mooism2

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1. 871.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   The claim that 25% of monitors are CRTs is at least five years old (read: at least five years out of date).
2. 872.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Or you can put it in your PROMPT (don't forget to surround it with \[...\], as they're non-printing characters).
3. 873.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Please, just because Slashdot uses a biased headline, we don't have to copy that biased headline here. Should be “Leaked Memo Says RIM, Nokia, Apple, Etc Provide Backdoors To Governments”.
4. 874.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Google is trying to replace HTTP with SPDY. HTML 5 is arguably a disruption of HTML (more WHAT-WG -v- W3C, perhaps). Phone/tablet apps are disrupting the web.
5. 875.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Amazon kinda sorta does this (Amazon Prime).
6. 876.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Yeah, I read it before you changed the title. I agree that EC2 isn't value for money if you're looking to rent a server for a month at a time.
7. 877.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   EC2 is a scam? Are you accusing Amazon of fraud?
8. 878.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   Flagged for a linkbait title that isn't supported by the body of the article. EDIT: Title has been changed to something more reasonable, so I've removed my flag.
9. 879.▲
   by mooism2 15y ago

   From November, so when it says "early next year" (w.r.t. Firefox implementing SPDY) it means "early this year".
10. 880.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    What can this unique identifier give authors that the url of their home page for their book does not? All I can think of is that urls do not have check digits, whereas ISBNs and presumably your unique identifiers do, so typos can be caught
11. 881.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    The possibility that earlier-to-report areas are not representative of Iowa as a whole should be examined properly, rather than mentioned and then discarded in favour of generating a pretty graph.
12. 882.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    It has to do with the atheism community on Reddit. Even if, for sake of argument, the atheism community on Reddit is composed mostly of Vatican-sponsored trolls... it would still be a problem for atheists, because it would be giving atheist
13. 883.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    If they were only giving the CDs to purchasers of laptops that came with Windows preinstalled but without Windows install/recovery CDs, then morally I don't see the problem. Legally... I hope they checked with their lawyers.
14. 884.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    Those text fields need labels. How's anyone supposed to know what to enter, or in what order? (Edit: the field labels are there as placeholder values, which my (older) browser doesn't show.) And a deeper issue: what if my laptop remembers t
15. 885.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    The dip this xmas looked bigger to me. shrug
16. 886.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    Some of the drop-off in use is due to Christmas, possibly all of it. The reduced use only started two weeks ago, but is more marked than the previous year. We won't know for sure for another week or two.
17. 887.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    For comparison, last year's big earthquake was magnitude 9.0, but I don't know the relative locations...
18. 888.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    Could you post this as a reply to whatever offended you please, instead of passive-aggressively posting it at the whole of HN. And please don't presume to speak on my behalf.
19. 889.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    Reddit's still there when I visit it. Is your dns fubared?
20. 890.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    I don't know of any other way for a site to get banned other than PG banning it manually. It might be helpful if we could find out what, if any, links to winsupersite were flagged to death (i.e. not autokilled).
21. 891.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    I think it means too many links to that site have been flagged to death in the past.
22. 892.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    As the Wikipedia page linked to by the article points out, "over long periods of time a calendar based on the sidereal year will drift out of sync with the seasons at the rate of about one day every 72 years." Even more annoyingly for fans
23. 893.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    The phases of the moon are about 29½ days long. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon and see the synodic period (quoted to a tenth of a second even though full moon to full moon can vary by about ¼ day either way).)
24. 894.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    I prefer late twenties London.
25. 895.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    OK, it breaks the assumption that quarters are a whole number of months. 12 is a handy number of months to have in the year. 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. Not by 5, but you can't have everything (unless we had 60 months of 6 or 7 days
26. 896.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    The modern calendar is nearly 430 years old, but I agree with your broader point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
27. 897.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    This breaks quarterly cycles.
28. 898.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    With things like vacuum cleaners, it depends how big your home is. I wouldn't buy a vacuum cleaner for upstairs: there'd be nowhere to put it.
29. 899.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    It's Christmas.
30. 900.▲
    by mooism2 15y ago

    Also worth highlighting (and boycotting) Microsoft, Dell, and Intel.