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wyld_one

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    Comment #20559475

    Eating aka touching my food? off limits! period. Health & safety. late I can stand - I have a microwave. I Order items that can be. Do I need it? Most definitely - Especially when …

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    Comment #20482678

    Lax-E-boy recliner with lift.

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    Comment #20160487

    Interesting, when you mentioned Power C I thought you meant this: http://www.mixsoftware.com/product/powerc.htm The book for it was very nice as well. Best bang for the buck at the…

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    Comment #19905063

    As a person with visual issues, I hope they beefed up the screen zoom control. I have a mouse that has a thumb scroll wheel and I usually map it to " +, -" (if in windows-not the o…

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    Comment #19852297

    Hm storage as RAM. Sounds like what IBM AS/400 was doing like 30 years ago for mini-frame machines.

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    Comment #19822940

    I can't really say it's an open standard either since proprietary binary data can be embedded that may not be usable by the 'standard' pdf viewer. Yes, I have had to deal with it o…

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    Comment #19822891

    Even as a Book format it is klunky, as it has no indexing. Take the text to speech tools and the bigger the book the slower it gets near the end of the book. I would rather have a …

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    Comment #19822868

    It is not open data. You still can have proprietary blocks of info inside the file. The lack of open source tools to manipulate the format is a major hindrance IMHO. It is also a v…

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    Comment #19587819

    Every time I see one more way advertisers force their garbage on you, I think of drug dealers. Wake up, we are allowing this to happen. As for Google - shame on you.

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    Comment #19457581

    I see that mercurynews uses a anti ad blocker. Therefore; I will not patronize the news service.

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    Comment #19175657

    Gee did they model it from Harlequin books?

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    Comment #18403194

    One I did. Self modifying Lotus 123 Macro code to format information downloaded from a System/38-IBM AS/400 to make 'nice looking labels'. Because lotus had graphics (PC) and could…

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    Comment #17289437

    KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. remember you or others of our Ilk will have to touch or replace that code some day. Getting fancy or sneaky is fun with competitions or bragging rights…

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    Comment #17267990

    Maybe we should put AI in all the weapons. Then have them play Tic Tac Toe. Call it the Joshua Project. :)

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    Comment #17267877

    3 things: "would you like the upgrade package that shows the outside?" and "Ads on windows" Gee joy, more useless garbage to have to listen to. On the other hand you would have som…

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    Comment #17267783

    Hm, I'd rather have a intimidating set of dragon horns. Maybe something modular for the way I feel atm. Ooo RGB mood horns? They would less to clean and take care of. A way to head…

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    Comment #17250732

    I'll say it no one else will... Yeah and all is well and good until some faceless stalker tracks down, stalks, molests, brutalizes and finally murders some 'important/high muckety …

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    Comment #16623212

    Less migraines triggered on weekends. I found that idf I did not consume a similar about of caffine per day I coul more often get a migrain on a weekend when I did not have the sam…

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    Comment #16385852

    Set up digital books for content. Prohibit/censure teachers for 'requiring' books they wrote when they were never used in class.

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    Comment #16385819

    Book reuse is also key. I was able to use my Calculus book for three semesters. And like you say the content does not change that much.

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    Comment #16372320

    Well even if they say it's their EULA, won't stop the pro miners one bit. The effort is not work it. Besides; some people who develop would probably use a 'scaled down' system to t…

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    Comment #16372269

    heh, when? by the time you will be able to get one they will have a new one out you can't get either. I thought I would be able to get two of the AMD vega 64 shortly after COMPDEX.…

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    Comment #16372242

    I would not buy one from eBAy used. You will never know just how much lifetime you have left after a 'miner' burned it 24/7/365. And I thought the prices were a joke, but a AMD veg…

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    Comment #16363695

    Well part of is the corporate need to have all the people at a site to do work. A lot of job could be reevaluated to be 'work at home' thus eliminating the need to travel somewhere…