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by light3 13y ago
Its quite funny how the smartphone revolution will finally make VR devices viable.
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by light3 13y ago
Ubuntu seems horribly bloated, and the installation takes forever. Try Knoppix livecd, they have a pretty quick program to flash the installation to an external usb. Plus you can get all the latest debian packages.
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by light3 13y ago
Well there are similar tablets, I think the one below was around $250: http://tabletrepublic.com/forum/android-tablet-reviews/voyo-... You would have to find a case + keyboard though.
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by light3 13y ago
What are the chances Putin didn't write the article?
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by light3 13y ago
>Lisp is a language that was ahead of its time, but there are language features now that seem beyond Lisp's grasp. Interested to hear your views, can you provide some examples?
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by light3 13y ago
I agree with you that governments can be very suboptimal, but that doesn't diminish the existence or usefulness research as a public good. Some research can not be readily commercialised, but nevertheless form basic building blocks for
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by light3 13y ago
I don't think the provision of public goods are a moral choice, if anything it is an economic choice, where its subsidy is justified by two things: the benefit of the public good outweigh its costs, the general public will not sufficie
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by light3 13y ago
See definition of public good(economics): In economics, a public good is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous in that individuals cannot be effectively excluded from use and where use by one individual does not reduce availa
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by light3 13y ago
>why would you give in to your "competition" and make games for their "console" Because these general purpose "consoles" have grown tremendously in power while decreasing in cost, they have the potential to
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by light3 13y ago
>In what way is homeschooling to suit a parent's utter stupidity not a prison? Have you considered the case where the parent is not 'stupid'?
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by light3 13y ago
>Are Ikea desks that can be made at 1/5th the cost but last 1/10th as long representative of the forefront of technology? I refuted the example of technological progress being use of pneumatic tools, just look at car manufactur
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by light3 13y ago
The phrase "re-inventing the wheel" comes to mind, the definition of progress is moving forward from the current, not artificially handicapping oneself the past and then working back towards the current. My statement is extremely
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by light3 13y ago
Pneumatic power tools are nothing new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tool "Air tools were formerly unpopular in the DIY market, but are becoming increasingly popular, and have always been ubiquitous in in
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by light3 13y ago
But they are not contributing to technological progress.
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by light3 13y ago
try alibaba.com
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by light3 13y ago
If you want value go for something more recently released, like the Lenovo A820: http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/814529232/2013_Newest_andr...
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by light3 13y ago
Its pretty silly how it doesn't boot if the fan fails, I turn the fan off because its making weird noises, but the laptop still runs fine, although I try to keep the temperature below 90 degrees C, I think it automatically declocks at
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by light3 13y ago
There is already a myriad of mini keyboards on ebay, although I haven't used any but some of them look sufficiently good to use along side a smartphone. In the future I think they will improve to the point where people who want a physi
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by light3 13y ago
There is a popular TED talk on motivation, he postulates that growth is one contributing component of motivation. This may be his anecdote, but this guy has helped many people get back their motivation. http://www.ted.com/ta
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by light3 13y ago
You're example is where a newbie gets matched with 9 other experienced players, this scenario is no fun in ANY 5v5 team game. Now imagine the scenario where the newbie gets to play with other newbies, the game is more fair and fun. The
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by light3 14y ago
This is really interesting, the case of the girl you described certainly isn't new phenomenon. I lived with my parents in China up until 1993, and back then this was also a common situation, someone would be dying on the street but for hour
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by light3 14y ago
I hear that Russia still has the best mathematicians. Culturally Russia was at the forefront of music/opera - just see the famous violinist of the 20th centuary. I read though in Nathan Milstein's biography that he fled the Stalin regime wh
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by light3 14y ago
I think a big reason is ease of integration/life - many Chinese people find life to be easier when they immigrate to the West. Life can be very very competitive in China - relationships are often necessary, complex and by definition numerou
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by light3 14y ago
I don't understand the last sentence - honesty to self seems to be more an individual virtue as opposed to a cultural virtue.
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by light3 14y ago
I don't think this is a problem isolated in China, I grew up in the Australian education system, went to a top 3 public high school, and the situation(at least for math/science) is the same. Subjects are taught by teachers who follow textbo
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by light3 14y ago
Further, many articles describing financial failures of a similar flavour will blame the "Quants", whereas in reality they have little power and merely provide the means to execute an idea. With nobody willing/able to regulate against such
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by light3 14y ago
Some kind of algorithm for speeding up 'boring' segments is of course top of the list of features, perhaps something that allows the users to 'edit' the video. Great work!
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by light3 14y ago
'we decided to allow players to select only four units at a time based on the idea that users would be required to pay attention to their tactical deployments rather than simply gathering a mob and sending them into the fray all at once.' D
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by light3 14y ago
I assumed "view of modern psychology" as used by parent meaning some generally accepted views of academics backed up by current experimental research results. Which as the parent states is in conflict with current practices of therapists.
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by light3 14y ago
You propose the article is wrong in that abstinence should be the best treatment, further you propose that 'What we're missing now are programs that take an addict's natural tendencies and channel them in such a way that it benefits them.'

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