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by jbuzbee 13y ago
From the article referenced above; " megastars like Lyle Lovett have pointed out that he sold 4.6 million records and never made a dime from album sales. It's why the band 30 Seconds to Mars went platinum and sold 2 million records and neve
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by jbuzbee 13y ago
This seems like a detailed rebuttal of that idea: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100712/23482610186.shtml Which among other data, points to a detailed breakdown from Courtney Love (2000) about how the recording industry screws the mus
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Likely would not be detecting the type of pollution levels that you'd want, but it has expansion capabilities. Funded by Kickstarter. I'm looking forward to getting mine: http://www.sensorcon.com/sensordrone/
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Interesting, but let's see. Where have I heard about how the Feds (over)react to gaining unauthorized access to someone else's computer? Hmm... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/att-hacker-gets-3-y...
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
You're right - I just tried my password using all caps instead of mixed-case - ouch!
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
You could argue that there should be no limit or maybe the limit should be higher, but I'd have a hard time arguing that a 10 character password composed of upper, lower, specials and digits is absurd
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
I just checked. Vanguard passwords can be up to 10 characters long
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Color me skeptical here or perhaps this is just an aberration. I've been with Vanguard financial services for more than 30 years and I've never received any phone calls. All recent communication has been via email with a non-clickable link
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
More interesting than the barometer is the thermometer in the S4. Has any other phone included one yet? Crowd-sourcing of weather data is an interesting concept, but I wonder how useful a thermometer will be when phones will most often be i
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
One reason is slavery. You don't have as much incentive to industrialize when labor is dirt-cheap.
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
I'm a fan of what is marketed as "Grape Tomatoes" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape_tomato They have a great flavor if you can get past the size
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
"Hey, Hold my beer and watch this!"
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
> Yes, in Europe we're mostly treated like adults. Mostly. But in many European countries, instead of fines you'll face jail-time if you broadcast words that have been deemed unacceptable by the government. For example: http://en.wikip
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Free transportation for life? Sounds good, but what about maintenance such as battery replacement, tire replacement, windshield, fluids, plus insurance, tolls, parking etc. May not be as expensive as fuel, but there's no such thing as a fre
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
To be clear, it plays uncensored over the air in the States too as long as it's on Satellite-radio or pay-TV.
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Of course the power of stringing together some pipelines really makes the case for tail under Unix e.g. tail -F /var/log/messages | grep IMPORTANT-STRING or tail -F /var/log/messages | grep -v UNINTERESTING-STRING mix-and-match etc.
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Catchy song, lots of fun - On a side note, while I was in Australia last fall they were playing Thrift Shop uncensored on the radio. We'll never hear that in the states. How about the rest of the world? Does it get uncensored air play in Eu
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
What turned me off on Crichton was his belief in spiritualism, mystics, spoon bending, etc: http://www.crichton-official.com/features-spoonbending.html Really? A medical doctor that believes in spoon bending and fortune telling? Sigh... O
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
My gut-feeling is that a S&P rating is somehow "official" and therefore the company is more responsible for mistakes, but I'm not sure why. If I stand up a popular web site and give my own ratings on stocks, bonds, etc, would I get sued
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Isn't the S&P rating just an opinion? If I created a subscription-based restaurant newsletter that you relied on and subsequently got food poisoning, would you sue me or just cancel your subscription and tell all your friends that my ra
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
I'm just waiting for "Anonymous" to say they did it...
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
> One can only imagine what would have happened had the BSD code not been tied up in >lawsuits. I bet they would have gone with the mature BSD kernel, leading to a better OS, and >Linux would probably be a footnote in history if
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Yeah :-) I didn't say I would -write- code like that. I only meant it looked like a lot of code I've run into over the years!
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Guess I grew up with old-school C. Looking at the question with example code made me think: "Am I missing something? Looks like pretty ordinary C to me. Why wouldn't it compile?"
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Anybody know if you'll be able to install OSX on it? ... :-)
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Isn't the whole point of a patent so that you do say how you did it and what you used? Otherwise it would be a trade secret?
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
I think my jaw dropped the first time I came across videos of RC gliders doing 400+ mph. No motor. 400 mph. Here's one clocked at 399. Others on YouTube show over 450 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oix6sHKzOLU
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
Well we've diverged a bit from the thread, but I'll make a final comment. I'm not aware of any apples to apples comparisons between Linux/Dalvik and the equivalent under a WIN CE combo. So the above is my opinion based on years of painful e
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
I was referring to Linux's superior network stack, memory management, multi-core CPU handling, etc. The user-experience of Dalvik on a Linux kernel would be superior to a Dalvik instance running on a WIN CE kernel.
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by jbuzbee 14y ago
And that's the great thing about Linux. Companies can optimize for their use and then bring their changes back into the mainline where everyone can benefit: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/android-and-linux-re-m...

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