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by roc 14y ago
You only type that application specific password once. You're not typing it to log in via wifi at coffee shops, airports, etc. You're not typing it every day for a keylogger to pick up, should your machine be compromised in the future. Y
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by roc 14y ago
I'd like to have six. I was there - the difference in expenses and unexpected costs brought things down to around four at the moment. (Not knowing anything about children, my estimates were missing all sorts of stuff. Like regular college
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by roc 14y ago
I still don't follow why you're saying "waiting 8 frames". But I think I get what you're talking about -- essentially interpolation. The problem would come from anything other than simple movement of a static sprite. If there's some much a
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by roc 14y ago
Yeah, with FMLA I could have taken more time, unpaid. I just wasn't in a place where I could do that and still feel comfortable about our savings. [1] And to be clear: I felt guilty for being away from my wife and daughter. I didn't spa
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by roc 14y ago
I'm not sure I follow. It's all logical pixels. Let's say our example is a galaga-type game and the moving object is a missile fired down toward the player. The goal is to have the missile move 1 logical pixel per frame regardless of hardw
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by roc 14y ago
Would that I could have taken six weeks off. [1] And I felt guilty as all hell when I did go back to work. [1] There might be something there. If our social expectation shifted to allow that fathers ought to/might want to be involved with
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by roc 14y ago
> "The all that is expected of women is far more encompassing." The article isn't about how much women do or how high expectations are for them. Truly the more-present parent, regardless of gender, has a more serious parenting load.
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by roc 14y ago
Weighing in to agree. Or maybe just to pile on. I'm a new father and I already can not count the number of times my wife and I have already been asked the cutesy "so how many diapers has he changed?" question. The automatic assumption t
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by roc 14y ago
I think it's wrong to see the Republicans as being on the citizenry's/the ACLU's "side" in this. Every indication is that this is just their standard-for-the-session move to filibuster anything they can as part of their election strategy.
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by roc 14y ago
1. The text wasn't voted on. The vote to stop talking about the issue and actually hold the vote on the text, failed. 2. It's not at all bizarre to see a Republican attach an abortion restriction onto a bill they want to kill.
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by roc 14y ago
Yes and no. Checks and balances are good. But the Senate becoming a body that needs 60 votes to get anything done, is not.
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by roc 14y ago
Oh absolutely. It's like that old chestnut about plans being useless but planning being essential. And one can even find productive use for an aggregate SWAG-to-reality ratio, tracked over time. Individually, that ratio won't give you any
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by roc 14y ago
I would add that the only really good estimates happen when a small task is estimated by a programmer who has already performed that task, at the same level of complexity, a few times before. (And the programmer doing the estimating is the
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by roc 14y ago
> "The company may be able to collect ownership of the patent from the shell company as payment to cover the legal fees." The patent that, by definition, was just invalidated or neutered in the defendants victory? Why would the troll
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by roc 14y ago
I'd be surprised if that was it. iOS already allowed AirPlay streaming of Hulu Plus. And there are far more iOS devices out there than Macs. Not to mention how much easier it is to shoot content from your mobile device to an AppleTV, vs ge
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by roc 14y ago
Apple's device ads are elegant. When they show 'live use' of a product, it's low-key, straightforward, etc. This service ad are ... kitschy. They're clumsy 'skits' trying to manufacture energy and emotion. Consider the "guy on plane trying
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by roc 14y ago
Just like any nice laptop display was useless for many years without a second, crappy CRT monitor...
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by roc 14y ago
> "My points were made to hopefully paint a "rebuttal" image that scientists may come to conclusions different than a prevailing crusade" Absolutely; we don't disagree on that point. I was just taking the opportunity to illuminate a c
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by roc 14y ago
The relevant question isn't whether fracking can be safe. It's whether fracking is safe, as practiced. And that's what's purportedly being studied. And what the article alleges is likely being perverted by corporate contributions. Aft
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by roc 14y ago
Few IP firms make a notable chunks of their revenue from litigation. Certainly not enough to meaningfully lobby against reform. Licensing, clearance searches, opinions and the like are much more the bread-and-butter of serious IP and that
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by roc 14y ago
> "wouldn't we get a lot less of these lawsuits when there were a stronger defense mechanism in case the alleged patent owner looses" In these sorts of cases? I doubt it. Each troll shell company would just be set up with no assets to
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by roc 14y ago
> "Sure Google pursues its own commercial goals but in the end it benefits the customer as well." Sometimes. And with no guarantee that such interests will align in the future. Their flip on Net Neutrality is all the warning and rem
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by roc 14y ago
Sure. And that's why civil and criminal law provide remedies for wronged content owners. But no-one's arguing that copying isn't wrong or a civil and possibly even criminal act. I'm explaining the distinction between infringement and theft
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by roc 14y ago
Beyond that, the answer to "is copying equivalent to stealing?" is "no", because stealing involves depriving a person of their property and thus preventing them from selling it to a party that would pay. If I steal a snickers bar from a she
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by roc 14y ago
Ideally, the environmental costs of manufacture are built into the list price. And the costs of disposal/recycling are offset by the consumer-facing price of disposal and from the value of any recovered materials. The degree to which those
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by roc 14y ago
> "20mpg is still hard to get from a V-6 truck engine these days." True enough. But 4 cylinder engines are turning out 150hp and 3500 pounds of towing capacity these days. So the V-6, in and of itself, may not be an appropriate requ
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by roc 14y ago
Cars are a good example of why "built to last" doesn't make universal sense. We don't make trucks like we did 15 years ago, because we know what happens to the human body inside a rigid metal shell during a collision. We know that we can d
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by roc 14y ago
> "The games, after all, are a shared party for all of humanity." Are ? Or ought to be ?
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by roc 14y ago
> ""people familiar with the situation said" conveys a very different impression than "according to amazon PR off the record."" Well "according to amazon PR off the record" is a contradiction in terms. If you identify them as the sou
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by roc 14y ago
Because Wi-Fi kinda sucks at roaming? It's fine if you need a network connection at arbitrary end-points. But IME it's not so fine when you need a sustained connection while moving. (excluding on-train/on-plane wifi and the like , natch)

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