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by ableal 11y ago
Elektor, Omni, and Playboy. The last one was a bit repetitive. (... repe tit ive? Your Honor, totally unintended.)
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by ableal 11y ago
> I didn't read the full article Please do. It's not that long. And the comment that GP mentioned is quite good, too. You'd save us all some time.
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by ableal 11y ago
"The company was so in love with P.C.s (the hub for all things and for all time to come) that it came late to the Internet and much, much too late to mobile phones." In the early 2000s, Microsoft did try pushing tablet computers
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by ableal 11y ago
The Rolls ad is a blast. The man sure loved to toss some emphasis in them there texts ...
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by ableal 11y ago
Found prices and specs here (redirected from surface.com): http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us Page's not looking too good on Mac Safari, though.
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by ableal 11y ago
> core principles are summarized in his "house ad": http://smartonlinesuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/dav... "#32 Yes people read long copy [...] (This page contains 1909 words
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Hemingway in Love(smithsonianmag.com)
36 points by ableal 11y ago|14 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
Thanks, that clears it up. Weird that they didn't put in a reference to close kin 'staircase wit': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier
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by ableal 11y ago
[Off topic, curious bit in the original teardown:] "We noticed a distinct lack of cables connecting the power supply to the logic board. We're theorizing the power is either transmitted by magic, or through the heat sink screw po
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by ableal 11y ago
> The room is 4 x 4 meters. > The strips require a 5V supply, and will consume 57.6 Amperes at full brightness. [later, really -5% or so, fine] > The light created looks very cool, even if a bit eerie. Nothing in the room casts a s
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by ableal 11y ago
> released a different set code I believe that, for instance, the GPL demands the toolchain be replicable. So under that constraint - really basic for any scientific purpose - the first test would be to run the proverbial 'make; mak
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by ableal 11y ago
Nice work. A few compass roses tossed on the page at suitable intervals might help orientation (as in "which way is the sunset here?").
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by ableal 11y ago
The "sola lingua bona est lingua mortua" version is listed as "Dog Latin" (or mock Latin) in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(S) (Perhaps "unum bonum lingua mortua" wo
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by ableal 11y ago
Sheesh, people, masklinn is just quoting old "westerns" that used to be mainstream fifty years ago. And providing useful info. Calm down, please. (P.S. Nowadays all that is being remade with "zombies", probably because i
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Hemingway in Love(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
[PDF is a bitmap scan, I transcribed a couple of phrases that interested me.] """ Across the map of Europe, only two regions even approach the ideal of a centralized nation state united in language, religion and collective cu
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by ableal 11y ago
Yogi Bear gets his name translated. In Portuguese he's Zé Colmeia (Joe Beehive).
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by ableal 11y ago
> Japan did invade China during WWII. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War Started well before (1937) and ended a month later, to be precise.
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by ableal 11y ago
> an odd mistake for a historian to make. [final footnote, wrong temple] Well, the text also swaps eastern for western when referring to an emperor ... I don't think I ever read a text so ambiguous about its own declared thesis - th
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by ableal 11y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Summa-Technologiae-Electronic-Mediatio... (Summa Technologiae at amazon.com)
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The Shepherd’s Crown: A quiet end to the Discworld series(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
Report by another French site: http://www.20minutes.fr/medias/1675731-20150831-gorafi-fini P.S. Quoted reply basically says they see no future in web publishing, and expect an internet bubble burst shortly. Which the r
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Windows 95 is 20 years old today(theverge.com)
15 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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A life in feuds: how Gore Vidal gripped a nation(theguardian.com)
1 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
'Fugger teamed up with another Habsburg client, for whom he had bought the archbishopric of Mainz, and the pair began to sell indulgences (a forgiveness of sins, which provided, for a fee, a short cut to heaven), splitting the proceed
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by ableal 11y ago
"Regulatory body : City Zoning Commission ; Comments section"
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by ableal 11y ago
"five-volume survey of the geological history of America" (I don't have a point, I just like the phrase.)
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by ableal 11y ago
"I watch the children watching TV and at first I am afraid of what they are being taught, and then I realise, They can’t be corrupted or destroyed. They watch, they listen, they understand, and, then, where and when it is necessary, t
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Sex, Lies, and Lawsuits (2013)(vanityfair.com)
2 points by ableal 11y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 11y ago
(2012)

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