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Re:Lenovo Computers, Soon To Be Made In America on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @03:38AM (#4606298)
How does increasing manufacturing efficiency lead to low hourly pay for the workers? That doesn't make sense. I'd expect fewer workers, but higher hourly pay.
Re:Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros on Monday June 11, 2012 @05:13PM (#4097047)
It's quiet because the Mac Pro upgrade was not announced in their big announcement, but only with a little "New" sign on their webstore after the show.
If anyone can hear it, then surely it must have been verified through a double-blind test. Can you provide a citation?
Re:Why wait? How Congress could fix copyright now on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @01:27PM (#3649004)
While I agree that 2-3 years is probably too short time, your reasoning is wrong. The purpose of copyright should be to incentivise the creation of creative works, not to perpetually reward the owners of works with a sustained commercial value.
Re:Apple announces Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Thursday February 16, 2012 @10:13AM (#3598978)
LTS releases are every 24 months.
Re:Feds, Please Return My Personal Files Stored at MegaUpload on Friday January 20, 2012 @12:32PM (#3490273)
Yes you can. If you delete an item from your Dropbox you can see it by choosing "Show deleted files" from here you can choose to permanently delete the file. In my testing this also removes any trace of the file ever being created from Events. While Dropbox certainly could be keeping an undeletable log of everything you ever upload, there is no evidence that they are doing so.
Re:Distrusting git on Saturday October 01, 2011 @07:57PM (#3061517)
Aside from having to import data from case-sensitive environments, could you give an example of a case where you would actually /want/ you filesystem to be case-sensitive? When would it ever, be a good idea to have two distinct files called readme.txt and README.txt?