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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Note that the NewEgg's refusal is based on the original OS being missing rather than a new OS being installed according to that email. My guess is that the user formatted the HD before installing Linux. Most OEM PCs now come with a recovery
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
This appears to be another reactionless drive [1] that sci-fi authors and crackpots come up with every few years. There are many variants of these designs [2] and a drive based on the Casimir effect is just one of them. However, they all te
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Why? Android, Chrome, Firefox, etc have app stores and are still open. App stores are orthogonal to openness.
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Customers not on a contract and willing to avoid AT&T, Verizon and Sprint can avoid quite a bit of fees. E.g. T-mobile has a $30 plan for 100 minutes, 5GB of 3G (and EDGE after that), and unlimited SMSs. The 100 minutes is problematic,
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
What I find really peculiar is how the colors after composition and postprocessing are so different from the other images of Earth at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble It seems similar to the problem of determining the 'true' c
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
>Women's life experiences are thus characterized by a constant and unending fear of sexual assault. >When you ask men the same question---to list what they do to protect themselves in their daily life... --> the answer is just a
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Windows does a good job of abstracting the hardware away and preventing the OEMs from tweaking the APIs so this isn't an issue in most cases. The major exception is for the large game developers who have to buy tons of various configuration
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Why not? 'This' is just like 'me too' or '+1'. By itself, it's a waste of a comment, but since harlanlewis elaborated, the "This." was just a prologue to the rest of the comment.
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
FYI, he original link has the actual images: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/transit-mir...
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
>if you lived at the right point in time and weren't a slave You've just excluded the majority of Athenians[1]. If you generalize "slave" to "bottom Nth percentile of the population, the conditions are much better now than they were bef
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
In some cases, it's even worse. Low end netbooks running Chrome will load the page and then the entire machine locks up as the WebGL starts rendering and takes over the weak GPU. Easy way of DOSing someone is to send them a WebGL link if th
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
Augmented vision technology makes perfect sense for blind and vision impaired users. For example, the latest version of Google Goggles ( http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles ) performs image recognition on the live camera feed and speaks ou
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by sigmaxipi 14y ago
All you need to do is put quotes around the phrase. Or if you want pages that must contain all the words in any order, place quotes around each word. Or just use Verbatim Search: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
FYI, if you want to read a comic about modern soldiers going back in time to fight in Rome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Romana_(comics)
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Using fMRI to reconstruct what a person is seeing or imagining.(youtube.com)
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
A gTLD has an initial price of "$185,000, with an annual fee of $25,000". Someone who wants to run a piracy website will probably opt for a cheaper domain. And anyone who can shell out tham much cash can probably afford a lawyer or some oth
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
Regarding #2, there is also the possibility that if a civilization converted its light cone into computronium, we would not notice. Maybe because they used exotic matter as a substrate and that matter did not strongly interact with the rest
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
There is an interesting rule in COPPA that is the cause of this bad experience: http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm#teen For sites that choose to age-screen, age information should be asked in a way that does not invite falsificati
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
FYI, you can still log into a Chromebook with a Anonymous/Incognito/Guest account and use it as long as you don't care about persistence. Chromebooks are designed to be orthogonal to a Google account so changing the accounts that are attach
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
Brin is not the CTO of Google: "Sergey Brin co-founded Google Inc. in 1998. Today, he directs special projects. From 2001 to 2011, Sergey served as president of technology, where he shared responsibility for the company’s day-to-day operati
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
Eric Schmidt is no longer a programmer, but he was one of the authors of lex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky enough to be able to avoid the policy against Easter Eggs: h
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by sigmaxipi 15y ago
There is a difference between being a plaintiff in a patent case and using patents offensively. In the Skyline case, it looks like Skyline sued Google over Google Earth: http://googlecopyright.blogspot.com/2007/03/google-prevails-...
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by sigmaxipi 16y ago
If you have Chrome, open the link in Incognito mode and it will let you read the entire article.
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by sigmaxipi 16y ago
Compare this with two python solutions. The first was when I was learning python and is similar to how I would solve it in C. The second is a copy of that haskell solution: tri = [[75],[95, 64]...] maxes = [x[:] for x in tri] for y