iujyhgftrgh

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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
The control room doesn't have to be in your country. It's tricky for anyone who isn't a superpower to remove a satelite owned and operated by another country. Distributed DNS etc doesn't really help if all the cables in and out of your coun
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
when I bought my minidisc they were about $100, a comparable Creative flash based Mp3 player was 32Mb. You could have a handful of disks with 80mins of HQ music on each whereas the MP3 players of the time were either very expensive (like th
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
>Dear Egyptian Police and Military. The US government gives Egypt $1.5 Billion every year. That's what is paying your salary. If you want to get paid, just get out of the way. And replace him with who ? We had a nice pet leader in Iran
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
It would be very easy to turn it off to somewhere like Greece. There are probably only a few companies connecting to the outside world. And these are either government owned, or were until recently but are still so civil service minded an
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
A similar thing happened with a famous Word Processor not having a word count. The designers found that nobody used word count - except for Journalists. Guess who write reviews of new word processors?
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Sony of the late 70s early 80s was different. You don't remember how bad everyone else's industrial design and build quality was compared to Sony - it was like Audi or BMW in a world of Buicks.
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Sorry I meant line in - the point was that you had to go the analog route because they wanted to restrict your use for their studio's sake. If Sony had made a cheap PC drive that took minidisk it would have been as popular as floppies and b
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Not quite the same though - Apple setup iTunes to make it easier for iPod owners to use their product - and making Apple some money in the process. They didn't decide to limit the iPod to 32Kb/s playback to protect sales of their CD player
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
It was standard issue from about 1985/1986 - before that they used self loading rifles ie. one trigger - one round.
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Have you seen netflix's offerings in Canada?
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
The British army only just relented - the new SA80 is the first fully automatic rifle to be standard issue.
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Colonel Kalashnikov was paid by a west german company that owned the marketing rights to the name - I think they made aftershave!
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
Sony went corporate American. After the Betamax debacle it decided it would win the next format war by owning studios. That meant that anything it built for the consumer also had to be good for the studio. So for example it launched the ex
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by iujyhgftrgh 16y ago
What about a country where the head of the church is also the head of the armed forces? Where nuclear missile submarines are launched with "god bless her and all who sail in her"? Where belief in God, the head of state and the superiority o