AndrewStephens

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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
Good examples, but I would be willing to bet that at some point all those things have been covered by different patents. The company who patented a chair rocking mechanism would not be affected by the inventor who made a door with soft spri
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
I remember watching the original iPhone presentation thinking "this looks OK but touch screens suck" then having the UI-design-oriented part of my brain completely blown by the bounce-back effect. No other touch screen software wo
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
A scene repeated countless* times during the 80s and 90s: "Hey man, wanna do these drugs I have here?" "Nah, William S. Sessions says not to" "Who?" "You know, William S Sessions! Director of the F.B.I.&qu
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
I used MtGO version 1 as a filthy causal player and had fun, but the whole experience was very frustrating. For a game that involved occasionally moving a few rectangles around the screen, MtGO had huge (and ever increasing) system requirem
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
> Would the yeast itself be considered illegal? How much would be, a few micrograms? According to the report on the radio I heard this morning, the yeast itself is considered a controlled substance and its distribution is restricted in t
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
Even that is very slightly biased, since you don't specify what happens when 2 cards accidentally end up with the same index. It's better to do the shuffle described in the document. It is not just the predictability of the genera
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
You are technically correct (the best kind of correct), but Apple had a very small (and shrinking) market share. Where I lived (NZ) they were almost impossible to find - very few shops even carried them and you paid a large premium. SGI and
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by AndrewStephens 11y ago
You should stop saying this. Microsoft didn't get prosecuted for controlling what things end-users could do with Windows. They got punished for using their market share to make it impossible for computer manufacturers to build computer