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by pmcginn 16y ago
Download Calibre to manage your ebooks. It makes conversion pretty much transparent, and with the right plugins you can set it up to remove the DRM from the books you purchase.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Would putting the MP3 on your phone and playing it into the entrypads mic get you in as well? I'm picturing waling up to any apartment building, choosing an apartment number at random, and then just playing the MP3 when someone answers (or
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Yes it is. Obviously, this is just my anecdotal experience, but the first time I tried to install Linux the troubleshooting documentation I was working off of only mentioned eth0. I tried to configure everything to eth0, and nothing worked.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Is "I don't have facebook" the new "I don't own a TV?" Congratulations on avoiding a popular website you crazy unabomber.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
If you look at the history of health care, it didn't start out that way. Before World War II, people generally paid out of pocket for most medical expenses, but also carried health insurance for cataclysmic events. In WWII, the US governmen
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Having a useful notification light is one of the few things I miss about my old BB. I would like to know, at a glance, that my Incredible is both charging and has a new message.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
For anyone still holding out hope--I just got mine from UPS ten minutes ago. I checked the "regular user" box too, so they're not just going to devs and students.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
thanks! I tried --window, -window, and -w before I gave up. Thank you!
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Edited: Bought the package and attempted to install the games. Of the five, on Ubuntu 10.10 x64: Braid: Installer was a .bin which gave me some ELFCLASS64 errors, but the game runs. I just can't figure out how to get it windowed, so it's cu
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by pmcginn 16y ago
That was exactly my response. "If their default action is to send me five separate emails immediately after paying, am I going to be getting emails for the rest of my life for trying this thing out?" I'm touchy about my inbox. I let DailyBu
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by pmcginn 16y ago
I spent a month in Egypt when I was much younger. Nothing drives home the beauty, the fragility, and somehow the hospitality of the country like this image. I didn't get to see Luxor or Aswan (it was out of season), and I missed Alex becaus
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Disclosure: I skimmed the article. But, basically, the gist is right. The middle of the porn market has fallen out. The only movement is in the super low end stuff (the kind that advertises 6+ hours and sells for $5), with a little bit of a
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by pmcginn 16y ago
To play devil's advocate, especially in a situation like Khan's Academy, $3,000 will end up being a very small sum compared to all the benefit new users who may not have found it another way will derive from its existence. I watched a close
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by pmcginn 16y ago
You've got a misleading title there. You don't need to read this book, you just (in your own words) "want to read it." So, of course you have a choice. Read something else. The universe doesn't owe you a constant stream of your preferred
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by pmcginn 16y ago
We had an excellent discussion on another (private, sorry) forum with regards to a member who wanted to put together a toolbox for his daughter before she went to college. The general consensus tended to sway towards the smaller, less glamo
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Sorry, but does Learning Python 2009 really have a single-device restriction? Every single book I've purchased for my Kindle will work on my android phone, my Windows VM, and my Kindle. If I had an iPhone/iPad/iPod I could read on those as
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Exactly. Well, that and I'm sick of everything in the goddamned world being a subscription service now. Can't you do it like Pandora and make a big, obvious, ONE TIME PAYMENT, WILL NOT RENEW option? Or better yet, just give me an empty box
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by pmcginn 16y ago
I'm a libertarian with agorist tendencies, so I believe that anything that doesn't harm another person or another person's property against his will should be legal. I believe the role of government should be to protect me from other people
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Why would Google do that? Payday loans are despised by consumer advocacy groups, governments, and my Mom, alike. Nobody likes payday loans, except of course the companies that make billions providing and servicing them. Those companies an
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by pmcginn 16y ago
But given the current arrangements, I’m being charged just a little bit less than I pay for paper and getting a whole lot less, and it just doesn’t feel like a good deal. Speaking as someone who's moved more times that he'd like to count,
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by pmcginn 16y ago
How'd you handle the issue of employee theft? I'm a heavy drinker, friendly, and I tip well, so generally at the end of the night my tab comes out to 50% or less of what it should be. As a consumer I've seen this handled differently at man
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by pmcginn 16y ago
I'd like to upvote you, but I can't. Your post relies on them actually being homeless, which I strongly doubt. This is only anecdotal evidence, but it's mine, so I weigh it heavily. I walk to work through a touristy part of Philadelphia, a
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by pmcginn 16y ago
No offense, but you're not making any sense. The current generation has not lasted longer than previous generations, and pretty much anyone in pre-algebra could plot you a graph that would show "we can expect the PS4 and XBox 720 by 2013 a
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by pmcginn 16y ago
I wish this had been the first advice I'd received when I started dieting. After flailing around for years, I started calorie counting, and then made lifestyle changes once every few weeks. Smaller portions, whole wheat instead of white,
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by pmcginn 16y ago
It's easy to blame privitization, but large public sector unions can be just as influential. As a politican I'd be much more afraid of angering, say, the AFT than I would be of any single private company. Just because someone you don't lik
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by pmcginn 16y ago
I was rude to earl in my original post, and I apologize for that. I have no way to be sure what kind of neighbor he'd make, and I shouldn't draw conclusions from one post. I grew up mostly in the suburbs or in smaller cities (Columbus, Lex
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by pmcginn 16y ago
You are exactly the type of person I would hate to live next to, the type who moves to a city from the suburbs and tries to keep all the benefits of both. Cities are chaotic. Cities are loud. How about if you want peace and quiet, you mov
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by pmcginn 16y ago
Maybe I've been in a big city for too long, but it's really heartwarming to see how many people in the wiki comments were taken in by her story and gave money to her so generously. It's been years since I've given money to anyone on the str
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by pmcginn 16y ago
That's a great point, and makes even more sense when you consider the examples he provides for why someone should contact him for an hour of his time. If he can really do everything he listed in one hour per task, he deserves the $1,000.
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by pmcginn 16y ago
The truth is that this practice of "don't offer, but do if asked" is the basic operating method of most large companies. As a customer you have to learn to be equally careful in wording your requests. If someone calls in wanting a credit

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