metatronscube

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by metatronscube 14y ago
Yeah that was my initial reaction as well, I just don't see it happening at all. I mean, we have to be serious here, they are going to put a Rover or something on Mars for $80 Million?!.......Nah. I'm not saying that's they wont EVER, but t
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Well, considering my recent dealing with doctors and surgeons on this very subject of retina surgery...yes. I had torn retinas and the surgeon (who was very intelligent, and super nice) said that he is nothing more than a 'mechanic' since a
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by metatronscube 14y ago
This is wonderful, I'm excited we are entering an age where its now becoming normal to use technology to augment or repair the human body. Rather than our old approach of letting medical science bodge a repair or remove faulty body parts, w
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by metatronscube 14y ago
OSX BSD (or XNU based) is my operating system of choice. I used Suns and OSX during university and never been able to get into Linux.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Sounds fair. Samsung's 'designs' are total ripoffs of the iPhone anyway.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Was the C-130 Gunship on standby circling overhead or something? Why were so many 'assets' thrown into a raid? Who sanctioned this? I would be looking for resignations and full hearing/inquiries into total miss allocation of resources.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
The simple fact is that before the iphone, many 'smart' phones were complicated horrible devices (badly designed from a hardware point of view) with very poor UI/UX. Then after the iphone they were all like the iphone in some way or another
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Spreading like a cancer I see.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Looks like some solid improvements, especially for the price they are charging. I hope they keep pushing though, I feel it could be a little quicker (especially on my older macs) and I feel compared to Snow Leopard it is noticeably slower (
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Spot on I'm my opinion. I have both, and the nexus is great but I prefer the iPad in so many ways. The price point for the nexus is the thing that initially made me buy, and if it wasn't for the price I would never have gotten an android de
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I think this is inevitable, when the body has a limit, people will look for ways to push those limits. Augmenting and enhancing the human body has to be considered and may end up being beneficial for other purposes. I prefer bionic myself ;
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Your most probably on one anyway for other reasons, and its not like you are going on a list of people who want to subvert the Government and carry out terrorist suicide missions, you are just donating to a cause that you find worthwhile (t
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I'm a network Engineer and even I have to work hard to remember the last time I used an Ethernet port. Configuring routers and switches and testing scenarios are mostly done remotely via labs (although I do configure and test locally a lot
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Oh well, if you don't like it buy something else, but to be perfectly honest, 90% of folk out there will not be bothered with this at all. They are probably buying the laptop for its portability, price point and performance and like every a
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I think that these craft are one of mans greatest achievements, so I don't mind hearing this over and over again :). The thought that no matter what, these craft will outlive the human race and continue hurtling through deep space for eons,
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Well its creaking at the seams right now, I think given the progression of web technologies (even if they begin to use more hardware acceleration) it is going to become much slower over time as more intensive tasks are offloaded to the Hard
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I wish I got the new ipad that's for sure. The first generation ipad beats the pants off my Acer chromebook and its got even worse with the new shiny UI. And remember $300 over here (sunny Britain) is more like 300 quid, which is more like
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Exactly, I get to 10 tabs and it grinds to a halt. That's 10 sites with nothing more than text and a few images (hardly 5 plugins)....its seriously underpowered as is and with the new UI update its as slow as a dog on the Acer.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Yeah I used my Acer AC700 Chromebook for the same sort of things (research and keeping in touch) and I found it ground to a halt when I had more than 10 tabs open. The most recent UI update has rendered the thing useless for more than a few
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by metatronscube 14y ago
If you mean social position/power as well as being state sanctioned and run then yes, the mighty BBC is more authoritative but if you are looking for the accurate up to date unbiased details then I would choose the Guardian any day. Thanks
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Half of your points here are completely crap, and the other half are just outdated or inaccurate. I think you need to take the blinders off your eyes are wake up. Its a fact that China has lifted about 400 million of its own people out of p
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by metatronscube 14y ago
What do you mean? In terms of population? Europe is around 700 million and the US is what 400 million at the most and China is even larger. So given the population trails behind China and Europe, human rights in the US don't look that rosy
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by metatronscube 14y ago
The browser wars appear to be heating up again. Its happened before and will no doubt happen again. I think this will be a bad thing because I could see each browser becoming a weapon to control privacy and the Internet in the way they see
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Watching this from Scotland live over the Internet. Feeling quite excited at the prospect of private enterprise supplying the International space station and hopefully kick starting something.
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I hope in a way this bubble would burst, I'm getting thoroughly sick of all this web2.0 bullshit. Its nothing but social networks and photo/something sharing sites. Nothing really happening and we need smart Engineers and developers getting
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by metatronscube 14y ago
Erm...No :) Well ok, I get what you are saying, but a machine intelligence would faithfully and honestly apply these perfect values every time without bias. When have you ever known a flesh and blood Government to do so?
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by metatronscube 14y ago
I think its worth exploring this concept. I wouldn't mind living under an AI controlled meritocracy ;). I don't care if an AI or a person is running a city as long as they are good at their job and they make sensible balanced decisions that
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by metatronscube 15y ago
For the Dune reference! :)
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by metatronscube 15y ago
This is great an everything, but I think Google really needs to concentrate on many of their half baked solutions they currently have. I am a huge fan of Google, but with their whole social drive recently and this (their take on augmented r
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by metatronscube 15y ago
I like to consider the total cost of ownership when purchasing a piece of hardware, which is hard to quantify and sometimes a touchy and subjective topic but I have found Apple Computers/Laptops to substantially outlast anything from Dell o

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