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11y ago
Maybe, but as a french speaker I can confirm that it's easy to confuse. I just learned that Pingouin and Penguin are not the same. There is even a whole section explaining more subtleties about why it's often missuses in the frenc
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For readability for people who don't have a 15 360 X 1080 screen: Chih-Wei, We have repeatedly said, including in emails (both before and) following this that went unresponsive to afterwards, that we wanted to collaborate and contribut
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11y ago
The main problem, as stated in the article, is that he was flying right above the head of the competitors instead of from a distance as he was suppose to do. But that cameraman/marketing company decided instead to go for the better ang
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11y ago
Same situation but for french, I live in Quebec. Earlier today I was trying the voice detection to say a direction, I tried to say the street name in the normal french accent, I tried to tell it in a mangled English accent, I tried to read
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11y ago
In this case the people who need to be educated are the sysadmin. You need to make your password policy more inspired by this XKCD https://xkcd.com/936/ than by forcing incredibly hard to remember passwords.
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11y ago
Having an insanely strict password policy is begging for having 60% of the passwords written on a post it near the keyboard of every user.
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11y ago
As a listener of both Techzing and Startups for the Rest of Us, it's fun to have followed almost the whole story since it's beginning :)
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11y ago
...but considering that they only need to fall from an height of 258.88 feet to reach 88 miles per hours Marty most likely did made it to the future! Unfortunately he then died instantly by hitting the the bottom of the ravine once he arriv
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11y ago
Human-driven cars can also be disabled with a laser pointer to the eye of the driver. http://www.livescience.com/21707-lasers-eye-damage.html
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11y ago
When I want to understand in a few lines some business or software, I normaly avoid their web site because it's usually just riddled with buz words and a sales funnel to force you to register or get some trial without even understandin
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11y ago
>You may have a much better time with an iphone/ipad/ipod touch The biggest problem with modern intelligent phones, specially apple ones, is that there is zero tactile feedback on the screen vs good old buttons or keyboard.
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12y ago
>buying something useless and expensive is a very strong signal (like the peacocks tail) And how did it help the peacocks to feed itself or outrun a panther? You will say "but the ultimate goal was to transfer his genes and he did&q
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12y ago
Nor the internet and television when they wrote the first amendment. I find it odd that that judgement gave such importance to the technology available at the time of writing the amendment instead of the spirit of it.
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12y ago
Non mobile link http://www.amazon.com/Back-Saver-Wallet-Leather-Wallet/dp/B0...
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12y ago
Windows 2000 is one of my favorite OS. I barely used XP because I liked it so much I almost went straight from 2000 to windows 7.
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12y ago
Or maybe Apple will release a model of more loosely fitting jeans to put less pressure on the phone?
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12y ago
I wish I was able to take naps. Do people can really fall asleep on command just like that when they have some spare minutes in their day? Shit, even when I am sleep deprived, I can barely fall asleep in my own bed, sometimes it literally t
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12y ago
I got the exact same feeling after using it for 2 seconds. Then watched his video demo and understood why he did it that way. He did the product with tablet users in mind.
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12y ago
Can I fight back?
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12y ago
I also think that Valve used him a bit as convenient scapegoat to explain why the release of the game was pushed back another year.
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12y ago
Can he just fill for bankruptcy to clear the damages?
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12y ago
>Only thing I wish was that there was a way to zoom Use the scroll wheel on your mouse.
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12y ago
The description we find on websites about the services or products they sell, are in almost every single case pretty bad. I always end up going to Wikipedia to understand what the company is selling.
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12y ago
>Their will be plenty of time to rummage through his life, internet and not, no need to rush into it. If find that those type of comments, event if well intended, in the end they are not helpful. First because dmix wasn't "rumm
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13y ago
Yeah I fear she already fenced it.
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13y ago
One of the things that made me upset about the initial announcement about Facebook acquiring Oculus was that I wasn't exactly sure if it was one of those "almost hostile takeover" where the main share holders want to cash out
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13y ago
Not enough of a brogrammer for their standards.
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13y ago
Facebook is modern times AOL, negatively contaminating everything they buy.
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OP Is not saying that the media would claim that saving their lives was a waste of money, he is saying that the media would claim that their life were never in danger in the first place.
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13y ago
With their $1 subscription per year model,they should recoup their investment in 40 years.
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