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gcb1

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    Comment #6989511

    also liked the script your car. great classic embed hardware probe demo. and i always postponed learning can bus. extra points for using an eeepc and keeping the 3c tradition alive…

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    Comment #6989365

    add windows and .net and silverlight and DRM monitoring in the stream app and bogus graphic card drivers and other concurrent programs fighting for bandwidth on the same machine su…

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    Comment #6989357

    that shows a total lack of touch to their own product, or the more probable answer, they are bleeding thanks to content owners boycoting them and so they are scrapping the bottom e…

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    Comment #6988883

    to properly use [] on a recorded interview is overkill. just glance on the transcript... there is barely a proper english phrase there. the whole thing would be 80% brackets just t…

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    Comment #6988774

    the fact that this is "news" at all is embarrassing to all women that managed to become developers, ceos, etc. period. this shouldn't be here, in two or three front page items. and…

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    Comment #6970332

    sad how linux fell behind on keyboard customizations. used to be the only place where i could replace caps-esc and use altGr for accents. now windows with autokey(?) allows me to u…

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    Comment #6956303

    i think you missed his point completely. there is a industry with a lousy product, that can make a much better offering instantly with very little effort, but they are to afraid to…

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    Comment #6956264

    if i can watch action movies on a 20 feet screen with a $100k audio system for $8 to $12 at my local theater, why would i want to watch it on choppy netflix on my cheap tv a lame s…

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    Comment #6956229

    yeah, as the grandparent post said, they still have their heads up their %%% lets see: pirate sites = i can watch the movie anywhere. cost some time. netflix, amazon, hulu = i can …

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    Comment #6938748

    do that with all my laptops. specially work issued ones ridden with remote access for IT. a post it cut with just the glue part works fine, easy to replace and leaves no marks.

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    Comment #6899625

    moz would have to foot the 6mi. cisco pays 6mi, and them mpegla returns 3mi to them for their patents in the pool. and if the format becomes ubiquitous, they get any few billions f…

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    Comment #6899612

    vp8 is as free as this. just replace mpegla with google.

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    Comment #6897972

    even if you didn't, you'd still have to work 8h a day... that usually pose a problem to things like these.

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    Comment #6891380

    i tried a few, mostly to code easy features while sitting in the couch with a tablet... didn't like any of them. exchanged some messages with the founders and never felt like comin…

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    Comment #6891288

    steam for still sucks in the way requires full control of my box to games. i only run it in a vm or spare machine, limit the games i can use. if that box is any good, it will be ve…

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    Comment #6891269

    30% off for your personal info... when the competitor price is free (also for your personal info). att really believes uverse tv will be that good of a differential competing again…

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    Comment #6891060

    tor exit nodee.

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    Comment #6886814

    100% of this is already common place. i doubt any Maya pilot even has the tool bar on the screen. im not even a frequent user and i only move stuff around with hjkl and qwe. not to…

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    Comment #6886803

    so are most OSes...

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    Comment #6868310

    hope you don't plan to travel. nexus 5 would work on most network. also get ready to be disappointed with the camera. even the motoX gets owned by old nokia phones. the sad thing a…

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    Comment #6863791

    it only has the possibility to brick the phone because they went the extra mile to try to deny access to doing it.

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    Comment #6863771

    my only gripe with the article is the meaningless title (if you are going for the cool title, at least add a descriptive subtitle) and the videos are now too standards compliant.

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    Comment #6812183

    please, unless you compared their offering with other ssds or used their support forums, this comment is as empty as it can be. ssds are better than spinning media, so what? even t…

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    Comment #6812155

    let me see... google and the open handset aliance advertise an open source OS, that you cant install without voiding warranties and bending to proprietary radio and firmware code. …

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    Comment #6809879

    but how does the browser interpret a hidden window like the one shown? maybe it even sends out that the page is in view... and even if not... how long until the malware coerce it t…