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by satori99 14y ago
WebRTC provides this directly in-browser via a javascript API. It works right now in the latest version of chrome without any special flags, and also in the latest stable firefox if media.peerconnection.enabled is turned on. This is capable
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by satori99 14y ago
I have been programming since I was a child, and have little difficulty picking up up new programming languages when required. I have also taught myself to read and play music. However, every attempt of mine to learn a non-formal human lang
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by satori99 14y ago
All this Blackhole talk reminds me of the excellent Frederick Pohl novel, Gateway. And its sequel Beyond the Blue Event Horizon. Both of which deal with humans interacting with these regions of the universe for the first time. http://en.wi
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by satori99 14y ago
The US uses a federal agency to collect income taxes, so why won't it do the obvious thing and create one to run federal elections?
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I think number 12 is the most important. Having fun. (Or even just planning to do fun stuff). If that stops happening, you are in trouble.
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Woz doesnt expect it to change in the US either. He is applying for Australian citizenship to get better broadband. http://afr.com/p/technology/wozniak_likes_nbn_so_much_he_app...
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by satori99 14y ago
> Foxconn firing their employees in favor of robots will become common with robot prices falling So when the employees start assembling robots, they know the gig is up?
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A similar thing happend in Australia, when a man got off a boat on Sydney harbour wharf belonging to the Prime Ministers residence rather than a public one. He was dressed in camo style pants and had to climb a wall into the compound to get
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by satori99 14y ago
Cardinal Richelieu only needed six lines, but I bet he'd have been very happy with a decade or so worth of emails and google queries.
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Heinlen did it already... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Enough_for_Love#The_Tale_o...
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Iain M Banks most recent Culture novel, Surface Detail, dealt with the idea of Digital Heavens, and of course Digital Hell's. They are run by religious high technology civilizations. A virtual hell is a nasty place where sinners are copied
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by satori99 15y ago
In Australia, you must provide ID to purchase a SIM card. Whether it is pre-paid or post-paid. It is illegal to sell a SIM anonymously. I guess this is for law enforcement reasons, and that they wouldn't like to lose the ability to match a
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Not only that, but the colony in Sydney had a civil legal system in place from almost day one, even though there were only marines and convicts about. Infact the very first civil case was bought against the British government by a female co
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by satori99 15y ago
This reminds me very much of Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_Children_%28Stross_n... A story about a sex-bot built in the same year that the last human dies.
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by satori99 15y ago
Was it your decision to re-design EE so as to put any real content so far beneath footer material, that people often fail to see it, but (of course) Google does? If so, thankyou. This change prompted me to to install a browser plugin to rem
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by satori99 15y ago
This bugs me endlessly when browsing HN. I like to open and read interesting links in new tabs, and invariably the continuations have expired when I return to HN after reading another tab. I see the expiry error many times everyday. It is a
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by satori99 15y ago
Completely agree. I too, discovered this story around that age, and I have always remembered it with clarity and passion. The other scifi short story I will never forget is Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Not the same topic, but the
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by satori99 15y ago
The gap you refer to, probably has more to do with Finish immigration policy than the ability of the Finish education system to adapt to the needs of immigrant children. Both Australia and Canada practise a Skills-based immigration policies
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I have never had a facebook account, and likely never will. The amount of pressure I came under to sign up, at various stages over the last year, from peers is sometimes astonishing. It's like you can't be a real person if your not listed.
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(2) is used alot by porn sites (So i hear). Mouse hovers show an animated GIF representation of the 'film' as a preview.
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by satori99 15y ago
I have tried similar personal experiments down this path, with the same result. However, for fairly instant gratification, it may be easier to learn about WebGL first. The code to create a fully lit and rendered scene is much smaller for We
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by satori99 15y ago
I was in exactly the same position as you a few years ago (I am 38). However in the last two years I have embraced OSS technologies and have not looked back. I feel like I wasted too much time in .NET land, and the best bit is that progra
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by satori99 15y ago
Perhaps allowing points to be visible after a fews days would be a suitable compromise?
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I use it all the time. It is also the Windows Explorer shortcut for backward navigation. I can't recall ever having a problem using this key for this purpose.
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Intents do go a long way to providing composability for Android. I didn't fully grok them when i started created Android applications. More or less simply used them as the way to go the next activity, but they so much more powerful than tha
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by satori99 15y ago
Is this a genuine problem for any non Mac users? I do no use any Apple operating systems, but I have never had an issue with WIFI connection and address assignment times on any platform that I have used with regularity. On both windows an
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by satori99 15y ago
Fan's of Iain M banks "Culture", novels already know this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Language
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by satori99 15y ago
You post rings very true for me, however I self-medicate with marijuana most every night. I too have a hard time concentrating when my thought stream moves far too quickly. Pot slows it down to roughly the same speed that i can work at. It
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Indeed he did!
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Here is some interesting information about the Arresting officer Senior Constable Errol Coultis. Seems he may have a penchant for bittorrents. lol. http://www.zgeek.com/showthread.php/101079-Article-Queenslan...

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