RK

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by RK 17y ago
The results page made my Firefox (3.0.17 on Ubuntu 8.04) slow to a crawl. Other than that the results were interesting.
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by RK 17y ago
I like the Poäng chair from IKEA, but I don't know how anyone can sit in it all day long at a desk. It's a lounge chair.
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by RK 17y ago
Google, has decided to create their own browser, and is now working on their own OS (a linux distro). And Google hired Canonical to work on Chrome OS...
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by RK 17y ago
What exactly does your bingo startup do again? ;) I finally broke down recently and made a compendium of all my username/passwords combinations in an encrypted file. It was eye opening when I finally saw how many passwords I actually use an
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by RK 17y ago
Having just gotten the new Tony Hawk game as a gift, I was wondering to myself if I would ever play on any setting other than "casual". I'm not a huge gamer, so I kind of doubt I will, except possibly to see what the difference is. Also, I
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by RK 17y ago
That same argument has been made about tons of companies/products, e.g. Google and Wii. Think about the fact that MP3 became a household word. Granted, it's an improvement over MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, but it's not exactly catchy.
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by RK 17y ago
I've had to use some non-scriptable, proprietary software that this might actually be useful for in doing repetitive tasks. This is especially true at some places where I have done some engineering consulting (non-software). It would proba
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by RK 17y ago
All grading systems are essentially arbitrary. A 95% average could be the same as an 80% or a 99% somewhere else. A 4.0 GPA could be a 3.1 or a 4.3 somewhere else (some schools use a "4.0" scale that goes above 4.0).
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by RK 17y ago
Humans looking for extraterrestrial intelligence might be looking for intelligence "similar" to humans, but might not "mega-intelligences" also be looking for things similar to what spawned them (i.e. similar to human level intelligences)?
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by RK 17y ago
So are the populations normalized to one Long Island? And on a totally unrelated note, sometimes Rhode Islands are used as units of area. I knew a girl in college that told me she grew up on .53 RI ranch in Texas. I had no idea what she was
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by RK 17y ago
His other entry on what to put on your grad school application is pretty good as well: http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2009/12/reading-phd-appl...
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by RK 17y ago
It might also work to be in only one class, allowing you to still have your normal job, etc. I think the main thing would be to show the department/professor that you can cut it at the university. If you can get a research job and take clas
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by RK 17y ago
A bust is not the end of the world. There are many ways to get where you want to be. About halfway through grad school I thought I might need to move for family reasons and thus had to apply to grad schools all over again. Having completed
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by RK 17y ago
I've seen people who were able to enroll as non-degree grad students for a semester or two and then be admitted.
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by RK 17y ago
I agree with your comment that qualification X isn't necessarily needed, but it has it's limits of course. If you want to go into academia or a professional field such as medicine, the qualifications can be very rigid. Sometimes you can get
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by RK 17y ago
I'm not a "real" facebook user, except for a fake account to try out some features. It's been interesting looking around recently at people I know, because many of them haven't locked down their profiles yet. It's like the old myspace days.
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by RK 17y ago
You do not remember that whole thing? My memory is coming back now :) I wonder if San Francisco will see anything similar.
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by RK 17y ago
Massachusetts had a similar policy back in 2003, but I don't remember what the outcome was. I think the policy was thrown out(??). http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-131911.html
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by RK 17y ago
That site reminds me of reading a Lyndon LaRouche pamphlet once in college...
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Could a ‘Virtual Surge’ Fix Afghanistan?(wired.com)
1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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by RK 17y ago
I think expectations need to be pretty stratospheric for the Nexus One to be considered a "minimally viable product".
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by RK 17y ago
I'm pretty sure this was written by a German.
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by RK 17y ago
There are a couple of ways this information may be applied. It can help creditors promote certain products, cutting down on marketing waste. Why sent pre-approval letters to people not interested, right? Does this mean I can send one twee
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by RK 17y ago
Yes, but describing it as "inherently unpredictable" gives the impression that you could take one of the simple equations that are chaotic and do things like produce truly random numbers on your computer. This is not the case.
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by RK 17y ago
This is an excellent program, but I dislike that the presenter and one of the interviewees both say that chaotic systems are "inherently unpredictable". Chaotic (classical) systems are deterministic, so the same initial conditions will alwa
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by RK 17y ago
DIY, internet guided surgery here we come. Seriously though, there seems to be some very interesting potential for this type of augmented reality.
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Ubuntu primes music service(mybroadband.co.za)
17 points by RK 17y ago|6 comments
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by RK 17y ago
You mention DSL from major phone companies and virtual providers. Do all of those major phone companies run their own copper/fiber or use the same infrastructure? 100 MB/s would be nice. I'm paying about $50/month for 5Mb/s DSL in the US.
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by RK 17y ago
What is true is a correlation between competition and quality of internet. Areas with only one provider almost inevitably have terrible service. Do countries like South Korea and Japan have lots of competition for high speed access (or in
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by RK 17y ago
The stigma is true, but is also somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophesy (at least in much of the US), in that if you can afford not to take public transport, you probably wouldn't want to. The one time I rode the bus where I live (for about

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