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by peckrob 12y ago
It's been awhile so I don't remember the full specifics, but it was bundled with a specially configured version of Internet Explorer in a mode much like kiosk mode, but even more locked down. No right click menu, navigation, etc.
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by peckrob 12y ago
Wow. That's a blast from the past. NetObjects Fusion had some interesting features and ideas. My first non-intern job was with a company that did e-Learning materials. Our products were basically self-contained websites, with video con
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by peckrob 12y ago
> Aside from the beautiful beaches the thing that struck me most was the desperate poverty of people living in shacks outside the 5 star resorts. This is, unfortunately, not a problem unique to Cuba. I had this very same reaction when my
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by peckrob 12y ago
Any details about the setup? I live in a suburb of a mid-sized city, but I can be in pretty dark skies in an hour or so. This seems like something that would be really neat to get into.
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by peckrob 12y ago
Yeah, this place is a lot like that. Movie Theater (actually the nicest theater in town) with a sushi bar in it, H&M, Barnes and Noble, etc. We're too small for an IKEA (the closest one's in Atlanta).
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by peckrob 12y ago
Imagine an indoor mini-golf course, but under black lights. With everything glowing strange neon colors. One section of it is in a different room, with no lights except a flashing strobe.
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by peckrob 12y ago
Meh. Around here, at least, (Huntsville, Alabama) they're just making newer and different malls. They're still malls though. When I first moved here in 2005, the bigger of the two malls in town (Madison Square Mall) had just recei
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by peckrob 12y ago
Another "need to know the name" one is Knoxville, Tennessee. The airport code is TYS. Which is a head-scratcher unless you know the airport's name is McGhee Tyson Airport. Nashville is another one. BNA. The original name of t
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by peckrob 12y ago
Another vote here for Hardcore History. Hands down one of the best podcasts out there right now. They're long - they're really more like audio books at this point - but just perfect for long car trips. Even if you don't think
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by peckrob 12y ago
> I was never able to try USAA despite hearing great things because no one I know was in the military. You don't have to know someone who is in the military; you either have to be in the military or be directly related to someone wh
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by peckrob 12y ago
You might want to have a look at this site in Firefox. I'm on Firefox 32 on Mac and the videos are grainy and blocky (like trying to watch satellite TV during a rain storm or a badly compressed JPEG). It's so bad I'm having a
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by peckrob 12y ago
Yeah, they're really closer to an audio book series than a podcast at this point, but perfect for long road trips.
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by peckrob 12y ago
The Roman Kingdom/Republic/Empire is a really fascinating period of ancient history. What's really mindblowing is when you realize that the Eastern (Byzantine) Empire didn't fall until 1453. If you're looking for in
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by peckrob 12y ago
> I can't tolerate the hit in the quality of life that moving to Mountain View would require. Exactly. I live in Huntsville, Alabama, and I live very, very well here. A 50+% pay raise to move to SF or SV looks nice until you really
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by peckrob 12y ago
I highly recommend "Archaeology, Anthropology, and Interstellar Communication." I'm currently most of the way through this; it's dense, but very fascinating. http://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/a
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by peckrob 12y ago
When I was a student at Auburn, we had one of these. It was right in the middle of campus, along the most heavily trafficked path through central campus. There was a sign designating it a "first amendment area." But I think it onl
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by peckrob 12y ago
Pretty much any Exchange shop that's standardized on Microsoft's tools. There are a lot of them out there.
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by peckrob 12y ago
That was poorly phrased. Let me see if I can do better. Simply being out late is not sufficient reason to be stopped or questioned for most people. It gives them a reason to stop and question people who are out late and may be up to no good
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by peckrob 12y ago
As others have said, they only apply to minors (under 18) and are usually restricted to certain hours and days. And they can vary depending on the cities, counties and states. It can be a kinda confusing mishmash of laws for those who live
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by peckrob 12y ago
Same here. I'm running 10.9.3 on a 2012 Retina MBP, a 2013 Macbook Air, a 2011 iMac, and a few others with no problems. In fact, it seems to have finally fixed the sleep wake failures I was occasionally having on the Macbook Air since
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by peckrob 13y ago
Not sure I agree with a legal approach, but I understand the frustration. I have an AppleTV, a Roku, and a PS3 (in addition to a cable box). I'm running out of HDMI ports. I don't mind subscribing to services, but I'm not buy
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by peckrob 13y ago
All five of us would go to lunch together most days, often in the same car. We don't much anymore, but that's more due to our size now. When a team reaches a certain point, getting the whole team together to eat is difficult witho
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by peckrob 13y ago
I work in a small team of developers (there's about 15 of us). It's been an "unofficial policy" at our company for years that no more than two developers can be on any single flight. Back when we were smaller still (it w
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by peckrob 13y ago
There's also a Y-12 on display in front of the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. It's actually the one pictured in the story (second image down). Unfortunately, it's in kinda rough shape right now. It's
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by peckrob 13y ago
Pilot here. The aviator community loves pretty much anything that flies and won't get us killed doing it. :) The role you're describing is currently filled - very well, I might add, by the A-10. It can fly low and slow (has a stal
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by peckrob 13y ago
So many memories on this list. Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.11, dialing into a small mom and pop ISP in my town in Tennessee (I think they were pretty much all mom and pops back then). Then fire up Netscape and surf as well as you could at
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by peckrob 13y ago
The answer is, it's complex. It really depends heavily on where you are - and streets matter. But many people only have one or maybe two choices for wired, broadband Internet: DSL or Cable. I live in a suburb of a medium sized city. At
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by peckrob 13y ago
Southwest is not really a "budget" carrier anymore. They may have started out that way in the 70s when the level of service on traditional mainline carriers was much higher than it is now, but since then, most other carriers have
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by peckrob 13y ago
.io is the CCTLD for the British Indian Ocean Territory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
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by peckrob 13y ago
Awesome, that's the same one that was released as GM a few days ago (the second GM seed). The first GM seed was 13A598.

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