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by tanzam75 13y ago
Without smartphones does not mean using paper maps. It means that featurephones would have eventually converged with offline GPS devices -- the Garmins and TomToms of the world. In many ways, this would have been a better model for the n
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Besides which, we weren't providing that much funding to nuclear physics before the War. We only funded the Manhattan Project after the War had already started, and after nuclear fission had already been demonstrated in the lab. I
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I wonder why the ambulance-chasing lawyers haven't already dinged Airbnb with class-action suits? Is the ToS really ironclad in limiting their liability? Or are they just not big enough yet that they can be counted on to settle the cas
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> Please don't lecture me about conspiracy theories or data. Ask yourself why you are being an apologist for this douche. It's pretty clear that you're not interested in reaching conclusions by interpreting the data. Ra
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The Gates Foundation does not have a Board. It has Trustees, three of them -- Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett. All three positions are unpaid. As for Berkshire Hathaway, Directors only get paid $3,800 a year.
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> Gates is STILL the richest man in the world. He didnt get that way by participating in the http://givingpledge.org/ , which is years old now. This is just a laughable straw man. And you bothered to create a new accou
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> IIt has been 5 years since gates formed the giving pledge. In that time, he lost and regained the position as the world's richest man. This is not supportive of a claim that this is genuine.* Huh? Bill Gates has most of his wealt
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> The latest version of Microsoft's Equation Editor (and since ~07 imo) is quite good. Still a shame one needs to relearn certain symbols. Since 2011 on Mac. The new Equation Editor was not in Mac Office 2008. This was particular
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You can't make blanket statements like that. It depends on where the vulnerability is. For example, Vista has a substantially-rewritten networking stack. A networking exploit in Vista would not necessarily translate over to XP. On th
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> It is a story about all of them, I did not say Secure Boot caused this problem, I said I disabled it to be able to install Windows 7. Suppose that a user buys a Windows 8 machine, goes to a website, and downloads malware that slows d
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> In essence, everyone simply looks at the winners and then redefines the 'path to success' to be 'the path they took'. The classic example is Jim Collins' bestselling business book, Good to Great . The book
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I did not say Secure Boot causes this, Here's what you said: > Hear my fucked up story of UEFI, Secure Boot and Windows 8: Why mention Secure Boot at all? It's got absolutely nothing to do with your situation.
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> There is severe survivor bias at play. Massive profitability allows you to get away with just about anything. ... For every Valve and Github, there is a Microsoft or an Oracle. That's a very interesting point, because Microsoft
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Hardware problem often means driver problem. When you have Hyper-V installed, you have to be exceptionally careful about what drivers you have installed. I've even seen a Bluetooth driver bluescreen the management OS when Hyper-V was
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> What has this got to do with Secure Boot? It's got nothing to do with Secure Boot. If he had gone into the UEFI and disabled Secure Boot, the problem would still have occurred. Secure Boot has become this scapegoat for everythi
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> There are wood framed houses that are well over a century old, right? Yes, but that doesn't mean a wood-framed house built today wild last 100 years. First, there's a survivor effect. Only the best wood-framed houses from
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> The PC seems alright to me (after all, how much CPU do you need to open a bridge...), but the floppies seem a bit fragile and unreliable, they lose data pretty fast. Floppy disks are fragile, but consider the application. They'r
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> 65% of that $20b comes from OEMs, which is 100% consumer. No, OEM is not 100% consumer. It's not even half. A large number of OEM machines are sold with Pro preloaded. These go to businesses. (Some consumers buy Pro, but some
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> I did at one point plug a Logitech keyboard into the Surface, but I definitely did not intentionally install any Logitech drivers. It's something Windows put there by itself, only for it to become a problem later. Windows automa
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> Surely the comment about hardware variability is moot on the Surface. It's designed by Microsoft.. The Surface has a USB port. And that makes it an uncontrolled environment. For example, the article complains that Windows is &q
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> And Win+L to lock. Locking the device from the GUI is a ridiculous process. Start - username - Lock. But yes, Win+L is faster.
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> You may not like ads but they heavily subsidize great content. In fact, the price of a New York Times subscription would be close to $1,500 per year if it weren't for advertisers keeping it closer to $300 (and that's if all
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The astronaut corps wanted to say that the Shuttle required a human at the controls. Since STS-121, the second return-to-flight mission, Shuttles have carried a data cable that would allow the landing gear to be lowered by the flight comput
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> Was Columbia at an unusual inclination for a shuttle mission? Here's the breakdown of orbital inclinations for Shuttle missions: 28.3-28.8 53 34.3 1 38.0-40.3 11 49.4 1 51.3-51.6 47
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If you launch from Baikonur directly into a 46° orbit, you will drop spent rocket stages on China. That is why the Russians launch into a 51° orbit, even though their launch site is at 46°. With a Proton, you have enough delta-v to launch
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Movies can be a catalyst for good. The movie Marooned (1969) depicted a Soviet spacecraft rendezvousing with a stricken American spacecraft to deliver oxygen via an EVA. However, it was unable to dock. This movie was circulating right ar
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The American Space Shuttle was intentionally designed to require a human to flip the landing gear switch. The autopilot was capable of doing everything up until that point -- the S curves, the approach, the flare. The Soviet Buran could la
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> One thing not covered in this article (and maybe the CAIB report? I don't know) is whether the Russians could have done something useful in the rescue. Could enough fuel and scrubber tanks have been boosted to Columbia on a Soyuz
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Acceleration at liftoff is lower than maximum acceleration during the rest of the launch. Most of the mass in a rocket is fuel. As the fuel is burned off, the same amount of thrust gets divided over a progressively lower remaining mass. Th
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> I remember trying to get this game to load with himem.sys. Ugh. Not this game. You're probably remembering TIE Fighter . X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter ran on Windows 9x and required DirectX. That's why the article was talking

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