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by baldfat 9y ago
Lotus Notes and Domino which later became IMB's were awesome for its time.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Then we came to OS/2 and it's demise (Thought it got an update this year. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/half-... Man OS/2 Warp was going to be AWESOME and than the infi
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by baldfat 9y ago
THis is as good as I can find: http://hechingerreport.org/struggling-cities-and-excelling-s... The issue is defining suburbs. Usually it is Rural vs City (Which includes suburbs)
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by baldfat 9y ago
The "Divide" in the US is Inner-City Schools and poor Rural Schools. If you look at the rest of America's schools they are among the best in the world. If you take just Massachusetts scores they one of the top 5 in the world.
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by baldfat 9y ago
My worst interview ever was the head of HR for a Fortune 500 company that transferred to the Non-Profit side of the company. The job was working with non-technical and working with children. My interview was very invasive. I had two private
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by baldfat 9y ago
Lastpass has a Windows 10 Desktop app.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> Being from MN ... I went to college in Minneapolis. I'm from Connecticut. > I think the big takeaway here is that americans, for all their talk of heritage and mixed culture are still super resistant to actually embracing and g
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by baldfat 9y ago
I can explain. On stereo you will be hard pressed by most people. The issue is where and how is everything done from recording all the way to mastering. Technically here is how it works. CDs are at 44.1khz sample rate and you record at 96kh
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by baldfat 9y ago
This is why Independent Music is the only way to go and have grown almost 500% of full-time musicians. Labels are nothing but dead weight unless you are making millions.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Well I will say that this is the first time since the traveling poets of ancient times that people can make money on their own with music. I think the issue is people think an artist should make millions. The only place losing music jobs is
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by baldfat 9y ago
The delays of just writing a widow is so slow. Macintosh Plus Review https://youtu.be/_bI0moHdjPQ?t=22m29s I was an Amiga kid. I had friends and co-workers who had Macintosh Plus and they always seemed to be so S-L-O-W to a
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by baldfat 9y ago
Anything that is above a netbook or a sub $500 laptop doesn't lag and today's computers and phone are spoiling us. I have a 8 year old netbook and I run a minimal Linux install with a tiled window manager and it is quick. I also h
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by baldfat 9y ago
"Like the newer gene-editing technology CRISPR, ZFNs can cut both strands of the genome’s double DNA helix at a specific location." They are different technologies but zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs) but they both do DNA editing.
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by baldfat 9y ago
"For the first time, researchers have infused a person’s blood with gene-editing tools, aiming to treat his severe inherited disease.." http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/human-has-been-inject..
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by baldfat 9y ago
It will have to happen sometime in our life time.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> My friggin circa 1984 Mac Plus felt faster on most stuff than the generic desktop PC See how fast it felt. https://youtu.be/XwbrCYJcrKQ?t=4m34s No way and NO HOW! That statement is 100% false. The issue is you remember
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by baldfat 9y ago
As someone who use to have a SMALL Recording studio. We are in the best music business times for small indie bands. More people can support themselves through kickstarter like programs. Two of my bands traveled the world and were on MTV (B
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by baldfat 9y ago
> Their quality is indistinguishable from CDs despite what audiophiles would have you believe Well I blame the system. You needed upgraded headphones or speakers. I have $2000 studio monitors when I was an audio engineer and well I can 1
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by baldfat 9y ago
I can get all the music I can listen to for $15 a month (Google Play Family which comes with YouTube Red) and share it with my wife and 4 kids. I think that people can get music on SoundCloud, Pandora or YouTube made the illegal less necess
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by baldfat 9y ago
Also it is common in English and most other countries to have different spellings for the same name. In English it is called Anglicisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglicisation Jesus was never called Jesus (prob
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by baldfat 9y ago
It leads to the most famous of his ideas and the worst translation of his works. His "Leap of Faith" which really is the "Leap onto Faith." Deciding that what you currently have isn't what you can stand to be the re
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by baldfat 9y ago
Fear and Trembling was written under the name of Johannes DE SILENTIO. S.K. was writing under the view point of a non-believer trying to figure out God requesting Abraham to sacrifice his son. S.K. was a Christian and a Theologian and was t
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by baldfat 9y ago
I blame the professor's reading material. Read Soren K. when he was writing with his own name. I taught the Philosophy class on Kierkegaard every semester, because our Philosophy Chair hated him so much. We ended up being good friends
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by baldfat 9y ago
Soren K. was beloved and his funeral was HUGE. BUT Soren got out trolled and he became the meme of his era.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I loved Kierkegaard for his prayers and parables. As for me being a Theological student in grad school his "Practice in Christianity" was read in one sitting at the library, I just picked it off the shelf to see. I ended up buying
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by baldfat 9y ago
My son is named Soren after Kierkegaard. I was a Theology/Philosophy Major and there isn't a single theologian/philosopher that means as much to me. I figure if I named my son after him he will have to read some of his writin
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by baldfat 9y ago
That was what I was responding to. A person recommend that the proper way to install Windows on a new Laptop was to wipe the drive and install a fresh Windows. One person said it wasn't needed 5 years ago :)
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by baldfat 9y ago
Yes, I am an old timer, but Fedora still isn't production ready like Ubuntu, OpenSUSE or the paid for distros. I am certainly more of a pragmatic Linux user so the graphic card drivers are not proprietary blobs and must use the open so
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by baldfat 9y ago
But Ubuntu doesn't say that they use Ubuntu as "... an ideal incubator and proving ground for features." I use to use Fedora Core and then up to Fedora 7. I got burned way to many times and view Fedora as a slight step up fr
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by baldfat 9y ago
The issue has nothing to do with file formats, but work flow. Use different tools to use with the file format. I would personally use every cli program I can get my hands on and just convert them on my machine. Personally I just make script

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