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by otto 11y ago
I hear there is fiber in California MO too!
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by otto 11y ago
I was recently kicked off of Facebook for lack of an "Authentic Name." Humorously my name was my legal name. Getting kicked off of Facebook was the best thing to happen to my productivity and mood. My only frustration is that ther
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by otto 13y ago
I think it is a bit of a generalization to say younger people mix business and personal lives. Opposite of you, I'm in my late 20s, the youngest person in my organization; and I get Facebook friend requests from people in their 40s and 50s
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by otto 14y ago
I received an email from Vanguard regarding $20 for taking a survey. It seemed phishy as the domain that it was sent from wasn't @vanguard.com (or similar) and the enticement of a monetary award. I contacted Vanguard regarding this and for
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by otto 14y ago
Many cards in America have foreign transaction fees. There may be other fees associated as well. That said I have looked into cards with no foreign transaction fees for future international travel. They do exist, but one more issue is mak
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by otto 15y ago
I've used MoC, Mpd + ncmpc, and I am currently using cmus ( http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ ). Currently cmus has been my favorite. Just another option.
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by otto 15y ago
I always thought it was from binary. 1 being on and 0 off.
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by otto 15y ago
Fresh out of college. Discussing with others it was pretty standard from conversion through a co-op program.
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by otto 15y ago
$60,000 But, that is with the federal government. 3 Weeks vacation + holidays & sick leave is nice, but with furloughs I'm beginning to look elsewhere for employment. I know spacex is hiring, a buddy of mine left for them.
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by otto 16y ago
I asked my friend, a native German, about that last summer when I was in Germany. She said a lot of times that money does not even go to the person cleaning the toilets. I did pay 1 euro to use a bathroom in a train station. It seemed to b
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by otto 16y ago
I find it a bit easier. Very simple and easy to use interface. Very visual on comparing timelines of flights. I'm also fond of the no nonsense prices, no added fees. What is lacking for me are "fuzzy dates," when I travel I don't mind loo
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by otto 16y ago
Without altitude and temperature a Mach number is rather useless. (Depending on altitude the temperature and pressure changes which has an effect on the speed of sound.) Also was this just the Mach experienced at the leading edge?
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by otto 16y ago
I took that as a paraphrased quote from a tech journalist. I hope you are right though. I know from my experience with Flash on Linux that it is insane, Flash eventually consumes 4gb of memory and slows my computer to a halt. I finally ju
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by otto 16y ago
"Adobe says it has made tweaks that will shut down the Flash Player 10.1 when the system runs out of memory." I'm not sure that I would call that fixed.
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by otto 16y ago
But, the vehicle was already transporting suspects. That's like using a medical vehicle to transport combatants and then come back and pick up the wounded from the same vehicle.
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by otto 17y ago
SXSW isn't a tech conference. It's a music/film festival with an "interactive" section. I don't think I would consider the interactive section which is primarily made up of bloggers and web startups(and not focused on the tech they use) as
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by otto 17y ago
I work for a gov agency and both linode and hosted sites work for me.
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by otto 17y ago
I work under DOI and works for me.
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by otto 17y ago
I thought about that a bit more and talked to our music director and I think you are right.
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by otto 17y ago
Actually radio stations pay licenses for rights to songs for satellite/internet radio, while music is sent to radio stations for free through promoters. I work at a small college radio station ( http://kmnr.org ) we have been working with S
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by otto 17y ago
Things like this completely devalue the MIT Media Lab to me. I can only hope the creator did not receive a Masters for this.
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by otto 17y ago
I'd agree with that completely. My roommate recently interviewed with Facebook(we attend a state school in the midwest). The other candidates were going around saying where they were from, many were from Stanford, and when it came to him t
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by otto 17y ago
This doesn't mean NASA as a whole uses it. It really comes down to who is in charge of the project. Some NASA centers in certain departments mandate the use of certain technologies, for instance .NET and sourcesafe. I worked on some intern
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by otto 17y ago
I'm a Debian guy, but I gladly put Ubuntu on family/friends computers. The big plus on Debian/Ubuntu for me is the package manager.
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by otto 17y ago
I recently heard a talk on a similar idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogravity_assist A lot of technology still needs to be developed before something like this is viable, but if it were possible a trip to mars travel time would be c
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by otto 17y ago
I was taught cursive in elementary school and promptly stopped using it because I found it hard to read. I'm now taking a Russian course(for fun) and my teacher explained that Russians do not print. I'm now at a disadvantage at reading wri
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by otto 17y ago
There is a little bit more to it than that. NASA is not just a space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA also does a lot of aviation and other research besides just shooting people into space and playing golf on the
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by otto 17y ago
I'd say his terrible negligence is in having no professional ethics as a journalist. I expect a journalist to do some fact checking. http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
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by otto 17y ago
or linux for that matter? I purchased several original xbox's and modded them to run linux for a clustering project.
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by otto 17y ago
As of how recent? As far as I know all government machines are running FDCC(Federal Desktop Core Configuration) and the machines I've seen run IE7 with many IT departments recommending Firefox.

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