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12y ago
>I'm 20, don't drink caffeine or go out more than once or twice a month. Left to my own devices, in a few weeks I'd be falling asleep around 10AM and waking up at 5PM. I'd bet that might not be so without electronics
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12y ago
>Thus re-inventing Lotus Notes. I would like to veto this with deadly weapons - up to and including nuclear.
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12y ago
Actually you can, by exporting/importing the right registry keys. Or at least you could on XP.
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12y ago
That's playing, not doing!
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12y ago
Unless they changed the protocol, USB will always be undesirable for transporting video and network data. Not that you can't, but thunderbolt is much better suited.
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12y ago
Switch to Foobar so you can be whole.
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12y ago
Is this anything like how phased-array radar works?
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12y ago
Those experiments always use variations on the word "stop". The speed of light does not vary. In those experiments, "stop" usually means absorbed and later re-emitted.
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12y ago
One of the many disadvantages of a closed state...
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12y ago
>relevant for common matters Put it this way: 0 degrees is really cold for a human and 100 is really hot for a human. Water doesn't care if it's cold.
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12y ago
That's a decent counter-argument. Perhaps this subject needs to be fought out. Robots (with or without AI) may be taking photographs in the future...
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12y ago
Seamonkey.
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12y ago
I used that back on Windows XP, but it felt way too laggy and hackish. Virtuawin is the way to go.
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12y ago
Online they often combine two-word compound nouns into one word.
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12y ago
I was under the impression that such colocation by Youtube, Netflix, etc. had been going on for years.
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12y ago
Really it was Mozilla that rose from Netscape's ashes. Firefox rewrote the UI, but Mozilla never died, it just changed to Seamonkey. It was the best browser for years before Phoenix came along -- for UI and resource problems that I nev
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12y ago
He also said we should be afraid of intelligent aliens because they will want to steal the earth's resources, like in the movies. There's no reason to believe that aliens would most likely be malevolent. That's Hollywood logi
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12y ago
I would liken more to like the readouts of the car. Say we hide the fuel gauge behind a menu and replace it with a "need gas" symbol. A clueless user might say "I don't want to learn how the fuel gauge or recirculating a
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13y ago
There aren't enough sadfaces in the world for Lotus users.
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13y ago
A lot of potential, but saltwater would still be a harsh mistress.
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13y ago
The use case would be to connect to the dock with 1 cable rather than a huge port on the bottom. Or connect to an external drive bay for fast and low overhead access. The external GPU thing has always been the most fanciful use case.
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13y ago
Web UI is well-specified. Click is follow hyperlink. Right click is browser context menu. Middle click is open in new tab, also available from the context menu. Whether a link opens in a new tab without user intervention is up to the link,
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13y ago
> all new tabs to be opened in current tab I think you're confusing links and tabs. I think you're trying to throw a lot of extra logic into the browser that doesn't belong there.
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13y ago
I rage quit at the installer. Anaconda needed an update, but whoa buddy, not THAT.
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13y ago
Also http://startpage.com . I'm getting more wary of google as time goes on...
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14y ago
From my amateur reading, I can say that a large number of engines leads to more failure modes due to interactions and complications, especially regarding vibration.
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14y ago
I've always considered WoW and Minecraft to be drugs...and I don't do drugs. Simple as that.
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14y ago
Tanning is a recent phenomenon, started in the 20's as I recall.
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14y ago
Other eras required border crossings, vastly complicating things.
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14y ago
Whoah there, iTunes is not ease of use. I had an MP3 player before the iPod was ever relased and it was most definitely easier to load music onto.
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