MrFoof

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by MrFoof 14y ago
Can anyone point to a volume hardware OEM that doesn't charge considerably for storage capacity or RAM? Off the cuff, let's go buy a laptop from Dell, Lenovo, HP, etc. Lenovo's T430u is $730 with 4GB of memory and a 320GB hard disk. An add
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by MrFoof 14y ago
This now means that Princess Leia is a Disney Princess.
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>flanked on either side by lamps that look like, and may well be, chromed AK-47s These are probably the Guns Table Lamp by Phillipe Starck (for Flos), but it's certainly possible that he just chromed some actual AK-47s and had them turn
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Indeed, he didn't break the speed of sound. When he hit around an estimated 729mph, he was spinning a fair bit. It looked as if he made the decision to attempt to stabilize (I think he mentioned during descent that he thought he was going t
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by MrFoof 14y ago
No, I really don't network. The lunches et al weren't initiated by myself. Someone has a problem, my phone rings, they suggest lunch, and I figure it's a good excuse to get some fish and chips. I don't think I've gone out of my way to rea
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Feels a bit similar to after the iPhone launch, when they cut the price a bit and gave the early adopters a $100 credit. Again, when had a hardware company ever done such a thing?
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Are you simply freelancing (one-man body shop) or consulting? The former is a short-term employee, the other involves "paying for a solution to a problem". Both are done for cost savings, but with a bit more up-front work to get in the do
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Micro-USB has one tremendously major disadvantage for battery-powered mobile devices: Maximum current. USB 2 has a maximum current of 1.5A while communicating and 5.0A when not. Micro-USB has a maximum current (per spec) of 1.0-1.8A, and
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>The U.S. is the 6th worst in terms of high school graduation, with 23% failing to attain a diploma I'm surprised that the graduation rate was that high, as I was expecting the "did not graduate rate" to be closer to 30%, not closer to
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by MrFoof 14y ago
That's because the storage provides a measurable benefit to the buyer. "Hey, I can 16GB for a subsidized $200, but if I spend 50% more money, I get 100% more storage". Every computer manufacturer does this for both RAM and storage. Mostly
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Regarding Kickstarter, Sauropod Studio just successfully raised $702,000 for Castle Story despite being based in Montreal. It probably requires some significant extra work, but it's certainly possible. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/
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by MrFoof 14y ago
They didn't, but the idea behind arcade cabinets is that without continuing to feed in money you got an incomplete experience. The issues you're bringing up -- and is valid -- is a fair number of free to play games may instead give you a su
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by MrFoof 14y ago
People wonder where video game arcades went after the console market started to really gain traction in the early to mid 1990s (and really got rolling with the Playstation 2). Outside of Japan, they largely went away, but now they're back:
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by MrFoof 14y ago
With the most basic of TV service, taxes, fees, etc. my total bill comes to about $116.81/mo. If I punted the TV service, my savings would be about $4/mo. I don't bother with TV service because to get the one channel I want, the required
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by MrFoof 14y ago
These speeds are already available. I've had 50Mbps/15Mbps from Comcast for over a year, for about $100/month -- and I actually get those speeds so long as the server with the content is willing. Dual-stack support is soon as well, so I
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>Have you ever noticed that some developers see the job market as a bleak and desperate place where jobs are scarce and exploitive, while others see this market and can't believe their amazing luck to have stumbled into such a fantastic
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by MrFoof 14y ago
So it'd be like motor racing -- stock and modified classes? How would the modified classes be regulated, or would they? Would there be 100m stock, 100m GT and 100m Prototype, based on the types of enhancements and weight of the participant
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Regardless, people tend to make purchases based on the perceived value, not based on component cost. I mean, is Slate going to do a car comparison and create an argument for consider horsepower per dollar (or cubic feet of storage per dolla
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>A huge fraction of kids who grow up in the projects do not do fine I don't think anyone would debate this, however, I doubt success was ever really limited by the amount of living space they had growing up. Having lived in the "bad pa
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I grew up with my sister, grandfather (for 10 years), dog, and two parents in a 960 square foot single-story ranch in a heavily subsidized subdivision (with an armed forces stipend both my grandfather and father qualified for). We did fine
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>Square-footage figures aren't supposed to include that. Keywords: Aren't supposed to. Square footage is often a wee bit inflated in listings. Sometimes it's considerably inflated (including stairwells, outdoor balconies, closets, hal
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by MrFoof 14y ago
I've downsized a few times over the years. 1080 > 920 > 720 > 660. How much have I missed having a bigger space? None. I could probably drop down to about 550 tomorrow and still have tons of room. The first thing is "usable
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Well, there are a lot of other reasons for the speed limits as well. Lack of sufficient climbing lanes on most of the original interstate system. Poorly designed junctions, including merges into the high-speed lanes Inadequate road thickne
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by MrFoof 14y ago
The thing about soda isn't just the liquid sugar in the soda, but also the acids in the soda itself. For example, most colas contain phosphoric acid. Phosphoric acid is the same thing your dentist will swab on your tooth during a basic rec
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by MrFoof 14y ago
> Is personal funding viable? Here's a question: What verifiable documented successes exist in the world? The one that always comes to my mind is Dwarf Fortress. It's not open source, but Tarn Adams has gone with the donation-ware mod
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by MrFoof 14y ago
Merlin Mann and John Gruber had a pretty good discussion of this (and many other things) in "The Banana Window" episode of The Talk Show. http://5by5.tv/talkshow/57
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by MrFoof 14y ago
To be fair, some of it is Porsche being a low-volume manufacturer for as long as they were, until the introduction of the Cayenne. Porsche has long stood by its practice of ensuring they make no less than $10,000 front-end on every car the
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by MrFoof 14y ago
>It has a different set of constraints. The point is to prune back the API for small devices I came here to say something along these lines, but right now I'm limited on time so I don't have time to go into specific examples. In OpenGL,
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by MrFoof 14y ago
If General Motors aired a commercial showing a stationary car, and some bouncing objects, my default reaction is not to go to a Chevrolet dealer to ask further questions. My default reaction is probably a non-reaction, which is to quickly
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by MrFoof 14y ago
They have a video on the main page. The video is a minute long. They have asked for my attention for a minute. In that minute, they have not told me anything about what the Surface can do for me, and why I should care about it. I'm absol

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