Vivtek

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841.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Isn't the strict insistence on two-dimensionality a little restrictive?
842.
by Vivtek 14y ago
To paraphrase Jamie Zawinski, some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use m4." Now they have two problems. I know I'd rather have fifty interlocking regular expressions than ever have to touch m4 again.
843.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Ouch - point taken.
844.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I disagree with this. It's one thing to hustle to make your ramen budget. It's another to hustle to succeed before your son needs that kidney transplant. There's hustle, and then there's killing stress. I can only surmise you're young and
845.
by Vivtek 14y ago
So everybody but the United States will have secure communications. Race to the bottom, then? The place seems more Soviet every day.
846.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Exactly. I'm even too scared to make pushy phone calls - I love it when somebody else does that and I get to read about it.
847.
by Vivtek 14y ago
John Barnes wrote a whole series of this kind of alt-history (e.g. "Caesar's Bicycle", "Washington's Dirigible", etc.). Which reminds me that there is, of course, a entire genre called "alt-history", starting presumably with Twain's "A Con
848.
by Vivtek 14y ago
The last time the public had that sudden sense of vulnerability, the government did everything in their power to stoke those anaphylactic fires. Panetta wants more money, pure and simple, and he knows that fear of the unknown is the best w
849.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, I thought that, too. My property managers were even worse than my tenants, and I went through a couple of services that had been recommended to me by people I trusted. I actually had a year and a half with zero income from a house.
850.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I'm not arguing. I've been on both sides, and both sides suck.
851.
by Vivtek 14y ago
A word of caution: unless you have the personal skills to deal with tenants, do not make the mistake of thinking that real estate is passive income. Like any earning occupation, landlording takes attention to detail, the ability not to p
852.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Sorry, just noticed your query. He plays alone - I've asked him if he's interested in the multiplayer aspects, but he just likes building things like automated mines, and watching replay movies on YouTube.
853.
by Vivtek 14y ago
It's a problem for Nintendo, believe it or not. My 13-year-old son saved up to buy a game now that we've relocated to Hungary - the chip wouldn't even load on his American 3DS. Insane. Fortunately he got store credit, but ... why in the
854.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Yeah, my 13yo just latched onto it recently.
855.
by Vivtek 14y ago
That business model is alive and well in Hungary. A single SMS was sent from my phone in August (nobody in the family knew anything about it, so we can only assume it was sent by somebody else who may have gained access to the phone whil
856.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I believe by "personal remains personal", grandparent meant that the legal requirements for official email do not apply to an official's "personal" email - even when that personal email is used solely to circumvent the legal requirements.
857.
by Vivtek 14y ago
My wife is Hungarian, and so does YY-MM-DD anyway. (Although rolls her eyes that the MM isn't a Roman numeral.)
858.
by Vivtek 14y ago
It's actually more likely to be a holdover from very old British English influence - the Irish and Scots press-ganged white slaves who fled into the hills of Virginia and became the rednecks of coal country. I know that's where I get mos
859.
by Vivtek 14y ago
What disappoints me most about this article, though, is that it failed to point out why this is happening. More than any time in history, people using different dialects of English are in regular, day-to-day contact on the Internet. We
860.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Sorry - in politics, the worst possible thing one American can do to another is to imply that they're not really American. I'm a liberal from Indiana - that may or may not mean anything to you - but somebody identifying me as a not-quite-A
861.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Cute. Their sidebar isn't all that accurate, though. "Called Joe" a Britishism? 'Fraid not, chaps. Booking a flight? Also not that British. And "an American would say" is more than a little offensive, although surely not intentionally
862.
by Vivtek 14y ago
And what's their market size? Why are you assuming there will be no economies of scale?
863.
by Vivtek 14y ago
It's a different situation. Printer ink comes in proprietary cartridges - you can refill with lower-cost ink, but I think there's a different psychological barrier there than in the case of dumping resin out of a bottle into a tank. There
864.
by Vivtek 14y ago
I'd say that's almost inevitable.
865.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Happens in the UK, too. Libel's big business over there.
866.
by Vivtek 14y ago
So animal rights are honestly more important to you than human ones? Seriously?
867.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Government surveillance. Government secrecy. Willingness to tolerate war crimes and "move on". Torture. Gitmo. The Bush Doctrine itself. Not that I subscribe to the "no true Scotsman" style of argument, but ... Obama liberals, as oppos
868.
by Vivtek 14y ago
In the last paragraph, is the critic asking me to believe that the ethics of meat consumption are somehow more important to me than policy in Palestine? Really?
869.
by Vivtek 14y ago
It could be a one-time issue used only to set up a secret. I think the fatality in question is the user-selected password, which is proving useless at scale.
870.
by Vivtek 14y ago
Sure - so prove that in a court of law. That's the problem. The patent system puts all the risk on inventors, none on IP holders.

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