Morven
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- Morven
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- 2015-05-30 23:30:49
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I actually saw Muse in concert a few years ago at the Staples Center in LA (probably 4 years ago?), but these were free tickets a friend was handing out. My impression? Great stage design and visuals, boring-as-hell forgettable music, singer who t…
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IMO they're still pretty durable, though. Never had an issue with Apple products on that front.
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Hey, Combichrist and Rammstein have their moments. They ain't deep, but I wouldn't class them as "shit", personally :D
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I'm still ticked about the 17" MBP being discontinued when they went Retina. I liked 'em.
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CA: it's probably also them saying "If you want that, buy the more expensive Pro version", Apple always being big on product differentiation aka forcing you to upgrade.
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The data rates and power rating of USB-C would allow you to plug the Macbook into essentially a dock that would break out all the ports you'd need. I imagine they'll be on the market soon; similar devices exist for Thunderbolt, and with USB-C it ca…
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I don't think it's necessarily taking sides in the "divorce" to want to see him continue to create good stuff regardless of disputes about the former business. As to that business, this is why you set up written contracts and consult with lawyers …
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I do think he's completely right that Linux as-a-whole is really arrogant about breaking stuff constantly. They care even less about breaking backwards compatibility than Apple does, and Apple is pretty bad about it, because they want you buying ne…
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This was a full-tower desktop PC. Big enough to be a server, but not explicitly so.
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I'd complete the electrification from New York to Chicago that the Pennsylvania Railroad wanted to do but never could afford to finish. They got as far as Harrisburg and that was it, alas. The war got in the way, and then in the peacetime there we…
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Ugh, drunk again.
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My first day in my first job after college, I was given a 486 box (one of the PCs made by Intel in their very brief foray into providing whole systems), a disk containing a virus, a clean MS-DOS boot disk, a copy of the 486 Handbook from Intel, a co…
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Well, that disk is cheap and easy to get another like if necessary, so why not? And my personal comfort is worth it; yours is too. I kind of miss playing around with 486s and stuff like that. Perhaps I should find one.
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I wonder what it is that makes us constantly take words that mean "100% accurate" and turn them into eventually meaningless intensifiers. I guess it's the urge to bullshit.
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Although a lot of the time I'm fairly convinced these microtrends don't exist much outside the 5 people blogging about it.
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I was like 99% sure you just pulled that from your ass, naney, but then I googled it and found it to be real :(
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Heh, I've read that Tumblr :D And I'm inclined towards troll, though Poe rules all.
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It is likely accurate to say that previous ways of advertising lose their effectiveness over time as we develop a cynicism toward them. But things like this make me want to beat up marketers.
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Huh, that's interesting. I guess it was to be less taxing on the CPU, most of the filesystem logic was on the drive?
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It's a shame that's not an exact digitization but rather a rework/updating; the letter forms are not identical. Close enough for most purposes, though; it carries the feel of the original.
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Amazon is not a nice place to work for unless you are some super ambitious droid willing to work 60+ hours per week. The unofficial saying is "If you want work/life balance, you don't love your job enough to work here."
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I sign the paperwork for a new job tomorrow. Yay. Goodbye Amazon you fuckers.
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Well yeah, because it didn't work. If it had worked, it would be deemed brilliant. What I do have to say is that it was a great game and fought down to the wire, and that's what I like to see in a sporting contest; two closely matched teams in a clo…
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In Europe, though, the Amiga and Atari ST were reigning during that period. Neither really got much of a hold in the US even though both were from US corporations.
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You're in Seattle too, Corvidium? We should catch a beer or coffee or whisky or other-beverage-of-choice sometime. I went to the store afterward. Seattle is PISSED. And everyone's an expert on what they should have done.
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I still haven't managed to fall asleep and it's 7:39 am. Been trying to get drunk enough to pass out but it hasn't worked yet.
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now I have that song stuck in my head damn you CA
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Lovecraft remains a man fundamentally paralyzed by his fears, not one seeking to justify aggression.
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My general opinion is that none of them will kill you all that quickly, and that overindulgence in anything is bad. And lard is essential for good, authentic Mexican cuisine. You just can't get the beans right without lard. And epazote.
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MCA wasn't actually a bad architecture for its time, but IBM would have done better to make it have a small license fee and be free to all comers otherwise, instead of trying the same patented-interface-lockdown they were so used to doing.
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I suspect they had contractual obligation to continue support to certain enterprise customers.
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Well, Apple did buy Next to get Jobs, so I guess they must have released Nextstep updates after that?
