MrRage

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by MrRage 16y ago
On a tangential subject, if it's proven then why keep calling it the Poincare conjecture? It's now a theorem.
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by MrRage 16y ago
I wouldn't consider Gruber a journalist, but of course journalist should be held to a standard. The problem is when a majority of what journalist do is comment or report on what other journalist say. I think there's a parallel in today's po
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by MrRage 16y ago
> Having held an HTC Hero and an iPhone, I'm here to say that they're not wrong. Those cameras suck as cameras. I disagree. There are two sayings about photography I've heard a few times. 1) The best camera is the one that you have wit
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by MrRage 16y ago
I guess my main point is there are millions of us between NYC and San Francisco that don't have these issues and are happy with the iPhone. I've just never had any issues, but that's the price I pay for living in crappy city in a red state.
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by MrRage 16y ago
As tempting as it is to jump on the Android bandwagon, here are some of my reasons for sticking with my iPhone 3GS. * I don't live in the San Francisco area bubble, so I get great service. The only time it was crappy was the one day I was o
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by MrRage 16y ago
So it's more the library they're using? I thought it was strange they support Delphi and Java but not C#.
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by MrRage 16y ago
Amen. Good time to use this: http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
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by MrRage 17y ago
>The typing problem you mentioned can be solved by a case that holds it an an angle, such as http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/CL57512 . That seems to be an extremely awkward angle for typing. > Also heavy duty typing can be
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by MrRage 17y ago
I've frequently upgraded and changed parts in my PCs over the past few years an only once has Windows refused to activate. It was fixed with a 15 minute phone call to Microsoft. I find it hard to believe this is a serious issue unless you'r
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by MrRage 17y ago
That may be true but no Nintendo console has been hailed as the future of computing. They're just game consoles.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Why would it make sense? Would any Mac user use IE? How many Windows users use Safari? Not many I'd wager.
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by MrRage 17y ago
> Will be found on the desk of a character in several movies to indicate the character is of above average intelligence I guess that's why I'm hesitant to use term like "real literature". I'm very picky about what I read, that is I tend
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by MrRage 17y ago
There are sci-fi elements in IJ for sure. I just think IJ is too broad in scope to label it sci-fi though.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five is a sci-fi story that's also considered real literature. It's mostly set in the 20th century. I don't like terms like "real literature". I would say the Foundation series despite its weaknesses is worth rea
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by MrRage 17y ago
Haven't books have been dying since the invention of the radio? How's this talk about the iPad killing books any different?
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by MrRage 17y ago
I would also add overuse of adverbs. Good to see you removed most of them in your rewrite.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Second that. For instance what's the difference between "Top News" and "Most Recent"? They seem to display the same stuff in a slightly different order. I'm a computer programmer and have masters degree so I don't think I'm dumb...
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by MrRage 17y ago
> But in any event, less IE is good for the web. My hatred for IE 6 notwithstanding, I'd phrase it: browser diversity is good for the web. I see nothing wrong about using IE 8 (although it's not my personal choice), because thanks to co
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by MrRage 17y ago
The system it's operating is a virtual machine. At least that's what I inferred from the description.
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by MrRage 17y ago
If a user is confused about all the choice they can just stick to the software Apple and a handful of popular vendors provide. It stays simple by the fact that they can just ignore all the other choices.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Who hasn't been an critic of Apple's app store policies? That's not much of an argument.
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by MrRage 17y ago
> emperor-has-no-clothes modern art I admit I have a hard time "getting" most modern art. But seeing the actual pieces in person, especially some Picasso and Pollock, is quite a different experience than seeing dinky little prints in a
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by MrRage 17y ago
All the Arial bashing is rather boring. Which designer is using Arial over Helvetica when designing logos? Of course Helvetica is the superior choice if those are the only two typefaces that can be used. I dare say most people use Arial on
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by MrRage 17y ago
I love my Das Keyboard. I used to get some painful cramps during work (programming). I tried a couple keyboards that helps somewhat, namely Microsoft's old-school natural keyboards, and also the happy hacker keyboard, but I'd still get wris
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by MrRage 17y ago
The major difference, as I see it, is that Apple includes fonts that are good for publishing, and Microsoft includes fonts that are good for reading on a screen. For example, Consolas is designed for a screen with sub-pixel rendering. I thi
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by MrRage 17y ago
Wolfram Alpha is not a web search. Google is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_mistake
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by MrRage 17y ago
Have you used Office 2007 at all? They're hidden away by default. The whole purpose of the ribbon was to manage the complexity better. Plus, there's no paper clip. It's not the '90s anymore.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Not to mention that if you're going to talk about languages with syntax like C, Java should be in that list.
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by MrRage 17y ago
Or maybe said boss would spend less just buying software than paying an employee to duplicate an maintain the functionality. For a large enough company, one software license is not that big of an expense.
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by MrRage 17y ago
These ancient, unsupported apps aren't things like spread sheets and word processors, they're industry specific applications. They're much more expensive to create and update (and buy) because of limited demand, and there's often little cho

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