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by wernercd 11y ago
How many people stop watching Friends or The Walking Dead because of a commercial? How many sales are made because of the commercials? I'm all for adblockers... but to say that ads can't be unobtrusive and effective is ignoring th
902.
by wernercd 11y ago
People have been mildy annoyed by adverts for decades: TV Commercials. Just because it's mildly annoying, doesn't make them any less effective either. There wouldn't be millions spent on Super Bowl slots if they weren't
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by wernercd 11y ago
I hope it's not a lottery basis... I hope there would be some intelligence to the choices. It would be nice to reverse Idiocracy tendancies (Stupid people procreating more than intelligent leading to a general decline)
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by wernercd 11y ago
Or people would live long enough to grow wiser... realize the errors of their ways. People might start caring about their communities if they knew they had to deal with it 200 years from now.
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by wernercd 11y ago
> And yet any media player beats it at its core functionality: video playback. And at it's core, BetMax is better than VHS. HD-DVD is better than Blu-Ray. Often, it's not about what is "better". It's about who ha
906.
by wernercd 11y ago
Replace it with Chrome ba dum ding
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by wernercd 11y ago
So they have some R&D... but how much can each company really do at any given moment? For every research project Apple or Microsoft does, how many projects are under work at $random_startup? For ever good thought Apple or MS has, how ma
908.
by wernercd 11y ago
Speak for yourself. Low-Mid range developer here and I've never seen the need for REPL.
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by wernercd 11y ago
Define "Feature Reduced"? Lack of Domain? HyperV? Remote Desktop options? What features are people "losing" with Home that 95% of "Home" users "need"? Sure... You and I can't live without half of
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by wernercd 11y ago
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." ... I have a dream that my four little children will one d
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by wernercd 11y ago
Yeah, we do. Competition is a good thing.
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by wernercd 12y ago
He isn't saying their isn't a solution... he's saying that you don't have to offer a problem AND a solution at the same time. He's right: There shouldn't be an "All or Nothing" mentality. There are ti
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by wernercd 12y ago
Whats funny... is if you read some of the comments, it seems Ubuntu IS the base OS: https://lwn.net/Articles/641152/
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by wernercd 12y ago
Advantages? No wires to plug/unplug: Wires break. Phone parts break. Headphone jacks break. Wear and tear are a pita. I have a Qi charger at my bed, in my computer room, car and work desk... I can just set my phone down at any of those
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by wernercd 12y ago
Oh boy... whats going to happen if they bring a sears catalog? The kinds of things they show in there...
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by wernercd 12y ago
I started school at 28 (after 5 years in Military and then a few years of wandering...), got my AA at 30 and am currently 35 with almost 5 years in my current job. 36 isn't to late... much less 26.
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by wernercd 12y ago
+1 I agree.
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by wernercd 12y ago
No... that IS what they are for. But really, that's what any family is for - not just grandparents.
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by wernercd 12y ago
If they can create an actual Windows App Store (not a mobile, but Windows), they could more than make up the cost in the long run with a 30% cut (thats what everyone is charging for stores these days after all). Not to mention their Office
920.
by wernercd 12y ago
I'd rather skip the paywall and deny WSJ the advert money. Just my 2c (taken elsewhere).
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by wernercd 12y ago
When a guy tells another guy "You run like a girl.", "You hit like a girl", "sit like a girl", etc... it's historically an insult. Recently, there has been an effort to "take the phrase back" and
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by wernercd 12y ago
How about an article not behind a paywall? http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2015/03/17/nintendo-open... " Nintendo Co. said Tuesday that it had agreed to a broad alliance with DeNA Co., a Ja
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by wernercd 12y ago
Looking at that, and considering A/B/C, I've seen myself using B most often - but I've not been afraid to use any of those. I'm not a fan of A, because I want to see the "bigger picture" first and then div
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by wernercd 12y ago
Likewise, 1.5 "Bulldozer" aka breaking up a function into subfunctions that aren't "useable everywhere". I can't claim I'm the best programmer, but I've used this to "simplify" programs and
925.
by wernercd 12y ago
No... you can. The problem is they use reverse psyc, hidden triggers, double negatives, etc. For example, I can't remember if it was Downloads.com or SourceForge, I recently almost installed Vosteran because the option to deselect the
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by wernercd 12y ago
"you also have to add the cost of a monitor + keyboard + mouse AND the fact that everybody wants (needs?) a laptop these days." Not really... with RDP/SSH/Telnet/etc, you can access this without the need a dedicated
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by wernercd 12y ago
I can't imagine growing up with cars. When I think back... I think back to sitting on top of a horse, as we make a journey together. The feel of his hair in your hands as you lean forward. The fun of sitting back while he eats grass. S
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by wernercd 12y ago
The same thing that happened when our last one had a mission: "Hope and Change" What happened? We've lost hope and nothing has changed.
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by wernercd 12y ago
I just hate to think of the poor girl/woman who decides she loves the framework...
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by wernercd 12y ago
Depends on the movie or book. Some things are simple enough that once or twice through and you have all that needs to be had. Others are deep enough that you can discover and learn something new each time.

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