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by excuse-me 14y ago
Me too - I'm buying ex-lease high end Dell 1600x1200 IPS screens because using 3x24" 16:9 is like watching a tennis match - you are constantly twisting your neck from left to right
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by excuse-me 14y ago
See also "time value of money" - if you don't have to buy the spares until they fail, all that extra money is worth something to you. There is a reason Toyota and co don't have 6months of parts on hand - and it isn't due to shortage of shel
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Probably signals a market collapse in the last 2years. Dell and co either ordered, or suppliers thought they would order lots of new big screen monitors, so fab lines were setup, components were bought, screens were made. ... and then the w
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Well I will feel very disappointed if we don't see all the athletes eating there every day
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by excuse-me 14y ago
I'd buy that - except I live in a city with 1:4 hills! Here even the outdoor gear coop charges >$900 for a single speed and says it's ideal for "urban life' - which tells you everything about the market for them.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
CISCO got the contract for most of the network infrastructure based on the kit being donated to education afterwards. Apparently it will be donated to $$$$ CISCO certification courses run at CISCO training centers. And of course training ==
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by excuse-me 14y ago
McDonalds is the official fast food sponsor of Londinium MMXII !
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The original spirit was a few Greek men running around naked to show that they were racially superior to all other peoples. The rest of the Olympic 'traditions' were invented at the 1936 games for not-dissimilar reasons. Crass commercialis
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by excuse-me 14y ago
"Dasani - London tapwater with added toxic levels of Benzene" Admittedly the tag line needs some work, but with a good enough Logo it will sell.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
If children wish to draw "one-eyed trouser snakes" or Lisa Simpson performing an intimate act, on their school books that's fine. I just don't think that consenting adults should be exposed to this sort of thing - especially not splashed ov
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by excuse-me 14y ago
A real eco solution would be to make cheap and simple 'supermarket bikes' At the moment the $75 bikes in Walmart are terrible - but mostly because they try and copy $750 bikes with 24gears and full suspension. If you wanted a green solution
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Start with laws rewriting copyright to make it a CRIMINAL offence to use: the name of the country's capital city together with either the numeric value of this year, or the name of the season between spring and autumn. Spending $Bn of taxpa
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by excuse-me 14y ago
I think you mean 12th Century. Elected leaders of major democratic nations bending over to do what the divinely appointed leaders of a bunch of steroid cases say
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by excuse-me 14y ago
With a title like that the lawyers will be onto you. You should use the official euphemism: "Steroid Event 0x7DC"
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Not necessarily. The costly part of recycling is separating materials. If this has cardboard with a waterproof coating or plastic skin (as it appears) or is glued to other components like the rubber tires then it could be very expensive to
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Ironic that being disposable makes it 'greener' than a steel bike that will last for 10+ years And steel or aluminium is a lot more recyclable than cardboard.
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Conservative can also mean use #define, macros and casts rather than those new fangled templates ;-) IIRC the guidelines are a reasonable compromise between recommending new 'safe' but relatively unfamiliar and tricky constructs - and sensi
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The article seemed to be saying that since android is based on a FOSS kernel, and FOSS is a cancer (in Balmer's famous words) then people will pirate Android apps. Of course iOS is based on an essentially public domain BSD kernel where you
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by excuse-me 14y ago
"it’s open - with the corrosive mentality that surrounds such openness." That's must be why Oracle and IBM have never made money supporting their products on Linux - it's that corrosive mentality of having the core of the underlying kernel
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by excuse-me 14y ago
For the requirements - a heavy but symmetric load over narrow roads - it's a pretty good solution. At least until you have to stop! Interestingly, trading inherent stability and rigidity for more control effort to give you a lighter more ma
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Can you imagine dumping 100lb of earth into a chinese one and tipping it out at the top of a hole - to build a canal or railway? They are fundementally different concepts. A european wheelbarrow is an earth moving tool - essentially a bucke
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by excuse-me 14y ago
The JSF (joint strike fighter) C++ coding standards are also a good starting point http://www.jsf.mil/downloads/down_documentation.htm They are a bit heavy handed on "thou shalt not" - but if you use them as guide - and really think if b
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by excuse-me 14y ago
And how much did she know about them? The design of the fan blades of the Rolls Royce jet engines on an A380 are a closely guarded secret and yet we allow people to fly on it without a security clearance - even people from Seattle, even Boe
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Even weirder is why she would need a security clearance. I hate to break it to you - but the Rooskies already know about space !
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Statistically unconvincing ?
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Java is great - right upto the point where it isn't/ Do a similar example where you want to replace the values in situ and find that Java is making a copy of the entire array every time. At that point you are stuck, there is no way out. C m
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by excuse-me 14y ago
As a physicist this always annoyed me about about maths lectures. You spend half of your physics degree learning certain classes of integrals when in practice everyone you really need to solve is done numerically. Yet you get half a class
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by excuse-me 14y ago
It was intended as a Godel-joke !
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by excuse-me 14y ago
Things like tequilla or vodka. The way people seem to drink the stuff despite the taste - rather than inhaling a good scotch
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by excuse-me 14y ago
In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc. the 'live2 crew' won on their parody of "Pretty Women", because they were making a comment on the original song. While family guy lost "when you wish upon a weinstein" because they merely appropriated t

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