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by ezy 15y ago
Generally, people who subscribe to the ridiculous notion that "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.", either lead extremely pedestrian personal lives, or are rich enou
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by ezy 15y ago
"Supports Adobe® Flash® Player."
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by ezy 15y ago
Big Question: will the Kindle version render decently? The preview, with no pictures, doesn't give me any hope.
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by ezy 15y ago
Try looking up the word "connotation"
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by ezy 15y ago
"Building the next release of Microsoft Windows is an industry-wide effort that Microsoft approaches with a strong sense of responsibility and humility" and "we learned some great lessons and renewed our sense of responsibility to the com
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by ezy 15y ago
> "However, you -did- get in my way. For a long time. 3mph? Cripes, do you know how long it takes to move a rig around another rig at 3mph more while being safe?" 3mph ~= 4 ft/s. Some of the longest semis are 60ft. One clearing the ot
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by ezy 15y ago
Actually, that does bring up a question, is there a plugin available now that allows you to completely substitute your js for their js? Ignoring the Free software issue, this would be quite useful to have in general... (If there is, RMS sh
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by ezy 15y ago
I'm not so sure about this. People might know what is good (for the most part), but in weakness it is violated, and in strength it is often ignored to pursue self-interest. Let's just say that, I've been betrayed, and I'm very aware of t
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by ezy 15y ago
Wow, you can tell where Apple got their current marketing touch. Anybody selling anything would do well to read that and compare and contrast to Apple's currnet marketing. I read that, and I want to buy a NextStation now complete with a b
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by ezy 15y ago
I just had the install hang at the end, hitting the close button on the window after waiting entirely too long causes its "installhelper" process to jump to 100% CPU (probably spinning on a closed pipe). I have to agree -- the packaging on
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by ezy 15y ago
> You say this as if being sexist is a bad thing If you know how to read English, yes, it's a bad thing. In the modern definition, the connotation of the word implies over-generalization. i.e. it's not rational behavior. No one inter
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by ezy 15y ago
You're not being very clear here, because it seems you've just said the precise opposite of what you posted previously in the first paragraph. Initially, you said feminism arose because we started valuing other (more flamboyant?) occupation
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by ezy 15y ago
No. You should really read more before pontificating. Feminism did not arise because we suddenly stopped valuing women as mothers. It arose because that is all we valued in women[1]. The history, if you bother to read it, bears this out
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by ezy 15y ago
This is profoundly naive. Consider, for a moment, that a woman may not want to be a mother, or more realistically, that's not all she wants to be. Many Asian cultures are notoriously sexist. And, no, I wouldn't say being a mother is glamor
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by ezy 15y ago
- http://global.epson.com/newsroom/2011/news_20110517.html - Solar - Books are heavier, already. - Personal preference, but the UI will improve over time -- it probably won't be flipping a page however. See you next year! :-)
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by ezy 15y ago
Microsoft killed their own brand. Through their own efforts, Microsoft means Office, which means corporate. Unsurprisingly, their best consumer success is only tangentially associated with their name. "Microsoft Xbox" sounds like "Account
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by ezy 15y ago
There is no "platform" lesson here. The lesson is not to adopt risky business "models" based on wishful thinking. In one case, don't compete directly with the platform provider -- in the other case, it was never really a "platform" to beg
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by ezy 15y ago
I actually draw a small outline on a piece of paper of the components I'm unscrewing and tape the screws to the correct spots. :-)
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by ezy 15y ago
Likewise for auto_ptr<T>, but he glosses over that.
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by ezy 15y ago
Or pick any of the content creation apps at all, really. Essentially, if your app is glorified advertising or a just a front-end to an online database, yeah, you can probably use the web. Otherwise, if there's more than just pretty, mostly
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by ezy 15y ago
You should have edited this down. :-) Frankly, this seems even more condescending than what you started with and gives me a less charitable impression. However, I get your main points, and feel the same frustrations at times with "social"
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by ezy 15y ago
I love taking a break from home working and hitting a coffee shop. For me, it's just a way to improve my mood. Similarly, I'll break out the lawn chair and sit outside to work -- that is just as effective emotionally, but not quite as pra
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by ezy 15y ago
I mean this in the kindest possible way -- but you're a snob. :-) I was resistant to facebook at first, but I've found it a great way to keep in touch. Yes, sometimes people over-share, and sometimes there is a temptation to over-share you
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by ezy 15y ago
One obvious solution: Don't use english, and don't use standard word order.
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by ezy 15y ago
There's actually two main reasons, related to each other: In order to do the kind of open domain recognition google (and others) do here, you need data. Lots of data. That implies that the models themselves are very large, and (generally)
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by ezy 15y ago
To choose a few obvious gaffes: - no xterm mouse support (no, option-click is not the same) - the utterly stupid default for PageUp/PageDown/Home/End, which is correct for OSX UI, but utterly wrong for terminals. Less obvious (relavent to U
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by ezy 15y ago
My point was that once you assign the sound "ball" to a ball, you are also simultaneously (or eventually, as you see more examples) adding the sound "ball" to category of sounds that describe things.
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by ezy 15y ago
iSSH is still better. Especially on an iPad, and most definitely if you use a bluetooth keyboard once in a while [1] Furthermore, I don't understand how someone could even make the remark that an ssh client reminds them of linux, and mea
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by ezy 15y ago
Ok, maybe this is why UG always sounds so wrongheaded to me when explained in layman's terms: Our knowledge of English is not purely derived from the sentences we've heard. If you were to take the sentences in isolation, devoid of me
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by ezy 16y ago
In fact, I've found company t-shirts to be a little too "Stepford employee" for my tastes. It's part of a dangerous train of thought where you assume the goals of the company you work for are the same as your goals, or your personal goals

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