catz

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by catz 18y ago
It may be true that it is different - but it can be as profitable as other (search companies). Remember that Facebook basically have all your personal data with which it can select products for you to buy.
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by catz 18y ago
> Because the data plan isn't metered. Fair enough. In my country it is (I did not think that there was a country that did not charge for its data).I use a SIM with pre-paid on it which is nice (no contracts, nothing). > Sort of how
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by catz 18y ago
> GM paid dividends up until last year, decades after it was known that they had large health care obligations. If you look at the post I said that GM did not take into account their future obligations. Their profits was nothing more th
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by catz 18y ago
> The application lets users connect their G1 Android phones via Wi-Fi to their laptops and then access the Internet from the laptop using the phone's cellular connection. This is stupid. So T-Mobile has a problem with using their paid-
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by catz 18y ago
> I agree that the company should not be expected to pay for work not done, but these payments are essentially part of the benefits package agreed upon when the employee started working. Those benefits packages were done under extreme c
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by catz 18y ago
Hmmm... maybe - but I don't think so. Firstly, the cost to each player is extremely small - so their incentive to "do something about it" is small. If a person receives only one email a year nothing will be done. But if he receives his life
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by catz 18y ago
No. He implied that if the boy broke enough windows the town will put up CCTV cameras and no windows will be broken further.
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by catz 18y ago
That is true. At least drum music was developed before colonisation took place. The style of music is probably influenced a lot by the instruments. There is some evidence that these drums were used for communication.
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by catz 18y ago
Maybe. One reason I listen to classical music is that it is nice if you study with it and it drains out the background music. (e.g. I find it less distracting to work with classical music on than with Korn or Papa Roach). A few people I kno
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by catz 18y ago
in is a fairly global word. If you play around in Google translate you will see that in is in in German and Dutch.
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by catz 18y ago
Yup, I'm also lucky that poiuyt is not on that list.
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by catz 18y ago
What would be cool is if they stick a little camera into the back of the car. This will help a lot for reversing, etc...
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by catz 18y ago
What exactly is the problem? The original stack overflow is CC-SA. This website: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ says what it is meant by that: You are free: - to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work - to Remix
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by catz 18y ago
In the right bottom corner there is a CC-wiki logo with link to creativecommons.org
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by catz 18y ago
I use LaTex a lot. That said, I have a few problems. Nothing is as bad as someone who decides he is going to use Latex for general documents - such as composing tests or any type of document. Why when people use LaTex their brain automatica
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by catz 18y ago
> The main advantage of a prestigious school seems to be that you get to rub elbows with rich people's kids. Another advantage is that you can casually mention it repeatedly on HN (casual university name dropping).
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by catz 18y ago
This is extremely wise. There are too many people bankrupting themselves by having a too large wedding. What is worse is that some people delay marriage for a few years in order to save up for the reception. Another approach for this "fancy
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by catz 18y ago
> I went to Southern CT State University, which is basically a glorified community college. ("I went to college in New Haven." eyebrows "Oh, Yale, huh?" "No, the New Haven college you HAVENT heard of.") You do not really appreciate the
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by catz 18y ago
You make some excellent points. My experience have been with Windows. The situation is this – they install shitloads of programs on these machines (most of it BS) . This all run at startup – the system tray is half the taskbar. All this cra
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by catz 18y ago
> free printer access Did you get free printer access? That is unfair - we had to pay for everything - bandwidth and printer access.
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by catz 18y ago
Or an alternative is too just lock a class up for 3 days in a library while they write their essays (with not internet). Take home assignments are usually a mess - what I did was to force people to write tests. If there are 3 people in a gr
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by catz 18y ago
> 1) Africa (don't underestimate it, it could grow much faster than any other country, iff it only could free itself from all those nasty colonialism consequences...) Uhm... Firstly – Africa will never become a world power. Do you know
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by catz 18y ago
> But other then that you're right, and lets not forget the huge brain drain into America over the years. This is true - and the brain drains are probably what made America great. Before and during WW2 some of smartest people in Europe
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by catz 18y ago
> * You can't leave your village without a pass There are valid practical reasons for this. Infrastructure such as roads, hospitals, schools, etc... can simply not cater for a massive influx of people from rural areas. The alternative t
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by catz 18y ago
No. They do not prosecute people based on clicking the link. They merely obtain a search warrant. They will prosecute people if they found any CP based on the search warrant.