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by prodmerc 11y ago
Eh, I don't know about violence, but I'm pretty sure games teach people to: Secure a weapon - and use it if necessary for the following: Secure shelter; Secure food and water; Secure transportation; When in a bad situation . I do
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You forgot the "/s" at the end :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Industry leading premium heaters/friers, maybe :-D Those early Envys were hot as hell and the processor was right under the palm rest. Quite an idiotic design...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Pavilions or Elitebooks (and their unnamed predecessor series)? Major difference imo...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
LaserJets were always good, but their inkjets (DerpJets, all of them :-)) were always horrible in my experience. Then again, I've never worked with other printers for a long period of time (my employer used all HP), so I can't com
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Well, if you buy their cheapest shit, you get the cheapest shit :-) Their business workstations are second to none in terms of internal design (with seemingly minor stuff like automatic shutoff if a short circuit or ground leakage is detect
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yes, they have a conscience, and it's telling them they did nothing wrong...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Well, if it looks like ADD and acts like ADD, it is ADD. Asperger's, for example, has been pushed under "autism spectrum disorder". And Pluto is not a planet. I could see Internet overload/distraction be diagnosed as som
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Who would've otherwise been a 13 year old beggar? Or 6 year old corpse? Their own country's market sure doesn't look too good for job creation...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You may be surprised, but most people fear a world government. New World Order and all that bullshit. Of course, they ignore the ongoing massive globalization and how it has improved their lives...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Oh, it causes ADD, alright. Without a proper way to use it, the Internet just leads people to jump between pages, bits of information and topics, which often devolves in distraction on the many entertainment bullshit resources out there...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
It's not magical for sure, people still need to put in a lot of effort, but having access to vast knowledge can definitely help. We can learn anything online, and I can't count how many times the Internet has helped me with normal
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by prodmerc 11y ago
What do you mean? I commented in the first place because I was surprised that Kite uses JS+Python, a unique combination for an email client from what I've seen (which is not a lot). I'm not interested, nor do I have the capabiliti
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Ok, thanks for the advice! It makes sense to go all JavaScript, especially since Node.js seems to offer some advantages over Python.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
It was revolutionary at the time, it's really a timeless movie I haven't watched it in years, time for a Matrix marathon :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Is Kite's JavaScript + Python better? Asking as a noob who started learning JS and Python :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
No, but the people who were afraid of them were :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I mean, we could live fine without them. I forgot all the advances in agriculture, which is arguably more important...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
"No, no, the Surface Pro looks like our iPad Pro. Just ignore the specs" - Apple fans and iPad owners :-D
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Oh please, a stylus worked better on my old 3.5 inch PDA than any stupid touch gestures do for my 4.7 inch Android phone. Arrows on the keyboard? What the fuck are arrows? Marketing just pushed styli (?) and hardware keyboards out, the latt
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Everything bends, there is no spoon...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
So, you're saying, get an Android phone? :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
It's really surprising that turtle ships and detonating fire ships weren't more commonly used. Maybe most thought it was just a myth, stories told by travelers, or maybe it was ungentlemanly? The Civil War and even WW1 saw a lot o
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I'd say it was too expensive to be used, otherwise they'd be used more often. Also one of them did not explode as intended due to the primitive detonation mechanism, so there was some technical difficulties involved (at a time whe
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Eh, anything related directly to humans has been done before. Computers, internal combustion, electricity and medicine are the only major advances we've got over those living 1000 years ago...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
> Online education isn't the solution Eh, speak for yourself, it is the solution for millions of people who want to learn something, not only have the degree as an end goal...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I don't know, the HoloLens looks like the future...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Wow, 1997... what the hell happened :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I remember the LaserJet 4000 and the 4550 (color beast, the startup sequence sounded amazing with all those motors and the always-on fans). Worked flawlessly for hundreds of thousands of pages. It had expandable RAM, and you could send file
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by prodmerc 11y ago
This makes the lack of consumer HUDs/AR glasses even more perplexing. The technology is here, so why are companies toying around with smartwatches (a very limited concept, imo, might as well strap a small smartphone on your wrist :-))

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