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by dougp 18y ago
I am a fan of the christmas light economic indicator http://www.reason.com/news/show/32837.html
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by dougp 18y ago
The video responses should be great.
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by dougp 18y ago
You do realize that usually its the hitchhiker that gets murdered by the person with the car.
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by dougp 18y ago
Ask an intro to CS Teacher about that. Many would disagree.
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by dougp 18y ago
I seem to be the only one that liked it. I am sure they can project the 2d image on to some smoke in the future.
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by dougp 18y ago
Cayman Islands GDP per capita is the 12th highest in the world. And has no direct taxation on individuals or companies. The Caymanians enjoy one of the highest outputs per capita and one of the highest standards of living in the world. Fr
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by dougp 18y ago
I was a sweeper at a theme park and I would see people drop things or leave things on benches(cameras, wallets, keys etc) and then run to pick them up. I would say 50% of the time they would thank me and give me a tip. Usually about an h
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by dougp 18y ago
If they used xml this wouldn't have happened
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by dougp 18y ago
That's someone who doesn't let anything, including his basement, get in his way.
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by dougp 18y ago
My old apartment in the US would take credit cards automated or not. I still paid by check.
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by dougp 18y ago
"At IBM, 40% of the workforce has no official office" I hate this stat. 40% of IBM is not hanging out in their pajamas like these articles imply. 40% is in global services (consulting) of which the vast majority are on client sites. IBM
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by dougp 18y ago
I am not a Rand detractor I am a card carrying libertarian. FountainHead page 137 supports my claim. You misunderstood me I like her writing and her ideals. Its my fault for making a quick joke anyway.
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by dougp 18y ago
Linus just blogged about how in acutal use ssds are usually vastly slower than advertised he was pleasantly surprised to find one that wasnt in this post http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-i-got-one-of-...
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by dougp 18y ago
Flash memory is high read speed and low write speed so writing from vista and reading to xp is not exactly a fair test.
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by dougp 18y ago
Rand's number one rule of characterization: if someone says their ought to be a law. They are a bad character.
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by dougp 18y ago
where do you see this I'd like it to be true.
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by dougp 18y ago
The somethingawful forums (goons) regularly do things like this. Another pretty interesting one is http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
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by dougp 18y ago
They are not easy to push around. They do not do the best job the grass is usually cut but uneven. But I like mine because it allows me to chat with my wife or the neighbors or play with my dog while getting a pretty good work out. Also the
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by dougp 18y ago
The crap that the average enterprise shop loads on the disk image does way more to slow down the os than anything that comes prebundled with windows. Password managers, sketchy rfid card reader drivers, short cuts to help desks and enterpr
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by dougp 18y ago
I will be excited when it works in more than just windows.
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by dougp 18y ago
Opera has a check box on the alert which allows you to disable scripts. So I guess it passes.
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by dougp 18y ago
This model can only be as good as its data. Which means more forms to fill out. As any IBM cog can tell you the level of that is already staggering. The only way I can imagine this big brother stuff helping is if they use it to root out
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by dougp 18y ago
If anything this article shows just how exagerated the whole "cyber war" has been.
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by dougp 18y ago
I don't think netflix will lose too many customers over this. It was really cool to get an e-mail saying sorry we haven't shipped your disk we will credit you before I even realized something was wrong. Normal companies just act like noth
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by dougp 18y ago
Both of these also happened in Massachusetts http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/01/boston.bombscare/ and http://boingboing.net/2007/09/21/mit-student-arrested.html
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by dougp 18y ago
I just hate his use of bold with the lack of space between the lines it makes my eyes jump to the bold and then lose their place.
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by dougp 18y ago
Extravagance in movies seems to pay off more than splurging does in startups. I am guessing because it builds hype and thats what sells tickets.
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by dougp 18y ago
I would be a surprised if someone could pass a blind taste test and tell ceramic from aluminum or plastic for the relatively short time coffee is exposed to them.
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by dougp 18y ago
This guy for some reason hates our current model of computing. He thinks that it can never be effectively parrallelized because our traditional languages dont do it very well. Now functional programming languages like Haskell start showin
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by dougp 18y ago
Right but the article is comparing the iPhone to vista and the touch to xp. Basically he is saying that being locked in to a single service provider is an anti feature similar to all the drm in vista so we should all stick with xp (the tou

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