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hfs

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    Comment #5437459

    Is Children of the Mind any good? I was kind of put off by how Xenocide ended.

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    Comment #5416187

    I was one of those people for years, and then discovered rock climbing was what centered me and brought things into perspective. It's easy to obsess about things that don't take yo…

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    Comment #5318041

    Why would someone predict what's already the case?

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    Comment #5306166

    I know someone who does web development internally at Wells Fargo. It's surprising how much stuff is exactly like this with the sole intent of making the user feel more secure and/…

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    Comment #5136407

    PC hard drives are 100% usable space. You can easily overwrite the contents regardless what is on it. Phones and tablets, not so much.

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    Comment #5130527

    Xubuntu is a great alternative to Ubuntu if you want the Debian minimalism with a few of the unobtrusive Ubuntu extras.

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    Comment #5098514

    So that negates the overall point he was making? Are you on crack?

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    Comment #5067175

    What I'm confused about is the $1,000 minimum to open a brokerage account[1]. If you're doing it to open a checking account, does that still apply? 1. http://www.schwab.com/public/…

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    Comment #5002391

    4.2 also has "do not disturb" mode. It works properly too!

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    Comment #4953785

    >Teaching a child to write a top 10 app in 8 weeks- next to impossible. Top apps aren't necessarily top because they're technically impressive or have good code design, but because…

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    Comment #4943868

    You realize the "garbage" is actually a buttload of tents, right?

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    Comment #4939532

    Is an average page really over 1 MB now? I find that kind of hard to believe.

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    Comment #4938070

    I disagree (that it's a branding and advertising problem alone), and here's a very simple reason why. I went into a store and saw a machine running Windows 8. I decided to give it …

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    Comment #4899262

    Doesn't look like Google Maps explicitly prohibits comparing data. Closest would be >(f) use the Service or Content with any products, systems, or applications for or in connection…

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    Comment #4876603

    :%s/^.*border-radius:[^;]*;$//g Problem solved

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    Comment #4876523

    Don't the serial numbers have bar codes under them? Would a bar code scanner not solve this problem?

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    Comment #4867531

    >People wanting cheap PCs win. Bullshit. People wanting cheap PCs don't buy Intel systems in the first place.

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    Comment #4793698

    Microsoft's every other OS is a good one. The ones in between are almost always poop.

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    Comment #4779367

    I fought with 10 minutes of errors before getting to the checkout screen, and upon hitting submit, got another error. Cart was empty and it was back to "notify me." Got an email an…

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    Comment #4762647

    This will give me a reason to actually go to Radioshack now. The convenience of being able to just grab a development board like this without having to order it online would be fan…

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    Comment #4757911

    I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Samsung Captivate has, in my opinion, one of the best designs and one of the best sized screens out there. If you can find one for ch…

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    Comment #4755013

    You must be a genius.

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    Comment #4744792

    16 GB being taken up right off the bat isn't a big problem? A standard Windows 7 installation doesn't even take that much space.

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    Comment #4734168

    You might like the Samsung Captivate. 4" screen and I am running Jellybean on it. Not current gen, but not poor performance by any stretch of the imagination.

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    Comment #4724570

    Tangible item vs. intangible idea with no actual working implementation. I can patent the idea of time travel with enough vague descriptions of an implementation that don't require…