roqetman

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by roqetman 16y ago
I've always found that it's better to ask for forgiveness than permission in a large bureaucratic technically simplified corporation, otherwise I'd get nothing done. Ask, and they say "no".
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by roqetman 16y ago
I think this clarifies things: "There is going to be some questions about this decision in relation to GNOME. I want to make something crystal clear: Ubuntu is a GNOME distribution, we ship the GNOME stack, we will continue to ship GNOME ap
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by roqetman 16y ago
You can still install it yourself... both Windows and Linux don't come with it already installed. I think that that is Jobs's point - if they bundled it, it was out of date by ship-time.
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by roqetman 16y ago
Try a true english tea like PG Tips - there's just no way you'll fall asleep after drinking a cup of that; the teabag is about 60% bigger than the average american teabag (one of those strange things is that teabags in america are smaller t
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by roqetman 16y ago
Tried it. Didn't work for my children. As the article says though, it's not for everyone. My kids are super-smart, but lazy, and unfortunately need structure. I homeschooled them for several years, but both of them asked to go to "real" sch
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by roqetman 16y ago
Perhaps they should make cell towers look like a giant with a cellphone to his ear?
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by roqetman 16y ago
Sounds like someone channeling Dr. Seuss
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The psychological challenge of living in space(seedmagazine.com)
1 points by roqetman 16y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
I fully agree with this one. By simply switching my blackberry to not buzz me when emails came in felt like a vacation. I realized at that point that I was close to burn-out.
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by roqetman 16y ago
Not if the idea sits in someone's head. The execution is extremely important. I've had ideas that pre-dated devices like the ipad and iphone by 15 years, but because I didn't do anything with those ideas, they were essentially useless.
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Are we organisms or living ecosystems?(seedmagazine.com)
1 points by roqetman 16y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
But don't forget that America was having a hard time funding the war at that point. They had to end it quickly or they would have run out of money and given Japan time to rebuild their war machine.
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by roqetman 16y ago
I agree, but the article didn't contain any actual research figures, just a few suppositions (which made the inaccuracy stand out).
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by roqetman 16y ago
I spent a few days in a rinzai zen buddhist monastery in upstate New York about 3 weeks ago. I was also initially skeptical, and in a lot of pain. Doing the retreat with other newbies, and talking about the experience with the monks during
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Coal fires that burn for centuries(seedmagazine.com)
1 points by roqetman 16y ago|0 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
It's a different world that the one we grew up in. My son showed no interest in understanding the CLI or programming, but he loved scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/
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by roqetman 16y ago
Should the number be a collection of binary digits, decimal...
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by roqetman 16y ago
I fully agree with this. Getting past big company bureaucracy absolutely requires this attitude in my opinion.
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Pandora's Seed: The Costs of Civilization(seedmagazine.com)
26 points by roqetman 16y ago|6 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
an e-magazine
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Humans: Why They Triumphed(online.wsj.com)
76 points by roqetman 16y ago|47 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
I think he was trying to get us to focus on not being called consumers first. Personally, I agree, it's an assumption that puts too much power in corporate hands. I agree with you as well, though, that it would require quite a large change
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by roqetman 16y ago
That would imply that the current view of god(s) is more advanced (in a provable way) that the old view of them. To an atheist, this is nitpicking.
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by roqetman 16y ago
I think it's basically that prior to this finding, the general though was that humans wiped out the neandertals by being better hunters etc. but it now looks more like humans may have absorbed them into the gene pool.
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What the recent neandertal genome sequencing means to us(johnhawks.net)
33 points by roqetman 16y ago|3 comments
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by roqetman 16y ago
I would also suggest some kind of discount for non-profit organisations - they can be a good way to get your name spread around too.
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by roqetman 17y ago
I think of the iPad as a kind of dumb terminal. An end-user device with limited uses. I don't think it will bring an end to other devices. The primary reason being that you have to create apps on something. Also, I see this as something con
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by roqetman 17y ago
Thanks - something we need reminding of from time to time
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by roqetman 17y ago
It's all about money - if they start making more money on ipad-type devices, and less on osx-based devices, they'll start making more ipad-type devices. Follow that line of logic and you'd end up in the more restrictive world of the ipad-ty
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by roqetman 17y ago
No, if you don't have a public profile, then no-one will be following you.

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