Causification

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by Causification 15y ago
Are there really people that walk around with their phone GPS switched on all day? Security concerns aside, what a drain on battery life that must be.
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by Causification 15y ago
How long did you spend staring at your screen in slackjawed disbelief after selecting the zoom tool and finding that instead of zooming out, right-clicking does nothing?
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by Causification 15y ago
Modern smartphones aren't so good at it either. Think of the last time you just wanted to listen to the audio from a video file while you browsed the internet.
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by Causification 15y ago
I am an irregular Linux user and am not deeply involved in the Ubuntu community, but over the past several months I have seen the general attitude of "random geeks" change dramatically with regards to Ubuntu. A year ago the standard respon
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by Causification 15y ago
Agreed. Unless it's supported by a legal framework, racism is a self-defeating phenomenon. Racist individuals deprive themselves of the benefits offered by the group toward which they are racist, therefore making themselves less likely to
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by Causification 15y ago
Except that kottke didn't say anything at all about Stallman's ethics, position on software, or the FSF. He just said it was ridiculous for him to put two paragraphs about parrots in his rider. Simple as that.
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by Causification 15y ago
It is a very common flaw in reasoning that one party assumes that the opposition disagrees because they are scared or secretly agree. Atheists are all secretly christians, homophobes are all secretly gay, liberals are scared of "the truth.
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by Causification 15y ago
Having read only the stonehenge page and not the full slashdot article, I don't even have to be metaphorical when I ask what kind of pathetic, alarmist, lilly-livered school district would call the police over anything short of an actual th
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by Causification 15y ago
Know what would be a heck of a lot closer? A Clie TH55. http://reviews.cnet.com/sc/30733801-2-440-front-2.gif
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by Causification 15y ago
There's already an international symbol for touchscreens: fingerprints.
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by Causification 15y ago
The end goal is for the user to have something that best suits their needs. For most people that might be an iphone. Many others are restricted to paying for things they don't want in order to have the things they absolutely require, whil
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by Causification 15y ago
The lower the understanding of the average user, the less variety there is in a given product category. Desktops came in all shapes and sizes, until everybody bought one and suddenly they were all beige boxes. If you've strolled through a
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by Causification 15y ago
Touchscreens bring people closer to technology, but they also separate people from understanding technology. It's great that we have a whole generation of people with iphones, but we also have a whole generation of people who think that if
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by Causification 15y ago
Whether it is desirable would depend on your values and objectives. I fail to see why UPP is desirable to anyone except the person who wants more accolade for a particular statement or action than it actually deserves. I do not think that
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by Causification 15y ago
I think you wrote an article that kind of ignored the real point of controversy, which is whether UPP is actually valuable. Does having a rigid identity tend to magnify the reactions of people to the things you do an say? Yes, absolutely.
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by Causification 15y ago
I am amazed that someone would write so much so thoroughly yet completely miss the point that some people don't give a damn about UPP or identity. Want to know what my reputation is? Too bad, it doesn't exist. Excepting the handful of cl
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by Causification 15y ago
I cannot remember the last time I read an article about a startup, technology, or general science where I paid the slightest bit of attention to what city the company/events called home. If you're an internet company nobody cares where you