Anechoic

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by Anechoic 15y ago
Also, there are a few studies suggesting women avoid computing because women dislike nonconformists and individualistic culture. Those examples don't point to women disliking "nonconformists and individualistic" cultures, they point to wo
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Why is there no similar concern over the disproportionately few women roofers, plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. etc? There are - you probably don't travel in those circles so you don't see the outreach efforts (I work with a lot o
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Apple stepped in at the perfect confluence of technologies and made the iPaq v2.0. And isn't the iPaq v1.0 just the Newton v2.0?
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by Anechoic 15y ago
The TC story doesn't seem to back up the headline "It's Nonsense," it just shifts the blame to the car owners.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
My question is how will Apple deal with the disruptive potential of cross-platform ? The web. That's why Apple has been working to make sure that Safari was standards-compliant, if "cross-platform" is going to be the future, it will more
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It is hard to believe that NFL head coaches with their large entourage of assistant coaches do not have the same information that a writer on espn has! It's not that the coaches don't have the info, it's that no play is 100% effective and
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by Anechoic 15y ago
This is similar to a discussion we had a couple of months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3364467 I'll repeat my response from that thread: it's not so much about in-game computations (as many posters already observed, coaches an
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by Anechoic 15y ago
which I think precede them ? iChat came out in 2002.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
OTOH, the HipChap loco is awfully close to Apple's original iChat icon: http://www.google.com/search?q=ichat+icon&num=20&hl=... In fact, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of diversity when it comes to chat icons in general: ht
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by Anechoic 15y ago
However, if it's debit you lose cash and it can take up to several weeks for it to be refunded. I know this is true in theory, but is it true in practice? I've had two debit cards used for fraudulent transactions (one a Visa debit issued
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by Anechoic 15y ago
What's the advantage of using the headphone connector rather than the dock connector? edit: thanks all, I forgot about the licensing requirement for the dock connector
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I'm pretty sure AT&T/Cingular was the largest wireless provider before the iPhone. Nope: http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/11/verizon-retakes-us-wirele...
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Even NFL star players have to resort to illegal methods to watch NFL content(blog.masslive.com)
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by Anechoic 15y ago
There would be a national alarm if we had 18 blue-collar workers jump off the roofs of a GM plant. For what it's worth, ~ 18/100,000 is just under the undergrad suicide rate at MIT ( http://web.mit.edu/~sdavies/www/mit-suicides/ ). It's b
825.
by Anechoic 15y ago
Heh. A couple of years ago I tried to carry on a microphone stand (something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Stage-Stands-7701B-Tripod-Microphone/d... ). TSA freaked, ran it through the x-ray a couple of times, escorted me out of the sec
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by Anechoic 15y ago
http://stopsamsung.wordpress.com/
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by Anechoic 15y ago
i think it makes perfect sense to focus on The Most Successful Company of Our Time Sure, and Apple is (and has been) doing something about this. Hopefully they will do more, but as long as their competitors continue to make use of the pri
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Foreigners do not have any say in this That's not true - foreigners do have a say in that we can refuse to purchase products from companies that enable this behavior (which includes Apple, Google, Dell, HP, etc etc). But we don't, because
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It may work, but I wonder what else the WD-40 may be eating away. I'd probably try contact cleaner first.
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by Anechoic 15y ago
I'm aware of the government requirements on USPS but I believe that's irrelevant. The USPS would still be in the decline it is today regardless of whether or not they had to stash away all that money today, 5 years from now, or never. The
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by Anechoic 15y ago
It doesn't have to be "downvote points", perhaps it's a limit on downvotes per day, perhaps it's a hit on karma (every downvote means a costs x number of karma points, and below a certain karma you can no longer downvote), etc. There's alwa
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by Anechoic 15y ago
The biggest problem with Reddit right now is that not enough people downvote weak content IMO the biggest problem with Reddit is that too many people downvote well-supported arguments because it goes against their belief system which real
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by Anechoic 15y ago
By "campaign finance" I'm referring to direct contributions to candidates (and promises of cushy jobs upon retirement). You're absolutely correct that corporations/unions/organizations can and should be able to support positions, but that d
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by Anechoic 15y ago
They're doing a pretty decent job of convincing an entire generation that locked-down, manufacturer-controlled computing is good. I've spent 20 years playing tech support to friends and family who have accidentally fubar'd their open comp
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by Anechoic 15y ago
Explain the reasoning why one company has the right to limit your freedoms while another doesn't? If you look at the specific examples Marco spelled out (" region locks and unskippable screens and encryption and criminalization of fair us
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by Anechoic 15y ago
it would be more productive to significantly reduce or eliminate our support of the MPAA member companies starting today The problem is that any reduction in income to the studios would be spun as "fallout from pirates stealing our IP." A
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by Anechoic 15y ago
he has blacked out his contact details. His DC and OR phone numbers are still shown on the site (at the bottom in case you didn't scroll down far enough)
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> Or you could buy a Galaxy Nexus, made in Korea Do we know that the Galaxy Nexus is completely Foxconn free? Foxconn may not assemble the phone, but they make a lot of electrical components and Samsung is a Foxconn customer: http://
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by Anechoic 15y ago
> crime goes up (crime is largely a result of poverty) While that may be conventional wisdom, crime rates have actually declined in the USA over the past 20 years: http://www.economist.com/node/18775436
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by Anechoic 15y ago
In the other recent paypal PR debacle Link? edit: thanks guys

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