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by dejb 18y ago
From those who didn't want to be invaded or bombed I suppose.
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by dejb 18y ago
> at the risk of sounding jingoistic clearly america has the most stable and transparent economy in the world There are many other first world countries in the world other thna America. America is the largest and that does make it the m
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by dejb 18y ago
> America contains 5% of the world's population yet remains a leader with 20& of the world's economic output So what? Most first world countries earn about similar amounts per capita as the US. > The American markets dictate wha
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by dejb 18y ago
> They'll keep selling us stuff and buying from us. Yes of course. But but in a ratio of closer to 1:1 selling to buying. They won't keep lending you the money to buy stuff.
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by dejb 18y ago
The real speed problem is using general purpose web server like apache. What you need to do is write your own custom webserver for each site in assembler. That way most, if not all, the site can be served directly from server in ram without
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by dejb 18y ago
> The US government can borrow money very cheaply, and buy mortgages at fear driven low prices, which should allow it to make a profit from the rescue, if it buys at the market price: Is anyone reminded of the concept of doubling down o
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by dejb 18y ago
Part of the true cost of these products is their security risk. That cost should ultimately be paid by those who use the product. Otherwise there is no incentive for people to find better, safer chemicals/means to achieve their goals. Passi
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by dejb 18y ago
This is another problem with apples 'App Store Only' policy. If they weren't the only possible provider of Apps then they could legitimately reject ones they didn't like. The authors would just have to sell it somewhere else. But because th
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by dejb 18y ago
Until somebody realease something that isn't a 'Brick with no video recording' perhaps.
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by dejb 18y ago
I believe that free choice actually leads to a better result for consumers. If you don't agree with this position then what you have said makes sense and you are probably a good fit for Mac products. My belief is that over time consumers wi
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by dejb 18y ago
Actually for me gmail wasn't really that related to Web 2.0. The main definition used is at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/... The exception to 'social != $$$$' is of course Google's page rank algorithm which
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by dejb 18y ago
> They did announce plug-ins, you know. Yes but so far I'm not aware of any. Not even the google toolbar AFAIKS. For me plugins like online bookmarks (delicious), current page/site info (seoquake) and web debugging (firebug) have become
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by dejb 18y ago
For me the term 'Web 2.0' is more closely related to collective intelligence and social media/apps than AJAX or other UI inovations. But hey it's just a term. By the time 'Web 3.0' could actually apply we'll probably have another term to us
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by dejb 18y ago
If they agreed to a single common tax for carbon creation it would still end up as a transfer from high carbon producing countries to lesser ones. They wouldn't just burn the money collected or something, it would be redistributed. So the d
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by dejb 18y ago
Firefox's plugins are what keeps it as my main browser. It is nice for Chrome to be faster, more robust, better designed, etc... but in the end features really do matter.
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by dejb 18y ago
Canned Beans. Chick Peas are my favourite. Open the can and eat with a fork or spoon. Best to use the cans that can be opened by hand to avoid excessive preparation time.
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by dejb 18y ago
> I suppose exceptions could be made for services like Google, which people would pay $1000/year for if that's what all the providers charged Nobody would have paid $1000 a year for google. If they had started of trying to charge users
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by dejb 18y ago
You had me worried there for a second but it turns out that you are allowed to display adsense in an iframe although google says - 'Our targeting technology is not optimized to serve ads within a separate IFRAME. If you placed the AdSense c
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by dejb 18y ago
I don't think the analogue with movies was a good one. The time investment of several hours involved in going to see a movie is more than the actual money cost for most people. There are many movies that wouldn't be worth seeing if they pai
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by dejb 18y ago
It isn't just basic speech. It is whatever is required to convince the examiner that the subject is a human. You could ask the subject for some creative input on a particular topic. That is allowed under the Turing test. I think that creati
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by dejb 18y ago
You do know aboutthe Turing test right? With all the searching and interactions on the internet these days I think there will be plenty of feedback from humans to develop AI if it can be done.
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by dejb 18y ago
> Sexual activity aside That was my point. That there exists a process (evolution) where greater intelligence can spring from lesser intelligence. I agree the mechanism is quite different but it demonstrates there is no fundamental obst
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by dejb 18y ago
I was replying to a comment not the parent post. The one where the guy proposed that it would be impossible for humans to create anything smarter than ourselves. Sometimes the indentation on comments can be a little tough to keep up with.
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by dejb 18y ago
> Except the machine is extremely stupid! It doesn't have any idea on how to play chess, it just tries every possibility one after the other until it finds a good one. It is also possible that each individual neuron in the brain is stup
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by dejb 18y ago
No there is no guarantee. However in the past it is safe to say that, on average, the human evolutionary path involved an increase in intelligence. Whether that is 'the tale' I will leave to poetic license. I did this to disprove the notion
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by dejb 18y ago
Do you believe in evolution? The process of human evolution is a tale of smarter and smarter animals coming from less intellegent ones. Also Humans can invent chess algorithms that can beat the best chess player in the world.
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by dejb 18y ago
I think that whenever a user base becomes uncritical, lapping up every move a company makes, the quality of the end product is likely to suffer in the end.
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by dejb 18y ago
This is what you get when you have a closed, totalitarian system. I've said it before and I'll say it again - Steve Jobs makes Bill Gates look like Richard Stallman.
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by dejb 18y ago
You obviously don't buy into the whole idea of the subconscious. If you have to explain it FOR it to work then yes it has most likely failed. But whether or not you have to (or even can) explain WHY it works is a whole different thing. BTW
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by dejb 18y ago
I think I already have. It's not really intentional. I just keep using it. Wish it had some of the extensions I'm used to though. I'm just keeping a FF window open as well at the moment.

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