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by adbge 16y ago
> This really needs to be on CNN and such for people to actually think about it. People see starving children on CNN and they think "Oh, how awful!" Then they turn off the TV, eat dinner, and go on with their lives. Further, the media
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> How can you charge $100 dollars only to receive a CV that is essentially perfect... Well, that case is easy. If you can't help them, don't charge. Unfortunately, I don't have any idea about convincing your target market. I think wor
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> Remember, all I am offering is my informed opinion and if you disagree with my advice, don't take it personally! I took a class where we had "critique sessions." One of the huge differences between the veteran writers in the class a
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> Other than being one step away from total technological reliance I rely on technology to cook my food for me. Personally, I think that should be a little more alarming than relying on a calculator. My point being: embrace technology
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"In British English, collective nouns can take either singular (formal agreement) or plural (notional agreement) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is, respectively, on the body as a whole or on the individual members; compare a
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NX is bound to suck up heaps of bandwidth even over ssh-gzip Consider: "NX requires an average of 20Kbps (kilo-bits per-second) to let users run a remote Linux session confortably (sic) ... NX can work on slower links, like 9.6 Kbps GSM c
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In the same vein, you could use NX to do this with a remote X server, so you still have a GUI browser. I know I'm personally not very comfortable in a text browser. I think this would result in reduced bandwidth usage, seeing as NX is des
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That is likely the most thorough, informative response I have ever received. I almost qualified that with "on the internet", but then I realized, hell, it's probably more informative than any response I've ever received anywhere . I recent
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Even at 1680x1050, I find attached menu's really grating. I think it's the lost screen real estate because the larger they are, the more irritating I find them. On the other hand, Twitter went ahead and implemented a top attached menu, so m
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> There are lots of non-infrastructure advantages that exist only because the government has tax money. I'd posit that, for many of these advantages, government is not a necessary cause. That is to say, these non-infrastructure advant
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> It would likely be very different than the relatively free/open roads, GPS and internet we have today. Oh, I'm in violent agreement with you on this one. "The infrastructure" in my comment is meant to refer to something roughly comp
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> PS: If you disagree you can always leave and renounce citizenship. I see this argument all the time: "If you don't like it, leave." While that's always an option, I think it's disingenuous to suggest that's the best option or even a
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> It's like saying I need your sandwich more than you do. I'm hungrier, I could make better use of it, therefore I should get your sandwich. Even if I could legally take your sandwich. It's still not okay. It's your sandwich! If I take
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> None of those products/services would be possible but for the government spending taxpayer money to develop the infrastructure behind those services (the internet, roads, GPS, etc). I'd argue that the infrastructure would have been
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> It has a good CPU. Compared to my TI calculator, maybe.
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[One of my favorite excerpts from Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby ] Today I was at this Italian restaraunt, Granado’s, and I was paying my bill. Happened to notice (under glass) a bottle of balsamic vinegar going for $150. Fairly small. I c
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a. “Microprocessor microcircuits ”, “microcomputer microcircuits”, and microcontroller microcircuits having any of the following: [...] a.3 More than one data or instruction bus or serial communication port that provides a direct external i
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> I'll believe Android is truly open in the FSF sense I care about when RMS uses one. I don't think you appreciate how restrictive that is. The only example of open hardware is the Yeelong, since that's what Stallman uses. The only op
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If your largest Eclipse complaint is speed, check this out: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-...
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> He probably didn't make the image. It's a brand of candy bar in Europe, probably just pulled it from Google images or similar. I can definitely see it as criticism or a slightly insensitive joke. Either way, hardly something to get up
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I think it's generally accepted that if you take a sampling of average men and average women, they will both perform at similar levels in regards to mathematics. However, I believe the differences between men and women in mathematical think
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C is a terrible language for writing an OS in. No, just no.
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Clang's C++ support is considered to be production quality as of 2.8.
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You're correct. The kernel does not include a C standard library.
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Microsoft Patents GPU-Accelerated Video Encoding(conceivablytech.com)
15 points by adbge 16y ago|15 comments
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A BSD license gives the user near absolute freedom to do what one wishes with a piece of source code -- they can sell it, modify and make proprietary, integrate with existing proprietary licensed projects, etc. On the other hand, the GPL im
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Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space even when the space is devoid of matter (free space). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy
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Wait, all they've made is a phone that runs a VM that Java can compile to? What exactly is Snoracle suing for, the use of Java syntax as a source language? Oracle is suing over Google's usage of specific VM technologies, such as JIT compi
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> I keep a separate lightweight browser, Opera Opera is not particularly lightweight, even compared with Chromium. Check out Midori.
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For some (myself included), visualizing something is part of memorization. I find constructing diagrams of a system really helps me just get how it works. So, the OP is probably memorizing the content of the diagram through creating it.

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