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by r0s 15y ago
These and many other rules comprise the "free market" as we know it. A few rules establish an entire new market segment operating under "creative commons" or "copyleft" rules. When I hear attacks on that system by companies external, all I
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by r0s 15y ago
This guy: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/ Has been at it for years, lots of good stuff there.
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by r0s 15y ago
This is why I will always prefer a desktop PC. Modular components and hardware standards with many third party manufactures. Laptops will always hold second computer status for me.
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by r0s 15y ago
Yes, we have one and use it infrequently to process event sales, whereas the vast majority of our sales are online.
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by r0s 15y ago
Besides their existing partners and infrastructure.
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by r0s 15y ago
If only that were true.
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by r0s 15y ago
I recently received a song file through gmail. Strangely the mafia didn't ask for a cut, and I'm don't see how this is any different.
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by r0s 15y ago
I guess what I mean is most of those are closed systems which you need to replace entirely when they malfunction. That's the best part of mechanical components for me: When it fails, often they just need to be cleaned.
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by r0s 15y ago
I have a counter point for ya: Coming from an (amateur) electronics background, I can say the mechanical aspects seem just as opaque and confusing. For example: Most electric systems can be tested with a multimeter and needlenose pliers.
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by r0s 15y ago
> if they're going to take on that role they need to create an organization with the mandate to do so, a clear mission statement, and transparent statements and limitations of power. I guess the FBI has too many cumbersome rules to be t
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by r0s 15y ago
I've always considered laptops to be disposable computers. Are the people buying used, at a student discount price, really getting a machine of that value? If it's out of warranty, any small hardware problem means disposal. Apple certainly
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by r0s 16y ago
Sounds like they're trying to recreate the web. On a tiny platform, limited to the ebook market, mac only. How is that in anyway pushing towards mainstream?
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by r0s 16y ago
That's ridiculous. I have a couple large plastic containers for beans and rice, each holds about ten pounds, about the size of a milk jug.
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by r0s 16y ago
All the B12 is in the yolk.
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by r0s 16y ago
Canned beans seems cheap until you buy a pound of dry for about a dollar. Canned food is essentially salt and water with a bit of overcooked vegetable.
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by r0s 16y ago
> we found a few "living on a dollar a day" blogs, but every single one bought in bulk and then calculated the cost of each scoop they took out of the bin. What's wrong with that? It's by far the cheapest way to cook. Bulk makes buyin
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by r0s 16y ago
I agree that adequate broadband would solve this, and so many more problems. I don't think that will happen for years at best, and then only for urban areas. For the bulk of the population, downloads are the only long term solution. Let's
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by r0s 16y ago
There's really only one answer to that problem: full downloads. I would tolerate a fair amount of DRM for that functionality. I have to compare it to Steam, where streaming a game isn't an option. Steam's convenience simply leaves no reas
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by r0s 16y ago
The correlation is relevant. Compare to claims that piracy decreases sales.
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by r0s 16y ago
Most interesting thing I read today, thanks!
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by r0s 16y ago
It seems that way if you think every bill is law before it reaches the Senate. From this time last year: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/83059-senate-sitting-on-29... Maybe the sky isn't really falling?
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by r0s 16y ago
Setting the stage seems like an important step, I'd like a way to load up a web development environment with all the trimmings on my win7 machine. A browser profile with it's own bookmarks/extensions, a separate virtual desktop workspace, a
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by r0s 16y ago
> It is clogged with spam. Clever types of spam, often ones that crowdsource their content by mining previously legit posts. And which popular services are immune to this?
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by r0s 16y ago
> PC gaming never really took off in a big way. http://www.pcworld.com/article/207358/world_of_warcraft_subs... Nothing more than an outlier exception, I'm sure.
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by r0s 16y ago
Pretty funny, but point and click adventure games are still popular. There are several titles on Steam released this year for PC. The NintendoDS has several successful titles: Trace Memory, Hotel Dusk, and others. A new Professor Layton t
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by r0s 16y ago
I learned some mod_rewrite tricks for a personal project, only to discover many of my peers consider useful URLs to be unattainable magic! I think it's a disservice to common users of any site when the address becomes an opaque mess of seem
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by r0s 16y ago
I don't know why we keep returning to wear-leveling as a priority. If SSD hardware life-cycle is so short that apex capacity isn't reached, garbage collection isn't required to maintain performance, and cell degradation is irrelevant. I exp
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by r0s 16y ago
Okay. The wear leveling you mention actually creates the need for TRIM(garbage collection). Blocks - memory address space sections? What's ambiguous about this term? Here's more information about what TRIM does: http://www.bit-tech.net/ha
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by r0s 16y ago
Ah, I meant the controller as chip-set on the SSD itself. From what I understand, if OSX did that, it would be TRIM, or some other analogous garbage collection. It doesn't though.
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by r0s 16y ago
Garbage collection in file systems? There's quite a bit to read. Lets stay on subject though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM "Because of the way that file systems typically handle delete operations, storage media (SSDs, but also tradi

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