romey

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by romey 15y ago
What I think is most interesting about this is that 1. People continue to compare Microsoft and Apple as if they were directly competing, in spite of the fact the Apple is [primarily] a hardware company and MS is [primarily a software co.
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by romey 16y ago
Well cheating was pretty rampant where I studied computer engineering, and I would guess that it isn't much different elsewhere. More important, though is that kids in America aren't learning any more that kids in India, albeit there are pr
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by romey 16y ago
So is every single one of the application supposed to open when you start up the demo? It seems pretty responsive once you get most of those closed. Can't really tell what you'd want something like this for though, besides it just being nif
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by romey 16y ago
It seems to me that the author here is drawing the conclusions that he wants from this data. While there does seem to be a correlation between intelligence and income, this correlation has nothing at all to do with whether or not these smar
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by romey 16y ago
Personally, I would certainly pay taxes, even if they weren't at gunpoint. I find roads, police, etc far too convenient to give up. I haven't read the book that you quote, but I'd be interested to know how much of the conservative donations
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by romey 16y ago
I agree, it is rather unsettling how they frame their argument--there really isn't an argument at all as to why these things should be released under such a license, besides a vague allusion to security concerns. I love open source stuff, b
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by romey 16y ago
I think the rub here is not that they want to be able to see the script files, it's that they want the javascript behind GMail and other big apps to be released under a Free Software License.
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by romey 16y ago
I agree, it seems strange that the clause in the contract, which before must have been something along the lines of "$45.00 per referral, to a daily maximum of $XX or 200 referrals..." has been changed to simply "NO LIMIT." Add to that the