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by bonsaitree 13y ago
Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.
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by bonsaitree 14y ago
Amazon is fabulous, but that sort of real-time return policy workflow is for relatively low-mass & low-expense items from high-volume retailers. Try returning custom car parts or, really, anything close to $1k USD which essentially mand
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by bonsaitree 15y ago
A case isn't there primarily to protect the screen. It's there to absorb shock, protect against nicks and scuffs on the non-glass regions, and provide a non smooth-as-glass grip surface for your fingers and palm. A good case will also have
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by bonsaitree 15y ago
A 1% efficiency won't be a net-energy-gain for any sort of large-scale commercial production. Three key questions: 1. What is the relative scarcity, if any, of the materials used to manufacture the "inks". 2. What is the durability/degradat
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by bonsaitree 15y ago
Nice book plug. I'm reminded of the old CSS Box Model hack for earlier versions of IE. For those not already familiar, Paul is the maintainer of HTML5 Boilerplate: http://html5boilerplate.com/
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I suspect this is more about isolating the phone from the radio energy sinks of the human body (surface moisture on the skin & saline blood plasma) than anything to do with the glass itself. Any suitably insulating (capacitive) enclosur
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
It's not about education or productivity. Top colleges, military training, and most early stage start-up environments all have either explicit or implicit cultures where part of the values indoctrination is to "achieve under fatigue". It is
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I can't help but be reminded of "hacking" casino comp systems. Please. In truth, this trip cost well in excess of $418 due to the other purchases and time tie-ins involved. I'm all for leveraging advantages, but there's leveraging, and then
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Indeed. After I finished it, I was sad for weeks. I just missed being in that world with those people. None of Clavell's other endeavors even comes close (though Tai-Pan was, relatively speaking, a fun modern romp).
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Um. Wow. He's THAT desperate for press these days? The author of the article (Jill Fehrenbacher) is married to Peter Rohas--formerly of Engadget/Weblogs Inc. Mr. Rohas is a co-founder of GDGT. Calacanis was an early investor and presently
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Without a link describing the methods used to garner this information and the raw data itself, these conclusions are, at best, suspect.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
As a fellow bullied child, I can empathize with the treatment, but I could not disagree more with the proposed solutions. You simply can not treat children as adults nor can all family situations be adapted to yield the necessary love &
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I wouldn't use the term "interesting" so much as "foolish". Much like Best Buy's recent firing/non-firing of that employee, the act itself only serves to add more fuel to the negative-PR fire.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Summary: Imperfect system is imperfect. 'Ya gotta love a tautology adorned as journalism. Are there any reasonable alternatives for privately funded research? No. There will always be the urge to game data to fit the hypothesis and honest
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
For those that wish to learn more about the Korean pro Starcraft scene, I urge you to watch the English YouTube commentaries at SC2GG ( http://starcraft.homelinux.org/VODTracker/#v ).
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
"Spam" is done as part of warming-up during pre-game chat and during approximately the first 10s of most builds. These players aren't spamming. They're selecting individual unit abilities within multiple control groups and switching off th
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Is this content really within HN's bailiwick?
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
The aforementioned to be read in the voice of Bender.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
All we're missing is violet, indigo, and orange. Then we'd have a full Green Lantern Corps ;). I can understand the philosophical underpinnings, but honestly, it smells of 7-Habits-esque management "science" , and worse, a pure sales ploy
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
While this does do away with one more modal interface in side-by-side battery arrangements, judging only by the pictures, it looks extremely shock-sensitive. It would seem suitable for office/home use as long as it's not in a small child's
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
This article reminds me vividly why, at my Alma mater, EVERY engineer (even EEs and CEs) were REQUIRED to take a class in their freshmen or sophomore year called "Manufacturing Process & Materials Design". It was basically a fancy acade
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Two words: Sarbanes–Oxley
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Um...Wow. Aside from Mr. Garrison's gyro-thingie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_%28South_Park%29 ), that's the most emasculating mode of travel I've ever seen.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
As a D.C. metro resident (living in NoVA), I share your pain. When I moved, I made sure to live close to at least 1 airport (ended up being IAD) for that verysame reason.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
It will NEVER happen due to the lack of a sustainable economic model for passenger service. The U.S. lacks both the population density and the dearth of a legacy bulk airline/airport network to make large-scale roll-out of high-speed rail s
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
For the shop owner(s), making the economic case for having a card merchant account comes down to several factors: - Size of typical transactions - Volume of transactions per billing cycle - % of charge-backs per billing cycle - Charge-back
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
Yes. An suitable analogy can be made to a hybrid car. Local servers (electric motor & batteries) for constant/idle-demand and EC2 (internal combustion engine) for high bandwidth & storage overflow during version deployments and pe
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
NS. Emacs shouldn't be anyone's first text editor, but if experience is any guide, it will be many's last text editor.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
I think that's more a reflection of CNN's lax journalism.
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by bonsaitree 16y ago
No. They're both "reserved" loop-back addresses, but 127.0.0.1 has more cultural/conventional weight for this explicit purpose and also avoids any possible semantic overloads with dotted-quad zero and/or null values.

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