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by JVIDEL 14y ago
The biggest problem every communist country had was indeed coordination. The USSR was famous for this, in fact the Nazi invasion was a success at first partly because of Soviet disarray: you had spies warning about the impending attack for
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Not bad at all, but then again a IMOD display would be better: its in color and it has much faster refresh rates so it can play video and use touch UIs just like in any LCD. It has some downsides compared to regular screens but it looks eve
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I have both and well, glossy blows: not only it reflects nearly everything around it more than a CRT would but its also a dirt magnet. Too bad these days a lot of laptops, specially mid to highend models come with glossy screens. Unless you
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Been there, the project stalled when we couldn't get any panels of that size so it had to be custom made, and considering any panels bigger than the standard 6 inches were already expensive the price of these other panels was going to be pl
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Windows 8 might block Skyrim and other games(techdirt.com)
2 points by JVIDEL 14y ago|0 comments
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I moved my laptop to Mint a while ago, and my Ubuntu desktop uses Cinnamon instead of Unity (and I might move that to Mint once 14 is released) Elementary is also becoming an option, but I'm really looking forward to Steam and while it shou
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I'm more surprised that it took Google so long to launch a really cheap chromebook, after all previous models were almost the same than a lowend laptop with a Windows license. Its weird since there were not many models to begin with and Goo
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I been checking StartupChile for a while but the one thing keeping me from applying is that many ex-alumni have complained about the lack of a proper investors network in Chile to provide growth capital once the program is over. Some have m
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I heard more or less the same at a meetup last month, from a headhunter guy who wanted to convince a few of us there to go work for some company at below average market wages. This argument comes along a lot among people who's actual compla
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How Computer-Generated Animations Were Made in 1964(youtube.com)
1 points by JVIDEL 14y ago|0 comments
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact. Easy, remember a few years ago when some guys at NASA proposed that the first guys to Mars should be in their early 60s? That's because getting there is not the problem, the problem are the
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Linux always had this "hardcore PC dude" image that made it look like you needed a PhD to use it, but with Ubuntu the fact is 95% of PC users can switch painlessly and even have a better overall experience. The other 5% are those that need
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Idea guys these days don't even bother, it used to be that they would make a serious attempt, make documentation, mockups, a .ppt, etc... These days I get emails from people who don't even know how to make an executive summary, how am I s
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I remember seeing that, its kind of weird that no other companies have implemented similar solutions, does Guerrilla Games have a patent on that?
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Did anyone tell these guys that that president Lobo is the result of a coup? and that the previous one was a recalcitrant pro-cuba guy? or that Honduras already had a serious problem with marxist guerillas in the '80s? All I'm saying is tha
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
But Tilera uses its own architecture, ARM on the other hand is nearly everywhere. There were other companies like Tilera: Transputer, Connection Machine.......SiCortex was founded in 2003 with a similar idea and was shutting down by 2009 Th
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What was the Bill of Materials (BOM) of the first iPod?
1 points by JVIDEL 14y ago|0 comments
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I wonder if Apple is going to replace the iPod Touch with this. Think about it: the Touch didn't get a spec bump while the iPhone, iPad and even the AppleTV did, and it sells for the same price of a Kindle Fire, Nexus 7 or Nook Tablet, all
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
If you ask me this has more to do with JS becoming the lingua franca of web development and less to do with making programming as easy as possible. Case in point, recently some chick from highschool asked me where she could learn to code,
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Agreed, in fact I have never seen anyone using one of these smartphone gamepads and quite frankly I can see why: it's another thing you have to carry with you and besides not all games are/will be compatible.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Yeah funny how much we spend on stuff that blows up (or never does because it's never used and we have to spend even more billions dismantling them).
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Pentium M was based on the Tualatin
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I been to the forum of this project, and it's nothing like the ouya. Why? because the Oculus exists , there are prototypes running Doom3 since E3. Granted, those units are held together by duct tape which is not exactly consumer-grade, but
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
The early days of the K8 were awesome, the FX would kill whatever Intel threw at AMD, it was brutal. Even cheap Athlons were better than highend Pentiums, and prescott? a disaster, plain and simple. Is ironic that AMD hired Keller since Int
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I just want to say is funny how some people downplay Orkut for being full of Brasilians and Indians when those are 2 of the most growing consumer markets in the world. You have companies all over the world fighting to get those markets, App
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
GREGORY BENFORD also starts eerily similar to what we are seeing today, but then starts with the classic futurology stuff of the time (bases on the Moon, trip to Mars, mass starvation) that didn't happen.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
And what level of taxation are we talking about?
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
It makes sense: with Linux support Valve could run roll Steam with a barebones distro creating their own OS (SteamOS?) to run on top of the rumored SteamBox, with better control of resources and no need to pay licenses to MSFT.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I used Safari for Windows when it first came out, it was pretty good actually, but the later versions were a disaster, I don't know how but it ran like hell. Somehow Apple managed to make Safari 5 slower than previous versions on Windows. I
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
This seems interesting, but I have one question: what about taxes? Any tax breaks for tech startups? what about employee/healthcare costs?

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