MiddleEndian

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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
License or not, source or not, if I have something installed on my computer, I can modify it or at least attempt to do so. I can also run it without a reliable network connection. Not so much for streaming services.
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
Rackspace's post does address this as well: >We are still fighting some of the trolls that have come after us and we expect to win those cases too. Without changes in the law we believe that the only way to end the plague of patent
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
>It's funny they are showcasing Mail - does anyone actually use the desktop mail client? I thought that's been dead since 2003? I switched away from OS X in 2011, and I still miss Mail.app.
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
A millionaire household means that they either have a million dollars in cash or in assets (not sure of the methodology used here) across a household (which can be more than one person). Making a million dollars per year as an individual is
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
>In the United States, it’s one out of every 50. This is blatantly false.
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
Although I am not a member, Metafilter does this with a $5 cost.
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
Yes. Or in the case of some airlines, slowly turning the brightness down until the screen doesn't render anything (until the next announcement starts and I have to do it again).
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
Fine with me! Will save me the hassle of disabling the TVs on the seats of most flights so I can get some sleep.
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by MiddleEndian 12y ago
>Imagine lifting your hand to move a brick and flicking your wrist to toss it. Sounds incredibly exhausting to build anything sufficiently complicated. At that point I may as well become a mason. I'd also prefer not to be trapped to