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10y ago
Any place with a parking lot can do that, and there are better options to spending 20 minutes at a convenience store while your car charges.
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10y ago
http://www.rxn.com/services/faq/smb/samba.history.txt It wasn't invented for Linux, but Samba exists today because of it.
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10y ago
^^ in general for any posted Youtube link.
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10y ago
Most of the observable universe is in front of you, so you're not in the center of it.
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10y ago
And with the proper insight, we could make our current models look like as crufty as alchemy does today.
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10y ago
That was actual public sentiment until the 1920's.
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10y ago
People who use CentOS are more likely to pay for Red Hat out of familiarity with the OS. It's better for Red Hat if people choose CentOS over Debian or something.
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10y ago
"Brian thanked Jamie for updating their status."
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10y ago
A Tesla's motor saves 200 lbs over a 4 cylinder engine but the battery pack adds 1000lbs over a 12 gallon fuel tank which would allow you to drive that 4 cylinder car twice as far.
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10y ago
If you're putting ethics aside, you attack with a droid army, use a third party to sell clones to the opposing army to fight the droids, have the clones prove themselves in battle to get placed in all the strategic locations, then have
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10y ago
IANALblahblahblah Design patents cover ornamental aspects, and can be invalidated if those aspects provide a functional utility. You can't cover round wheels under a design patent, but you could cover purple wheels with one. You can re
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10y ago
"Squeal", like a pig. Not "Sequel" like 'Babe: pig in the city'.
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10y ago
They should be blamed simply for putting beta software in cars on public roads.
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10y ago
Your example shows why having a shell is useful, but isn't specific to bash.
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10y ago
If OP was turning down more work claiming to be busy when they weren't, they were wrong.
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10y ago
> * males are more likely (~51% of births naturally, higher thanks to sex-selective terminations in China and India.) In China, there may be more sons, but they're not likely to have brothers. > * males die more frequently at you
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10y ago
The car is on fire.
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10y ago
Yippy.com (formerly clusty.com) is based on that.
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10y ago
It will anyway. cal: year `10000' not in range 1..9999
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10y ago
>(the details of which aren't given, sadly) Looks like he's using an electric stick welder clipped to some nails driven into dampened wood.
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10y ago
They don't expect to lose more money on this than they'd have payed for the advertising this provides.
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10y ago
http://jetcatusa.com/rc-turbines/turbines/
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10y ago
You do if you avoid playing IBM.
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10y ago
>According to your logic we should all feel cynical and contemptuous that Mountain Dew is not now named, "Hitler Did Nothing Wrong." Gushing Granny was more popular.
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10y ago
While unterseeboot is just a general term for submarines in German. U-boat is usually used to describe German military subs from both World Wars. As such, the suggestion of UBoatyMcUBoatface for a British sub is going to fly like a lead Zep
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10y ago
When calling someone insult -face, it's not the face part that makes it sound insulting
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10y ago
Social bookmarking site just means aggregator with a comments section.
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10y ago
If someone had invented self-driving horses, we could have skipped the whole car thing. Is Waze for horses patentable?
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10y ago
>...they prefer the warm, personal experience of calling up a real human to book their plane tickets or whatever instead of punching their credit card number into some newfangled machine. That was before they turned calling up a company
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10y ago
It would have to be something that favors scrubbing CO2 over generating more of it.
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