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by slyn 16y ago
Command+x is cut, same as ctrl+x on windows. Might be application specific as I only tried in Chrome and Textedit but I'm fairly certain it is OS wide.
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by slyn 16y ago
Indeed, I used to love MS Paint when I was using Windows on a daily basis. It's simple, fast, easy to use, and does its one thing very well. It wasn't until Paintbrush 2 came out that I didn't have any individual software from Windows that
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by slyn 16y ago
haha, this sounds like a piece of advice straight out of Starcraft 2. If you're anywhere but in the top 10% of ladder or above, you'll win more games and get better faster by just focusing on building more stuff than your opponent. Unit com
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by slyn 16y ago
I guess, but I don't really see how that pertains to the discussion unless you have some extra moral or philosophical objection to recreational drug use that you feel also applies to this video game. Its a hobby. I think some people get su
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by slyn 16y ago
Depends on what you define "helped" as. I don't know anyone personally who has say, gotten a job or learned a new tangible life skill from playing. I can say for myself at least that I have met a lot of people who I would call friends witho
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by slyn 16y ago
eeeeehhh. As a very avid WoW player of some years now, I would say WoW is something that can easily be something that holds your "life progress" or whatever you want to call it back, but it can also just as easily be played at a successful
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by slyn 16y ago
"In addition to an academic grade, the 950 students at the school will get a separate “life skills” grade for each class that reflects their work habits and other, more subjective, measures like attitude, effort and citizenship." page 2
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by slyn 16y ago
1: My daughter just moved into her own house today. 2: Wow, awesome! I should call them to congratulate her! Whats the new house number? 1: Oh, she doesn't have a landline, she just uses her cell phone. 2: That's the scariest thing I've hea
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by slyn 16y ago
Indeed. I only got a 31, but with the exception of one set of eyes that I completely misread each one I got wrong I was waffling between two answers and the one I didn't pick was the actual correct answer.
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by slyn 16y ago
Potentially relevant: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4000/apples-11inch-upgraded-ma...
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by slyn 16y ago
Ford makes more money selling trucks than they do selling anything else, but no one would argue that therefore all their cars will become trucks because Ford isn't our friend. They are two products serving two populations, and it seems unli
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by slyn 16y ago
The AAPL stock M/O for as long as I have kept track of it is buy on rumors, sell on news, regardless of how accurate the rumors were or how good the news is.
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by slyn 16y ago
I may be mistaken, it's my understanding that the video game cards are designed to be faster at the expense of accuracy, whereas the scientific computing cards are designed to have better accuracy at the expense of speed.
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by slyn 16y ago
>>This is what makes games fun. Looting and losing loot is an essential and fundamental gameplay element which has been disappearing ever since Everquest(imagine WOW with prepatch UO rules) due to catering to crying and whining. Hel
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by slyn 16y ago
"All the resolution in the world doesn't matter if you can't actually see it." A 100,000:1 contrast ratio doesn't do you any good when you can't even see anything in sunlight. OLED may give a great contrast ratio, but any direct light (ex:
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by slyn 16y ago
When it comes to reviewing SSD's I don't think there is another source that comes close to AnandTech. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3734/seagates-momentus-xt-revi... TL;DR: The review is still favorable, just with more meat to back it up.
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by slyn 16y ago
This is something people have been saying since long before facebook when myspace was the undisputed king of social networks. As early as my freshman year of highschool nearly 8 years ago teachers and administration were telling us to be ca
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by slyn 16y ago
Anecdote time! "There are two types of people, those who give excuses, and those who solve problems." About a year or so ago I was working at my dad's small law office when he inadvertently dropped this gem on me. My dad is what I like to c
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by slyn 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMD3agP5hv0 The guy does it in this video, pretty sure it was in a comment on HN a while back.
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by slyn 16y ago
Both?
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by slyn 16y ago
Blizzard, Id, and Valve must be riding on Apple to fix this because 10.6.3 had a large focus on improving OpenGL and driver performance, and supposedly the beta for 10.6.4 does also. Hopefully its the start of a continuing trend and not jus
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by slyn 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_(content_delivery)#Mac_OS... "With its release, Valve will include native Mac OS X, OpenGL versions of Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Portal, and the entire Half-Lif
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by slyn 16y ago
I've been playing on my MBP w/ 2.4 ghz c2d and 8600m and its been working surprisingly well. I dialed down the setting just to maximize FPS, but other than weird choppiness with the menu screen the game has been very stable. I'm pretty new
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by slyn 17y ago
Second paragraph FTA: "So far, little is known about the successful exploits. Until vendors have been informed of the flaws and those flaws have been patched, details will not be made public."
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by slyn 17y ago
Steve Woz was pretty vocal about the Prius thing, I remember seeing a post of his on Slashdot about how the acceleration thing was definitely a repeatable bug somehow related to cruise control. Fake edit: Found it, he details it first in a
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by slyn 17y ago
Indeed. See this: http://godplaysdice.blogspot.com/2009/12/uniquely-identifyin... I imagine gender and DoB factor in heavily to something like a recommendation engine, and I'm sure zip code would come into play when trying to get those la
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by slyn 17y ago
My mom wanted a Kindle for christmas, but we (the rest of my immediate family) passed on it as an idea because we didn't think she would actually end up using it much. We got her an iPod nano 2-3 christmasses ago, and only as of the past 6
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by slyn 17y ago
The newest iMacs use the e-IPS style of IPS panels, which according to Wikipedia have a lower power consuption than previous generations of IPS, presumably are much cheaper to manufacture than the other types (or they wouldn't be in a $499
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by slyn 17y ago
"Startup time is MUCH improved in Firefox 3.6. Chrome still feels slightly quicker, but we're talking on the order of 100s of milliseconds. For something that I do once a day, at most, the difference is negligible." http://www.websiteoptim
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by slyn 17y ago
"They are probably worse than MS in terms of vendor lock-in but just don't have a large enough market share to bully people around." ? In the past couple years they created a cross platform multi-vendor open standard for GPU computing, they

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