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by podperson 13y ago
Everyone drives a little illegally ;-)
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by podperson 13y ago
There's quite a bit of discussion about the driving cultures of the US vs. Germany. In particular, Germans appear to think that you should pay attention when driving. The US attitude to driving is best exemplified by the fact that most
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by podperson 13y ago
You ever see the first episode of Homicide: Life on the Streets (great show, and largely based on actual incidents, at least for the first two seasons) where a guy confesses he accidentally shot some guy, but it's OK because he meant t
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by podperson 13y ago
Actually the thing that's infuriating about Netflix and many of its competitors is the weak or no support for deep linking to content. We don't need channels to curate content if bloggers, etc. can do it themselves.
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by podperson 13y ago
Interesting, I did not know that. (I guess I don't obsess enough over it!) It's still very unconvincing (it didn't just "touch" a bone). There is far more weirdness in the case and there's plenty of collateral
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by podperson 13y ago
Channel-like functions?! Please no. The only thing stopping anyone from streaming live sports is licensing.
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by podperson 13y ago
It's not that there's no conspiracy, it's that there are too many credible, and not even mutually exclusive, options (some with strong supporting evidence) to pick from. My three favorite isolated pieces of evidence: (a) the
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by podperson 13y ago
If you think the 8" screen is big enough then sure. But I happen to like the larger display. Could Apple charge more for the iPad Mini based on some kind of "smallness premium"? Well, in general 7" tablets are selling fo
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by podperson 13y ago
The iPad Air is insanely light, which might change the equation. Based on weight, I might pick the Mini over the old full-sized iPad despite preferring a larger display. Now, all bets are off.
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by podperson 13y ago
It's easy, Apple's "mini" products don't have a display, keyboard, or mouse... oh wait.
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by podperson 13y ago
The iPad 3 is probably expensive to make.
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by podperson 13y ago
Wow you're good at missing the point. We (Americans) are "leeching" off everyone else, and they're leeching off us. Who invented gunpowder, the crossbow, stirrups, the printing press, noodles? The Chinese. Who invented r
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by podperson 13y ago
Fair question :-)
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by podperson 13y ago
This seems to me like borderline racist generalization. I'm sure there are plenty of people getting away with vehicular homicide one way or another, and to single out a case (or several) where the perpetrator happens to be an illegal i
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by podperson 13y ago
The "prime directive" is completely nonsensical. (And in fact it doesn't seem to stop Star Fleet from messing with more primitive species, it simply causes them problems when they want to do something completely reasonable, l
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by podperson 13y ago
> ad-hoc bullshit reasoning to justify nationalism Right, this is the way to convince someone you disagree with. Do you think the person you're arguing with is EVIL? Or is it merely a matter of disagreement over the best methods to
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by podperson 13y ago
But it's not clear how to make Good Things happen. In general, people who're struggling to put food on the table don't care about the environment. (Even in the US, one whiff of Economic downturn -- OMG we can't afford a
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by podperson 13y ago
"outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China does hurt American workers" Only in a narrow, short-term sense. In the wider, longer-term sense outsourcing simply represents someone making a decision that appears to be to their economic
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by podperson 13y ago
Indeed. If he picked Linux or a Mac he'd have the advantage of being able to read most MS proprietary formats without the disadvantage of embedded code executing.
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by podperson 13y ago
Including all SD cards.
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by podperson 13y ago
As an experiment, I took two vector art files I had, one very simple (a flat icon design) and the other very complex (a texture for a 3d model with lots of drop shadows and non-linear gradients). The SVGs in question were 6kB and 568kB in s
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by podperson 13y ago
Ad hominem much?
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by podperson 13y ago
What triggered the bankruptcy is pretty irrelevant. Commodore had been losing money for the entire time the Amiga was on sale and circling the drain. As someone who was both an ardent Amiga and Mac user, yes AmigaDOS was awful. Yes, it was
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by podperson 13y ago
It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy! The US constitution frequently prevents the US government (and US State governments) from enacting laws or enforcing previously enacted laws. This can be good or ba
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by podperson 13y ago
I think you're missing the point of the "big brothers". The dark translucent outer circle represents debris. China has a huge amount of debris (thanks to deliberately blowing stuff up) compared to countries with far larger nu
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by podperson 13y ago
My guess is their business plan was -- get it out for the tail end of the current gen consoles, then rake in cash a second time on a remastered edition when the next gen consoles are out in significant numbers.
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by podperson 13y ago
If you think Apple fans can be rabid, check out Amiga fans :-) -- I frequently got flamed by fellow Amiga users for having a realistic view of the Amiga's limitations (such as not having a single usable word-processor -- and do not say
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by podperson 13y ago
The constant comparison of iPhone vs. Android to Mac vs. Windows is tiresome. Mac never had more than 15% market share. Microsoft won 95% market share not on its merits, but on the back of IBM's pre-existing mindshare dominance. So let
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by podperson 13y ago
You're right -- I stand corrected. A bit more research shows that some iPods have had weak bass output and other issues but -- again -- no more so than rivals, and most iPods have pretty much flawless output (again, modulo the quality
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by podperson 13y ago
It's a complete crock. Most MP3 players today, and iPods for their entire history, offer pretty much perfect audio reproduction (modulo lossiness in MP3). Plenty of folks don't like the earbuds and, to be sure, the iPod was not te

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