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by bloaf 11y ago
>You are buying a PC... why not buy a PC? Sounds like a DailyWTF error message. That being said, I don't think the goal is to get AAA PC games into the living room. I think it is to get greenlight games into the living room.
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by bloaf 11y ago
Heh, I own a Google TV (from Sony.) It's pretty amusing to me that a Google branded TV is currently running Android version 3.2
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by bloaf 11y ago
Consider middle/high school Spanish classes. There are a diverse mix of people in them and they are taught by a diverse range of people with all sorts of colorful textbooks and methods. Do most students come away from those classes w
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by bloaf 11y ago
Lego mindstorms had (has?) a visual programming language as well.
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by bloaf 11y ago
If the person's job is going to be taking well defined problems like "find the expected value of x" and solving them, I'd rather buy software. I would actually want an interview to weed out people who were unable to re-
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by bloaf 11y ago
There are a number of these sorts of historically-inspired alternative building techniques. Others include rammed earth, Earthships, straw bale, and monolithic domes. I think they are all cool in a pop-ecological sense, and do have some co
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by bloaf 11y ago
I think this is it: http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?Keyword=reram
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by bloaf 11y ago
I agree. It seems possible that the larger screen size was driven by companies looking for numbers they could make bigger than their competition. Its also conceivable that whatever Apple had come up with would be bought not because the con
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by bloaf 11y ago
I have a weird issue in Chrome where setting the video volume causes the page to scroll down until only the lower half of the video was visible. I am unable to scroll back up and have to refresh the page.
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by bloaf 11y ago
Isn't that the idea though? Solar + battery + electric car = no gasoline, electricity, or natural gas bill. If the average car gasoline bill is $3000/year, electricity is $1000/year, and we demand a 5-year payback, we can sp
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by bloaf 12y ago
They can do it right when they want to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3ZGGIdpfEM
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by bloaf 12y ago
I think that in science there is an inherent tension between what scientists know and what what the public knows. Scientific knowledge is covered in asterisks. To read and understand science typically requires an extensive amount of backgr
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by bloaf 12y ago
I like the Sirius Black comparison. Was influential during the previous generation's rise to power but broken promises (A.I. Winter) forced him to scrape by in the background for a while. Nowadays people who know him realize his powe
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by bloaf 12y ago
Can Wolfram Language be Gilderoy Lockhart?
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by bloaf 12y ago
C was compared to Voldemort, and Harry to Python. If I am recalling my Harry Potter correctly: Upon revealing that Harry would receive a wand that was a counterpart to Voldemort's: "...I think we must expect great things from you
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by bloaf 12y ago
People attempt to cure their cancer with homeopathy, and I have very little respect for them as well. I'm sure that there are plenty of websites and magazines dedicated both bad weight loss advice and homeopathy, but I am quite confid
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by bloaf 12y ago
In this case, that sounds like a distinction without a difference: Persisting in a smoking addiction (condition) is as bad as persisting in obesity (condition.) Regularly smoking (action) is as bad as regularly eating too much (action.) Edi
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by bloaf 12y ago
The core of the issue is 1. Obesity is unhealthy (i.e. persisting in obesity is self-destructive) 2. Obesity is obvious (i.e. ignorance of your obesity is not an excuse) 3. Obesity is treatable (whether from a mental-health angle or otherwi
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by bloaf 12y ago
I believe the Google TV platform uses 4.2.2 or earlier (i.e. 3.2) Those devices are still on the market, and it may technically be the manufacturers' responsibility to upgrade, but none of them have. http://en.wikipedia.o
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by bloaf 12y ago
I was going to take it a step farther and say we divide on a volume basis, and the wildlife gets the inner half.
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by bloaf 12y ago
How is data security handled? If a company wanted to analyze some sensitive/proprietary-type data, could they do so in Mathematica Online with some confidence that the data is safe?
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by bloaf 13y ago
Letting kids be terrible to each other so that they can see first hand how it unpleasant it is. Through that experience they will become more compassionate adults.
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by bloaf 13y ago
The solution is to let them be terrible to each other so that by experiencing how bad that feels, they learn to be more sensitive as adults.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Its not about a lack of rules, customs or processes, its that those rules, customs and processes must be of the people and by the people. You don't need a manager to strictly codify the "rules for the grocery planning meeting&quo
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by bloaf 13y ago
Wolfram Alpha has name data, although I couldn't get it to return this sort of statistic. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10+most+popular+boys+na...
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by bloaf 13y ago
Its amazing how similar this line of reasoning sounds to the development of democracy mode in Twitch Plays Pokemon.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Do you at least have a link on the landing page that will take a visitor to a product explanation?
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by bloaf 13y ago
What about a night-shift guard with a male-male audio cable and any device with a microphone jack.
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by bloaf 13y ago
Some people predict that the instant we have complete VR, all human progress will cease. We will have no reason to seek new experiences in the real world because we can simulate any experience we want in the virtual world.
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by bloaf 13y ago
They will be returning all their miner's CPU cycles.

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