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by TetOn 17y ago
I'm not so sure. If they provided the information content of the paper , including crosswords and other things they currently charge extra for, allowed me to format the daily information dump in the way I see fit, and reduced the number of
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by TetOn 17y ago
Even with push, TextFree (or AIM, for that matter) can't be even reasonably disruptive to iPhone texting rates until they are ubiquitously distributed. Unless and until Apple makes AIM (or something like it) a default app or an alternate ca
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by TetOn 17y ago
Nonsensical argument based on mortality rates between teens and 30s, precisely before obesity-related health effects begin to kick in. What's truly terrifying, and mentioned not at all by TFA, is that we're seeing an uptick on when said
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by TetOn 17y ago
No, but you can plug a set of earphones with a mic into it and it will work.
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by TetOn 17y ago
Greetings from the future: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/technology/personaltech/04...
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by TetOn 17y ago
The key distinction being the ability to find the URLs that you don't know by fishing for the one piece you do remember, that may (inconveniently) not be until the end of the URL. An example: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/ which I
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by TetOn 17y ago
Yes. With the requisite warnings about "no connection present" duly dismissed (this is an iPod Touch 2.0, so no AT&T network backstopping it either), I can browse my GMail inbox, read messages, make changes, and perform seemingly any "n
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by TetOn 17y ago
Also interesting to note that this sort of rich web app is the way Palm Pre development is (supposedly) going to work...
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by TetOn 18y ago
The X reasons you should be doing Y
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by TetOn 18y ago
Predictably, "Continued on page 2>>" doesn't make the list.
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by TetOn 18y ago
What I find disturbing in this piece is the seemingly massive false equivalency being perpetrated. Donating a kidney is not like giving blood. This is a major operation and carries with it an assortment of long-term health risks to both the
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by TetOn 18y ago
But Google is specifically digitizing the entire holdings of well stocked libraries, such as Harvard's. This activity directly argues against the thesis of the article: if we assume for the moment that any and all rights issues are resolved
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by TetOn 18y ago
>solving the last-mile problem. I think the only way you can hope to achieve this is through zoning and long-term alteration of how cities are built. Sprawly cities like Houston et al. can't possibly hope to build out any right-of-way b
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by TetOn 18y ago
The most remarkable thing about this article is that it isn't spread over 15 pages. They can't quite bring themselves to get it down to one, but limiting any of these "X greatest Y things" articles to two clicks is major progress. And, inde
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by TetOn 18y ago
Did you mean the Apple //? (Also would have accepted Apple ][.)
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by TetOn 18y ago
"very long rant about the mere premise of this article. Please, for the love of god, let. it. go." I think you and many others are missing the premise of the article, if you bothered to read it at all. 9.11 is merely a setting for the image