philosophus

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by philosophus 12y ago
"Future" police state?
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by philosophus 12y ago
How is this different from the hundreds of aftermarket fans already available? This article implies that no one has ever thought to redesign computer fans before, yet if you take a glance at NewEgg, there are 1841 listings under the "C
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by philosophus 12y ago
I don't believe he said it makes no difference.
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by philosophus 12y ago
"there is only who has the military power to dictate terms." That's generally how these things work, yes. What were you expecting?
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by philosophus 12y ago
Fairly sensible advice. One quibble I have is the idea that computer science departments are somehow shortchanging students by not teaching them business skills. If you want to learn business, take some classes from the business or economic
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by philosophus 12y ago
Well, I think you could be a bit more specific than that and reasonably say something like "If speed is a high priority for you, then C++ is often a good choice." That's why PC games are generally written in C++.
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by philosophus 12y ago
Should be interesting to see how they define "bad."
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by philosophus 12y ago
Kind of off-topic but the Korean term for a Samsung type of company is Chaebol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
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by philosophus 12y ago
I guess this might be focused on the consumer end, but if you're looking for this in the enterprise, you can get it from IBM and Oracle. You can buy Oracle (Sun) hardware, Solaris, WebLogic, and Oracle database and never use a non-Orac
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by philosophus 12y ago
TLDR: A little, but if you read between the lines you can still figure out which games are worth playing.
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by philosophus 12y ago
Maybe I'm being nit-picky, but it's not "entirely self-sufficient," as it still needs light from an external source.
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by philosophus 12y ago
Are there better quality images anywhere? On the Antartic Heritage Trust site it's just a crappy Flash slide show. Would be nice to see high res JPEGs.
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by philosophus 12y ago
So doctors get paid less than, say, used car salesmen, pawn brokers, payday lenders, etc?
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by philosophus 12y ago
What exactly is the point of ruining their contest?
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by philosophus 12y ago
I realize this article is from 2010, but it could have mentioned AMD, which does have a 5 GHz chip available now. It requires liquid cooling however.
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by philosophus 12y ago
Yes, did you notice that Salon edited "Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen?" Salon's version: Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Nobody knows my sorrow Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Glory Hallelujah The original: Nobody k
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by philosophus 12y ago
How is believing in religion different than believing in irony and pluralism?
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by philosophus 12y ago
No idea, probably just a mock-up.
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by philosophus 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquests
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by philosophus 13y ago
"becoming the go-to technology in Enterprise[y]" Hmm, I work for a company that processes insurance claims. That's enterprisey, right? Let me tell you you'll get a blank/'are you crazy' type stare if you s
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by philosophus 13y ago
Care to explain? We just lost two wars, were embarrassed by Putin over the "red line" in Syria that turned out to be an empty threat, Iran is moving towards nuclear weapons, Hagel said a few days ago he wants to draw down the Army
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by philosophus 13y ago
I don't either, but this is the way the world works. Exiting powers create a vacuum. Expect to see more of Russia and China asserting themselves on the world stage now that the United States is no longer a credible military power.
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by philosophus 13y ago
The literal meaning of the individual kanji is not the same as the entire word. You might want to do a bit more research into what a geisha actually is ...
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by philosophus 13y ago
Life's a marathon, not a sprint.
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by philosophus 13y ago
Not quite. We can compute any determinate process, perhaps. (Although as Gödel‎ showed, self-reference introduces computational paradoxes even in closed, limited, artificial, formal systems: how do we compute "this statement is false?&
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by philosophus 13y ago
Stupid.
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by philosophus 13y ago
I had a similar experience with a very basic Android app I did for a Coursera class. It took me about an hour to finish it, and then 3-4 hours to figure out that the test cases would only run successfully using one particular Android virtua
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by philosophus 13y ago
I think that was a little joke.
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by philosophus 13y ago
SquareEnix sells some ported versions of older Final Fantasy for around $15, but I doubt many other companies could get away with that.
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by philosophus 13y ago
These are good. Guild Wars 2 is also worth a look. However, I am enjoying not having any in-game purchases and instead paying $14/month with FFXIV. It's much more relaxing to just pay your $14 (it's not that much, you can&#x2

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