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FreeOrion is great! Easy to play on the Surface while sitting by the TV with the wife.
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As long as you don't scratch the surface of the wife of course 
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I thought this was an ad for google drive. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Same here. I was going to point out that if even MS rolled that sort of offering back, who are these guys to try it...?
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Thanks for posting, I'll check it out tonight. I'm only confused about the 'subscribe for 12$' button on top of that page - does it mean that newsletter subscription costs money? That could hardly be called a freebie, if that's the case.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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That's only if you want "Battletech" apparently, freebies must be er... free !
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Quote: Three lenses are a lot better than two - unless they send you reeling in disgust.
That's the unexpected reaction thousands of Apple fans shared on social media as images spread of the back of the new phone, where the trio of lenses are crowded into a small square near the top left corner. The backlash comes from people who say they suffer from an obscure and perplexing condition called "trypophobia" - a fear of clusters of small holes like those found in shoe treads, honeycombs and lotus seed pods. Essex University Professor Geoff Cole, a self-diagnosed trypophobe and researcher in the United Kingdom who studies the condition calls it "the most common phobia you have never heard of."
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I have a suspicion the whole article is a hoax.
Silly me, there I was worrying about my telomeric mortality clock ticking away towards disincarnation.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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It's may not be a hoax. Trypophobia[^] has only been discovered (recognized) in the Web age because although many people suffered this they felt like they were alone in the odd revulsion of these types of things.
My wife had mentioned it to me years ago and then I picked up a magazine one day (7-10 years ago) and it discussed this issue. I tested her with a lotus blossom seed pod[^] and she had a huge reaction. I felt bad at the time. We were both amazed that it was a thing. I believe that seed pod is what made a lot of people on the web to start to notice it was a more common experience.
I mentioned it to a co-worker and she said, "yes, I hate it!" It's prevalence is higher among women. The coworker mentioned making a cake where she pushes holes into the cake and pours chocolate and she said she gags the entire time she is making the cake.
It's an interesting phenomena.
modified 12-Sep-19 12:05pm.
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The picture looks like some seriously ill skin... Must be an evolved disease avoidance mechanism....
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Interesting, we got lotsa lotuses around here (Thailand), and I love seeing them in their natural watery element. And, they are used as food, in medicine, as well as devotional offerings (tamboon) to temples.
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: we got lotsa lotuses around here (Thailand), and I love seeing them in their natural watery element. And, they are used as food, in medicine, as well as devotional offerings (tamboon) to temples
Very interesting. Have you lived in Thailand your entire life? just curious.
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@raddevus
I've been in Thailand a total of 14 years in two "eternities" separated by six years back in the US.
Prior to that, other than a year in India 44 years ago, I have lived in the US.
I'd guess I am on my third life, probably the last one, here in Amazing Thailand 
cheers, Bill
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: I've been in Thailand a total of 14 years in two "eternities" separated by six years back in the US
Very cool. I wonder if you went there for work or simply because it is a great place?
Are you a software dev, a hardware dev, both or something else? Again, just curious.
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raddevus wrote: I tested her with a lotus blossom seed pod[^] and she had a huge reaction
Oh yes it is Trypophobia pretty much real and that photos of lotus seed pod has spooked me as well. It felt like, oh! what did I just saw and now I want to unsee it. 
However those 3 holes in iPhone are not that gross.
You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.
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I am going to guess that the next one will have a beer bottle opener built into it.
If that is the case I will actually consider purchasing one.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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wrong. samsung also have 3-lenses, next it'll be 5 lenses (remembering the chinese think 4 is bad luck, and even though they hate USA they can't get enough of "USA made.")
it's lens war now!
... if people are getting freaked by 3 lenses wait till the whole back cover get's lensed - even the flies will be jealous
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now, that's thinking out of the box ! given the upscale customers of the iPhone, perhaps a corkscrew on the highest end models ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Nokia says hold my beer.
Nokia 9 PureView has 5 rear cameras: yawn - CNET (also 2 not-cameras for 6 way rotational symmetry)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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No, it'll be an iBottle opener, and iBottles will contain iBeer (which is like regular beer, but flatter, colourless, and much, much more expensive). Oh and the taste will change every six months and will require a new iGlass connector.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The Apple Launch was a bit lacklustre but we all knew what was coming, so the [insert company de jour] hating will be a little moreone-sided given that the faithful don't have as much oomph to defend.
Even so, Huawei released a camera last year whose camera bump looks pretty much the same as the iPhone, so people will just slam on whatever they can to feel important.
Having said that, Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Having said that, Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave.
interesting, Chris, i personally don't have a dog in this race ... my rarely used mobile is (by choice) a lowest cost un-smart Samsung: no internet, no camera. i've lost track of what's what at Apple
of course, i am surrounded by a culture in which almost always-on mobile use, and constant messaging, is rampant. i see relatively poor kids sporting iKnockOffs, pretending to take selfies 
"spinning in his grave" ? because of general lack of "insanely great" innovation ? because of losing the ability to define innovation by becoming just another horse in the optics race ?
while i think Apple doing tv/audio streaming services is weird, i wonder what Steve would have thought about that.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: because of general lack of "insanely great" innovation
No, because of the dilution of focus. Steve was fixated on simplifying things.
First, we now have 6 different phone models to choose from. Instead of producing "a phone, the perfect phone" they are producing a Big Phone, a Not As Big Phone, and a "cheaper" phone. So basically a super expensive phone, large size / medium size, and then an entry level phone for those who can't expense this to their company. Except they are also still keeping the older, much cheaper versions because they want to offer a cheap phone without offering an actual cheap phone. A very passive way of saying "yeah, our phones are too expensive but we're not bold enough to say so explicitly.
Second, the design is complicated. It doesn't have that smooth, no features, no buttons, just a polished piece of perfection that Steve was always pushing. It's a compromised design of function over form (which is often how people, especially engineers think they want) that says "we weren't pushed hard enough to do better". They could have made the camera cluster be more elegant but they didn't. They focused on keeping the phone thin instead of keeping it beautiful. And the irony is the new phone is thicker. But who actually will notice? No one, but everyone will see that camera cluster.
When Steve came back to Apple the first thing he did was trim the bloated product line up that was massively confusing to customers and employees. Apple is drifting (maybe racing) right back to that point and it's like a slow motion car crash.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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thanks, Chris, i see the points you are making.
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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BillWoodruff wrote: a fear of clusters of small holes like those found in shoe treads, honeycombs and lotus seed pods.
Oh come on, they leave out the obvious - spider eyes! And yes, they lenses on the iPhone do look creepy. I wouldn't want that staring up at me in the middle of the night!
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one of the recent seasons of American Horror Story used specific images to set off that phobia, in their intro (though not so much in the story).
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