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by starwed 14y ago
And it's not like it's illegal but folk do it anyway -- I have never, ever seen someone do that in my state.
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by starwed 14y ago
To whomever changed the title to eliminate the phrase "new physics": that wasn't in any way sensational or editorial. This is a common phrase within the physics community. From the conclusions part of the paper: >The results presented
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by starwed 14y ago
And what is a virtual mirror, I ask?
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by starwed 14y ago
I don't see that Yahoo called it that.
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by starwed 14y ago
Ok, but why are you replying to me about this? I was trying to address kondro's obvious confusion about mikeknoop's point, not pass judgement on anyone in the article.
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by starwed 14y ago
At this point you are so deliberately ignoring what the conversation is even about that I think you must be a troll. Well, I hope you're a troll. The alternative is too depressing. :(
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by starwed 14y ago
The point of a patent is that you must disclose the method in return for a limited monopoly. It's to encourage the sharing of techniques!
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by starwed 14y ago
What the fuck have people in this thread been drinking? It could be harassment if they'd had sex a hundred times, or no times, if they'd been married, or if they'd never met before. The sex isn't the issue here! Pause for a second, and t
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by starwed 14y ago
To be blunt, you have no idea what you're talking about here.
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by starwed 14y ago
That would be a great game to port to the web.
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by starwed 14y ago
> "[We are] flattening surfaces, removing reflections, and scaling back distracting gradients." That sounds nice. I think the Mac OS is a little bit too shiny as well. And I never liked the fat+rounded style Ubuntu has. I don't use W
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by starwed 14y ago
I think Ubuntu's monospace font has true italic? (I'm not a font expert, though.) http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular-italic
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by starwed 14y ago
The phrase "real-time" means something very different to most people. When you try to "correct" them by invoking a narrow definition only used within a particular domain, it just comes across as pointless pedantry.
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by starwed 14y ago
I'd be completely comfortable with calling that malware.
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by starwed 14y ago
It has to request it on install if it is ever going to use it at all.
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by starwed 14y ago
>Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major. You're just wrong about this. Introductory calc classes are some of the larger classes offered at a lot of universities.
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by starwed 14y ago
I had this pop up today, the wording was pretty misleading. In my case not activating Secure By Visa let me proceed with the transaction normally, but they certainly tried to imply it was necessary.
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by starwed 14y ago
That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached? They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.
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by starwed 14y ago
They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting. The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.
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by starwed 14y ago
It is extremely meaningful if you, you know, actually consider the context of this thread -- which is not someone telling an artist to use GIMP, but a discussion of "fixing up" the program.
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by starwed 14y ago
You should check that statement again! http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html The official 2.8 release was what, a week ago? I don't think it's a big deal if it comes out on one platform a few days late. :)
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by starwed 14y ago
Of course Mozilla doesn't like how Apple behaves on iOS devices! Do you honestly think they do, or were you just trying to be provocative?
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by starwed 14y ago
Anna Anthropy has an older blog article about exactly that: http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465
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by starwed 14y ago
And of course the designers of Portals did extensive testing to get feedback on what worked! Those brilliant designs weren't plucked out of thin air, but came from watching how real players interacted with them.
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by starwed 14y ago
How specific of you...
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by starwed 14y ago
I honestly can't think of a single way HN's software is superior to reddit's from my standpoint (as a user), so I'm curious -- what is it you like better about it?
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by starwed 14y ago
HN lets you sign in with an OpenID...
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by starwed 14y ago
Right, and I said if you could create such a test there wouldn't be objections to it being used. But it is hardly a solved problem! The especial sticking point is actually showing that some general test really correlates with how well you
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by starwed 14y ago
I was just using that book as an example of how complicated the topic was!
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by starwed 14y ago
The reason it is immoral to pay taxes is that you are still benefiting from the existence of the government but putting the burden of supporting it on others. You personally may agree or disagree with this, but that's what someone probably

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