Zimahl

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by Zimahl 14y ago
Definitely. But, just like everyday people, investors can be sheep. The savvy see an opportunity, just like investing in stocks during a down market where you can actually get good value. Those looking for a free ride with big returns pu
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Being at a startup in 2001 when funds went tragically south right after 9/11, there is no way the current market is even close to this. Things were BAD. Unless you had a hint of profitability and located in the valley, it was almost imposs
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by Zimahl 14y ago
This is a definite problem on expert. I had a few female friends in college who were insanely good at Minesweeper, able to clear expert more often than not and insanely fast (under 100 seconds). When I was trying to get better and would g
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Although I have no idea since I have never seen the code, I'm pretty sure there's no way to hit a bomb on your first click. I'm played enough (MS Windows) Minesweeper and have never, ever hit a bomb on the first click. As a side note, Mine
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by Zimahl 14y ago
To be fair to academic code, it's typically used once to prove a point and then thrown away. It's a lot like an R&D project any of us might do that will either be rewritten later or just used to test a theory and then forgotten.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
1. Depends how it is used. Pepsi can use the word 'Coke' in their ads if it is in respect to the product. I imagine saying your game is an adult comedy/sex game similar to Leisure Suit Larry isn't infringing. If the game were named Leis
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by Zimahl 14y ago
On who's health insurance? I lived cheap as well in college, but that was with 3 months at home in the summer, cheap college town rent, and still on my parents health insurance.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Spending $20,000/year seems impossible in the US. Unless you have a trust fund or came into money early, just saving $50,000 a year for the last 10 years was pretty tough. You'd need to go without health insurance and probably already own
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by Zimahl 14y ago
You are correct, this is less than a big deal. In fact it's pretty irrelevant. Third parties hacking battle.net accounts aren't doing so through brute force, they are doing it through phishing and viruses with keyloggers.
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by Zimahl 14y ago
As the husband of a type 1 diabetic, this isn't anything new. The only difference between this and something I've seen a half-decade ago is that it's wireless communication between the pump and the sensor. Maybe the software is a little be
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by Zimahl 14y ago
I'm not sure why you got downvoted for calling the MySpace interface 'an abomination'. It's hard to find a better word for it. MySpace was very weird in that it seemed like they didn't want you to alter your page. I know that statement se
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Completely agree. Thinking about something like World of Warcraft, Blizzard might have to store all chat logs for what could be a significant amount of time. Even the simplest of internet forums might be required by the FBI to store every
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by Zimahl 14y ago
Facebook could hardly be included as part of any current tech bubble. The early 2000s tech bubble included companies spending millions in investor cash on stupid ideas that would never pan out (online pet food, hundreds of dating websites)
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by Zimahl 15y ago
"In 1969, Nixon met with the heads of the NSA, CIA and FBI and authorized an intercept program. Nixon later withdrew the formal authorization, but informally, police and intelligence agencies kept adding names to the watch list. At its peak
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Even some of the bourgeois can see inequality and act upon it. Slaves typically don't free themselves.
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by Zimahl 15y ago
Yes, that was to implication of him not going to be arrested 'anytime soon'.
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The poor have an increasing standard of living but that hardly means they are getting 'richer'. The poor may have a roof over their heads, three square meals a day, and maybe even a vehicle, but they don't have health insurance and are typ
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by Zimahl 15y ago
To be fair, the rich are getting exorbitantly richer. CEOs are making multiple hundreds of times what one of their workers makes. We are heading back to the age of Rockefellers and Carnegies, where wealth is taken from the many so the few
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by Zimahl 15y ago
"... Christopher Hitchens’ expressing his disdain for religion ..." First, Hitchens' arguments clearly aren't 'intended to offend, annoy or scare' and it's frankly a little disheartening lumping him in with Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter, two
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The first issue of Nintendo Power was in 1988 and on the cover was Super Mario 2. http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/08/download-the-first-issue-o...
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> If you call that "not looking very far back in time" (and I agree with that), no approach was ever as brutal as nuking entire cities. But that's besides the point. This is a ridiculous point. You do realize that the allies (not just
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> None of this is any different than basic capitalism. Completely agree. I'm not sure I see anything wrong with what the spammer is doing. He may be polluting the Pinterest 'stream' with affiliate links, but it's not like the people o
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by Zimahl 15y ago
A Q2 2012 release is what it was on the April 2010 product schedule that was leaked and I suppose a that's not too far off. However, that same schedule had Diablo 3 and the SC2 expansion (Heart of the Swarm) as a Q4 2011 release. While Di
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by Zimahl 15y ago
They've been working on a new MMO for a while now, the only information that has really come out is that the internal name for the project is 'Titan'. There's a Wikipedia page with about all the non-speculation that is currently available:
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I wouldn't expect WoW to lose any more players in the next quarter due to some austerity measures they are doing (the Diablo 3 offer, Scroll of Resurrection) but it is clear that see a down trend and are trying to stem the tide. They are no
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by Zimahl 15y ago
The highlights from the end of the article. > iTV’s adoption should be even faster than iPad. This seems really dubious. If I understand it right we are talking about a full TV that has all the features of an iPad, not just a set top b
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> Hopefully you'll dive into more detail as to why you feel differently? You didn't ask for why I felt different (to be honest, I don't necessarily), you asked for why you were getting down voted. While sometimes you get down voted for
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by Zimahl 15y ago
I didn't vote you down but it you want a critique, I'll oblige. First, you start off with a promising statement about the correlation between slavery and dictatorship. Unfortunately, your following paragraphs have almost nothing to do with
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by Zimahl 15y ago
> I'm completely at a loss to come up with a not that difficult way to block porn on the internet in a way that couldn't be circumvented in less than 15 minutes by your average even half way technical teenager. The easiest way is a pass
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by Zimahl 15y ago
17 year olds can definitely use the internet but they have to access it from somewhere. Like I said, no doubt they can find ways to get there. If mom and dad don't pay for it (unlikely scenario these days) or lock down the computers so th

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