modernshoggoth

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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
The thought of a couple of chubby assholes in suits I've known over the years doing ballet badly is immensely pleasing.
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>(Ford)'s amazing success with low R&D expenditure (they had one engine design that ran from the 70's to the 90's with no modification or improvement despite the industry ballooning with different technologies during that time) sh
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
I actually re-read your comment a couple of times searching for an sort of argument at all, let alone "blowing" it.
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
The reason I dived into Android with so much relish was because it was so much like my Asus WinMo PDA. The TOMTOM maps on that was brilliant. GPS was way more accurate than Google Maps, both as in "determining what road you're on" and "pinp
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>I live in South Africa and government handouts do nothing but keep the poor oppressed and uneducated. I live in Australia, one of the best examples of how government handouts can ruin a race, and I'm saying this as someone coming from
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Easy on the pitchforks, man. Maybe it's because I'm Australian and have got used to the free ride of healthcare and education, but I'd gladly take a minor tax increase if it means a significant portion of the population gets into an entirel
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Averages are nice, but I'll be interested to see what happens to the workforce that depends upon them entirely, as mentioned above: truckies, taxis, FedEx, etc. I say, leave it for a year to lull the companies into a false sense of security
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>Australia could chase edge by becoming a low-tax or low-red-tape capital. Although our country was founded and grew up with a "low red-tape" mentality, the last 30 years of global-scale mining boom has forever removed that possibility
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
They are legal on private property and (since 2012-06) in our capital city, Canberra, but not on any other roads/pathways. Side note: in New Zealand they're classified the same as mobility scooters and motorised wheelchairs, and as such are
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
As a bearded Australian, I gotta say that that's an old joke. That keeps getting used ^_^
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
All very interesting, thanks for the detailed response. I'm pretty interested in setting up a fully-automated custom brewery/distillery so I've been looking into making a lot of custom fittings for piping and heat-exchanging. Thanks again
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
I like the photos of the solidoodle2 and the price tag. How is the end product? Some dudes in a local hackerspace built a reprap a while ago but that thing is nothing but disappointment... Head drift, ooze problems, constant maintenance. Wh
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
I feel the same way about iPhones. I can never find a damn thing on them. Though, got a new GS3 recently and agree with all you've said. I could harp on with Cyanogenmod, Cyanogenmod, Cyanogenmod... but really the issue is that they try to
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Everything too complicated to fit into any one single person's head is going to have problems. That's how it works. There is a tradeoff of functionality vs expense-of-time for any given task, and if you polish the functionality to a mirror-
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
For a couple of weeks my wife bought me chocolate-coated coffee beans once a week. These lasted about 5min once I remembered about them at work, due to (a) yumminess, (b) tendency just to mindlessly eat at the desk. After that, because choc
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>Cyanogenmod is fine Yes it is. > but what about all the others? You don't need to venture beyond CM if you don't want to, but really, CM brings the whole "land of milk and honey" thing to the table. If you get kicks out of fl
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>By the time CM has stable builds for J, my phone will be on K. Going to take issue with this as well. I'm on a SGS3 and CM10 (JB), and they just changed the status of the rom from "EXPERIMENTAL" to "NIGHTLY", yet I have not seen a sing
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
It's mostly subjective and entirely contextual: If the software company is large enough to afford a marketing team to fill Google up with ads then there's a good chance the software will also have big dollars spent on it. Contrariwise, if
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
>attractively low fees Standard price around here (Perth.au) is $50/fortnight or ~$15 per use. Is that considered reasonable?
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Agree and disagree. At my last job I had 6, 2008 & 2010 all installed (legacy apps, yay). 6 was amazingly responsive but sucked if you had to read/write anything (like, say, compiling). 2008 was average-slow at everything. 2010 had a go
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Indeed. The whole self-driven car isn't a new idea - various individuals and university disciplines have been trying the idea for the last decade over in Europe - it's legal to test these ideas on the road in some countries over there. If y
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by modernshoggoth 14y ago
Windows Me, Too? Excellent.