JCThoughtscream

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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
It's not that Macmillan's content is king. It's that Macmillan controls a significant /quantity/ of content, and Amazon is no longer the only outlet in town. As a thought exercise, try to imagine an individual publisher attempting this. Per
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I wonder if this applicable to city planning? Constructing a plexiglass landscape in miniature, scattering a few flakes in the right places, then letting loose the mold... let nature calculate maximum efficiency for you!
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Oh, sure, blame the guy that made you the billions in the first place for not knowing that you were fucking around with the underpinning factors. Real mature, Wall Street. Real mature.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Non-iPhone user here to provide a more objective baseline: At a glance of the comparisons, I saw a total of 3 screens that actually looked like direct copies of each other. The ruler, balancer, and battery stats. The rest share similar func
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Or it could incite a discussion on the relative merits of Apple's industrial design approach, how accurate Stross's assessment is, and what should or shouldn't carry over to the industry at-large. I realize OS wankery is pretty much standar
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"More Flame Bait," or why Charles Stross uses Macs(antipope.org)
16 points by JCThoughtscream 17y ago|14 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
It is actually fairly plausible that Stoppelmann has no idea at all that his sales representatives are using such shady tactics. That is not, however, good news for Stoppelmann. Not in any sense. It would indicate that, at the client-busin
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
...how many blogs does this man read? Blogging =/= tech blogging - the simplest search would bring up hundreds if not thousands, of blogs about people's life stories. Including, yes, that of techies.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
A fair point. Heard recently that the "Iranian Cyber Army" attacked Baidu as well. Nothing major - they weren't able to do much more than hassle Twitter, and they didn't do much to Baidu either.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
The targeting of Chinese human rights activists' email accounts don't seem Suspicious to you? Exactly what /private/ group would have motive for this?
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
They expected to do business, of course. It is, after all, a 1.32bn audience base. Quite glad they're opting to take the ethical route this time, though.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
A bit of violin, a bit of guitar.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
The study's rather useless. How well does the study account for better or changed diagnosis methods? Or whether students simply find it more culturally acceptable to report mental problems? The reporter barely gives recognition to the fact
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
There is no such thing as "too old for music." Rather, picking up something new helps keep your brain nimble. You have no reason at all NOT to do it - and, hey, you even have a free tutor!
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Exactly what can Moot offer, in terms of discourse? Moot's fame was very much a matter of happenstance and ungodly luck - the whims of the internet, rather than anything innately genius about his approach or handling. It'd be like asking a
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
My first response to seeing this over HN's twitter feed was "what, only?"
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Oh, wow. With Google's backing, an AR future suddenly doesn't seem very far off at all.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Relevance of the link: I've been informed by a contact that collisions have been planned for this weekend. May have already happened. ...appears not to be happening right now, though.
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Large Hadron Collider status page(op-webtools.web.cern.ch)
1 points by JCThoughtscream 17y ago|1 comments
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Suddenly, downloads of BugMeNot's add-on skyrockets...
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Guh. This only makes me more concerned about future superbugs, not less. But perhaps I'm overly paranoid - how thorough is the killrate, and is it possible for bacteria to develop immunity to even this cocktail?
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
No, we simply have "skeptics" that've decried climatologists as anti-industrial communists that ought to be tarred and feathered if not outright lynched for their views. Comparing crazies doesn't make for great discourse.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I fully agree! But both sides are guilty of subjective analysis. As to which side is most guilty... well, choosing either/or gives away your position on the issue.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I can think of a half-dozen reasons off the top of my head as to why the records might have had to been adjusted, starting with "equipment calibration" and moving widely on from there. I think the media's been a little too eager to jump on
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
There is NO such thing as too easy to use. The whole point of an operating system is to be functional - in every aspect of that word. The more intuitive it is, the /better/ it's been designed.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
Not just outside Japan. The biggest, most heavily committed releases of the last few seasons have been targeted at the otaku demographic, sometimes blatant to the point of parody.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
That begs the question of whether or not the studios attempting to do so are in a /position/ to do so.
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
The lack of vitality in the Japanese animation industry's fairly old news at this point. What we're seeing now is decidedly not an overnight thing - it's the end result of about a decade's worth of bad policy-making, starting from an inabil
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
If you don't see anything wrong with Ender's Game, for your own sake, don't read anything of Card's past Speaker for the Dead. I loved Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow - but it gets harder to read them the more you're aware of Card's, uh, po
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by JCThoughtscream 17y ago
I am rather amused at the juxtaposition of a steam-era metaphor when discussing internet-age science fiction. It's rather akin to complaining about the quality of today's race horses when everybody else's checking out NASCAR. Meanwhile, I'l

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