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by commandar 13y ago
Liberal arts magnet school that only took the top students in a metro area of 250k people. You had to test in to be admitted and failing any one class meant you went back to one of the area's non-magnet high schools. So not inflation,
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by commandar 13y ago
Yeah, my high school stopped publishing class ranks in transcripts as of my graduating class because something like you got down to 50 or 60 out of a class of nearly 300 before you got below a 4.0 GPA and it was hurting kids on college ad
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by commandar 13y ago
I've made this argument before, but I've always found Microsoft's recent obsession with killing the desktop as hugely harmful to their own business. The fact is, Microsoft has seen this future coming for some time. They got t
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by commandar 13y ago
>I think Metro could be made to work if you made sure it was operable with a mouse - that is, no auto-hiding, no gestures. Give me a single, consistent always-visible taskbar instead of schizophrenia and that "charms" crap, and
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by commandar 13y ago
I just double checked and I don't have any issue with this in 8.1.
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by commandar 13y ago
This is pretty much my exact reaction to the article. That was the exact line that gave me pause, then I looked up at the byline and saw Dvorak's name. I do find his pining for the failed WinFS particularly odd, though. It's somet
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by commandar 13y ago
Agreed. I also found it particularly odd that Jobs essentially covers the almost exact same timespan that Pirates did, even though they had another decade of material to work with. Pirates is definitely the better of the two for a ple
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by commandar 13y ago
>When they got to close to us and didn't stop despite loud verbal warnings we fired warning shots, they knew that meant stay away or get shot. The other way of stating this is that you made a direct threat to kill them if they didn&
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by commandar 13y ago
Huh, never noticed that. I guess the fact that's it's an acronym (unlike, say, Perl) threw me. :)
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by commandar 13y ago
Agreed on all counts. It's one of those things that's made its way into popular culture that's almost always a terrible idea from a legal standpoint. There's also the infamous case of the FL woman who initially received
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by commandar 13y ago
The SYG statutes I'm familiar with only apply if you would be legally justified in using deadly force. Warning shots generally don't meet that standard. EDIT: Which is to say, the bar is usually something like reasonable belief th
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by commandar 13y ago
I learned/used TCL for the first time not too long ago... in 2013. It's still used in the healthcare industry.
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by commandar 13y ago
It's probably like a lot of publishing industry paywalls. It doesn't kicked in until you've viewed X number of articles in Y time span.
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by commandar 13y ago
The AR pattern of rifles has also evolved into something highly modular in the past 20 years. The same lower receiver can be swapped into an upper receiver set up for anything from long distance precision target shooting to close-quarters r
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by commandar 13y ago
>The controller is already responding to changes in balance at an extremely high rate. How do you think these things fly in the first place? You really don't see how there's a huge difference between balancing thrust between re
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by commandar 13y ago
>Add rotors. The demo video showed an 8-rotor drone, I can imagine that building it as a pair of parallel quad rotors from the power supply point of view would give you quite a bit of control even at a 50% loss. A single-engine loss is o
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by commandar 13y ago
>Did Einstein say something profound about social issues or people interactions when he was younger than 40? Jefferson was 33 when he penned the Declaration of Independence. Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed when he was 39. Marx publi
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by commandar 13y ago
>Gotta give credit where it's due... From a mechanical action standpoint, the AK looks more like the American M1 Garand than it does the MP43/44. > Just like the Walther PP, Russians basically copied and (slightly) improved
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by commandar 13y ago
You do realize that Gates (like Warren Buffet) is giving most of his wealth away to charities, right?
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by commandar 13y ago
It was far more than just shipping IE. MS also did things like use their sales agreements with PC manufacturers to block Netscape from being preinstalled on new computers. Back in the days of dial up, this was a very big deal. And that&#x27
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by commandar 13y ago
>Google could probably do some serious damage with a Chrome/Android solution. Frankly, the evolution of rich web apps that we've seen over the past few years is exactly what terrified Microsoft in the 1990s and lead to the Ne
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by commandar 13y ago
The fact that your parent poster is apparently unaware of the fact that the work done by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had a huge hand in eliminating polio in India would be a good example. The country just marked two years without a ne
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by commandar 13y ago
I really can't think of another person that I've had to reevaluate my opinion of as drastically as Gates. In the 90s he was widely seen as the face of the evil empire of Microsoft by the technorati, completely cutthroat and unfair
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by commandar 13y ago
That's all over the US right now. With Iraq and Afghanistan winding down, the Army has a bunch of unneeded MRAPs sitting around and they've been giving them away to LEOs.
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by commandar 13y ago
>Same general size as the prop in the article No, it's not. Overall Length 4 1/2" Overall Height 2 3/8" Width 13/16" http://northamericanarms.com/firearms/lr/llr.html Even a s
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by commandar 13y ago
With kinetic energy levels at the muzzle of an astounding .71ft-lbs. http://www.swissminigun.ch/ammunition.html
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by commandar 13y ago
>There are real guns around that size, firing 2.34 mm rimfire cartriges. (apologies if I get any of this terminology wrong.) Your terminology is fine, but the key fact is that they generate less than a foot-pound of energy. http:/&
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by commandar 13y ago
Google Now leans pretty heavily on location services. I've found that it's useful at home and even moreso when traveling.
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by commandar 13y ago
My Moto X routinely gets well in excess of 24 hours battery life with LTE on. https://www.dropbox.com/s/rsykvxftze1izdm/2013-11-21%2014.30... On a day with a bit more screen time: https://www.dropbox.co
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by commandar 13y ago
It's a lot like the stigma against aspartame. It found its way into popular culture and has become firmly entrenched despite all evidence from decades of intense scientific scrutiny to the contrary. My gut feeling is that we're go

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