signalsignal

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by signalsignal 14y ago
Fuck you. The Newton was a HUGE(!!!!!!) loser. You are just too fucking lazy to look it up. I was working in the 90's. I remember this and I'm not going to waste my time learning you easy to find information. FUCK OFF AND DO YOUR OWN HOMEWO
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by signalsignal 14y ago
So you voted down my comment because you couldn't find a citation on Google? First link :-> http://www.edengene.co.uk/article/how-the-world-learnt-from-... using https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&#...
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Actually it was the Newton that made Apple loose so much money. It was never profitable with an average annual loss of 1 billion USD. But if it wasn't for that loss, Steve Jobs would never have been requested to be a consultant at Apple and
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Two words: Government Regulation. Once Congress puts a bill forward to deal with this issue, it will be the beginning of the end for this type of behavior. I'm sure Obama will get behind it as well, as it will help the computer market immen
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by signalsignal 14y ago
> Does that mean from now on, rather than "Copyright © 2013 Kailuo Wang", I have to say Copyright © 2013 my Email address ? No. You can put in whatever copyright information you wish as long as you are able to be contacted based on that
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by signalsignal 14y ago
FTP is perfectly sufficient. Why should they use FTPS instead? The cryto signature for the file is here ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.6.tar.gz.sig
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Premature optimization is the root of all evil -- DonaldKnuth More information here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Good. Adapt or die.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Will no one rid us of these Steve Job's parables. Wisdom has no correlation to success.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Bank regulation isn't worth the paper it's printed on. The contracts reflect the culture, and if the culture is rotten the benefits will be the same.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Ultralight aviation(1) is available to the masses, but people don't want to replace their cars with them. Why? It is an unsolvable problem, so nobody knows. 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Yes. You've only linked to print advertising and newspapers' declining revenue, i.e printing on dead trees. Printing on paper then selling that paper isn't a requirement for journalism to happen.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Yes, it's called journalism.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Alcatraz was a prison known for tight security, so I am guessing that based on their motto "…your plugins are mine…" the project is just trying to tie all the external projects into one secured location. But I am just guessing. Others may h
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Steve Jobs big plan was to sell a computer for under a thousands dollars, given that macs used to cost over two thousand dollars in the "monopoly" years. And it was not only accomplished on the Mac platform when he returned to the company,
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Mac sales are critical in that they are also development machines used internally as well as their "partners" who create and sell apps for the platform. Apple will never abandon the Mac platform even if it looses them money.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
I think the "Make something that works" poster isn't available.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Yes. The Windows-Intel platform is fully backwards compatible back to Windows 3.1 with 32-bit.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
> The parent also said that particular app is well established and that his newer apps do not fair as well. Wrong. The parent post claimed that the higher cost app $12.99 led to much higher revenue than the lower priced apps at FREE wit
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Two main reasons: 1) Youth income is low given low employment and a stagnant economy which some would call a recession. 2) High gas prices means less cars and more public transit.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Windows RT didn't break any compatibility because Windows RT was built on the ARM hardware platform. Win32 was just a software platform on Intel's hardware platform and won't work on ARM's hardware.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
The more features which are added to a laptop, the more it tends to cost.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
I never claimed suicides don't count, so I have no idea what you are referring to.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
I'd rather not engage in political arguments especially on this site.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
In the US gun suicides outnumber gun homocides, so the gun control advocates add them together and call it gun violence to inflate the numbers for political reasons.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
You seem exactly like a shill.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Thank God nothing like this happened in Venezuela.
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by signalsignal 14y ago
Why is that New York picture in Black and White, and the Moscow Metro empty?
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by signalsignal 14y ago
And slightly on topic, here is Windows 95 on a 25Mhz 386 with 4 meg of RAM http://everything2.com/title/25+MHz+386+running+Windows+95
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by signalsignal 14y ago
The parent post just stated that he made 5-6k per month off of a single iPad app. Can you back up your claims with facts?

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