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Don't understand Maine. How can what other people do change the sanctity of *your* marriage? How can social conservatives justify a free market ideology, but then turn around and support government restraint on the types of contracts people can enter into? Gubmint,hands off! But stop those people!
Bruce Johnson liked this
Great point, Ray. I'm going to steal that one.
- Bruce Johnson
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I've always wondered why it's not humiliating to these people that their notion of marriage is so weak and unstable that it is jeopardized by what other people do. Isn't that ultimately a vote of no confidence in their own institution.
- Kelly Norton
This Android GPS talk got me thinking, what was the first in-car GPS map to appear in TV/Movies? Kitt on Knight-Rider?
Google Navigation is not "evil" putting car GPS vendors out of business, it was inevitable result of 4 trends. A) Price of online/cloud driving directions is already zero B) GPS got miniaturized/commoditized into phones (+SkyHook) C) 3G got rolled out, now reasonable bandwidth available in your car D) Phones got smart, powerful CPU and graphics.
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I've seen numerous comments calling this act a violation of "do not evil". If you've had free online driving directions for the last 10 years, and a phone with GPS that can run complex apps, then all you need to do is add in ubiquitous bandwidth/connectivity to bring the cloud based mapping ($0 price) to the car device, obviating the need for a single function device. The ecosystem trends already pointed to the eventual doom of these devices, the writing was on the wall. Google just moved first on Droid.
- Ray Cromwell
couldn't agree more, wasn't "no turn by turn using google maps api" a big enough clue for people?
- lypanov
New Avatar Trailer has rekindled my interest in seeing it: http://movies.yahoo.com/premier...
Verizon, get your act together and get Fios into Santa Clara ASAP.
The Onion: Mayan Calendar Warns Of Cataclysmic Roland Emmerich Film On Nov. 13 http://www.theonion.com/content...
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People often say the Web has Won. But they used to say the internet won, that it routes around roadblocks. Thus, if the web gave birth to centralized walled-garden social networks, *inter-networking* will be their death. If connecting people is so valuable, its future is as a commodity network layer like TCP/IP. Internet :: Novell :: ?? :: Facebook
Terrifying Sniper Prank on Japanese TV - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Man, the japanese don't mess around when they punk someone.
- Ray Cromwell
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Wow, this one is just as bad, even more over the top: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Ray Cromwell
Awesome new internet meme: Remove special effects from blockbuster movies, only actors speaking! (2012 trailer, "Actors Version") - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Hilarious to see only the scenes that punctuate the action spliced together.
- Ray Cromwell
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YouTube - Terminator - How It Should End - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Eolas is back, sues the entire Web, patents AJAX? Or just JS->Flash? - http://news.cnet.com/8301-30...
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Jesus Christ this is a broad patent.
- Ray Cromwell
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"Interprocess communication between the hypermedia browser and the embedded application program is ongoing after the program object has been launched. The use is able to use a vast amount of computing power beyond that which is contained in the user's client computer."
- Tracy
This is why software patents need to go away fast.
- Matt Mastracci
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I wonder if anyone patented the "buy/develop bullshit submarine patents, wait until someone else does all the hard work to implement them, then sue" business method? Perhaps counter-suing them based on that might work? ;)
- Nick Lothian
McDonald's restaurants to open at the Louvre. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news...
"However, even if there were a last-minute u-turn at the Louvre, statistics suggest the battle of Le Big Macs has already been lost. France has become McDonald's biggest market in the world outside of the US, according to the chain. While business in traditional brasseries and bistros is in freefall, the fast food group opened 30 new outlets last year in France and welcomed 450 million customers – up 11 per cent on the previous year."
- Ray Cromwell
ChrisRock:"People are defending Roman Polanski because he made good movies 30 years ago? Are you kidding me? Even Johnny Cochran didn't have the nerve to go, 'Well did you see OJ play against New England?'"
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U.S. To Trade Gold Reserves For Cash Through Cash4Gold.com - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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Father in Japan: 'I didn't do anything wrong' - CNN.com - http://edition.cnn.com/2009...
NVidia introduces C++ on GPU. Inside Fermi: Nvidia's HPC Push - http://www.realworldtech.com/page...
Exhausted. Back home, after ~7hr30mn driving from Las Vegas to Santa Clara. (85-90mph the whole way).
AMD NextGen GPU 5870 released: 1600 ALUs @ 850 Mhz >2TFlops for $379. - http://anandtech.com/video...
Disneyland, Disney California, Legoland, Seaworld. Done. Universal, Wild Animal Park, Vegas, Zion, up next.
I love how FastFlip looks nice without using images. The giant › character is just a nice glyph/css style.
Matt Mastracci liked this
It's definitely fast, although I'm surprised there's a page load from the main page to the stories.
- Matt Mastracci
Cool new Twitter RPG game! http://www.140blood.com/...
Not cool Game! I visited this site once and let it access Twitter, now it posts ads through my account.
- Ray Cromwell
Idea for public option: Let Canadian govt offer a low-cost plan on US Gov Health Exchange, letting Americans buy Canadian Single-Payer. :)
After Van Jones? John Holdren. Science Czar. Exceptionalism Denialist. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState - http://www.redstate.com/moe_lan...
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Because the most important thing is for a scientist to hold a *belief* that America is exceptional and #1 rather than helping us strive to BE exceptional. Neo-cons hold onto a 50-60s image of US vs Soviet polarization, you know, back # of kids entering engineering/science fields was increasing, not decreasing. You can't be exceptional if you already believe you're the best, you get complacent.
- Ray Cromwell
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The Daily What : Flow Chart, how do pick your new favorite indie band - http://thedw.us/post...
Eat your heart outAapple, Awesome classic Amiga 500 promo commercial YouTube - The Amiga 500 promo video (1987) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Haha. That _was_ a floating keyboard.
- Micah Wittman
The Amiga was so ridiculously overpowered for its price compared to competitors at the time. In '87, the 500/2000 were going up against The Mac Plus/IIx/IIci/IIse which were incredibly expensive and still inferior from a multimedia perspective. VGA had just only been introduced in 87 and could still only do 256 colors. Commodore was so incredibly corrupt and inept that they, IIRC, lost...
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- Ray Cromwell
Commodore was incredibly adept at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...
- Joel Webber
Had to reverse engineer their own chips?! Wow-just-wow (thanks for the insight, Ray).
- Micah Wittman
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