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by criley 14y ago
Am I missing something? Other people have my files? Peer-to-peer sounds horrifying for my personal files. I'll take SSL between me and one server, thankyouverymuch, and I'd prefer if 100 different seeders didn't have my personal files! Or a
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by criley 14y ago
I think the author is explicitly NOT stating that battery technology has reached it's peak, but rather the safe bet isn't on huge changes in a decade time frame. He's not commenting on the tech so much as the wisdom of ASSUMING it will be b
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by criley 14y ago
>there is no such thing is good/bad (morally) casks of whiskey. I disagree -- just as someone writing C can do it well or poorly, someone drinking whiskey can behave well or poorly. The spectrum of drunken behavior is a big one, and doe
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by criley 14y ago
I had never heard of "Hopper" until this censorship! Thanks CBS, now I know that Hopper is brilliant and enough of a threat to have media companies sweating! Go Dish! The censorship validates the legitimacy of the idea!
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by criley 14y ago
New Windows install: use www.ninite.com to get a 1-click installer for most popular programs and codecs. I agree with your analysis though: there is a difference between parody and stupid, and this hits the latter. I've been building Win7 P
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by criley 14y ago
I mean, they're allowed to respond by saying "No comment" or, more likely, a totally white-washed PR report extolling the virtues of a marginally related task force or agency that seems to completely miss the point. But who knows, maybe we'
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by criley 14y ago
I prefaced my post with "as long as color isn't important to you". Since it clearly isn't to you, there's no reason not to mess with it!
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by criley 14y ago
As long as seeing correct color is not important to you. I'm the kind of person who can immediately tell when an LCD is not at native resolution and what temperature the color is set at, so the strong yellow tint of f.lux was unbearable. If
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by criley 14y ago
Pretty sure "moat" is a term popularized by Warren Buffet himself to describe a company with some kind of inherent advantage over it's competitors. As in, when a company with a moat succeeds, his competitors have a hard time entering that m
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by criley 14y ago
Sources? I'm curious, and I hadn't heard that they were losing money. Seems silly that they'd be added people on a regular basis if they were doing so poorly.
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by criley 14y ago
So you really believe that the government is setting up concentration camps around the country, is going to use the military domestically to round up guns and all dissenters, and Obama is going to seize dictatorial control of the USA then h
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by criley 14y ago
It's an adult version of Apples to Apples. Think MadLibs, except one player readers the "madlib" and the other players draw from their hand to answer. Example: "Alternative medicine is now embracing the curative powers of ______ " was read
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by criley 14y ago
No, there's not as big a difference as you're implying -- because ALL mapping data is imperfect, therefore ALL smartphones are capable of actively misleading you. And paper maps can mislead, as well! (I'm trying to think how many "this plac
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by criley 14y ago
How is going from having your app presinstalled on every device and being maintained, for free, by Apple developers to having to write and maintain your own app and put it in the app store a "win"?? There is no win here for Google! Less use
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by criley 14y ago
Wow, what did people do BEFORE a smartphone! It's a wonder a human being ever found a hospital before Google saved the human race from it's own helplessness!
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by criley 14y ago
A thread about this recently popped up on /r/gamedev over on Reddit. Some recommendations were: Puush, Greenshot, ShareX, HyperDesktop, Snag.gy, as well as some smaller apps written by users. Maybe one will be useful for people sad about Sk
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by criley 14y ago
The password isn't just about accessing your account information (making a purchase), it's about authorization to use your hardware. OSX does the same thing: want to install something? Enter a password. I agree that there should be a better
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by criley 14y ago
Agreed. I have a gmail account and I use them for search -- that's ENOUGH of my data for any one company to have (and it's probably too much, at that). Everytime I visit another Google property I'm presented with yet-another "turn your acco
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by criley 14y ago
I think about the thousands of "books" and scrolls and story to experience, hours of voiced dialogue and just reams of unvoiced dialogue... And I compare it to the "Hello Traveler! (Push X to Continue)" diaglouge that 98% of NPC's in SNES g
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by criley 14y ago
When I think about depth, I think about things like: finding people to talk to. Side quests. Fleshing out cities and industries. I think about a deep world -- something SNES games almost never gave. I think about exploration and emergant ga
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by criley 14y ago
That's fair. I'd still bet that if you counted up the amount of writing and world building that went into Fallout 3 and compared it to any SNES RPG, you'd find dramatically more "worldbuilding" and "depth" in Fallout 3, but I don't have dat
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by criley 14y ago
Amusing that you didn't post this exact phrase to whomever posted this article on Hacker News. This article was nothing more than stereotypical Euro-bullying. I mean, "like soccer and the metric system" -- do Europeans really have to list e
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by criley 14y ago
It's so rare Europeans get to be superior -- let them have it. They do in fact have superior motorsports. It's okay, whenever an American feels bad, they can just look at the moon or Mars and smile.
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by criley 14y ago
This is ridiculous. Final Fantasy 4 did not have "more depth" than Fallout 3. Go play it again. Go roam a town. What's that, an entire kingdom capital has 6 single story buildings and a castle with 10 rooms? Most of the NPC's have 1-2 lines
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by criley 14y ago
You can disable it pretty simply: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-7/disable-aero-shake-...
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by criley 14y ago
To be fair, they should have made a version from the Palestinian perspective, as well. Something tells me the Palestinians don't have 15 seconds of air raid warnings. The missiles and strike craft probably don't give much lead time at all.
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by criley 14y ago
I love the underlying engineering cause -- let's get everyone to keep a GPS/data link open while they walk around popular city attractions and roadways so we can build an amazing pedestrian pathfinding system.
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by criley 14y ago
Similar behavior is witnessed in animals often. An animal will learn a novel behavior -- generally some basic tool use, and then its relatives or packmates will quickly adopt the technique. It spreads like wildfire. They clearly already con