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by gigawatt 15y ago
"Now, one may separately question whether there is anybody in the target market, who wants these clothes but won't drop the funds to just buy them, but I can't speak to that either way;" I think that's going to be the problem. My wife used
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I've noticed Twitter spam bots have started to pull random quotes/text off the internet. Funny to see a tweet of a Machiavelli quote followed by a cheap viagra tweet.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for. I certainly don't
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I gotta say, I'm already burned out on the Groupon-type sites. I'm not sure why they think I need to get waxed two times a week—I haven't seen a relevant offer in months, after buying a few in the first couple months. The only one that I st
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by gigawatt 15y ago
The bottom right of that flowchart is a little scary. So anything you post, no matter how private you want it to be, can be seen by anyone that it gets re-shared to? Nevermind: just noticed that that only applies to posts you share publical
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I'm not an expert, but I've been doing a little research on audio file compression to cut down on Amazon S3 charges for a personal site I have up that suddenly got a fair amount of traffic. The way I understand it, ogg vorbis files actually
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by gigawatt 15y ago
If you have more I'd love one: awparks at gmail.com. Thanks!
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by gigawatt 15y ago
Assuming you meant "vulnerable." If so, agree completely. If the company that Facebook overthrew, with hundreds of millions of users, can lose over 90% of its value in a few years, there's no reason Facebook is immune. Facebook's new motto:
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by gigawatt 15y ago
Taking the immediate gratification away from the consumer and giving it to the business, combined with surprise credit card charges, makes this pretty unappealing. At least to me, as a consumer.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
Difficulty in getting the materials to build a wooden structure to the disaster zone would make the concrete tent a better option in many cases.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I have a 10-month-old son, and I also didn't get kids at all until he was born (and honestly, it was until he was about 4 or 5 months old until I really got it). But I think it's unfair to say having kids makes you a more complete person.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I think there is actually MORE good music now than there was in the past precisely because there is more music. For every Lady Gaga there is a Radiohead, for every Kesha there is a TV on the Radio, for every Black Eyed Pea(s) there is The B
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I'm writing this from 2007! Anyway, thanks for the responses. I was embarrassingly unaware of the changes. Though maybe the moral of the story is that DRM is a good way to lose a customer who won't come back under any circumstances if there
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I'm sure there's a quick fix for the iTunes purchased albums I still have, but the long-term solution is definitely to avoid purchasing from iTunes. For me, at least.
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by gigawatt 15y ago
I buy music almost exclusively through Amazon now solely because of the DRM nonsense iTunes puts on its files. I have several albums that, when I try to play them on my media computer through iTunes home sharing, gives me the "This album is
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Ah, good to know. Though I guess GoDaddy with a better admin panel wouldn't be the worst thing. Looks like they also have free whois privacy.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
They have one: http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/domain.html I've never used it, so can't speak for the quality/services though.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Lorem Ipsum is actually abstracted one layer further. It's based on some text by Cicero, but it has been altered so it wouldn't even be readable if you knew Latin.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Very much so, thank you. So it's more how the data is stored and updated in the different kinds of files. I definitely had the basic gist of raster vs. vector, but had no idea how it could affect something like version control in this way.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
Ah, so it's a file-size issue. Thanks to both of you for explaining.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
> and also feasible given the prevalence of vector graphics. As a designer who has had git on his "To Learn" list for way too long, can you explain what you mean by this?
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I meant that it might be a personal shortcoming that I'm not able to be that blunt with people I have to see on a regular basis. I respect your system and wish I could carry it out, but for me, it's just something I really don't want to dea
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by gigawatt 16y ago
> I am quite proud of the fact I only have 100 FB friends, because I know each and every one of them. I lot of people I know from IRC and work refer to be as the Facebook Nazi because I won't add them, but they're not really my friends
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by gigawatt 16y ago
that's an excellent point that i hadn't considered. maybe they realize (correctly or incorrectly) that there's no way to sustain their business at the level to which they're accustomed, so they're just slash-and-burning the whole thing and
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by gigawatt 16y ago
"My name is Netta & Design is what I do. It's what I'm good at so why not?" Just what I'd be looking for in an employee — good, old-fashioned "meh, why not?" attitude.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
It wouldn't be considered mainstream by the people that would benefit most from an expanded world view, it would just be considered terrorist.
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I think "so far outside their sphere" was poor word choice on my part. What I was trying to say was that, for Netflix whose sole business is delivering movies and tv shows to consumers, moving into TV production is not a stretch. For a comp
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I think it's more of a message to Amazon that just streaming a few thousand movies won't be enough to steal the market from them. Amazon is great at breaking into new areas, but I think they would have to think twice about moving into telev
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by gigawatt 16y ago
I do the same thing for bank accounts and such — I only use a clean install of opera, and that's all I use it for.

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