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by antidoh 14y ago
"and the manuals are online." Yeah, but probably not all of the people using the radios have access to computers connected to the internet. Even at my company, they restrict flash over the internet, so people can't watch YouTube, but that m
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by antidoh 14y ago
Who buys that level without training? Someone who doesn't know what they're doing, doesn't care, and needs to check off a box to satisfy part of their yearly goals.
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by antidoh 14y ago
If it's a made up metric, it was made up a long time ago: "Cyclomatic complexity (or conditional complexity) is a software metric (measurement). It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976 ..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCabe_co
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by antidoh 14y ago
As long as Word/Excel are seen as required by business and consumers, Windows will always be with us, and that's where the serious money will be for developers and Providers of Enterprise Excess. It's frustrating to me, because most of the
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by antidoh 14y ago
I think most consumers don't do much due diligence when upgrading/moving, they just go with what's new when they buy a PC. If where they're at is really bad, they might bother to upgrade. Windows 7 had the advantage of coming after Vista. V
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by antidoh 14y ago
I think the lesson to be learned here is that the guy who wanted to be President entrusted his get out the vote effort to skunkworks volunteers on the cheap (-ish).
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by antidoh 14y ago
Eventually. Fun has fashion, just like everything else.
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by antidoh 14y ago
I think he did/does own the domain, on behalf of cm. My best guess is that cm wasn't incorporated, so a human body had to own it. The human body then went full asshat.
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by antidoh 14y ago
We hope none of those people are driving when they finally go home.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Oh. They slipped and fell on that impersonation code?
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by antidoh 14y ago
"just what good is their fancy walled garden?" They are or have been the most highly valued company in the world. The walled garden is not for our benefit.
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by antidoh 14y ago
If the company is bought by another company, then your data is now owned or managed by the new company. Hopefully it will be a company you trust.
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by antidoh 14y ago
2010, and his MacWorld example has "evolved."
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by antidoh 14y ago
My little SanDisk doesn't have a keychain loop, it has a hole built in to the body, same idea as the slot/hole built into your car key or house key.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Pronounced Mega cons?
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by antidoh 14y ago
There are always two teams: home, and everyone else.
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by antidoh 14y ago
It's not just elections, it's everyday politics. Politics is the last area where hate (of the other party) is socially acceptable.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Does the "Kingston" part on the left slide over to cover the contacts?
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by antidoh 14y ago
Unfortunately yes. The version that comes with your computer is relatively cheap, but you can't do much with it. The retail version gives you full flexibility, and you can move it to a new computer. Or you can buy a computer that doesn't co
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by antidoh 14y ago
"doing a clean Windows install is difficult if the only means of reinstallation you have is the bundled "recovery DVD" which puts all of the shit right back on there." That's not a clean install. A clean install is buying a retail version o
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Toshiba simply doesn't want its service manuals to be distributed by third parties and it might not even want to distribute its service manuals via its own channels. My lesson is to avoid Toshiba and companies with a similar behavior – I t
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by antidoh 14y ago
I'm not a merchant, and I've never used a Groupon deal as a consumer. I say that to show how disconnected I am from Groupon. And yet, I hear that merchants often have trouble collecting whatever they're supposed to get from Groupon; they're
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by antidoh 14y ago
Requiring a human employee for individual sales works for Best Buy and McDonalds, where labor is cheap. I wouldn't think that scales to higher cost sales professionals.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Yes. All you see are the windows of things you're working on, and a panel (or two). If you autohide the panel, then all you see is what you're working on. After using lxde (lubuntu) for about six months, the Windows desktops and the fancier
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by antidoh 14y ago
Maybe to keep the rodents inside the vessel until the sailing date.
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by antidoh 14y ago
It's too bad the Romney campaign was unable to tap the services of an experienced businessman who is expert at management and delegation.
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by antidoh 14y ago
"Indeed, the Mitt Romney.com site still bears the headline: "Smaller, Smarter Simpler Government." Any hack manager that comes into a new corporation immediately attempts to recreate some past victory that he had elsewhere. Romney's experie
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by antidoh 14y ago
Minimum viable help.
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by antidoh 14y ago
The guy making the ball didn't create the problem, except in a very indirect and academic way. He certainly can't stop the problem. But he can can make a contribution today. Good on him.
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by antidoh 14y ago
Me too, 16.02 on Ubuntu.

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