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by simc 2y ago
Sailor, Platinum and Pilot are the big three Japanese brands. You can generally get them outside of Japan but there might be Japan exclusives and the prices might be better in Japan.
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by simc 15y ago
SAIC also screwed up the FBI's Virtual Case File, NSA's Trailblazer, New York's CityTime (with a extra helping of fraud thrown in). It would be interesting to hear of any software project they did do which was not a multi hundred million do
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by simc 15y ago
Make a contract with yourself. Set the times of the day when you shouldn't be screwing around on the internet. Get a program that takes screenshots of what is on your monitor every ten minutes or so. At the end of the day use those screensh
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by simc 16y ago
Why? Do lamas have radar dishes installed in their foreheads?
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ITU's 2010 "plenipotentiary": 19th Century Pomp Meets 21st Century Technology (theregister.co.uk)
1 points by simc 16y ago|0 comments
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by simc 16y ago
Taiwan's first election was in 1996, though there was very gradual political reform from 1978 onwards. Before that the Guomindang Party ruled Taiwan using the sort of party-state capitalist Leninist system that the Chinese Communist Party r
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by simc 16y ago
Yeah, i've been to Beijing and people don't really seem to drive in lanes there. It would be really nice if they could get this to work, but it seems a bit utopian.
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Chinese Aim To Build The Next Silicon Valley(npr.org)
1 points by simc 16y ago|0 comments
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by simc 16y ago
2004 you mean.
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by simc 16y ago
Presumably they are trying to tell us that the better way is the "Appistry® CloudIQ® Platform".
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by simc 16y ago
I watch Al Jazeera English sometimes and IMHO it is better than CNN International and nearly as good as BBC World.
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by simc 17y ago
Slapping a 25% tariff on Chinese imports would be a terrible move from a diplomatic point of view. The CCP's main pillars of legitimacy are the economy and protecting national honour. If the U.S. put a 25% tariff on Chinese imports the CCP
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Interview with Chinese Internet entrepreneurs who have had their sites shut down(zonaeuropa.com)
10 points by simc 17y ago|0 comments
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by simc 17y ago
Actually, I looked at the site again today and they said that they have fixed that. I guess if you don't hear it then it has been fixed.
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by simc 17y ago
Hurrah for white (or brown) noise. If you are in an environment that is full of chat and conversation its great for blocking all that out. You can still hear that people are talking , but you can't understand what they are saying so you can
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by simc 17y ago
The facts can speak for themselves. Most laypeople don't have the time or training to make sense of them, so depend on reputation. So who would you trust, a reputable scientist or a partisan crackpot?
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by simc 17y ago
Ian Wishart also publishes a magazine called "Investigate" which instead of doing investigative journalism publishes rumors and exaggerations. On the front cover of his magazine once he claimed to have the "smoking gun" that the Prime Minis
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by simc 17y ago
PostgreSQL was not an object-oriented database, it was an object-relational database. Despite not living up to some people's exceptions that that it would replace the relational database object-oriented databases were not a "huge failure".
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by simc 17y ago
Keep your hands off his Microsoft shares Bill Gates.
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by simc 17y ago
> I hate the F-Lock key with a passion. I haven't managed to hit f-lock by accident. The older Microsoft keyboards didn't remember the f-lock state between reboots. THAT was annoying.
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by simc 17y ago
It's not coming to New Zealand either. You have to wonder why they are excluding a substantial portion of the english speaking world.
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by simc 17y ago
Well, the first two actually did have longer titles: -Walden; or, Life in the Woods -An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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by simc 17y ago
No, that chapter is not from Concepts, Techniques, and Models but most of the programming models mentioned in that PDF are covered in more depth in CTM.
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by simc 17y ago
SQL is popular because it was the query language that was available in the Oracle and IBM relational databases, which were the first relational database products to come to market. SQL subsequently became an ISO standard. Eventually all rel
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by simc 17y ago
Well, I have had a similar problem. I haven't beaten it but here are some things I have found helps: 1) Exercise: spending time going running or cycling helps relax and really makes you feel like you have more energy for other things. 2) Be
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by simc 17y ago
I am planning to put it up, but it is basically does what I want it to now so I am not going to put a lot effort into it to go the extra mile for consumer grade usability. You have to create a pcx file for every question/answer card, which
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by simc 17y ago
I'm a serious student of Chinese. Would I pay for this? Maybe if it was cheap, but probably not. The stroke order thing is useful, and that is the only reason i'd use it. It just revealed to me the while I was writing the strokes for 我 in t
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by simc 18y ago
I think this guy shows that pursuing what you love is available to everyone, even to poor Chinese peasants. His life might not be profitable one, but it is certainly a life well lived.