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by JimmyL 17y ago
If you're the kind of person that needs to go to a payday loan place, you're not going to be eligible for a 0% APR card - if you're lucky, you'd be offered a fully-secured credit card (meaning you have to give them money first before you ca
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I agree. Reading that logic - we need to be able to keep all your search data for much longer so that we can, uh, track flu season - sounds strangely reminiscent of the Australian government's logic that they need to be able to filter the i
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Talk to you boss, and look at your contract (assuming you have one that covers this). Most will have some clause in there saying that if you use code that you created before your employment, by using it at work you're giving the University
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by JimmyL 17y ago
SQL and a JOIN? Not what you asked for (and certainly not what the cool kids use), but why not?
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Broadcast licensing music (at the broad level that you need for a radio station) is a non-intuitive thing, and hasn't really adapted to the modern broadcast model. If you purchase a "radio" license you can play anything, but only if you fol
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Nokia 63XX - a few hundred bucks unlocked off TigerDirect. Best non-smartphone I've ever had.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
>> Providing content with embedded advertising Also in-program advertising, as was classicly shown in The Truman Show and as seen nowadays with the gratuitous Coke cups used on American Idol. As for the networks being redundant, y
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Distribution rights aren't cheap - and while electronic ones would be cheaper, buying them to cover the world wouldn't be. Plus, you'd have to find advertisers for each individual country (which would be a huge pain in the ass) - without th
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by JimmyL 17y ago
The international distribution market is the problem. Let's say I'm a network and I come up with a show named _Lost_. I broadcast it on my network in the US, and it's pretty profitable and popular. I see people are pirating it, so I put it
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by JimmyL 17y ago
The fact that you want to read updates in your feedreader doesn't affect me at all - I friended you/accepted your friend request, so I'm OK with you seeing what I'm up to on FB. The problem is that in order to do that, what I've done on FB
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by JimmyL 17y ago
+1 for using svn for schoolwork. No matter what schoolwork I did, if it was on a computer it was in a repo. Nothing beats a plagiarism accusation like being able to provide 40 revisions of your previous work spread over a few months.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
The real unfortunate thing is that most funds that are offered for 401k use are terrible, expensive, and perform badly.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Not many people - most get 401ks, which are a poor substitute (and incidentally, not originally intended to be used for retirement savings). As for why they get pensions and you don't, it's mostly due to them being organized and having been
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by JimmyL 18y ago
Aside from the high school alluded to in this story, I've never seen Turnitin used in a high school context - one would think that HS papers generally aren't sophisticated enough to make it difficult to tell if there's been some plagiarizin
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by JimmyL 18y ago
My strategy is to use a catch-all and filters (with Google Apps). I have my catch-all for the domain go to an address like spam@<mydomain>, and then within that account have a filter set up such that all email with a destination tha
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by JimmyL 18y ago
You argument is based on the idea that taxation is really just another way of paying for services (public transport, policing, etc.). If you accept that premise, than being a flat-taxer makes some degree of sense, but you should also be in
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by JimmyL 18y ago
I clicked on the five thumbnails located below the main image with the expectation that something would happen - maybe a larger image of whatever it's a thumbnail of, or some more description of what integrate email , for example, means. L
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by JimmyL 18y ago
The basic tools may be free, but the more advanced things aren't. Many assignments require the use of packages like Matlab, Maple, and Pro/E - the idea being that we'll use these things in industry so we may as well get used to them in uni
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by JimmyL 18y ago
If you like interesting power meters, check out the Wattson - http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/wattson_monitor.php
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by JimmyL 18y ago
>> Gold has been money for thousand of years for good reason Only if you consider "because it's shiny" to be a good reason. That's the historical basis for gold being valuable - it looks good (according to the tastes of medieval roy
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by JimmyL 18y ago
ASD, but from a can - this is about the only beer I can think of that I prefer the can to the bottle.
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by JimmyL 18y ago
Unusual? Certainly. Best? Not for me. I had some time this past summer and decided that I wanted to experiment a bit with Ruby. I tried Poignant three or four times, and each time I would put it down after half an hour, with the same thou
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by JimmyL 18y ago
No - and I'd also challenge the assertion that Dropbox and Slideshare are mainstream anywhere outside of the tech/early adopter community. These (and online docs) are products that people who like technology and new things use as a way to g
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by JimmyL 18y ago
Although it's somewhat less complex, similar vending machines that make poutine (a French-Canadian dish that's basically fries with gravy and cheese curds) have been around for a while in Montreal. In thee machines, it starts with pre-cut f
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by JimmyL 18y ago
+1 for Confluence Yes, it's not free (or Free) and is made by a pretty established company, but it's a solid product, Wiki enough that if you want to get into it, there is a lot fo customization and detail that you can do, but at he same ti
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by JimmyL 18y ago
There are many great things about London - cheap public transport is definitely not one of them. The TfL network is certainly quite expansive, but is also rather expensive. There's also the generally high cost-of-living, the shitty broadban
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by JimmyL 18y ago
Yeah, but you can depreciate cubicle systems, which is something you can't do with drywall. Curiously, cubes count as office furniture (and hence business machines), which means that you can depreciate it much more efficiently than you can
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by JimmyL 18y ago
A similar case that comes up every few years has to do with copyrighting the phone book. The publisher contends that while the information contained within it is indeed not copyrightable, the arrangement and ordering of it is, and so you ca
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by JimmyL 18y ago
I don't think any article on the issue of "look and feel" is complete without coverage of the two most significant precedents (both for what they say and what they don't say about it), Apple Computer v. Microsoft and Lotus v. Borland. Lotus
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by JimmyL 18y ago
I think that's more a symptom of poor intra-company communication than a lack of data. In several other publications from various pro- and anti-Tesco sources, I've seen pretty much universal agreement that the datasaet generated by all user

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