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by lutze 14y ago
It's even freer to leave the programmer here and not have to export at all.... There's no way a guy on Mars could compete on costs. I think you're also underestimating how much of a premium bandwidth will be too.
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by lutze 14y ago
This is a pretty big assumption, why would it be a prime export? What makes Mars so great for producing software that would cover the added expense of firing a programmer all the way there in a rocket?
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by lutze 14y ago
In the context of the question being asked, I think a little indignation is entirely in order. Has Woz ever shown any expertise in design? I mean really, it's like asking if Michelangelo knew his way around a fucking paint brush.
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by lutze 14y ago
Are you fucking kidding? Woz CREATED Apple... Job's single defining contribution to the Apple I was "hey we should sell this!", he did literally NOTHING else.
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by lutze 14y ago
Hell, even Master of Magic had this on its spellbook. I fail to see how this is in any way a unique feature warranting a patent, what a fucking joke.
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by lutze 14y ago
You're missing the point. This article is about BRITONS, i.e. the inhabitants of the British Isles. It's not using Romans as representatives of what PEOPLE did back then, it's using Romans as representatives of what BRITONS did back then. H
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by lutze 14y ago
Calm down there Hulkomania, this article is very clearly written from the perspective of the British Isles, and the Romans were kinda a big deal there. Before you start implying people are trying to "seem clever", maybe check that your indi
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by lutze 14y ago
I'm British, and I actually feel quite the opposite. Apple sought to use UK courts to their own ends, and then threw a bitch fit when the ruling didn't go their way. The judge is absolutely right to slap them down. You shouldn't get to pick
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by lutze 14y ago
It means there's a chance you're no longer the most boring person you know.
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by lutze 14y ago
It's a spirit of the law issue, again. Judges aren't friggin robots. You don't get to fuck around and have them go "BEEP BOOP WELL TECHNICALLY NOT A VIOLATION BEEP BOOP". The whole point of a judge is to, well, use his/her judgement. If thi
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by lutze 14y ago
Programming isn't all there is to software development though. Be honest now, in how many of all the colossal fuck ups in development there have been, do you think the CODING was the problem?
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by lutze 14y ago
They're not testing those guys though.
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by lutze 14y ago
They should test starving African war orphans to see if meditation helps with their happiness too, or if it's only rich entitled assholes who really really don't know what the fuck unhappiness is if the best they can come up with is being "
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by lutze 14y ago
Well, now I do feel like a cunt. Past my bedtime, so didn't connect this with that wee bit of weather the East coast USA experienced recently. Sincerely hope lugging diesel remains the least of their worries.
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by lutze 14y ago
Makes sense actually, probably in case of flooding. Doesn't make that pump any less sensible though!
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by lutze 14y ago
"The superhuman folks at the data center are hauling 55 gallon drums of diesel fuel up 17 flights of stairs." I can't for the life of me think why someone would put a backup generator 17 floors up, these guys don't know you can buy mains ca
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by lutze 14y ago
Really? I learned the exact opposite from Indiana Jones!
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by lutze 14y ago
One Direction's Christmas single? Sorry, couldn't resist...
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by lutze 14y ago
You can be ruthless AND classy, they're not mutually exclusive. They were ordered to give an apology, and instead forwarded a conceited, weasley worded temper tantrum. There's nothing ruthless about that, it's something toddlers do every da
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by lutze 14y ago
Well, Unix would do it. Honestly never heard of these though, thanks.
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by lutze 14y ago
Heh. Cyberpunk has always been about the future... It's just that we caught up.
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by lutze 14y ago
Nice little shoutout to the Amiga there, and why it was such a groundbreaking machine! Nothing else a home user could buy could do pre-emptive multitasking in 1985... Or even 1995 AFAIK.
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by lutze 14y ago
You make a completely unfounded generalization and then ask ME for citations? You first bub. Edit: and frankly, I don't see how you're refuting my point that being intelligent and educated doesn't necessarily make you a domain expert in fie
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by lutze 14y ago
I recently had an intelligent, highly educated, highly paid woman tell me that "Macs are immune to viruses". Education and money don't necessarily translate to domain expertise in everything. I don't have to tell you that Macs aren't immune
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by lutze 14y ago
I can barely type a short email on my phone without wanting to punch someone, I can only imagine what writing anything more than "LOL HASHTAG IM A JURNALIST" on a tablet would be like. My desktop isn't going anywhere just yet!
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by lutze 14y ago
Schismatrix is 27 years... Honestly, that's still pretty new in sci-fi terms. The genre is older than most people think! Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything more recent that describes such structures as evocatively as those no
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by lutze 14y ago
Depends what you mean by contemporary? The Culture is very optimistic, and features engineering on a scale that makes these concepts look like iron age coracles. A personal favourite of mine is Schismatrix though. It's set almost entirely i
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by lutze 14y ago
You think someone hasn't done this already?
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by lutze 14y ago
Since everyone is talking about power transmission like a bunch of boring old farts, I'll just leave this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6AAhTw7RA
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by lutze 14y ago
No, I implied causation between working for a Murdoch owned media outlet and writing a column furthering a specific political agenda. The lying part is incidental really.

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