Marticus

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by Marticus 16y ago
Well, from looking at it, it's actually very predictable. Once one arm crosses what I'll call the lower bound (at roughly 80+ degrees from the bar being parallel to the ground), the water empties so rapidly that the tube filling up is not n
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by Marticus 16y ago
That's pretty unbelievably awesome. If anything, I wish it was more complex though.
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by Marticus 16y ago
I prefer David Thorne's take on the Macbook Pro.
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by Marticus 16y ago
I just really liked one of the comments: "(Steve Jobs = Angelina Jolie; Mark Zuckerberg = Scarlett Johansson; who's Paris Hilton?) Well, Paris Hilton is pretty but dumb. So the "wealth anorexia" version would be someone who's insanely rich,
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by Marticus 16y ago
That is basically what happened, but most people considered that a "death" of sorts since you could no longer get it direct from Google. I broke down and bought one w/o a contract literally about a day before they announced it - it's the be
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by Marticus 16y ago
It's like asking which terminal cancer is worse.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Not if they're already dead.
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by Marticus 16y ago
And yes, true. But for end-users that aren't behind a corp firewall / NAT / etc, this is an easy solution that they don't have to worry about. Out of sight, out of mind (CPU cycles) sells, unfortunately.
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by Marticus 16y ago
It isn't software at that point as you would normally think of it - it would be a dedicated hardware piece that simply cross-references signatures with a known detection library and reports to the Intel chip. And you think end users have an
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by Marticus 16y ago
Not necessarily - I think it has the potential to be a very good move for Intel. I thought about my last post more, and I can think of a few applications where it could give Intel some huge advantages. Something that came to mind: We all ag
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by Marticus 16y ago
Well what worries me is mostly "what's going to happen to my job now?" I'm not some higher-up so... outlook isn't great. I've seen enough mergers to know how that usually goes. So! I'm officially bad luck with businesses (was around just as
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by Marticus 16y ago
I guess what I'm now wondering is whether or not something requires a certain drag coefficient to, upon achieving trans-sonic speeds, create a shock wave in the air. Obviously they probably didn't produce a shock wave at absurdly high altit
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by Marticus 16y ago
Pft, the pistons in that car were about as big as a coke can, and there were four of them, plus it had a recirculating exhaust system. It was also mostly made out of aluminium, much to the chagrin of my parents / loved ones.
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by Marticus 16y ago
That's cute - my 1981 Toyota Tercel still gets 35+ mpg. I must disagree. Edit: To clarify, I'm not poking fun at you per se, but the idea that our technology will 'always' trend toward more efficient engines is one that we've pretty much fa
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by Marticus 16y ago
Which is basically why I quit reading the NYT.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Typically something in the far-upper atmosphere breaks the sound barrier by just falling - not as many molecules to produce drag - but I don't think the sound barrier "breaks" at that altitude for the same reason terminal velocity is greate
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by Marticus 16y ago
Moral of the story: Being a kid = ADHD. Parents need to stop resorting to "parenting in a pill" for their own inadequacies, or pressure by society to "act" on their child being precisely that. That's not to say that ADHD doesn't exist or so
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by Marticus 16y ago
...What's Wikileaks, again?
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by Marticus 16y ago
This whole logic train is pretty much made of awesome. I was laughing pretty hard by the "elephants are nearly extinct" comment.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Moral of the story: Google is a bunch of cheeky bastards. It took me a while to understand the reasoning behind that as points on a scale versus actual temperature values ("Celsius degrees" versus "degrees Celsius," respectively). Googling
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by Marticus 16y ago
What is awesome to me is how, presumably surviving the millenia, these will look to generations hundreds or thousands of years later. Will this be our own "Stonehenge?" How long will people someday puzzle over the purpose of these things? P
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by Marticus 16y ago
Well, I can understand it from at least a security perspective (usually inter-connected wifi points use horribly unsecure setups), but this is pretty cute, their reasoning.
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by Marticus 16y ago
That you like to diagram less maths than I do. Although unless it's super-complex we usually do it on a whiteboard in the house or on the Boogie Board.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Oh baby.
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by Marticus 16y ago
I likely jumped to those conclusions long, long ago. However, I do like OKC in that they take tons of data and make actual conclusions about it. Regardless of whether or not it's eventually proven wrong, or (as stated above) there are some
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by Marticus 16y ago
Wasn't saying SCII was innnovative in specificity, merely that games that allow sandbox innovation would be more likely to face intense scrutiny as to what they release as any sort of content from any user or otherwise.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Understandable, but the point I was trying to make more than anything was simply that Google "wasn't" actually trying to hate us, not really. The title biasied before I even hopped.
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by Marticus 16y ago
Doesn't seem like it - managed services will be handled different ways by different ISPs - which I would argue would allow (eventually) for smaller ISPs to say "well yeah, we offer x, y, and z and AT&T doesn't do that" and have a decent
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by Marticus 16y ago
It wasn't as interesting as I thought it was. But still kinda cool - as someone else said the culture is so vastly different. Wanting a definition of "who" Rick Astley is cracked me up, even if only "for the record." But nonetheless, what g
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by Marticus 16y ago
As someone who commented on the original article stated, I'd like to know whether or not the device works on scantrons. If so, that would be a high school / college godsend. This is also awesome.

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