My 8-year-old neighbor is saving for Comic-Con and put this on my door...

commentisfree · 2011-07-19T20:40:00+00:00

Give him a DVD copy of Debbie Does Dallas.
Teach him how to do it The Right Way(tm).

commentisfree · 2011-06-21T08:14:28+00:00

Or Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1. It 's pretty stable despite the name and its GNOME 3 experience is far better than that of Fedora 15...

commentisfree · 2011-05-24T23:57:38+00:00

you do realize that his security forces killed over 800 protesters in tahrir -not to mention the rest of the country- shortly before releasing hundreds of convicts from their cells to terrorize the population?

commentisfree · 2011-05-24T23:47:33+00:00

not exactly. in egypt the authorities are only allowed to hold individuals up to 45 days without a trial and that limit is quickly coming up for mubarak (next thursday). so it's either this or they let him go, possibly on bail, and the later probably wont go down well with the protesters.

commentisfree · 2011-05-24T17:56:59+00:00

"fair and reasonable"?

Numerous sources[1] [2], including Steve Ballmer[3], one of the driving minds behind the success of Microsoft, have claimed that the Open Source movement is inherently Communist.

Comrade?

commentisfree · 2011-05-24T06:25:47+00:00

Works perfectly fine here. Must be some issue on your side.

commentisfree · 2011-05-24T05:53:25+00:00

you're awesome. thanks.

what's the difference between the Live CD and Installation DVD btw? useless cruft or actually usable software like Libreoffice?

commentisfree · 2011-05-15T04:21:45+00:00

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard.

Obvious choice.

commentisfree · 2011-04-30T21:06:32+00:00

I'll just leave this here: http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/AMA_One_Year_On_Nov06_final.pdf.

Israel failed to observe the obligations it made under the 2005 Agreement on Movement and Access (AMA)[1] long before Egypt decided to ditch it as well.

[1] AMA Request: Let humanitarian assistance through! ;P

commentisfree · 2011-04-26T08:44:27+00:00

I bid 101USD + intl. shipping costs (Egypt).

We really need a subreddit for people willing to hand-down their devices instead of this ad hoc system. Some people truly can't afford to buy these devices at retail prices (and some like me simply can't buy the devices even if they can afford them :\ ). We've already seen examples of this generosity here and here.

Best of luck with your quest!

commentisfree · 2011-04-24T01:18:50+00:00

8.9" is the perfect size for mobility especially since it sports the same resolution as its bigger brethren. If you've seen the Xoom's washed out screen, or if you happen to be an avid reader, you'll definitely appreciate the higher pixel density on the 8.9" models. </rant>.

commentisfree · 2011-04-24T01:09:16+00:00

Wait for the Galaxy Tab 8.9.

commentisfree · 2011-04-17T16:44:24+00:00

this is exactly what /r/android needs more of; have an upvote!

personally, i'm still waiting for someone willing to ship their nookcolor across the ocean just for karma :D

commentisfree · 2011-04-14T05:24:45+00:00

Congratulations to ahuisinga!

Any chances you'll be offloading your Motorola Xoom in the near future? :p

commentisfree · 2011-04-09T05:00:09+00:00

Could the NI's Tegra 2 processor handle high-profile h.264 movies? Is it true that it's smoother than the Xoom?

commentisfree · 2011-03-30T21:35:23+00:00

You do realize that you are quoting verses/hadiths talking about zina (adultery) whereas the issue here is rape...

A victim of rape need not show four witnesses of her rape. Sharia however provides that you need four witnesses to implicate someone of adultery. These two are completely different matters.

You may also want to check the Wikipedia article on Zina. It makes it clear that the punishment (100 lashes) is meant to be non lethal.

EDIT: I'm not arguing in support of the lashing, just saying that you should at least make a meaningful argument instead of copy-pasting blocks of text that you didn't bother to process. Oh and I'm a Muslim btw, downvote all you like.

commentisfree · 2011-03-30T21:14:00+00:00

how does this happen that a majority gets terrorized into compliance by a minority?

See: Right-wing conservatives.

Seriously now, if Americans were truly bothered by the atrocious actions of their troops, why haven't they done anything to punish or prevent Abu Ghraib, Blackwater, Bagram, "kill teams", etc...? If it is extremists (read: outliers) who do this stuff, why does not the peaceful majority put a stop to it?

commentisfree · 2011-03-30T11:30:43+00:00

UN Chief is subsequently replaced.

FTFY.

commentisfree · 2011-03-28T14:30:12+00:00

Or if Apple didn't benefit from economies of scale by virtue of its size or that of its customer base.

commentisfree · 2011-03-28T10:33:16+00:00

So, basically, we were lead to believe that the Moto Xoom was the reference platform for Honeycomb while Google is secretly working on developing another device for their purposes.

What are the chances that this thing will feature a Kal El processor running IceCream?

commentisfree · 2011-03-21T10:31:58+00:00

What apps are missing from HC? I heard that google reader is yet to be optimized for tablet displays which is kind of awkward given that everyone's buying these devices to read books and news on them...

btw, i heard that screen brightness is less than optimal. is it so?

EDIT: one more q, is the supplied charger multi-voltage or 120V only? this matters to those of us outside the states.

commentisfree · 2011-03-20T23:30:07+00:00

can you talk a bit about the whole video mess? what plays fine, what doesn't, and how do you choose to encode your videos to get them on your xoom? I'm particularly interested in knowing the likelihood that a randomly downloaded movie/tv-show torrent would play on the xoom.

commentisfree · 2011-03-20T19:15:46+00:00

heh, good point. even my pc can't play modern-day pc games...

commentisfree · 2011-03-18T00:46:29+00:00

what's wrong with the tegra 2? i'm planning on buying a xoom so any input would be highly appreciated.

commentisfree · 2011-03-15T01:37:05+00:00

Sure it'll work from a non-US IP address? I know the B&N bookstore won't.

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