aardvarkious

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by aardvarkious 17y ago
I still think that for most office uses, a mouse is better than a touch screen. If I'm spending a lot of time entering data, a all-in-one touch screen device is miles behind a monitor at eye level several feet away, a good tactile keyboard
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
I don't know if it is necessarily bad for them to do this. If they don't what is to stop someone else from filing a similar patent and suing them. It seems like this is the best way for them to protect themselves. If, on the other hand, the
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
Minimum speeds aren't a good idea because of adverse weather conditions.
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
EVERYBODY will have health problems and use their health insurance. Very few people will have their house burn down and use their fire insurance. Therefore, there is a massive difference in price.
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
You mean you get 2 hours of wifi when you buy a gift card, which you can then use to buy anything?
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
I had a friend in college who went everywhere with two tupperware containers. When he was asked whether or not he wanted left overs he would feign a no, but as soon as he was asked a second time he would say "I guess so" and pull out his tu
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
"An adult or a teen celebrity might twitter but most regular kids see what they are communicating as too private to share with anyone other than the person for whom it is intended, much less any old creep who chooses to subscribe." That doe
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
My understanding is that it is not supposed to be a business phone. It is supposed to be a middle-of-the-road phone, excellent for both your business life (like a black berry) and personal life (like an iphone). So these being in the same b
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by aardvarkious 17y ago
With utilities, you pay based on how much you use, not on how difficult it is to get them to you. So, for example, if you live on a farm in the middle of nowhere, it is more expensive to give you power than if you live in the city (you need
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I've played Catan with cards instead of dice- you have 36 cards, each with a number that can be attained by rolling two dice. How many times a number appears in the deck is its odds of being rolled. Statistically, you will roll 7 6/36 times
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I think it is presumptuous to assume that they new they would have to adopt this business model 7 years ago.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
If they are able to offer the service for free to some, why is this a bad thing again? I'm Canadian, so am a little bit sad that I won't be enjoying last.fm for free (or, in my case, at all) anymore. However, I'm not mad that others will be
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
But does the DRM really get in the way of how most people watch shows (ie: once)?
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
The president was already pissed at him, and he was coming down to get yelled at. I don't think the 15 minutes were all about his dress.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
But won't that fan base be expanded?
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
That's always seemed common sense- it was the hedgehog concept which was great for me.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I could see humans taking rockets while all non-perishable cargo takes the elevator.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
A sort of related anecdote: one time I was on a plane where there was some sort of medical emergency in the back, so we had to wait to let paramedics get on. Eventually they had the patient stabilized but needed to do more work before he co
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
Why? I intentionally get on the plane as late as I possibly can.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
One of the key reasons that the wii and the Flip are so successful is because they appeal to other generations than the tech savvy ones.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
The SantaMail is in the funny one to me. In Canada, if you mail a letter to Santa Claus, North Pole, H0H 0H0 then Canada Post employee volunteers send you a response in the guise of Santa. And the only cost to you is stationary and a stamp.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
my wife responded with "not happening"- I've wanted separate beds (mostly jokingly) for awhile.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
But IIRC, windows/IE was different: how easy was it for the typical person to run a computer without windows as their operating system? Not very, unless they bought one brand of product (Apple). However, for every service google offers, the
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I don't see how they have a monopoly on the search engine market. It is definitely the most popular and probably the best search engine, but there is definitely no limit on other adequate alternatives. A monopoly occurs when a company contr
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
But I love newspapers. I can't think of anything else that would make a more convenient and effective covering for the bottom of my bird's cage. And a supply that lasts me several months only costs a buck! Now that's what I call technology.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
No doubt that lowering the drinking age would increase access and alcohol consumption. I'm just saying that I would think it would raise these too dramatically. I do think that the negative effects that driving drinking underground are grea
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
The thing is that lowering the drinking age doesn't dramatically raise the availability of alcohol for 18-year-olds. I know that when I was underage, I had no problem getting booze. And I work with teenagers now: they still don't have probl
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
"For example, 18-year-olds from Ottawa, ON cross the border to Hull, QC" I'd be interested to know how many MORE drunk drivers this puts on the road.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
But in the 80's, when this fall took place, MADD Canada wasn't around (it was formed in 1990) and driving laws were a lot more lax.
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by aardvarkious 18y ago
I don't think they are really against Drinking and Driving. They are against Drinking. Period. And they are also largely about inflating their own reputation and salaries.

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