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by bcaulf 15y ago
Fun game! I'm happy I got to play. Smooth and natural feeling controls at 50+ fps on Opera 11.01, Windows Vista, 2.4GHz Core 2. Smoother than some native code games games I have played. Good art, good sfx. I did want bigger pixels. Zooming
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by bcaulf 15y ago
They are behaving rationally, from their perspective. If these products bought on credit were really as beneficial as they believe, it would be worth borrowing to have them. Kind of like how dedicated gamblers genuinely believe they are goi
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Forgive me, but I think you meant that to say that salary doesn't matter is mishuggeneh. Bupkis is what you'll have in your bank account if you go on thinking this way. I'm not even Jewish. This is just from years in New York.
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by bcaulf 15y ago
Gmail now works very well on Opera with no performance problems or browser incompatibility warnings.
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by bcaulf 16y ago
I agree. Softening, sugarcoating, removing the negative aspects of a comparison, is dishonest. It is incomplete and misleading. And as such it is not the most useful information for the recipient. One great thing about techie and science cu
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by bcaulf 16y ago
In their Prius review Clarkson said there was a big gap between Toyota's stated 65 mpg and the 45 mpg they saw with normal driving on roads. So, they have noted manufacturer mpg exaggerations before although they don't do it as a normal pra
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by bcaulf 16y ago
3M Ergonomic Mouse. Stuck with this after having pain with a mouse, a nipple, a stylus and a trackball. http://www.amazon.com/3M-Ergonomic-Optical-Compatible-EM500G...
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by bcaulf 16y ago
dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1494999
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Wow, I did not know that. Worse than Greece at 144%!
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Focusing on Jon Bon Jovi's complaint that listening to an entire album has become less common as many people buy only the songs they want from itunes: he does have a bit of a point. I'm 37 and my album-oriented listening habits didn't chang
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by bcaulf 16y ago
I have a theory about this. I think hackers come largely from the autistic spectrum part of the population. We are less fascinated with other people and more willing to be alone, or perhaps with a completely logical slave machine for compan
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Great observation. Java requires masses of scaffolding just for Hello World and for this reason is not IMO a decent introductory teaching lesson. I taught an introductory programming course and I was required after several semesters of usin
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Agreed. Or better, the ability to easily see a number of approaches all of which would work (algorithm designers love to publish improvements on the state of the art), then go about selecting perhaps the simplest. If performance is an issue
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by bcaulf 16y ago
There is no way this is going to survive. It is a huge threat to the public perception of the authority of the US federal government and they will make sure it does not exist in short order.
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Fascinating look at the weaknesses of the US computing establishment circa 1976. I imagine Dijkstra would have much the same critique today.
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by bcaulf 16y ago
I agree that it was obnoxious for Amazon to choose the mobi format instead of epub, but in practice it's not a big deal. I use the open source Calibre program. Among other things it will translate among mobi, epub, pdf and a bunch of other
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by bcaulf 16y ago
The Kindle is soooo much better for reading. Less eye strain, much lighter, amazing battery life, it's frickin $140, free news subscriptions with Calibre open source software. The 3rd generation has lots of nice improvements, most important
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by bcaulf 16y ago
With music and books, there is always the analog hole and then once one good copy is made, it can be duplicated forever. Also they are both naturally suited for self contained offline access which is less costly and cumbersome than requirin
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Calibre does not remove DRM as a built in feature but there are plugins available that do it. DRM is bound to lose on books. One reason is the analog hole, same as with music. A dedicated hobbyist with a scanner and OCR could easily produce
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by bcaulf 16y ago
That looks amazing. This one starts at $52,000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJoi-1g0IzI That price is not at all crazy if it helps with skill development while saving you some real life track time, which costs on the order of $700 an h
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by bcaulf 16y ago
I agree with the article. The safe, high-status choice in white American suburbs today always seems to involve spending money. Making clothes yourself has become rare. Little food is made from scratch, let alone beer and wine. Live bands ar
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Should managers think they are going to sneakily hire new, inexperienced people for high salaries and not catch flak from long time employees?
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by bcaulf 16y ago
I've got your Kindle Lending Club right here: http://thepiratebay.org/browse/601 (good idea to use adblock on that site)
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by bcaulf 16y ago
That Cary situation sounds lovely to me. Business signs are naturally engaged in never ending war to be attention getting, new looking, big, bright, high off the ground, and generally impossible to ignore. As far as I can see, only governme
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by bcaulf 16y ago
An ex-cop, Bradley Jardis, has contributed this account of his refusing to answer any questions whatsoever put to him by a cop during a traffic stop. It went quite well. http://freekeene.com/2010/06/08/a-thank-you-to-the-nashua-po...
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by bcaulf 16y ago
Interesting. I also was reminded of the NYT popout bars, but I hate them. Pop-anything that I didn't ask for really bothers me.
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by bcaulf 16y ago
What I found interesting here is that to me, a libertarian who thinks access to all drugs at low, market-set prices is a human right, this contamination is one more indictment of the War on Some Drugs. No different from the many problems of
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by bcaulf 16y ago
That's a beautiful demo and it runs well on Opera 10.60/Vista.
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by bcaulf 16y ago
It's impossible even in principle to distinguish users from dealers. Users are constantly selling or giving drugs to each other, whether for a small profit, for mutual convenience, or to be friendly. They can't just introduce new people to
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by bcaulf 16y ago
That is the way facebook wants it to be but that could change. For now, you must log on to their service, see their ads and be exposed to their new mesmerizing features in order to connect to your facebook friends. The goal of this lawsuit

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