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by fotbr 14y ago
They don't cost that much. The $430M covered a lot more than just the portable and mobile radios themselves. And no, "a simple FRS/GMRS radio with scrambler chip" would not have sufficed. Public safety radio systems, even on a local level
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by fotbr 14y ago
From the end-user (very casual gamer) standpoint, good riddance. When it came out as an a feature of the "upgraded" AuroraFeint, I chucked the game I spent most of my gaming time playing, and have since avoided everything that used it, reg
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by fotbr 14y ago
That's not what your terms of service says. It says you may, at your discretion, delete data.
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by fotbr 14y ago
A few criticisms. Hopefully you can put them to good use, or at least understand what some old fuddy-duddys that aren't impressed by "the cloud" and "social" think. Or have a beer and laugh at the old guy saying "get off my lawn" - I'm OK
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by fotbr 14y ago
As an aside, I think this is the best "We're shutting down" writeup I've seen. No complaining about how hard things were, no plaintive pointing of fingers trying to politely (or not) place blame, just a straightforward statement of facts f
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by fotbr 14y ago
Nice concept, seems well done too. Any chance you could add trance in addition to house, dub & dnb in the future?
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by fotbr 14y ago
Nope, black spidery things on Mars aren't dangerous at all. http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100117081507/babylon...
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by fotbr 14y ago
Nope. And I still get my news from multiple source before 8am. BBC world news on the tv in the morning as I'm getting ready for work, and NPR on the drive in to the office. After I'm at the office, a quick check of the tech news sites wh
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by fotbr 14y ago
"If anyone thinks that they are revealing new information to me by telling me the difference between centrifugal force and acceleration, I will fed-ex a crazed baboon that is high on crack to their house." I can think of a few people I'd li
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by fotbr 14y ago
And they're not the only ones to have done so. Adruinos aren't the be-all and end-all of embedded systems, and most projects do not need to give them any credit whatsoever.
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by fotbr 14y ago
A unit conversions utility that has a very nice, clean UI with a focus on functionality, not on "what trendy widget can we force in there next?" Well, had, anyway.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Not a bad machine, still uses the laser-cut-plywood and screws approach that I don't particularly like. I also went the build-my-own route because about the time my "buy silly toys" fund was up to where I could buy one, anything with a usea
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by fotbr 14y ago
I'm just happy to see they've moved away from a hacked-together plywood and screws case and have switched to metal. They've finally discovered that some things are better made if you get away from the limitations of low-end laser cutters.
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by fotbr 14y ago
http://www.makerbot.com/replicator2-press-assets/ PDFs of the press releases for anyone who prefers to read.
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by fotbr 14y ago
That's exactly the method I use as well. There's one app that I use that an old update adds advertising, and breaks most of the functionality. Based on the reviews, further updates do nothing to improve the broken bits, and made the adver
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by fotbr 14y ago
Or, simplify your pages. The current direction of web development and design -- having hundreds or even thousands (yes, thousands) of assets in a single page is often counter productive, and borderline stupid.
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by fotbr 14y ago
If you're constantly pulling content from 4-5 different domains, perhaps you should re-think your sites architecture to minimize that. Sometimes it's unavoidable, but a lot of the time it's simply due to laziness or because the web develop
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by fotbr 14y ago
I've shot weddings before. You're partially right, wedding parties are willing to pay, and pay well. The flip side of it is that they can be some of the absolute worst clients possible, and you only have one chance to get it right. So a
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by fotbr 14y ago
It depends on what you want to do. Long-range or other forms of precision shooting are going to require more precision in the manufacture of the firearm and ammunition. An AK47, on the other hand, well the whole design is based around very
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by fotbr 14y ago
He won't. Just read the article - he's already apologizing for the officers' behavior and just wants his equipment back.
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by fotbr 14y ago
Often it's the opposite - they have enough imagination to not need someone else to imagine for them. I rarely read fiction simply because I don't have the time to. I've got too many hobbies that I enjoy, and there's always something about
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by fotbr 14y ago
I don't expect them to. I'm just answering the question as to why features take so long to get implemented.
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by fotbr 14y ago
It takes so long because the GIMP developers have a long-standing tradition of telling people with requests to go jump off a cliff if the feature being requested isn't directly useful to the developers. They have a fairly typical failing i
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by fotbr 14y ago
Invalid assertion. I didn't notice more cyclists on my commute, and it is absolutely not a cause for concern - there were none. That's right. None. Zero. Zip. Nada. The entire list of vehicles encountered during my commute on the 18th
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by fotbr 14y ago
qq
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by fotbr 15y ago
Shortened urls are trivial to check, and could still be easily blocked. Or else the url shortening services will just be flagged themselves as being "bad" links.
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by fotbr 15y ago
Small community banks still exist. Mine offers online bill pay, and just about every other "fancy features" that larger banks do. So, yeah, there are options other than huge bank or crippled credit union.
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by fotbr 15y ago
AKG all the way.
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by fotbr 15y ago
Use python even if you're a c++ systems guy. Or, you know, you could use the language that's most likely to be used in the job you're applying for. If you're a c++ & systems guy, interviewing for a c++ & systems job, c++ is far mo
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by fotbr 15y ago
Not nearly the same, and nowhere near as cool as Lego. More comparable to Meccano.

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