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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm a little to young to have known love in a time of snail mail, but I agree with the point of your comment: some mystery and romance my have disappeared, but romance is still to be found in other places, even in the new technologies
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by sspiff 13y ago
I honestly don't care whether the Chinese or the Americans invest in space exploration - as long as anyone start doing it in earnest again. It's good to see the Asian world push forward with these programs.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Hi, thanks for the reply! I see you already mostly fixed the issue, with the box now scaling relatively to the screen height. I'll file an issue about the scrolling behaviour.
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by sspiff 13y ago
As much as I'm a fan of Carmack, and as much as Romero's rockstar antics of the late 90's disgusted me, you're right.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I love it, but is there a reason why you limit the height of the box in your demo app? I'd much rather have it use up all of my screen height, and scroll the entire page, rather than the white rectangle part like it does now.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Does this also apply to already existing monthly recurring donations?
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by sspiff 13y ago
Usually, electric components with unpredictable timing or behaviour are used to generate randomness. Sometimes they intentionally use noisy or unshielded components to use the noise for randomness. For some physical phenomena that can be ex
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by sspiff 13y ago
You might want to consider that "intentional" is not always a clear-cut case. In this scenario, Renesys claims that it's obvious that this was no accident, but there's also mention of a Pakistani accidental hijack and a
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by sspiff 13y ago
In Belgium, the biggest health-insurance provider (and probably others) subsidizes sports club membership fees, gym subscriptions, .... Their goal is to reduce the cost of treatment by encouraging prevention. I'm not sure how many peop
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by sspiff 13y ago
You said "non-US copyright" and "legal", while the Berne Convention, of which the US is a signatory, states that copyright of any signatory nation extends to all signatory nations as if it were under national copyright i
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by sspiff 13y ago
I never looked at it like this, but the way you put it, they are remarkably similar. Thanks for showing me this perspective.
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by sspiff 13y ago
While I agree that going Android would be bad for BB, and having more diversity would be good for the mobile space, I disagree that there is immense variety in the existing Android handsets. They're all more or less the same design: th
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by sspiff 13y ago
I understand. While I mostly use my keyboard for emails and text, you want every character to be available. I've gone from a G1 to a touch only phone, to replace it later with an imported Droid 4 with roughly the same specs as the phon
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by sspiff 13y ago
It has a keyboard. That makes it infinitely more interesting to me than a Nexus 4. I bet a lot of (former) N900 users will agree. While I never used an N900, I've used phones with and without keyboards over the past few years, and I&#x
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm not sure if you mean that the comfort of working on a tablet connected to remote virtual servers is higher than that of a single local laptop or desktop. But if that is your final point, I very much disagree. Besides the fact tha
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by sspiff 13y ago
My experience: I have a completely stock Linux Mint, grabbed Steam.deb, installed it by double clicking on it, logged in, installed Left4Dead 2 just like I would on Windows, and played a campaign without any problems. That's about as g
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by sspiff 13y ago
Only because it is placing heavy taxes on fuel (which I think is a good thing). Compare with other oil-producing nations, which don't do this. Also, the US has really low gas prices.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Only because it is placing heavy taxes on fuel (which I think is a good thing). Compare with other oil-producing nations, which don't do this. My point was that the fact that Norway produces oil doesn't trivially lead to more peop
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by sspiff 13y ago
My money is on Haskell. Or is there another cool language on the block these days?
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by sspiff 13y ago
Also, having access to cheap oil/your own oil is probably not the best stimulus for electrical car ownership, so I think there's definitely more going on than that :)
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by sspiff 13y ago
Having access to your own oil is probably not going to boost electric car popularity in general (quite the contrary). I think "they have oil, so they are rich, so they can buy expensive electrical cars" is a bit of a shortcut.
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by sspiff 13y ago
The individuals who covered it up are not immune to lawsuits, it's only the UN as an organization that is immune.
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by sspiff 13y ago
The UN has immunity as an organization. You could still sue the individuals who covered it up or ordered to cover it up.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Both Intel and ARM can work well in 32-bit, I don't see your point. On the contrary, if you're so hung up on the word size of your processor, ARM is a better fit than x86, since the latter is often running a 64-bit OS these days.
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by sspiff 13y ago
To be fair, battery life on Intel's Haswell i3's is comparable and performance is much better. As much as I like ARM rising up to the challenge of the high-end Intel monopoly, they're not even close yet (though getting closer
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by sspiff 13y ago
An old Linux command line trick to generate the engine sound: > play -n -c1 synth whitenoise band -n 100 20 band -n 50 20 gain +25 fade h 1 864000 1 I used this as a background noise muting sound when I was a kid.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Correlating seems very easy & likely indeed, I didn't think about that.
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by sspiff 13y ago
After reading the article, I fail to see how these are not confined to one device. basically, the article suggests that they'll add a random unique ID to the browsers' identification (I assume they're talking about the user a
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by sspiff 13y ago
I have a wired XBox 360 controller that I use for Big Picture, and it works out of the box on both Linux and Windows. It's also a fairly comfortable controller (Microsoft can make good hardware, it seems).
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by sspiff 13y ago
This is exactly what they said about Java ten years ago (and I still hear it today): "Java is way to slow for games/anything performance-critical". The choice of Java in your argument is kind of ironic to me.

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