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847karma·750submissions·August 2, 2017
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Tim Cook is trying his best. But yes they are coasting on previous innovations like Android is, and barely adding new features. Just more RAM and faster CPU. They killed the Mac Pro by making it look …
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The BEOS software needs to be preserved in an archive for the free, PD, open source, software. Mike Crawford RIP: Wrote spellswell:
https://github.com/ErisBlastar/spellswell and …
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VSCode was late to the party. Atom and Notepad++ were before them. Don't forget eMacs or VI that were first in the text IDE modes for multiple languages. 20 years ago we didn't have Youtube …
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The Commodore 64 and Apple //e had double hires mode by turning on two different video modes and switching between them to get more colors and resolution. http://www.battlestation…
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Jacking up meat prices would upset a lot of people. Meat-substitutes would have to be cheaper than they are now. Food By Products are already used in meat as filler. Like ground beef and hamburgers ha…
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Tyson changed from a meat company to a protein company. Can make veggies taste like chicken or beef. I didn't have an Impossible Whopper yet but it costs a lot of money. For $12.99 with a coupon …
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>6/ Plant based diets will dominate the world by the end of the decade. Eating meat will become a delicacy, much like eating caviar is today. Much of the world’s food production will move from…
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Turbo Tax only works with Windows 10 and 8.1 with the 2019 version. Shutting out Windows 7 and under filers who can use the IRS free file system.
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China is a big market and we should not ignore it. If office suites are not ported to it, China would write their own office suites to compete with the other office suites out there.
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Other than Netnanny (If it still exists and does not have a backdoor yet) try running all web service through a Raspberry PI using Squid:
https://www.websense.com/content/support&…
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Mike Crawford was homeless, he would live in a tent and cook with canned food and a gas stove. It is a matter of finding the right clients that actually pay you than keep you from being paid. Start ou…
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Apple countered with the IIc but it was not cheap enough. IBM countered with the IBM PCJr which Tandy licensed to get the graphics and sound for their Tandy PC 1000 series.
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Mike Crawford warned about software engineering to the Boeing CEO and everyone else they just ignored Mike. Mike Crawford was a software engineer and software contractor who wrote an essay on airline …
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Looks and sounds good. Too bad Robotech didn't last long in the USA on TV cartoons.
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The local PBS station in my area has a weak signal but has three to four different channels, one for kids by the way PBS Kids. I'd like to watch it on Youtube instead.
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Also Doctor Who, Blake's Seven, and Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, as well as Red Dwarf.
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My father refused to pay money for the Apple // and IBM PC because they were too expensive. The Atari 2600 PC upgrade was a bust so he didn't like Atari 8 bit computers, so we got a Com…
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It seems to link to this book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0813XNFNF I took classes as well as am self-taught since age 13. Most of the languages I learned are out of date. But I …
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Oh no Odo! Dead. He made DS9 Interesting.
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People should go to school to learn, not to be indoctrinated. They should learn critical thinking to for their own ideas and opinions based on facts and logic.
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I guess the AI does not know what shock means.
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Bruce Willis was an orc the entire movie.
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Find an expensive rare coin and retire. Your adventure was short.
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I went to a community college with an IBM 370 that used punch cards. When they got rid of the mainframe they had punch cards left over that they gave out to students to write notes on them or study ca…
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It reminds me of when the Buddha fasted for a long time, sitting in the same place all day. Everyone worried that he might die.
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This is Big Brother type censorship. Anyone they disagree with will get shut out of Paypal, Banks, Credit Cards, etc. There was Hatreon but Visa canceled their services for them. I agree the porn indu…
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The real spring water isn't clear, it is muddy. They have to filter it just like the drinking water. They add salt and minerals for taste. I have been told it is better to use tap water with a fi…
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While he has a dislike for Trump, it sounds as if between Warren and Trump he'd support Trump over lower taxes on the rich.
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How is this different from this project?
https://www.gutenberg.org/ It seems books that are so old they enter the public domain end up at Gutenberg in eBook format. I had a friend of …