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by sigkill 14y ago
But there's a difference still. I think it'd be better to compare it with a guy who has only applied to a single university and got rejected. Not only has he lost a year, he's also lost his pride. Next year, he needs to start all over again
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by sigkill 14y ago
"The key to strategy... is not to choose a path to victory, but to choose so that all paths lead to a victory." — Cavilo, The Vor Game Reading your post just reminded me of that line. It's quite a brilliant line, and it seems that Google ha
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by sigkill 14y ago
I remember reading somewhere that in Total War scenarios you should poison the water source if you are not able to capture and control it. I think it was Art of War by Sun Tzu.
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by sigkill 14y ago
If it's really true that with other forms of energy, how much ever dense or otherwise, we'd be able to produce all the hydrocarbons/petroleum products (like wax, plastics etc.) then it's good news to me. Atleast, this will help scientists f
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by sigkill 14y ago
When people talk of peak oil, all I see is solutions to oil-as-fuel problems. What about the other industries where you still use oil? Petroleum products are practically everywhere.
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by sigkill 14y ago
Although this might be covered in peak oil, there's a specific term that you might find interesting. EROEI - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_returned_on_energy_inves... Basically, if you need to burn one barrel of oil to extract one b
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by sigkill 14y ago
Most may. But there are some laptops which absolutely require the laptop manufacturers drivers for the equipment to work. THAT is very annoying.
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by sigkill 14y ago
Although I wouldn't generally recommend to a normal person, this being hackernews, I can confidently recommend a Clevo. These laptops come with reference hardware which means that you don't need to wait for your manufacturer to release thei
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by sigkill 14y ago
Maybe it's a cultural divide but in my experience, in America you're encouraged to be like that. It definitely felt weird to me at first (Asian).
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by sigkill 14y ago
Well yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Right now, there's no actual way to directly to boot there. So the best quasi-hack I do is move the desktop tile to the top-most position. When the computer has just booted up, this allows me to simply
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by sigkill 14y ago
Regarding point #1: I think that's the only thing going on for Microsoft. For instance, I have Windows 8 on a laptop. After using that for a while, my mom atleast appeared quite comfortable using a Windows phone at the mall. Not to repeat
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by sigkill 14y ago
Isn't it worrying that there are so many services/sites that are so dependent on Amazon EC?
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by sigkill 14y ago
I vaguely remember reading somewhere a long time ago that on books that show "Delete" they can't do anything, but on the ones that show "Remove from device" they can control your access to the book. This would mean, the only way to save you
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by sigkill 14y ago
This is an excellent point. Last week I was at the mall where I saw a new Samsung TV that had a kinect like camera thingy built in. It claimed that you could use it to play Angry birds and navigate the TV using only your palm/hands. Guess
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by sigkill 14y ago
As someone who's been using Windows 8 since it launched on technet, I would like to politely disagree with you. >never have to see the Metro interface This is a total exaggeration. When you boot up, Metro. Want to go to start and launch
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by sigkill 14y ago
This is a very interesting discussion. I now take away that hoarding money is like paying for storage costs, i.e paying someone so that you can keep your money.
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by sigkill 14y ago
So do they basically work on the definition of Schroedinger's box? "We've captured a bunch of data. But as long as we don't observe it, it's not legally going to be counted as intercepted." Sounds to me, like a massive slippery slope just w
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by sigkill 14y ago
Yes. I think it has got a lot to do with the color combination rather than the light text on dark bg. I've personally noticed that the sweet spot for me is having a black to near black background with gray (70/30 or 80/20 white/black mix).
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by sigkill 14y ago
Reading your comment, and a few short articles (and that Defcon19 talk) on Quantum cryptography, correct me if I'm wrong. Quantum cryptography is a "way" (emphasis) to securely send a one time pad to the recipient in such a way that due to
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by sigkill 14y ago
Although I'm not a native speaker of English I can't help but feel that English will remain the common language for quite some time. Any new technology is first 'released' in English. Be it new devices or even new programming languages. Act
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by sigkill 14y ago
I totally agree with your devils' advocacy. The problem occurs when the people making decisions are not able to differentiate the UI(can be changed anytime) from the UX.
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by sigkill 14y ago
>...which is basically applied statistics. Well, one could also say that human intelligence is applied statistics, subject to biases. When you look at how we make decisions you'll see that we either refer to past data on the subject,
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by sigkill 14y ago
You've summarized my entire past year in these nifty points my friend... and I'm not even in the computers/IT industry (and I'm not married). But seriously, I only wish someone had told this before. I'd have tried to be better prepared for
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by sigkill 14y ago
That's a good point. Yes, it does break down in certain specific conditions. This causes transformer explosions when there's overload and such. Of course, oil being oil only intensifies this problem.
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by sigkill 14y ago
This may be only partially relevant, but I'm reading about transformer protectors and I can see all sorts of things going wrong here. Extreme heat causes arcing in the oil and consequently fire and/or explosion, in transformers. I don't kno
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by sigkill 14y ago
Wow. Office is literally the only thing that's preventing me from switching to linux. I tried Wine (a year or two ago) and came off less than impressed. I'm going to try PlayOnLinux now and if it's even "good enough" I'm making the switch.
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by sigkill 14y ago
If the back plastic is anything like the S2 back you'll never need to swap it at all. That thing is surprisingly strong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etsxu0OMqUQ
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by sigkill 14y ago
As a sidenote, I copied the text into the http://www.BlaBlaMeter.com bullshit detector and the first 15000 characters returned a value of [0.82, "This reeks"]
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by sigkill 14y ago
I just wonder how much unambiguous but longer it would be if the EULA/TOS was translated into pseudocode or any programming language. One thing that's certain is that it will be very precise...
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by sigkill 14y ago
Your fourth point is the most scary in my opinion. I just realized that it doesn't take much in terms of effort to achieve almost perfect secrecy. A simple dropbox account coupled with TOR or another similar service is enough for the online

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