skalpelis

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1. 61.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   Henry Ford said something along the lines of "people just wanting a faster horse".
2. 62.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   Aubrey de Grey, not some people.
3. 63.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   I sort of half-expected a giant pile of money with the Joker sitting on top of it, gasoline nearby.
4. 64.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   Also, three grand per person per year is what the so-called "socialist" countries spend on healthcare. In the US it's twice as much yet a sizable number of people have no access to healthcare at all.
5. 65.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   Lunchtime - doubly so.
6. 66.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   It seems entirely plausible to me - they neither steal, nor illegally download their porn but pay for it like all orderly citizens should.
7. 67.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   HD movies and HD internet video needs power. I mean, that is where we're moving, isn't it? After all, the auditory for video is almost everyone.
8. 68.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   University of Latvia
9. 69.▲
   by skalpelis 18y ago

   By the same logic he kept the market in check so that it wouldn't implode catastrophically, therefore allowing banks to exist and continue their business giving loans to start a business.
10. 70.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    No, we don't.
11. 71.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    I'd wager the case is that they'de be required to provide support if the product is out of beta.
12. 72.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Those are not photographs. "Le pittore antiche" means "Antique pictures" (not photography) and not even litography was invented before the 19th century.
13. 73.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Well, not really. Flash works quite ok on Windows. It is a resource hog on Mac and underdeveloped on Linux, all by Adobe/Macromedia's fault. You're right about people using it wrong, though.
14. 74.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Photos from 1750, are you really sure?
15. 75.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    They didn't switch to a different processor architecture, they switched to a system where processor architecture is insignificant, hence the universal binaries, not Intel binaries. They could put any kind of chips in their computers and any
16. 76.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Well, given it's Russia, it is very much likely that someone in the food chain just wasn't, ahem, compensated to their liking.
17. 77.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_stations
18. 78.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    There are two kinds of untrivial - untrivial as in difficult and hard, and untrivial as in time-consuming and demanding a lot of work. Academic training prepares you for the first kind, professional - for the other one, and, suffice to say,
19. 79.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    The countdown counters are about the same size as one of the lights whereas to be able to comfortably see the counter from a moving vehicle from at least 100 meters, the numbers on the counter should be humongous. After all, the main idea b
20. 80.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Oh, I understand that, it's just amazing how Google was boasting about an increase of magnitude in js performance, only to have their asses handed to them in just two weeks :)
21. 81.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    It's funny how a completely new version of a three-months old javascript engine appears just a few weeks after the launch of Chrome. Not that that's bad, of course.
22. 82.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    I continued to read on, only to see that most of the remaining look like either Backpack or Basecamp rip-offs.
23. 83.▲
    by skalpelis 18y ago

    Orvieto, Italy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orvieto