Samuel_Michon

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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
"As a multi-screen kind of guy, I will definitely leave the platform once the only upgrade path left is the iMac." You can connect two external screens to an iMac, making a total of three screens. http://gigaom.com/apple/new-27-inch-imac-s
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Jobs attributed it to Picasso, but there's no record that Picasso ever said such a thing. T.S. Eliot did write something like it: "One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Im
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Nope.
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
I've put a lot of time into making a home network with both Vista and XP. It's near impossible. I'm not dumb, Windows is dumb.
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Bill Gates quit his day job at Microsoft in 2008. Microsoft Vista was released in 2006, they had worked on it since 2001. So Bill Gates was very much responsible for Vista.
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Doesn't work in Mobile Safari. (Does it use legacy technologies like Flash or Java?)
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by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
Moncton is a city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Svperbolide, Meteordvst, Spacedvst, Bvrst, Sodivm, Spectrvm, Eqvinox, Tempel-tvttle, Altitvde, Baetylvs, Svrface, Chondrvle, Dvstbowl, Lvnar, Vrth, etc etc.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
The iTunes Music Store has been around since 2003. It has been three years since all DRM has been removed and files are 256kbit/s AAC. Granted, this happened despite the music industry's efforts, it took a lot of pressure from Apple to ge
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
The country is called 'The Netherlands', not 'Holland'. 'Holland' is used to refer to two western provinces in The Netherlands (out of twelve). On-topic: Florian Mueller did a more comprehensive write-up on the case: http://fosspatents.blo
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"Android handsets vs iPhones", not "Android vs iOS". iOS as a platform includes iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and AppleTV. We'll have to wait until tomorrow [1] to find out whether Android as a platform has a bigger marketshare than iOS does. [1
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
I'm guessing he's referring to Roman Polanski (sex with a 13 year old girl) and Victor Salva (sex with a 12 year old boy). I wouldn't say that '2' is 'so many Hollywood directors'. Media are quick to call those acts 'pedophilia', which is a
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Ah yes, that SEPR does have an ad block with background color #FDF6E5. However, that color is only 10% yellow. Objectively, that should present a very faint yellow. If you're seeing a gold-ish yellow background, then your monitor is set to
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
My monitor is calibrated properly, so I checked. The color yellow in that screenshot is very faint. It's HTML color #fef5e4, which is 10% yellow and little else. Then I compared it with the ad background on a live SEPR, which was rendered a
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Do you really think there was a time in which every new movie was a masterpiece? I seriously doubt it, and I don't think movies are worse now than they were 10 or 20 years a go.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Most good blogs and communities are more specialized than that. Aspiring screenwriters go to John August's blog [1], documentary filmmakers go to The D-Word [2], cinematographers go to forums like DVXUser [3] and RED User [4], sound folks g
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"So what have they done lately?" Not even counting foreign films, here are some darn good productions from the past five years: Midnight in Paris, Hugo, Drive, Warrior, Black Swan, Inception, Inglourious Basterds, Up, Whatever Works, The
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"Clearly Apple sees this as a way to build a library of 'exclusive' content in iBooks and mute the Kindle threat. For me at least that shows me just how threatening the Kindle Fire is to their model." iBooks Author is not a reaction to th
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"Does Microsoft charge you a fee to develop and sell an app?" If you want to sell your mobile app in Microsoft's Marketplace, then yes. They charge the same as Apple does in the iOS App Store. If you want to sell your desktop app in Micro
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Live Update: Apple's January 19 education event(macworld.com)
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
20 cities is hardly "every city". I tried 'frrole.com/mycity', expecting a page to be generated on the fly, but no such luck. Should be possible though, and then you could legitimately state that you offer results for every city. It would a
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Yes, but only for 12 hours, starting tomorrow at 8am ET: "Reddit will not be offering its regular service between the hours of 8AM ET and 8PM ET, which is also when Mozilla will be redirecting the Mozilla.org and Mozilla.com English webpag
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Wikipedia now serves a tasteful dark page. The page has a link thats reads "Learn more" [1], but since it links to a page on Wikipedia, it's blacked out as well. I'm not so sure whether that is intentional. Edit: they fixed it, so apparentl
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Or just use Encarta 1996 on CD-ROM, as I'm sure Mr. Smith does. How much could the world have possibly changed?
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Oh, I'm not Codecademy staff, I just read the post a bit more careful than jleader had.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
So here's a guy who lives in California, which used to be part of the Wild West. He wants to broaden his horizon by visiting some other countries. Then he comes back from his trip and writes: "the world isn't the wild west that some people
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
The first meeting is on February 7th in Santa Monica: http://www.meetup.com/codeyear/Los-Angeles-CA/
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"you're right, as is the previous commenter who speculated that I have a copy from work (no one considered GIMP? :) )" I did consider it, but I saw screenshots of the Photoshop toolbox in one of the chapters of your publication The Basta
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
He didn't mention the costs of his computer either, so he must've stolen that too? But srsly, I think we can be sure that he has a legal copy of Photoshop. From the bio on his employer's website [1]: "Dan Nguyen is a news application devel
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
So your answer to my question is 'no'. Android 2.1 came out on January 12, 2010 (2 years). Android 2.2 came out on May 20, 2010 (20 months).

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