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> Had an issue with this today in a word document with tables Please be kind and file an issue and provide the test-case. thank you.
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Unless we are talking about templates and cookie-cutter apps, this whole thing has little meaning. Really good stuff is done by hackers and painters, therefore when you estimate your costs, you only tend to see the canvas and a little gouac
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To help develop your argument, try: Edward Bernays: Propaganda or the movie "version": Century of the Self (both on archive.org, btw Adam Curtis is about as underrated as Robert Fisk -- no means by accident) Manufacturing Consent (same spir
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I always thought Al Gore was the Father of the Internet. This whole PR is just plain BS. Data packets with headers [cribs] routed over a digital communications network -- look beyond the mythical van in California. Look for inspirations fro
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http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/
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It is not uncommon to have green light for buses (esp. w. bus lanes) before the other traffic gets the green.
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Are those really buss[^H]es or are they trains? You can cross the bus with the tram: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Trolleybus ...with the articulated bus: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Articulated_b...
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Think of it the other way around: cars don't drive underneath, but the bus drives above the stationary cars in the congested metropolis.
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I find it very hard to believe, that he independently invented the mouse (ten years later?), given both spent their youths in the military as radar operators doing tracking. http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/millennium/fp6000/fp6000_datar.htm...
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...only if it is repeated enough times.
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This is just PR, literally. In a magazine. Just as TimBL, and the other claimants of hypertext/network/technology pieces in the comments below. The story is not unlike the one about going to the Moon. Verne wrote about it. Physicists judged
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The US Constitution is known to have failed. On several levels. I think I should say right away an unpleasant fact which is barely if ever mentioned in American school books - the founders were not interested in founding a democracy. -- I
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NDA, but remains a fact, nevertheless...
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Fact: some non-US companies explicitly forbid their people to search using google, especially patents through google's service.
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Neumann's totem
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-pin_bowling some missing links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti#Defence_electronics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DATAR#The_DATAR_prototype
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http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/#anchor_demos Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel y
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It is a form of content protection: accessibility to hw to deal with it will be much further down the road for consumers than monopolies. Old format will be "good enough" for home video until the inevitable comes. Would GOOG fast-track vp
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OpenWRT runs on loads of "obsolete" hardware, MIPS being highly popular. Recover any of the below (second hand, online market, forums) and you got yourself an efficient home server, preferably with USB for storage. Gives you VPN, dropbox wi
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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009
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I tend to agree with this piece: http://www.osnews.com/print/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Vid... Mandating strong legally enforced controls over image compression algorithms do result in a READ-ONLY CULTURE: http://www.ted.com/talks/larr
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It now gives me great pleasure to introduce [...] iPhoto and iMovie revolutionized the ability of consumers to organize, edit and display [note: the missing word, create] digital photography and video. Putting capabilities that once cost
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Yes, essentially what this is supposed to mean, is that the detector is (statistically speaking :) working. Although B - or beauty - physics was the selling point at the time for the experiment, very few are deeply excited about it (SLAC Ba
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Thanks for your posts! I've learned more about programming (as in doing so) than at my university. And it helped me recognize the patterns you dissected when on my first job -- made it much easier to quit.
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Thank you very much!
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Ghostery, NoScript, Adblock Plus, Better Privacy, CustomizeGoogle and ixquick. + privoxy/GlimmerBlocker & http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Those who spy do not call it spying, it is those upon whom the spies spy who rightly c
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Building up a patent portfolio by engaging in defensive patenting cannot always protect against hold-up. -- Federal Trade Commission of the USA http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/dangers/investment.htm...
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bs. GOOG is business, not personal -- inherently no privacy. Along with the running-up fanfare of "privacy settings", GOOG knows exactly what it is doing. And the title just emphasizes cynicism: It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to
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Charles H. Ferguson, High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner's Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars (W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).
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will never harm anyone's ability to tinker with technology that want to. There will always be platforms that are open by design No. Freedom is never granted: it is use or loose it. Most posters miss the cultural aspect, which is mor
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