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by ktsmith 14y ago
I've not seen Windows 7 perform well on anything with less than about 2GB of RAM. I certainly don't doubt that district configuration has compounded what are mostly hardware issues. The point was more about what type of hardware some organi
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by ktsmith 14y ago
1.6GHz AMD cpu with 1GB RAM with a 5400RPM 40GB HDD. It's really pathetic.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Hard to say, the last time I was there it was about half of the time to get to the login prompt and the other half to get to the desktop.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
My wifes school district just moved everyone to Windows 7. It takes 20 minutes for her computer to start in the morning and about five minutes to shut down in the evening. The computer just barely meets the minimum specifications of Windows
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Does Chrome Frame pose the same issue?
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Care to provide the source for the $0.13/hr? Inmates are paid as little as $1/hr and as much as minimum wage with the lowest hourly rate going to the inmate firefighters due to how the budget is set by the forestry service. The last time I
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by ktsmith 14y ago
You might want to actually know what you are talking about before commenting. Inmates earn an hourly wage (not great), training on how to do the work, etc. The money they earn gets split up in a few different ways such as going to restituti
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by ktsmith 14y ago
The downside to using anything from places like wrapbootstrap are that the majority of what's available doesn't use LESS. It significantly reduces the value of these themes/snippets to me.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I got my last mattress from Silver State Industries (nevada prison manufacturing) for under $500 (Cal King). It is more comfortable than the Serta that I had originally spent around $1,500 on.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I feel the opposite and don't particularly care for it. The page is basically content free has some content that is difficult to read and contains seizure inducing animation.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Wow, that's an even better example.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
This team page reminds me of geocities from the late 90s. https://www.scrollkit.com/s/iaJos01
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I won't be buying a new kindle in large part due to how disappointed I was with the first Fire. The ads are the final nail in the coffin though. While I've read a number of people writing positive things about the ads (coupons for amazon mp
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I don't see how this integration is a selling point, the price and the kindle branding seem to be it's biggest selling points. Everyone knows that kindle is synonymous with books at this point. You can certainly use other services like Netf
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by ktsmith 14y ago
It's Android so of course you can side load apps. However it's a fork of Android and so it's not eligible to get access to Google's app ecosystem. This is a decision that Amazon made intentionally and knowing full well it would limit their
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by ktsmith 14y ago
It can only install apps from the Amazon marketplace which is significantly smaller than the play marketplace.
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All new Kindle Fire models will show Amazon's Special Offers lock screen ads(theverge.com)
5 points by ktsmith 14y ago|3 comments
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I would guess that Amazon profit shares with AT&T for sales done/delivered over LTE.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I seriously doubt most vendors care to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon makes all of their money from locking you into their services and platforms. That's not something other tablet vendors can do. Apple doesn't need to compete on pric
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by ktsmith 14y ago
> - That one-time setup fee is a lot of cash. I could come up with it but, again, why is this thing so much better than what I already have? If you are getting the free tier you can pay the one time fee in monthly installments of $25. O
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by ktsmith 14y ago
The same error exists in the hosts section.
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Would you give the government remote control over your router?(arstechnica.com)
11 points by ktsmith 14y ago|1 comments
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I was surprised to see 9GAG in there as well but the reality is it's probably going to make a good amount of money. It's a magnification of all the worst parts of reddit which are also extremely popular.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Edited: I didn't realize at first this is just pickem and doesn't really compete with the bigger fantasy leagues. I completely agree that there needs to be more information on the front page. What do the kick ass tools look like, why is thi
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by ktsmith 14y ago
1-2 months is still nothing compared to other skilled professions.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Our industry needs a lot more of this. Many industries expect that new hires are in apprenticeship mode and will be learning on the job. In our industry people are expected to walk in and know exactly what and how to do things.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I'll second this, we put together a system that did this around 2008 and while it worked out well initially within less than a year it became a loss for our company. We couldn't charge much for the data as even with large amounts of filters
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by ktsmith 14y ago
It's also linked from the front page of Reddit via the official blog.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
Nokia was at the forefront of this mess.
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by ktsmith 14y ago
I think they talked themselves up plenty, I don't think they made very good use of kickstarter. It is possible PA would have had significantly more success if they had put up each of their project stretch goals as individual campaigns. I wo

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