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JohnFromBuffalo

Re:Firefox 18 on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @10:44AM (#5026695)
I'm still using 3.5.7. What more could you want?
Samsung makes Android phones?
Re:2012 Personal Annual Report on Monday January 07, 2013 @02:13PM (#5022592)
What?!
Re:Every NFL play for the past 10 years in CSV format on Friday January 04, 2013 @02:33PM (#5009313)
What ... no NHL? Oh ya.
I'm sorry but I can't come, because you are not opensource enough for me. It's not you. It's me.
Have you heard that entropy isn't what it used to be?
Re:Keeping Safari a secret on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:28PM (#5008941)
This still makes me think that Ninjas work at Apple. How other can they evade such a public part of the interwebs? http://www.askaninja.com/ I guess.
Re:Android SDK is now proprietary on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:25PM (#5008924)
>ActivityManager.isUserAMonkey() >>Log.WTF()
Re:A year without caffeine on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:23PM (#5008911)
Patient to the eye doctor: "Whenever I drink coffee, I have this sharp, excruciating pain." "Try to remember to remove the spoon from the cup before drinking."
Re:Will Scientists Ever Move to Python 3? on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:16PM (#5008869)
Once they saw my Anaconda v1, why switch to a more mature Python 3?
Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe on Friday January 04, 2013 @01:15PM (#5008862)
It's not Merica and you guys don't have NASCAR.
Re:Bankofamerica.com is down on Thursday December 27, 2012 @12:23PM (#4974053)
The tubes to the interwebs is broke.
Re:Rumor: Apple Building Bluetooth Smart Watch on Thursday December 27, 2012 @12:21PM (#4974045)
As they should. This is a sector that has truly suffered for innovation. I've tried to use two or three between a Sony watch to a palm connector watch. Nike has done a pretty cool thing with their sport bracelet, but it fails on Android horribly. At least make an device/app that does a crap load more than track forward motion and time. PLEASE do so.
I saw this coming from a mile away as soon as I saw the map go up yesterday. I think the real debate is mental health and deeper checks on those who are at higher risk of violence in the mental health community. The stigma also needs to be removed from our culture of such diseases so we as a culture can move beyond the gun debate and concentrate on those who lash out with violence. As a gun owner, I am both for stricter controls but its obvious that gun control only affects those who are legally looking to buy guns .. not the violent offenders in our culture.
Re:Stop Generalizing About Europe on Thursday December 27, 2012 @12:13PM (#4974012)
My 2c, is stop trying to be one nation then. The EU zone is something of a fiasco and its really killing the entire zone with countries like Turkey and Greece. Don't blame us .. blame your governing body for making it difficult to operate in Europe.
Yup, I've read that. The account by the reporter from Outdoors (?) was extremely graphic in detail (but disputed by others in the party). Sad all around, but through those deaths came better regulation which has led to a 1:7 ration of attempts/deaths vs. 1:4 in previous years.
I read Into Thin Air, about the 1996 account by a reporter who was with the crew that lost 4 members. After poking around I saw someone saying the Sherpas will kick bodies in the crevasses and they wash out in the Spring. Sad, but with a rate of 1:4 before 1996, then 1:7 after on death ratios its gotten much better. However, it takes money/balls/stupidity to climb that thing.
Can you find the dead climber? That's the real question. I found one already.