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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
AKG K701s are not difficult to drive - 64 ohm is not that much - but they leak sound so bad, I don't think I'd ever recommend anyone using those in an office (unless you want to hear everything around you or listen to music at deafening vol
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
While I agree on all of the other points, they are most definitely not extremely comfortable. Especially if you have a larger head, you'll feel like your skull is in a clamp quite fast. Other than that (and the headband cracking) those are
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
I cannot say anything about the sleeping patterns but are you sure that those creative bursts aren't happening just because it is quiet, no distractions, etc.?
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
I think he meant how easy it is now for China to install key loggers on, say, American computers.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Doesn't Palantir already do that?
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Javari (javari.co.uk) is another shoe store owned by Amazon and they do ship internationally (free within EU and Ireland)
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
You don't necessarily need a Windows Live account, it works with Google accounts just as well.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Not debating the other points but Apple doesn't restrict you to non-commercial use, they only disclaim any liability for commercial damages. Otherwise we'd all be pirates.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Ostensibly, they are looking at keystrokes to see if a particular key sequence is pressed while talking to customer support, thus indicating that it should send the diagnostics data to the operator. Ostensibly.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Considering it's Google and we're talking about almost the whole population of the Earth, the vanishingly small percentage of the entire population of the planet would still be at least hundreds of thousands of people.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I like Gladwell and his writing but the usual criticism is that he cherrypicks useful facts and disregards conflicting ones so that he can build up his case. If you try to refute him point by point, you can't because eve
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Ive is an extraordinarily well compensated industrial designer creating the most coveted products in the world and apparently there is no one in Apple who can boss him around. I doubt he has much need or desire to become CEO.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
He is almost true in the pragmatic sense that a lot of the OS is open sourced and it certainly lends itself well to running and developing open source. Of course it isn't open in the Stallman sense of "if you don't melt the ore yourself, it
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
http://apple.com/trailers/
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
From the article: "The ultimate irony of this attack is that the owner of mysql.com is Oracle Corp., which also owns Java, a software suite that I have often advised readers to avoid due to its numerous security and update problems." Seriou
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
This isn't reddit, son.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Non-English speaking Europe generally has the civil law system as opposed to common law and doesn't use precedents except in the most ambiguous cases where precedent can be used as guidance for interpreting the law. Precedent alone cannot b
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
Apple employees can still donate anonymously but this program lets them double the donation at the cost of anonymity.
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
It would actually be amazing if he gave some of the money to the Gates foundation - as a way of showing that there are things that transcend competition and that all in all they would all just like to make the world better. (Also, let's fac
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by pilsetnieks 15y ago
There is a difference between simple and easy.