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by gouranga 14y ago
Society already does a good job of this without the need for technology or artificial intelligence. I'd genuinely rather spend my day chopping wood, picking fruit or fishing, but no, I'm chained to a desk in front of Visual Studio 2010 pump
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by gouranga 14y ago
Indeed. If you ever read Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near, that's what we'll end up as at some point in the near future. It starts with google goggles, proceeds to more integration and then becomes us. I wouldn't say no to assimilation wh
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd rather spend the money replacing our fragile and short lived meat sacks first. Building massive space ships to sling us across the universe is a problem which only exists when we have meat sacks. Voyager 1 and 2 have done well with anci
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by gouranga 14y ago
Good. Looking at the utter shit they feed children in the UK under the guise of school dinners, it's nice to see someone documenting it. I send my children in with a proper packed lunch and their friends take the piss out of them because it
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by gouranga 14y ago
A Citroen 2CV is pretty much tinfoil with an engine attached. It's definitely feasible even with hand tools. With respect to survival, if you head into a desert, you take supplies galore. The 12 days was probably due to the heat so you can
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by gouranga 14y ago
Chromium is not what people are using. Chrome is. Completely different build output.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Google Chrome is not completely open source. Chromium is. People are using Chrome, not Chromium.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Agreed. Internet Explorer with TPL support is a better proposition than Chrome. Firefox as well. Both browsers are putting the user first and not the vendor. Chrome is simply not trustworthy. Why would you get a browser from an advertising
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by gouranga 14y ago
Perhaps it's the British in me, but yawn.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I will say that they replace earphones readily. Unfortunately my dead MBP resulted in me being pretty much told to F Off depsite being literally 2 days out of warranty.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Tape melts, emits gas which is poisonous and is more conductive than the plain air gap. There's your failure mode. Bear in mind my Airport express melted and blew my circuit breakers so shorts are definitely a possibility.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Never heard that one before. Made me LOL :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
History repeats itself. Apple cables have been fraying since FireWire ipods. I've heard the promise so often its now boring me.
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by gouranga 14y ago
0402s and below kill me. I did a bit of time doing rework in the 90s and controlling solder on such a microscopic scale is an absolute bastard. its ok placing it first time but if you screw up, life is pain. Never tried a BGA and never want
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by gouranga 14y ago
Undue stain? If they're fraying then it's bad engineering plain and simple. A $5 set of Sony earphones goes through several orders of magnitude more shearing, twisting and pulling and last years. Why can't apple do that? Because it looks pr
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by gouranga 14y ago
the entire cable will become strain relief and then the problem will start again! I've had the same problem with all apple cables. Design over substance.
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by gouranga 14y ago
I listed all the hardware I personally owned. It is all caveated on IMHO. Lucky you :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
It's just the gushing over the thing that does me in. It's pretty standard for a vendor shipped item and TBH the only reason it's like it is, is due to the fact the last one they shipped was a pile of shite. In the EU we have quite hefty el
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by gouranga 14y ago
Having had piles of apple kit over the years, I can assure you that the quality is an illusion generated by the high price. Here's what has died on me just outside a year since 2006 MacBook pro (logic board failure), iMac (won't boot), a Ma
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by gouranga 14y ago
From experience, its definitely not easy (even with a hot air station). Bring back though the hole components - much more hackable.
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by gouranga 14y ago
It is unforutnately a rarity. The N1 looked like the ultimate awesome machine but it failed miserably :(
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by gouranga 14y ago
Or a spectacular ground based explosion which appears to be prevalent in the leading edge of rocket development :(
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by gouranga 14y ago
I'd suggest pastebin rather than a security firm. Security firms will shop you in 2 mins if they feel it's profitable.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Doesn't surprise me. In that circumstance, I'd quit via a letter to the shareholders. That's what I did when I worked for a large nefarious killing machine provider when I had a tony stark moment, grew some balls and worked out what they we
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by gouranga 14y ago
That's why we need to use a clean slate occasionally. Every feature creates a better picture on what to the next time you throw it all away. C, UNIX and libpng have taught us a lot, but it's probably time to take them in the back yard and s
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by gouranga 14y ago
And credibility in the industry has declined proportionally...
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by gouranga 14y ago
considering 50% of humans can barely shit in the middle of a toilet instead of the seat, I reckon you're about 1000 years off... Also for the young and inexperienced, PalmOS grafitti did that in the 90s and it was a POS.
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by gouranga 14y ago
its not vapourware. I have an X61 convertible tablet already (but I tend to use my T61 more often). This is just an evolutionary step of something that already works.
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by gouranga 14y ago
Correction - iPad has 149,900 shit apps and 100 good ones as does every platform. Also if its a problem for you personally, just buy a laptop :)
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by gouranga 14y ago
Now nothing. When released, whatever I do on my laptop, which is an order of magnitude more than I can do on an iPad.

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