grhino

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by grhino 14y ago
Yeah, I've always been suspicious of the phrase "until the bacteria are all killed". It sounds like a pleasant rationalization than an elegant simplification of the argument.
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by grhino 14y ago
My guess is "play style" is being used more generally to refer to how long they play the game during a session and how frequently their game sessions are.
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by grhino 14y ago
Yep. It's not that they don't consider prior art at all. It's just that an exhaustive search for priort art is not possible, and all it takes is one overworked patent clerk to let something like this slip by. It's possible that this is a va
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by grhino 14y ago
Drew was a Computer Science major from MIT. It may have even been founded after he worked on previous startups. You can start a tech company without knowing how to code, but Dropbox is not the example.
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by grhino 14y ago
The number of calories are measured in a food using a bomb calorimeter can be different from how many calories of the digested food are available for use to the human body. Also, some foods require more energy to be broken down. Some foods
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by grhino 14y ago
AFAIK, all popular DRM schemes have been circumvented. In principle, any DRM scheme can be circumvented unless the hardware that decrypts the content (and therefore holds the private key in memory) self-destructs when tampered with. This is
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by grhino 14y ago
Worrying about somebody's safety does not mean I want to take away their freedom. I want people to make an informed choice. I also recognize that we often use information to rationalize decisions we make largely because of our surrounding
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by grhino 14y ago
Many kids make the decision to play a sport because they implicitly trust their parents and other elders to keep them safe. I think the article is too optimistic by implying that a change of equipment can shed the problem. I doubt the human
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by grhino 14y ago
My worry isn't so much for the ones who make it into the NFL and get paid millions with a pension afterward. My worry is for the 8 year old kids playing football and emulating the professional players. My worry is for the ones who almost ma
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by grhino 14y ago
Yeah, I think folks don't often realize how hostile an environment the human body can be to foreign invaders. Sure if you can sneak by the immune system, the human body is a microorganism paradise, but the immune systems of organisms are hi
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by grhino 14y ago
People chose to 'like' stuff generously because it was relatively harmless. It was not broadcast very loudly to other friends. Stuff liked years ago can now clutter the feeds of friends and family and look like you wanted to show it to th
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by grhino 14y ago
Java in the browser has been battered for a while. It's been supplanted by Flash for the most part which will be replaced by Javascript in the browser. Oracle is expecting Java VM's to disappear from the browser altogether and is glad to wr
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by grhino 14y ago
My impression is that the popularity of Instagram filters is to cover up for the fact that 1) the image sensors for the iPhone (and other brands) are inferior to those found in DSLR cameras, 2) that the average user is an untrained photogra
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by grhino 14y ago
Since not everyone going up the mountain comes back down the mountain and there aren't clean up crews, tents can become garbage.
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by grhino 14y ago
Yes, the 48FPS is only available in 3D.
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by grhino 14y ago
I don't think GWT is being used for gmail.
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by grhino 14y ago
Is a web browser an app which streams apps?
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by grhino 14y ago
I think MS's most reliable market is Microsoft certified IT professionals. I believe these professionals have also historically determined technology purchasing decisions for companies. It'll be interesting to see how things turn out in the
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by grhino 14y ago
If the right individuals had seen the public service announcment. Were there any public service announcements for that abduction example given? I think it's a given that nearly all the impressions of a public service announcement of a child
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by grhino 14y ago
The morality of an individual or organization is determined by: 1. What they do 2. What they say And in that order. For politicians and celebrities with a large audience, it's possible that what they say matters more than what they do for t
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by grhino 14y ago
If they are losing the knowledge over a 2 week break, are they really keeping that knowledge with them over the course of a school year?
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by grhino 14y ago
and from the article, can vary greatly by individual
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by grhino 14y ago
If you account for merchandising, I wonder if Angry Birds is beating the top free to play app?
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by grhino 14y ago
For games, probably Blizzard games.
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by grhino 14y ago
I agree that Mozilla could be choosing to battle Microsoft here instead of Apple battle for the positive reputation and press. Mozilla could be wary of a long-term Microsoft gambit. When does Windows and Windows RT just become Windows? Appl
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by grhino 14y ago
The 'change' event does not fire on every key press. 'change' fires when focus moves from the field and I think when the form is submitted.
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by grhino 14y ago
https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9188721/Mozilla_Forg... http://blog.mozilla.org/mobile/2010/09/28/firefox-home-looki... I have not heard them use the monopoly complaints against Apple. I'm sure Mozilla is worried about Apple, bu
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by grhino 14y ago
"We use genomics and informatics to find a gene cluster. But that's an information unit," Verdine says. "We have to get the molecule. Synthetic biology involves coaxing the cluster into biosynthetic factories, which then produce the molecul
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by grhino 14y ago
img tag does not currently support different source content based on the media resolution.
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by grhino 14y ago
It's cool to see a Grails app even if it's only used internally by netflix.

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