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by jlgreco 13y ago
In other words, it solves the problem that they are trying to solve well, and does not solve problems that they are not trying to solve?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
My guess: dirt. With as few moving parts as they typically have, console controllers already experience durability issues for less... hygienic, players. With trackballs that issue is compounded, even if you make them easily removable so yo
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by jlgreco 13y ago
"So the argument "Oh Apple and Microsoft are just gonna profit off EME" is moot, they're gonna pull their vendor-lock in and non-standard web fraud anyway, but now they get to say "waaaat? we're not evil! see,
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't they have another browser around for dealing with the rest of the world though? It's not like many modern sites are going to render correctly on IE6 these days...
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by jlgreco 13y ago
My understanding is that bike theft is so prevalent not because it is uniquely profitable, but rather because it is uniquely safe and undercharged. (it is rarely investigated/prosecuted, and even when you do get caught you aren'
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You can't please everybody (particularly when you are having a laugh at somebody's expense.)
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by jlgreco 13y ago
No, I think people understand that. They just don't care, and find it amusing that other people do care/must care. Consider it an "anti-'people who take licensing seriously' license" .
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Something being regulated does not mean that it can't be used industrially. Many types of explosives are regulated even though they are used industrially every day in quarries and mines. Still, restricting thermite would be silly and
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Poe's Law; it's impossible to tell. There are presumably some companies who think that using XML for everything is appropriate, so it stands to reason that there actually are people who believe that as well.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Really? I have a lot of complaints about ChromeOS (I have a chromebook, and nuked ChromeOS off of it), but that isn't one of them. Gigabit connections may be rare in the US, but some form of broadband is typically ubiquitous. You ha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
If AMD can get their ass in gear to make a driver suitable for Sony, why can't they get their ass in gear to make a driver suitable for Valve? The reason fglrx is shit right now is because they really don't have any good reason t
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by jlgreco 13y ago
From the sound of it: any. The initial run has Nvidia, Valve has been working with Intel on their graphics drivers, and are going with AMD for some sort of run of Steam Boxes next year? Sounds like any. I don't see how that is too su
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it would be ideal , I am saying that I could cope. Certainly fear of this sort of future would not put me off campaigning for slowing the erosion of privacy, as it seems to for jamesaguilar.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Don't worry about me jamesaguilar, I'm good at coping. I really can't say that I am bothered at the notion of somebody owning the information about themselves. If I write a story, I own that currently and other people cann
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> It would be really awkward not to be able to talk about your friends (online or otherwise) without their explicit permission. Would this concept of ownership of information be particularly stronger than our existing concept of owne
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Honestly, I think I could cope. That sounds easily preferable to the path we are on today. However it is certain that putting the brakes on the rampant disregard for privacy does not have to result in such a pleasant extreme. "Ban
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "I don't think it is in society's best interest to think of information about a person as being generally owned by them." What is the worse case scenario of people start widely adopting that notion? It becomes ha
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Exactly. "It's like a fucking spacepen" is a phrase I've heard more than once in my career.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Video of the soft-landing engines: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2X2kaqYatI
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In PC-space, you have pre-teens managing to run minecraft servers for their friends. My cousin has one; I distinctly remember helping him install batteries into a new toy 3 or 4 years ago during Christmas. Is this somehow a console-exclu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Doesn't Microsoft also make you pay for xbox live just so that you can connect to Netflix's servers (who you are also paying) over your home internet connection (which you are also paying for)?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Ziploc baggies? That is PR amatuer hour. You've got to talk about making the plastic that premature baby incubators are made out of. Remember, it can't just be for kids, it has to be saving kids.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This is believable. It certainly mirrors my experience of the worst thing about being friends with people who work at Microsoft: the constant sense of insecurity and desire to be be trusted. I've been told countless times in the past
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Thanks! I've run down my battery a few times while not suspended (just me being neglectful with plugging in) and haven't run into this issue. Is this just because the hardware kills power to the processor before the battery actu
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by jlgreco 13y ago
From what I understand, it is the common explanation of unpaid internships in particular industries, particularly fashion and Hollywood. I've often heard that working in these unpaid internships is seen as "paying your dues"
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by jlgreco 13y ago
People joke a lot about American internships, but it seems the reality of internships in America depends heavily on major. I had three very relevant and very well paying internships as a CS student (working as an intern on the west coas
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by jlgreco 13y ago
This conversation aside, I hope you understand that you never shoot somebody without the intention of killing them. Never . There is no such thing as shooting somebody with nonlethal intentions, or as any sort of "warning". Bac
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by jlgreco 13y ago
(Assuming you are familiar with this climate) Would you say that Seattle is out?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Remove every fry and all you are left with is an empty carton.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Presumably if Steve really does think that Dan is bluffing, then Dan can show Steve the data he has. Should Steve, knowing that Dan really is in possession of the data he claims, take the chance that Dan has no interest in actually giving

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