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by Perceval 16y ago
To make the end-run complete, Apple would have to convince carriers to treat text messages (IMs basically) as data instead of SMS.
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by Perceval 16y ago
Some of these things may be going away in Fx4.0. The UI for 4.0 will probably move to tabs-on-top, although it looks like there may be an option to return to tabs-on-bottom: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/4.0_Windows_Theme_Mockups Some
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Any kill switch capability that is built in will simply become another vector for attack—in this case an attack that overrides the core competency of the Internet which is massive redundancy in case any one section fails. It is almost a cer
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by Perceval 16y ago
This is more or less how I played tennis in high school. I never had the best skills, but my doubles partner and I were great at getting under the skin of our opponents—essentially making them play down to us. The whole purpose of drilling
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by Perceval 16y ago
If you're on a Mac, it's rendered in Times (the Linotype version) rather than Times New Roman (the Monotype version).
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by Perceval 16y ago
> and "1", "1", "1" for your results. It's random! That's the problem with random, you can never be sure: http://www.dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000...
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Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli once dismissed a muddled analysis of a physics problem saying, "It's not right. It's not even wrong."
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The New Progressive Party is the right-wing party in Puerto Rico. It was founded by Republicans and most of its leadership is affiliated with the Republicans. It's the left-wing parties of Puerto Rico that are the ones that favor free asso
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Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution provides for a federal district (distinct from the states) to serve as the seat of government. The location of the federal district was a result of a compromise between Hamilton, Madison, and Jeffers
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I wonder why there are no valid patterns for 87 stars?
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The short answer is yes. In general, any editor is allowed to quote/cite relevant text, even if that text comes from a blog (regardless of the who wrote the blog). The long answer is that if the article's content is disputed such a scheme
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by Perceval 16y ago
As an administrator in my sixth year now, I thought I'd weigh in on one of the issues you brought up. It is a widely held (and enforced) belief that, when wanting to state that something was said in a book, only a secondary source can be c
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by Perceval 16y ago
While I agree with you 100% about the tired rehashing of notability guidelines every time someone has their pet article deleted, I do want to nitpick one issue. You write: " Wikipedia is not an effort to organize all the world's information
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I can see why "encouragement and bias" might account for higher male achievement, but not why that would at the same time account for lower male achievement.
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Safari Extensions seems to be basically the same technology that went into their Dashboard widgets. I wonder if Apple has been reaching out to all the Dashboard widget creators to see if they want to develop for Safari too? I wonder how cl
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by Perceval 16y ago
> After using so much aluminum in recent hardware designs, it’s interesting that they’re using stainless steel for the iPhone 4. I wonder if this is related to the steel frame serving as the iPhone's antenna. Would steel be a better m
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by Perceval 16y ago
Ecclesiastes 9:11 I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance hap
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by Perceval 16y ago
The traditional safe havens for people worried about fiat currency have been gold and silver. This sets them apart from other commodities. All commodities, including gold and silver, are used to hedge against inflation. But gold and silv
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by Perceval 16y ago
Not entirely. Greece and Italy cannot issue the currency in which their debt is denominated. The Germans (and French to a lesser extent) control the ECB. The U.S. can issue the currency its debt is denominated in. That puts us in a di
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BeOS and QNX both featured work by Dominic Giampaolo. He now works at Apple on their file system and Spotlight.
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Vegans have a hard time (re)gaining weight.
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Google reportedly has a modified version of LTS Ubuntu used internally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goobuntu
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> The implicit message of the Macintosh, as unforgettably expressed in the great "1984" commercial, was Power to the People. Jobs's vision of Web objects serves a different mandate: Give the People What They Want. This seems to echo a
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by Perceval 16y ago
I liked the 1900–1920 ones best. There's no point in trying to pretend that the categories are scientific/natural or otherwise given. Might as well let people just fill in whatever they self-identify as. Would probably yield more interes
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Ceterum autem censeo, Blackboardinem esse delendam!
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Because income is heavily skewed by outliers (e.g. Bill Gates), it makes more sense to look at the median income alongside the average income. Median household income with 1.35 earners and 2.57 household members is $44,389. That's less
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by Perceval 16y ago
Bach may have been fired precisely because HP bought Palm rather than continuing as a Windows Mobile customer: http://blog.asymco.com/2010/05/25/the-reason-robbie-bach-was... J Allard has apparently ruled out working for Google or Apple,
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It will be interesting to see if startups born in a global credit crunch will do better than the dotcoms born in an easy credit bubble.
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Actually, their P/E ratio has been steadily declining over the past five years, even as their stock price has risen dramatically. Usually a stock is considered overvalued if the P/E ratio is really high. But this chart (stock price on top
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Here's a video of that keynote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHNrqPkefI

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