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by engtech 13y ago
Because Disney essentially IS copyright. The MPAA is just a publicity shunt so that people don't associate the bad press of the MPAA with the 8 brands that are behind it. [0] The Copyright Extension Act of 1998 is called Mickey Mouse Prot
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by engtech 13y ago
Should the first female nominee for U.S. Vice Present from the republican party, who rose to the top of an extremely male dominated field, serve as an inspiration for gender equality? edit: mpyne said it best somewhere else in this thread:
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by engtech 14y ago
The biggest problem people don't know they have is bookmark synchronization between mobile / desktop. I find Google Chrome does an amazing job of handling the problem, so the point where the history of the search result drop down box from o
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by engtech 14y ago
Wow, this page tries to do a drive-by java install. Other comments say its to load a bitcoin harvester.
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by engtech 14y ago
My fav is Look to Windward, but you needed to be entrenched in the world to get a lot out of that book. I still haven't been able to make myself finish Matter yet.
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by engtech 14y ago
You're right. When I was looking at news articles this morning, I came across the 41% number, but that is obviously wrong or geo-specific. cancer.org states that 15% of deaths worldwide are due to cancer, with 50% being spread amongst other
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by engtech 14y ago
read this before starting to books. It's a great intro to the Culture: http://nuwen.net/culture.html
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by engtech 14y ago
The only great change I can think of is getting cheaper MRIs. The problem with MRIs is that there are so many false positives, but maybe regular scanning would help reduce that noise? It is thought that most people fight cancer 5-6 times in
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by engtech 14y ago
Actually, you need to do cohort analysis to see the risks in different age ranges rather than generalizing. People in older baby boomer cohorts are doing better than younger generations. "Decent nutrition has never been cheaper or more wide
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by engtech 14y ago
Here's Banks explaining the Culture, which is a great background that isn't even in the books. http://nuwen.net/culture.html
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by engtech 14y ago
Read this page first as an amazing introduction to the Culture: http://nuwen.net/culture.html
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by engtech 14y ago
Read this: http://nuwen.net/culture.html then: The Player of Games Consider Phlebas Use of Weapons Use of Weapons is great, but the writing is poorer than the other two.
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by engtech 14y ago
Actually, don't start with the books. Read this webpage to get an introduction to the Culture. It's great, and it helps you get through some of the "rougher" edges in the earlier books. http://nuwen.net/culture.html
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm very sorry to hear this. The first Banks book I read was in a palliative care room while my mom was dying of cancer.
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by engtech 14y ago
No, more money is needed. 41% of deaths are due to cancer. It really is one of the biggest problems we have as a species and we should spend more effort on it rather than the things we do spend effort on. But I wholeheartedly agree that rat
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by engtech 14y ago
Very cool. It'd be nice if steam gave you the purchase price, then you could see all the games that are cheaper now than when you bought it. :)
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by engtech 14y ago
relevant fiction: http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked...
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by engtech 14y ago
Screenshots: http://carywalkin.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/arena-xlsm-galler...
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Accountant creates an RPG game in Microsoft Excel(carywalkin.wordpress.com)
25 points by engtech 14y ago|2 comments
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by engtech 14y ago
Reading the reddit thread on this, it seems that the DMCA takedown was because the review is using copyrighted images/material that is authorized for use by GoPro resellers, of which digitalrev.com is not one. I found this comment by photok
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by engtech 14y ago
This is a fairly good account covering the points on the EA/Maxis SimCity 2013 bad launch. http://kotaku.com/5991077/your-complete-guide-to-the-simcity... The bad PR move imo is that the company stated that the game requires "online acces
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by engtech 14y ago
https://twitter.com/simcity/status/310490053803646976 "Hey, this is on Maxis. EA does not force design upon us. We own it, we are working 24/7 to fix it, and we are making progress"
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by engtech 14y ago
"Weakness is strength. Strength is weakness." Being a small flexible company means they can't compete on money, but they can compete on flexibility and increasing quality of life. I think that's all any employee wants from a job -- a good q
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by engtech 14y ago
I'm guessing the game was one of these? Likely Age of Champions. http://www.klicknation.com/games/
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by engtech 14y ago
Actually, come to think of it, I don't know if my previous answer of "get more experience" solves this procrastination problem. I think it's actually "have kids" that solves this procrastination problem. With having kids you get so many con
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by engtech 14y ago
This is an experience problem. As you become more experienced, and see how you've wasted your time coming up with a "perfect" solution that ended up not mattering, then you'll be fine not having a perfect solution. At some point you realize
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by engtech 14y ago
It seems to me that what you are measuring is how well marketed a movie is, not how good it is on any scale. Interesting point, compare your results against box office results. Also: the hottest and sexiest movies #6: Ice Age??? :) http://
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by engtech 14y ago
Very cool. I'm a little lost as to what to do or what my goals are. A lot like life, really.
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by engtech 14y ago
The INVITE of death was discovered on Feb 16th, 2009. http://ims-bisf.nexginrc.org/OpenSBC-vul.html
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by engtech 14y ago
As someone who works with FPGAs/ASICs, this isn't that weird. Everything gets serialized/deserialized these days, so there's all kinds of boundary conditions where you can flip just the right bit and get the data to be deserialized the wron

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