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by kokey 14y ago
It's fun to follow the rip off phone market from China, where all that phones look fairly decent on features, but in reality they are often so bad they are impossible to use. One iPhone knock off I bought for fun, had a radio tuner, and du
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by kokey 14y ago
I think there has been a general recognition that rebuilding local supply chain in manufacturing is essential. Especially in the industries where this is still possible. Cheap labour only helps if two years of labour is cheaper than a mach
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by kokey 14y ago
That's not a problem, if you drive on it at 2am.
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by kokey 14y ago
People who thought the IPO was 100% overpriced.
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by kokey 14y ago
In the 80s and 90s, the community toying with systems including gaining access to it referred to themselves as hackers. Those who broke ciphers and copyright protection were crackers, and those who hacked voice telecommunications systems w
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by kokey 14y ago
Reminds me when I was at a car factory that manufactured Ford, Mazda and Mitsubishi cars for Africa. They had a model of a car from a different manufacturer at their office. I won't forget the sight of all the doors and hood being open wh
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by kokey 14y ago
It would have been nice if Hollywood supplied them with a better camera. That said, the footage looks fine for an anti piracy ad, on VHS.
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by kokey 14y ago
I thought they would just use the martian IPv4 ranges.
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by kokey 14y ago
I remember an HP tape array running VxWorks crashing when a copy of Nessus would scan it. There was no patch for the issue at that stage. This was a tape array backing up some infrastructure that would handle the transactions of a big chu
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Media frenzies are no basis for sound laws(johnkay.com)
2 points by kokey 14y ago|0 comments
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by kokey 14y ago
John Kay's piece today about the same issue is quite pertinent: http://www.johnkay.com/2012/08/01/8684 He's looking at how a media frenzy affects perception and laws disproportionally.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think the next big product or two (iPhone 5, or the 'other thing' that is possibly a TV) is what will prove whether Apple will stay strongly in the running or fade away as quickly as it did when Jobs was pushed out of the company. I pers
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by kokey 14y ago
In the big multi national corporations that I am involved with, there has been a dramatic shift away from desktops running Windows, to thin clients running Linux that connect to Windows virtual machines. The servers these virtual machines
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by kokey 14y ago
I think it's highly dependent on the type of person, or family. For example I have had to help many people track down their documents which are somewhere in a download or documents folder. I, personally, am not the kind of person who sort
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by kokey 14y ago
I have a love-hate relationship with London. It's crowded, dirty, unfriendly, expensive, the weather is bad (like the rest of the UK) and the taxes are high (unless you are from NW Europe). That said, I keep coming back here. It's the be
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by kokey 14y ago
It's very true what you are saying about non-western oil and gas. People forget that the biggest oil spill ever was caused by a totalitarian government on purpose and not by a multinational oil corporation by accident. In the west, corpora
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Raspberry Pi launched by balloon broadcasts images from 40km high(raspberrypi.org)
68 points by kokey 14y ago|4 comments
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by kokey 14y ago
I always like to use the example of the clothes washing machine to people. Why do you use one, instead of hand washing the clothes yourself, or pay someone else to hand wash it for you? Do you rather want to spend the time on something el
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by kokey 14y ago
Good luck. Welcome to being a visa requiring foreigner ;-) I have no idea about the Danish system, hopefully it's easier than in the UK. In the UK an employer needs to apply for a sponsorship license first, then they can sponsor you, it c
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by kokey 14y ago
I've moved around a lot, and in between countries too. Making friends when you are older gets harder, and if there is a culture difference it gets even harder. That said, I've also gotten better at it over the years. You see this sort of
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by kokey 14y ago
Someone is going to buy a lot of drugs.
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by kokey 14y ago
I think age is probably the most important. Second to that, I suspect a higher portion of the data set being on the Democrat side. Both factors are so strong that they have old sayings about both.
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by kokey 14y ago
Judging from the responses to your comment, it seems to have struck a lot of religious nerves here.
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by kokey 14y ago
After the initial bubble , it now seems fairly stable and growing slowly at a rate that resembles what one would expect from an inflation hedge. It would be nice if it was able to avoid another bubble, but I think it will still happen. As
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by kokey 14y ago
I suppose you don't live in a dense city with a lot of indoors and underground infrastructure. In some places you easily spend half a mile indoors between underground train platforms or to the exit on the surface, or in walkways inside and
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by kokey 14y ago
The problem with them all moving down is that it affects the value of your savings. At the same time the fact that they are all moving down is supposed to make investing them in things that creates or retains value more attractive.
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by kokey 14y ago
Having to fake an exchange rate sounds like the economic conditions in badly run countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Russia, etc. What I am wondering is, with a depressed economy like that in Argentina, what is crime and personal safety lik
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by kokey 14y ago
It's possible to call Paypal and talk to them?
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by kokey 14y ago
Apart from the fairly wonderful applications in computing, it will be interesting to see what it does for the enhancement of synthetic diamond technology. I am not going to invest my pension in De Beers, unless they're going large in the s
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by kokey 14y ago
I've noticed that using bzip, cranked up to it's max level, is really effective for compressing dynamic HTML. I've managed to achieve what I suspect is comparable to Railgun by simply having this compression applied on a multiplexed TCP tu

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