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by dhughes 14y ago
A Blackberry phone's value is BBM so you can communicate with your fellow employees (supposedly anonymously) versus e-mail which seems incredibly formal in comparison and BBM is faster too. BBM is certainly not a replacement for e-mail but
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by dhughes 14y ago
I wonder if I should ask him about Robertson (square)screw heads versus Phillips (star or X) screw heads or will I dredge-up the Canadian versus US war? It reminds me of Shelbyville turnips versus Springfiled lemons.
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by dhughes 14y ago
I can't understand why Apple offers a glossy display, the screen has to be angled slightly and that's the perfect setup for glare from ambient light. It's like trying to read a glossy magazine and you keep having to shift around to see it
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by dhughes 14y ago
I work with a guy like that I do something, he stands there watching and when the boss walks in he says "We fixed it!"
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by dhughes 14y ago
When did Slashdot get TV?
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by dhughes 14y ago
Not every country has the same laws as every other country.
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by dhughes 14y ago
At first glance I thought it was a dual screen (MS Courier's big brother) with the lower screen as the keyboard. I liked the Courier concept I wish Microsoft released it, the Courier would have be a perfect match with Windows 8.
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by dhughes 14y ago
Loved this game it inspired me but programming on an Atari 600xl sucked many hours spent typing out BASIC from Family Computing magazine only to get "Syntax error". I got a cassette external storage drive for Christmas one year then I could
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by dhughes 14y ago
This reminds me of the war on terror where it seems everyone is considered a terrorist as if that will solve the problem. Regular law abiding people are accused of being terrorists and resources are used to chase shadows. It's the same thi
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by dhughes 14y ago
It seems the majority of cigarette smuggling goes on at the Quebec/NY border. The two big players involved are the Rock Machine/Hells Angels (Bandidos and Bacchus) and Mohawk Natives who reside in the border region. There is also quite a b
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by dhughes 14y ago
> Portugal might not have the same drug culture as the US, That's what I mean. I often deal with people from Monaco and work with a guy from Portugal and the difference in culture between southern Europe and here (US/Canada) is striking
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by dhughes 14y ago
> "with what is essentially 1 cent litmus strips ..." Not that I disagree with most of what you said but my mother is diabetic, recently diagnosed, and from what I can tell the strips have some sort of micro-channels. You touch blood
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by dhughes 14y ago
I know I'm unpopular for saying this but I doubt it would work and by that I mean people like Guzmán will always exist whether it's drugs, prostitution, stolen merchandise or whatever. Even today tobacco, mostly cigarettes, is smuggled and
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by dhughes 14y ago
I was a news hound in the 80s which was great because TV news didn't suck. Another 80s early 90s information device was the magazine, there were tons of magazines which were mostly killed off by the Internet. Social media is a whole lot o
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by dhughes 14y ago
Even better is > "The council has had no complaints for the last two years about the quality of school meals other than one from the Payne family..." I can see why nobody complained before if this circus of excuses happens.
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by dhughes 14y ago
It's like Facebook only with your grandmother standing behind you watching every word you type.
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by dhughes 14y ago
Well it's to the point now where I can't remember my passwords they are so long and complex plus I have so many accounts I need a password manager to manage all of that. With a password manager why bother restricting any password to anythi
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by dhughes 14y ago
I wonder if in a few years a totally disposable colour laser scanner copier will appear. It's almost at that point now.
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by dhughes 14y ago
Not quite, a brain is just an organ. The brains of two twins are genetically very similar but different experiences as separate beings means they are unique.
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by dhughes 14y ago
I'm not religious but if you were cloned the clone wouldn't be anything like you, for one thing it wouldn't be your age until far into the future. Any animal is distinctly different from others and even a clone of itself, if that's not a s
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by dhughes 14y ago
TD Bank is the same, maximum is eight characters and no special characters for the password. I spoke to them and got a flustered "Well would you like me to mention that to our IT department?" It's only been like that for 15 years maybe the
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by dhughes 14y ago
The worst is I can't remember what password I used but don't want to change it because I want to know if it's one I used somewhere else not just reset it.
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by dhughes 14y ago
When reading that I felt like I was back in the early 1990s when "desktop publishing" was the big thing and people bragged about having colour or high resolution printers. It's going to be interesting to see how this evolves, will we all h
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by dhughes 14y ago
Sorry to hear about your family's health, it certainly is humbling as a human to hear that news. My Mom was nearly diagnosed with lung cancer but it turned out to be scarring from pneumonia. My Dad may have lung cancer and does have IPF ei
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by dhughes 14y ago
Oddly enough if it did just fall, relative to the Earth's rotation, instead of slam into the atmosphere at thousands of meters per second it would be less stressful on the capsule.
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by dhughes 14y ago
My tiny Canadian province is know for mussels, lobster and potatoes none of which appear on the map.
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by dhughes 14y ago
Sure, I remember reading about purple stuff found in a swamp being studied and a few years later OLED is in my hand as the screen on my phone.
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by dhughes 14y ago
Everything old is new again, at an industrial park near me a company back in the late 1970s early 1980s developed a similar device. It used air pressure or some way of forcing medicine through the skin without needles it's called the Pr
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by dhughes 14y ago
Sorry to hear about your friend Ben. I actually had to kick the video game habit I have to get my electronics cert by August (or I am jobless, will be the first time in 30 years) and I haven't played any game at all since early December la
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by dhughes 14y ago
Redundant Array of Independent Networked Storage or RAINS would sound so much cooler considering it is "cloud" storage.

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