piaskal

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Comment · 13 years ago
If you have a smart TV you probably want to browse the web on it.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
It's so easy to access all kinds of information from home nowadays, it can be better at fulfilling my curiosity than going out.
Comment · 14 years ago
Google is already storing urls to those files.
Comment · 15 years ago
This is a nice example of simple evolutionary algorithm. Next steps could be separating crossover and mutate operations, selecting more parent pairs for crossover and applying mutation in a more random fashion (not with every crossover).
Comment · 15 years ago
I'd use random data to make it hard to compress. You don't know if there won't be some link layer compression along the way.
Comment · 15 years ago

    most people are not intelligent enough 
    to use modern tools (computers) effectively
Most people have never been taught how to use computers effectively.
Comment · 15 years ago
This is great. Nobody ever travels from airport to airport, yet every flight search engine insists that you enter departure and destination airport names instead of places you actually want to go to. How am I supposed to know what airports are nearby a place I've never been before?
Comment · 15 years ago
Id games have lot's of artwork, levels, etc. that is not released under GPL. In minecraft it's users that create the content. Id can release their engines under GPL without harming their sales.

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