greyboy

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by greyboy 14y ago
Interesting view. I certainly care about what browser I use on my XP installation. I (and my coworkers) have always cared which browser we use. But, we aren't Web 2.0.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Can such a competitor not create a "Tom Jones in Skokie, IL" Google+ (along with a myriad of other fake accounts) to achieve the same result? Or, is that to difficult for someone with those intentions? Edit: Also, "a lot" is a rather unhelp
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's all well and good, but does that (CCTV surveillance) fall into what cobrausn quoted (Benjamin Fraklin?) above? I guess it's a matter of perspective or opinion. Where do you/we draw the line?
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by greyboy 14y ago
In fairness, Chrome/Chromium have their own set of issues. I use both browsers and come across crashes, poor renderings, bad performance, etc. I still prefer Firefox for a few extensions I use, though. I stopped using FF when I left my pre
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by greyboy 14y ago
Here is what she said: bloggergirl 21 hours ago | link [dead] I'll add to this list my all-time favorite writing companion: Virginia Tufte's "Grammar As Style". It's been out of print forever, which is tragic, and, when you can find it, it
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by greyboy 14y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Rarely are people confronted about such things, nowadays. It's OK for someone to put on their Big Boy/Girl pants and take some criticism (tactifully, sure). Plus, civility and such are different for everyone.
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by greyboy 14y ago
Cool, having some professional experience in this domain, I'm interested in what you folks are doing.
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by greyboy 14y ago
I got my notification a week before they billed me for it. Using the same method they use to advertise all their many services monthly (3-4 postcards/month). That's certainly falls in the 'sneaky' category, I think. If it was important it s
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by greyboy 14y ago
Additional anecdotal data: of the four or five pilots I know personally (ages 23 - 65), all had their pilot's license before turning 18. So, yeah, not all that uncommon. Note: I'm not a pilot, these aren't coworkers, just natural friends.
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by greyboy 14y ago
He was looking at used cars, not new. It's a different game. For new cars, I agree with you.
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by greyboy 14y ago
It's a lame situation, for sure, over what appears to be a strictly greedy or personal matter. And hindsight is alwasy 20/20. Fortunately, a good name was available and (hopefully) only an inconvience in time and effort is the major consequ
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's true. I made the assumption it was the same person based on: The person owning the CyanogenMod.com domain was caught impersonating Steve to make referral deals with community sites. When confronted and asked to hand over control of
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by greyboy 14y ago
I absolutely agree, it's just unfortunate. The only domains worth that much are really rare.
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by greyboy 14y ago
I read: And due to the small size (and lack of funds), the CyanogenMod.com domain was bought by a third-party back in 2009 and donated to CM, when CM was a much smaller project and had no online presence besides XDA. I must be missing som
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by greyboy 14y ago
We use Skype to call friends' mobile numbers in African countries, Ukraine, etc. Does Google+ allow that? (Note: not a Google+ user)
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by greyboy 14y ago
Is the Nexus 4 not a GSM-only phone? I don't recall seeing any CDMA bands listed in the specs. I suspect, then, adding LTE wouldn't be beneficial to a Verizon user, unless they didn't use the phone (right?).
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by greyboy 14y ago
I understand the idealistic view. That doesn't negate what I said, however.
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by greyboy 14y ago
In addition to what Cushman said, find out the results of Dr. Richard Hipp (sqlite creater) about putting his software in the public domain. Some countries don't have a similar concept, some companies need explicit permission, etc. It would
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by greyboy 14y ago
My previous employer had such a policy (5 year old company with less than 100 employees, total, though we all worked in groups of 10-ish). While it sounded nice, if was difficult to get time off as needed. There was always trouble making su
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by greyboy 14y ago
That's true. I guess the ridiculousness of this excuse is that the page already exists and would simply (I would think) be a matter of changing the page text. I wouldn't think this would require intensive site-wide testing, but I've been
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by greyboy 14y ago
That caught my eye as an excuse of the super enterprise-y. I don't recall the page they put up after Steve Jobs passed away taking quite near that long.
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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm well aware of these generators with two shipping-container sized units right outside my building, tested fequently. So, I concede and simply disagree. I agree they will likely lose some customers but I disagree that there was too much t
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by greyboy 14y ago
So, now they're expected to move around an unknown quantity of 400-500 lb 55-gallon drums of fuel? And where would they have sourced these so easily and quickly (another unknown, I would think)? We don't know how much energy is being used n
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by greyboy 14y ago
How long would some <X> 55-gallon drums full of fuel have helped, anyway? Most cars can easily run through 55 gallons of fuel in a matter of hours (<10), much less a datacenter! There well may have been poor planning at some p
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by greyboy 14y ago
Then they could go down the road to the local coffee shop/home/mobile network and browse the internet, unblocked. No? They have options. I'm not sure the Chinese population have (such an easy) option to get around it.
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by greyboy 14y ago
I'm not so sure he was recalling all those details from memory. You could see him looking at a prompt of some sort quite often (looking down/up, etc). Of course, that might reinforce your position.
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by greyboy 14y ago
No argument there as it was "free" for me in college. However, I've never worked in academia - so all the private sector companies I've known to use it had to pay big bucks. Plus, as I'm no longer a student, I suspect it would be a good chu
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by greyboy 14y ago
Apparently, they aren't recyclable. When my city went from plastic bins to large, rolling cans last year, we asked what to do with the old bins. They said either keep them for personal use or throw in the trash as they can't recycle them. (
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by greyboy 14y ago
It also doesn't "cost" anywhere near MATLAB. (I couldn't check the price of MATLAB as you have to have/create an account).
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by greyboy 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. I constantly found empty shelves back then, and while I can't blame that solely on BackBlaze, it doesn't impress me. Also, why the surprise at the two drive limit? That's an everyday thing in retail channels. I would ha

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