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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Being the owner of a 3 year old Dell Inspiron 9400 (E1705 in the US) I would have to agree. There's nothing physically wrong with it, and it performs as good as ever. However, the rubber grips came off the bottom due to excess heat being tr
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
That's because they pumped up inflation by like 15000% it wasn't the depression that caused the problem, it was the idea that making more money would help. The government isn't dumb enough to do that with inflation, the Bank of England has
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
No iTunes wouldn't disagree; they don't sell the music to the users, they sell the users to the music. iTunes has a ridiculous amount of users as it's freeware, but anyone with an iPod has it installed on their computer thus it was easier f
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
You seem more interested in convincing people that accepting the money is a good idea. I'd say you're trying to do this because you know it's inherently a bad idea. I didn't spend three years studying psychology to learn nothing. You're bla
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Agreed. I understand Twitter, it's inherently useless to me and I'll likely never use it. The whole argument in the piece is invalid. People are using Twitter and Facebook to reduce the amount of time they spend with people whilst trying to
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
It's a simple fact that most companies fail. Tell them to go to a roulette table and bet on black if they want better odds.
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
It reminds me of Microsoft's change from Hotmail to Hotmail Live, which took 10 times longer to load and glitched constantly and I now have like 400 unread emails because I stopped using it. I now have a domain name in my own name so I lite
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Can it come in the form of a bright light?
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I think what ars meant was that you can dislike something, a la Microsoft, yet still use their product. I dislike Microsoft, but there is no alternative for me. I have no interest in Linux as it just bores the crap out of me, it's not even
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I've always had a problem with procrastination and I've always known it's nothing more than fundamental laziness. Perhaps combined with my heightened sense of self-preservation it's why my ancestors managed to survive, after all a few of th
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Actually, I think it having a fairly high price is a good thing. If everyone has one it's worthless, granted it would make them exceptionally easy to discover if there was ever a catastrophic collapse of human civilization. However, what I
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I'd second you on that. While working as a reviewer I found that swearing when talking to my boss made him understand my point better. Similarly I've found that when talking to people, sometimes dropping a 'fuck' in as punctuation scores go
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
The parrot you had might not recognise itself in the mirror, as it might be trying to impress its reflection. However, I'd really like to see this performed on an African Grey, as the one in the local pet store is surprisingly smart as it a
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
The article has one very misleading mistake. Four [types] of apes have been able to see themselves in mirrors, not four apes as I watched a video of IIRC eight apes, four male and four female, who used mirrors for self grooming, playing wit
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I read about this probably 5 years ago and I did a bit of reading on it. The fact this can happen is that dogs only have around 13 blood types, where as humans have 26. The reason humans have 26 blood types is likely this exact problem, hum
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Exactly. It takes 1 minute to write an email and 1 minute to read one, but when it's sent to 5,000 people in your address book. That's over 10 work days wasted just reading it.
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I tried it out. It looks nice and polished, it just isn't as simple as google. I'm not exactly sure where I'm supposed to look for my results and what the order is. Also, just a personal opinion. Black is a very, very bad colour to go with
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I say start shooting bacterial-fungi rockets at Venus/Mars and lets skip ahead a billion years to see if they're nice and blue/green like our planet.
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
If Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened on a yearly basis, it (the ~220,000 people) doesn't even pale in comparison to the 4.6 million people who die from fossil fuel burning. Since I was born, 92 million peoeple have died from fossil fuel burni
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Fossil fuels kill 20,000 people a year in the US, that's a well established fact. It also kills around 100,000 people in China from mining coal, they don't even publish how many people die from smog but my guess is that it's way, way above
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I think you're missing the point, mainly that all that is programmed. There is no way a computer can truely evolve, only its software can. Evolution is the response to external factors, mainly death, which prevents the spread of genetic mat
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I'm actually relieved no one has commented on the weight being unsafe, like in the wired comment thread. I'd just like to point out that some titanium alloys have the same strength at only one-eighth the weight of the strongest steel alloys
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
I find it rather interesting that companies are removing DRM from their music, yet Canada's government is trying to copy the DMCA because of US lobbying. I seriously forget the point in voting as government officials already have their opin
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Agreed, happiness has been proven to be subjective. Paraplegics are happy 1 year after their disability causing accident, so wouldn't parents of newborns be the same? It's not a change in circumstances that makes the paraplegics happy, they
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by electromagnetic 18y ago
Happiness is subjective, and frankly my happiness is dependent on what I achive in life, as I expect most people on here are. People on here are trying to set up companies, most of whom will likely fail as most start-ups do in the first cou