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    Comment #1907505

    When a company gets a lot of market, they want to differentiate their products so people stop using the standard and gets locked into their "standard slightly modified". No no no, …

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    Comment #1902887

    I agree. Maybe we need a hierarchical system that is dynamic. We need to organize information and in the real world we are constrained, but with computers we are not. E.g if I need…

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    Comment #1658979

    And they control the medium too. If Craig gets the answers right they just can cut this part of the film. They could manufacture whatever they want just editing and putting answers…

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    Comment #1486212

    Linux is getting better each year, Android is getting better each year. But MS is getting better each year too, like Apple. The main difference is that MS and Apple improve he over…

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    Comment #1480601

    Of course you have been trained, but what about the fun factor? I mean people love to fit, insert things into other things and feel they fit. Kids feel good when they insert a cube…

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    Comment #1466265

    "You make a good point but as I thought on it for a while I came up with this question: Do kids want to be the same kind of adults as their parents?" My opinion is yes: They want c…

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    Comment #1466220

    He is not.If you think he is the misinformed person is you. You can inform yourself.Search for DRDOS.Search for windows trademark issues,lindows, you know what? they were an entire…

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    Comment #1463533

    I think this article misses the point. He is taking a position as "non-engineer" and stated its goals as clear as water: He considers engineers superfluous(ludicrously overstaffed)…

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    Comment #1463475

    I think he is not proposing anything substantially new. Collecting data before formulating your hypothesis is the norm, not the exception. First you see an object fall and them you…

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    Comment #1457734

    I like to change the defaults. When you use to read green on black instead of black over white, or change the font size you realize that the designer only though in one size, and o…

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    Comment #1456495

    I check the "many people" rule too. But sports, acting and science is big enough to find good places to stay. In my experience in the electronics sector, everybody wants to do "rob…

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    Comment #1456411

    Wow, that's the kind of relationship when you finally get rid of, you feel like in heaven. I prefer the "boring" healthy relationships.

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    Comment #1453213

    I think this man doesn't get it, as a "former executive" he thinks anything in live is money. People write apps for iPhones because they dream to do what they love without working …

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    Comment #1238410

    If you bet on it, you will lose. That is the MS PR statement, witch is completely BS. Open source have a lot more people looking at the code and using a proven Unix security model.…

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    Comment #1224535

    I never thought that way, interesting.Thanks

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    Comment #1204244

    A lot of people believe in alternative medicine with a more scientific method that you think: They try it and it works for them, is not superstition. I have news for you: electroma…

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    Comment #1190569

    It is a complex issue. I read and watched videos and went to a lot of seminars on psicology of productivity. "Read The Power of full engagement"(This is the best book you can read …

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    Comment #1170588

    In my experience people prefer the "I think" when you are unsure of what you say, and to be clear when you know what you are talking about. Odds are that a person that never ever s…

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    Comment #1170564

    Agreed. Also the geek people that "study" or "learn" this stuff are the best in the world. They not only do what is needed, but know the reason too, witch many "naturals" don't do(…

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    Comment #1166849

    True, I have learn programming and experience disassembling programs, and is really really difficult to understand how a program work just this way. If the program has millions of …

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    Comment #1166759

    Yeah, the intelligent thing is to surrender and give more power and money to the robber. If people with weapons assault you in Somalia, give them millions of dollars and make it st…

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    Comment #1126328

    I love so much when people "believe" something, test it, doesn't work,the market fails, and repeat it because they are right. Apple let's devs to code in low level(Objective C).IMO…

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    Comment #1124513

    And you think the average people think it is OK to destroy the life of one person just because he downloaded-imported cartoons? I don't think so. I consider this material "obscene"…

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    Comment #1124497

    That's right, something I admire about British people is that they created a lot of sports like boxing and football in witch they put rules over something people were already doing…

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    Comment #1123035

    to err is human, but to persevere is diabolical. errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum. Seneca To err is human, but to persevere in error is only the act of a fool. "Cujus…