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by drcube 13y ago
Just being in the closet is not evidence that a person wasn't actively gay. What is your evidence that gay sex happened less frequently when homosexuality was forbidden?
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by drcube 13y ago
Claude Shannon was a physicist . He got paid to think about the big century-defining ideas. Engineers are supposed to think about the concrete here and now, that's our whole purpose. Shannon was an extremely important person, a genius, and
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by drcube 13y ago
A further blow in the war on sharing. Of course, this is business as usual for MS. My mom taught me to share before I was old enough to walk. No government or corporation in the world is going to change my opinion of it.
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by drcube 13y ago
How many of those consumers know it's Linux under there? I think that's what they mean by "consciousness". For most Android users, you're lucky if they even know what "Android" means, let alone Linux.
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by drcube 13y ago
Wasn't that the problem? I've never owned a Mac so I don't know, but I thought they changed it because the other plug was too secure, and people tended to pull their laptops off of tables when they tripped on the cord. I'd rather have to pl
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by drcube 13y ago
But all they have to do is threaten to sue...
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by drcube 13y ago
On first thought, I would be annoyed at having to subscribe to multiple services to get the content I want. On second thought, however, isn't this basically a la carte programming the cable companies have been refusing us since forever? A f
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by drcube 13y ago
Extensions should be for user convenience, not OS functionality. And files should be assumed to be text unless otherwise specified. IMHO.
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by drcube 13y ago
Besides being a joke based off a classic Dilbert cartoon, Windows really is broken, at least in this one specific area. File extensions should only be used by people. The OS should have other ways of knowing the file type. And ".txt" is red
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by drcube 13y ago
> An extension ‘txt’ also informs novice users about the role of these files: they are not programming code, they are primarily meant to be read. If only the file name hinted at that fact...
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by drcube 13y ago
Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better OS.
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by drcube 13y ago
I don't understand how someone can lay copyright claim to a work they didn't create? I'm all for weakening copyrights. But this seems like weakening it only for the average person, while allowing huge organizations to scoop up any "unclaime
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by drcube 14y ago
I will not buy Glass if there are ads. Period. I think most people are with me and Google knows this. This probably won't extend to Android or any other Google service, but I can see why they would choose to forgo ads in Glass.
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by drcube 14y ago
We never ran out of whale oil, but does anyone think we should go back to using that as our main source of fuel? It isn't about running out, it's about cost and sustainability. Oil is getting more expensive and it isn't sustainable.
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by drcube 14y ago
We're not talking about babies here. My six year old can take care of himself just fine if he's fed and has an adult around in case of emergencies. I have worked in my home office for hours while he played in the rest of the house, watched
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by drcube 14y ago
Except they didn't say that. What the hell is "Where's Wally"? Are they trying to avoid trademark infringement or something?
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by drcube 14y ago
C-r isn't much harder than up/down arrows (or C-p/C-n). Why is this such a big deal?
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by drcube 14y ago
>It occurs to me--is there some sort of financial instrument a company could buy (or sell) which would incentivize them to take a longer-term view of their own performance? ESOP. When the stockholders are the employees, quarterly earnin
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by drcube 14y ago
Before, you had $80k in debt, now you have $96k in debt. You basically just took out a home equity loan.
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by drcube 14y ago
>It's because 2/3 of Americans are homeowners, so for a majority of Americans, falling house prices are bad. Why? Those homeowners shouldn't care what the price of their house is. While they're living in it, it doesn't matter, and when
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by drcube 14y ago
I think Paul Allen actually looks younger now.
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by drcube 14y ago
Facebook is some form of advertising. So don't be skeptical, be certain.
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by drcube 14y ago
What's wrong with plagiarism?
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by drcube 14y ago
Even Newton stood on the shoulders of giants. Iteration is innovation. Sometimes you just happen to be lucky enough to stumble on something big and important when you're iterating. But it's the same process, it only looks different in hin
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by drcube 14y ago
I got married at 18. I joined the Army, did two tours in Iraq, came back home, went to college and got a job as an engineer. I couldn't have done any of that without my wife. I hesitate to generalize, but in my particular case getting marri
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by drcube 14y ago
Yeah, they're legitimate "research" projects, not "engineering" projects. No usable device is expected to be produced and put into service at the end. People funding that research are buying knowledge, not useful systems.
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by drcube 14y ago
>... if it made economic sense to fund private, basic research in the past, what has changed? The monopolies were broken up. Now companies have to fight for their market position today rather than their position tomorrow.
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by drcube 14y ago
For that matter, why did anyone buy computers when waiting just a little longer brought cheaper, faster, and better computers? Well, for one thing, if nobody bought computers, they wouldn't have gotten any faster, since no one would have bu
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by drcube 14y ago
It's not stealing a car if you ask for it and they give it to you. That's what typing a URL into your browser is. Asking the server for info. AT&T could have easily programmed it to say "no".
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by drcube 14y ago
Fair enough. Seems easy to put an on/off switch on the side, though, like laptops have for wireless. Then you can just turn the phone off during your tough gaming moments.

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