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Chrome market-share hits new overnight high of 1.57%
(marketshare.hitslink.com)
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Chrome's market share may reach 20 percent in 2 years
(business24-7.ae)
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Are You a Crackpot Inventor? A simple test to save us all a lot of time.
(robertplattbell.blogspot.com)
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Chrome doesn't pose a threat to Firefox (for the next year atleast) Check the hourly Chrome chart: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?sample=21&qp... Chrome has already eclipsed Opera and Netscape. http://marketshare.hitsl
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Microsoft ... should offer 64-bit as default on new builds Dragon NaturallySpeaking -- even the just-released v.10 -- only runs on 32-bit Windows. http://www.google.com/search?q=naturallyspeaking+32+64+windo...
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=294314
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The $109,000 price can only be locked-in until the end of 2008. I think it can reasonably be anticipated that the 2010 Tesla Roadster will be $119,000.
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I expect, additionally, Chrome for Symbian, WinCE, and iPhone. http://comments.deasil.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-could-be... Google doesn’t need it’s own phone OS, they just need to get apps onto Symbian, iPhone and WinMob.
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Cuil Whipped. Cuil has dropped to almost zero usage share.
(marketshare.hitslink.com)
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Online IQ-tests are not standardized. There are online IQ-conversion tables for SAT and GRE scores: http://www.iqcomparisonsite.com/GREIQ.aspx One can learn more about IQ testing from these books: http://www.amazon.com/Bias-Mental-Testin
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You either read or remembered wrong, or that source was referring to something like an explosives-grade uranium dart being dropped through one or more explosives-grade uranium donuts and from a great height. That method would not work for p
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we should be worried that someone will kidnap some Plutonium. Why steal it, when it is so easy to make? it is difficult to get Plutonium (even explosives-grade) is not difficult to get. All one needs is a uranium-fueled research reactor
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John Aristotle Phillips ... designed a nuclear bomb as a junior paper. No. http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html#4 The effort by the Princeton student, John Phillips, was much more widely publicized. He made extravagant c
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On the subject of naming, I think this should be thrown out there: http://www.thenameinspector.com Need naming help? Ask The Name Inspector.
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This person's issue is basically (acoustical) noise. He needs to soundproof his home-office. He should visit this website and contact Ted White: http://www.soundproofingcompany.com To soundproof, one needs to viscoelastically damp the wal
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I've been in situations where someone came up with something very interesting but there was the possibility of patent infringement due to some broad patent, so you had to either license the technology) or reimplement. No. If one can impro
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It's hard to overstate the impact of going from conventional bombs (killing groups of people) to atomic bombs (wiping out entire cities). Actually, overstatment of the impact of going from conventional to "atomic" bombs is the norm. http
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Does this help you?: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf05.htm Most radiation exposure is from natural sources. These include: radioactivity in rocks and soil of the earth's crust; radon, a radioactive gas from the earth and present in
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Many consumer chips targeted at consumer applications, like those above, don’t have to be that fast. Other types of chips that don’t require speed as a differentiator, such as power management chips or RF chips that have antenna modificati
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The same goes for utility ([Edit: providing typically, when valuable, broad] protection of gadget, process, [Edit: software], etc.) patents: http://robertplattbell.blogspot.com/2007/10/file-early-file-... In Pfaff, Justice Stevens wrot
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Apple is BSD-based, not linux based. being BSD-based is most certainly not innovative http://www.google.com/search?q=apple+osx+nextstep "It would be an understatement to say that OS X is derived from NEXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. In many respe
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I'm not sure if anyone's used nuclear-powered spacecraft closer to the sun http://www.google.com/search?q=rtg+sun+nasa+Ulysses Ulysses was in the news in 1996-1997 because NASA's Cassini-RTG decision was being criticized. The argument w