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by bnolsen 13y ago
kernel patches that directly benefit their own products, like making it easier to run virtual machines, etc. Not from the goodness and kindness of their wonderful, generous hearts.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I like tablets, but for very limited uses. They excel, especially for casual puzzle type games that respond very well to touch. For light reading they work fine as well. Browsing the internet? Well not so great. Mobile versions of websi
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by bnolsen 13y ago
defense contractors did the same to stop engineers from bouncing around as well.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
MS opened the door for the chromebook by killing off the netbook market with their silly limitations on the netbook format. People wanted the devices, just not the crippled ones. Chromebook just filled the hole intentionally left.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
can't agree more. On my desktop I typically run flashblock and don't allow animated gifs etc. That's enough there to do the job. On laptops, etc that use battery and don't have a lot of cpu and in many cases are bandwi
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by bnolsen 13y ago
smashing tons of crap together isn't necessarily "highly proficient". In some cases it makes things harder to read and/or harder to maintain and many times certainly harder to edit.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
engineering or applied physics are the correct degrees. i've never been impressed with CS guys. In my time they were washouts from the better degrees.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I don't know. I went to a county fair recently where the local city police were proudly displaying their DHS funded heavily armored, turreted and gun ported urban assault vehicle. I was frankly utterly appalled that a bunch of local
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by bnolsen 13y ago
That doesn't mean no one else is doing the same thing. You do recall all the nice embedded controller chips from china sold to the US: http://www.scribd.com/doc/95282643/Backdoors-Embedded-in-DoD...
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by bnolsen 13y ago
the big problem here is that apple gets to decide what hardware can and cant be updated. The nice thing about linux and some not locked down android devices is that someone in the community can generally back port to older hardware if the
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by bnolsen 13y ago
So what you are saying is that the bill of rights itself lays out a recipe which tells polticians what to start regulating and limiting to get themselves more power to turn the US into a tyrrany. The excuse is that since it's in the c
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by bnolsen 13y ago
the news media here is by and large complicit, almost all of them voted for the current administration in the last election.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
it's also called a police state which is totally against the US constitution.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
yeah helping poor people like when he donated a bunch of money along with bloomberg to try to turn over the douglas county schoolboard along with the teacher's union. I don't consider this type of messing with local politics to b
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by bnolsen 13y ago
pretty much explains why the 10th amendment to the us constitution needs to be followed. centralized government inherently migrates towards corruption. competition between the states is a nice restraint against such stupidity.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Foundation work won't change. You'll have to have digging equipment and lay concrete/masonry blocks for the base so this equipment can be used to print the rest of the house. The fun part of course will be how easy it is to
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by bnolsen 13y ago
start up SSH server in cygwin and life gets much better.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
lyx makes does a good job wrapping latex for casual use.
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by bnolsen 13y ago
So in order to reduce health care costs the government declares itself as all knowing in the medical industry, inserts itself into the system with all the beauracracy. Sounds to me like adding more middle men just raises costs and also hap
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by bnolsen 13y ago
the tea party seeks to stop tyranny of the majority. The US constitution established "limited government" as outlined by the 10th amendment. Is there anything wrong with wanting the government itself to actually obey the law?
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Originally a big push back against the social security system was that it would assign a number to every individual allowing each to be tracked by the federal government. Seems to me the original founders intended that the federal governme
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Or to rephrase it: when much surveillance turn a free society turn into a police state?
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by bnolsen 13y ago
You mean like this one? http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/small-bill Yup a one page bill was submitted and shot down. Just because the media didn't tell you that alternate plans were being submitted doesn&#x
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by bnolsen 13y ago
The shutdown temporarily costs money since the leeches working for the government which itself produces NOTHING aren't leeching at the moment. Money isn't getting printed or borrowed to artificially boost the economy and the curr
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by bnolsen 13y ago
It also helps to have an engaged and decedt dad around. As a generalization, moms tend to be more protective and dads tend to be more "come on and grow up already". Children need to be treated like they are real people and encour
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by bnolsen 13y ago
In language garbage collection just makes implementing a compiler that much harder to do and frankly bloats up the runtime. Basic c++ shared pointers take up pretty much 90+% of what people need in GC (non stupid software architecture deci
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Only using 33 bits for memory addressing is troublesome. 33 bits is 8GB ram which is small potatos for a desktop. Why couldn't they have left it at 38 or even 40 bits? Or is this limitation only part of the objective-c runtime?
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by bnolsen 13y ago
samsung is a lot like sony in the pre rootkit days. Most people knew they were there and bought their stuff because it was good. No marketing crap, no media circus or hype, they just churn out usable stuff in lots of industries. Apple thr
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by bnolsen 13y ago
Some issues I see with this particular design: 1. loft access is very unsafe. Imagine being drunk (college student, no way!), sick or injured. How to get up or down those stairs safely? 2. I see no water heater or place for plum
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by bnolsen 13y ago
I already picked up brutal legends from steam for 5usd a few weeks ago. The sad part is that I can't deal with the camera controls very well while driving.

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