I remember this! Wasn't it originally bundled with Windows 98 Plus!?

Yea, I was going to drop in and say basically the same thing, but in a more polite way. .. Flash drives can sit around for years without issue.

This sounds very familiar. It sometimes got very annoying when mine was unusually motivated though. They would finish the simple tasks so quickly, I couldn't get any work done uninterrupted. I would sometimes give them very simple mundane and time consuming things just to give myself an hour or two of concentration.

You keep saying it was supposed to be built on Ubuntu, but I can find no mention of this anywhere. I'm starting to think you have been taking speculation as fact. Also, the proprietary part of it is purely the SteamClient, which has always been proprietary, and was always intended to be. Who in their right mind would…

You're probably right that they should have built one from scratch, but building a layer for gaming into an already well established and documented distro was surely much easier, and building on Debian was still probably the best choice for this since it has a less ambitious release schedule, and foregoes the…

She's crying because she's jealous her son got an iPhone.

He would have voided it eventually when he flashed another rom from the XDA... Oh wait. Nevermind.

This is really not a matter of Mac and PC. It's a matter of hardware specs and whether or not the games the user wants to play have been developed for their platform of choice. Unfortunately, most older Macs happen to use pretty crappy Intel integrated graphics, so they lose out on the hardware end of things, but…

How have they burned bridges with Canonical? I don't think Canonical was pushing Valve to use Ubuntu at any point. What advantage would Valve gain by using Ubuntu? Unity? They want a fast streamlined distribution, not a bloated one that was pumped full of software to make windows users feel at home.

Valve didn't create SteamOS without doing studies on this. I've seen video where on the same PC they saw 25% boost in framerate running left4dead2 on linux instead of windows. Pretty sure they know what they're doing. Also, you're right. The AAA title won't run because devs are only just starting to recognize linux…

I wish I could give you more Stars for that comment.

I didn't say rebooting your computer is like changing your oil, even though, it kind of is. (flushing dirty used oil replacing it with clean oil. flushing your ram, now you have nice clean ram). I also don't think there's a car on the market that you can change its oil while it's running, so that even furthers the…

I hear that! I've been impatiently waiting until today for my 4.3 update to Note II on VZW (I ended up flashing a rom from xda), but it was frustrating that I could use Timely lock widghet (simpler dashclock) on my Note 8, but not my phone.

There have been apps that do this for years now...

I tried Soluto once. It was more trouble than it was worth. While it boasted a lot of features, it was an always running piece of bloatware that just took up the place of the bloatware it removed and wasn't nearly as good at all of it's tasks as it should have been.

Just wait a couple more weeks and the S3 should be getting Android 4.3. Luckily though, even if the S3 never gets 4.4, the Google Apps requirements are starting to rely more heavily on what version of Google Play Services you have, and less so about which version of Android you have. You can find a good handful of the…

/Shrug The subtitle in the Gif here has one, and it was our thinking at the time, though we were just joking around. Good to know, I suppose.

I just laughed hard at this. I remember back when I was working at a garden center, I had a discussion just like this with a coworker when we noticed that some of the packages we got had everything EXCEPT fragile on it it several languages and we came to the same conclusion that they figured they didn't need to write…

I agree. I used to be of the attitude that cases were for clumsy people. I once had my Incredible (original) bounce from my shirt pocket, to my feet, where I accidentally kicked it across 4 lanes of traffic. (I was running). It was undamaged saved for a few scuffs. A couple weeks later it slid off my desk 2.5 feet to…

I'll remind you that my initial comment just happened to be first, and everyone here chose to interact with me. I didn't seek out fellow readers to berate due to their sloppy computer use, they were the ones who responded to me because they didn't like my attitude towards this "hack". Maybe if these people truly felt…