iuybuyvvyu

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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
A problem in Oz is that there is no 18 cert for computer games. So anything that isn't 'watch with mother' is banned.
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Yes but with that sort of primitive technology you have to wait until AFTER the election to know who won!
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Ideally it should otherwise you are vulnerable to a range of differential attacks. In practice it's a compromise between performance and security. It might very well touch a large number of blocks to stop an attacker working out where on a
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Margins on desktops went to nothing. That was helped by people buying laptops for home use. Noticed how a laptop costs twice as much as a PC and isn't upgradeable so only lasts half as long - that's a nice business to be in. Then everybody
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Of course if you are really smart you build the same car and sell it as an Audi (to mac owners), VW (to laptop buyers), a Skoda (to desktop buyers) and a Seat (to netbook buyers). Whereas if you are GM you build 10 different cars with diffe
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Always tricky to get real figures, a lot of Apple's revenue comes from iphone/itunes and the details of the deals aren't public. MS also has a lot of income from licenses/service/support it would still make money for years if it fired all i
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Makes todays XKCD rather apt http://xkcd.com/652/
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
That's a recent change - it used to be very difficult to get academic staff into the US, even for international research programs. It's why a lot of international scientific projects aren't head quartered in the US anymore.
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
But everytime you write to it every byte in the volume will change and dropbox will have to resync the whole file.
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Group pre-order for the hardware though, 8-9 weeks
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Microsoft will still make more money from Windows7 than Apple makes form selling computers. They made more from Vista than Apple makes. There is a big difference between 'fails with the HN/Slashdot crowd' and fails to make money.
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Does this sound an awful lot like the pleadings of car companies building SUVs when oil hit $150 and those sneaky foreigners started importing subcompacts ?
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Pretty much for the same reason BMW don't sell pickups. It's not like BMW's engineers couldn't master the technology of the solid rear axle.
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
Law of supply and demand. If there was only a 100 science PhDs granted each year in th eUSA then they would be able to demand a high salary as industry fought for their services. This would in no way reduce the innovation of industry of fo
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by iuybuyvvyu 17y ago
To work in the USA with a PhD, even as a professor you need an H1B - you are subject to the same quotas and limitations as other H1B IT workers.