if you have 2 loans, they are sure you never pay any of them down
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by VonGuard 10y ago
Capability-based operating systems must be the future. If they are not, then we are all doomed to continue to exist in a messy world where security problems crop up every minute. Capability-based access controls are one of the best options
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by VonGuard 10y ago
Seconded.
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by VonGuard 10y ago
SECONDED!
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by VonGuard 10y ago
No one has been ragging on Unity.... They should be. Unity is still garbage. Ruined Ubuntu for me after about 10 years of usage... Still never returning because Unity is such a resource hog, so non-standard in its interface, and the fact th
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by VonGuard 10y ago
OK I will grant you Georgia and Virginia. Even Maryland. I would dearly love to see someone defend anything about Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Carolina even Missouri. A few states in t

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