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by ableal 12y ago
> let them grow up to the point that they can choose for themselves Do you have any advice on what to do when eleven year olds want to get Instagram and Facebook accounts by themselves?
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by ableal 12y ago
It gets expensive, in direct and environmental costs, when you end up building additional small dams just for that. Around here those costs were quietly palmed off on consumers, while the virtues of wind power were being sung.
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by ableal 12y ago
The bit about the Antarctic water "bulb" mining and subsequent sewage dumping to fill the hollow reminded me of a bit of fiction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_7_%28novel%29 - not mentioned in the wiki
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Microsoft Believes It Is Going to Die(pcmag.com)
5 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
> you maybe removed or debarred from Federal Service (5 C.F.R. part 731) One does not want to mess with organizations that have "part 731" of anything.
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Apple proves that moats are for dummies(cringely.com)
2 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
> Karel Čapek (inventor of word robot) Funnily enough, his robots were actually androids - biological, rather than mechanical, beings. He also wrote, in 1922, a pantheistic gem called The Absolute at Large: mankind finds out how to get e
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by ableal 12y ago
(Just a short note on an irksome phrase in that piece:) "This is because in Portugal owning your own house or apartment has always been such a matter of pride that it is the first choice of most people, even young adults." That&
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Taking measurement’s measure(roughtype.com)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
It's funny that no one is checking serial numbers. Nowadays it would not be too hard to look up in a database if the number was issued, is in use elsewhere, or belongs to a destroyed note. Privacy, cost and protocol issues left as an e
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by ableal 12y ago
True, but the animation is correct: because of a messed up succession, all of Portugal belonged to the Spanish crown from 1580 to 1640 - Felipe II of Spain was Filipe I of Portugal (followed by III/II and IV/III). In 1640 Portuga
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by ableal 12y ago
(I'll indulge myself with a note excerpting some bits) """ [...] The Stages of Employment SURVIVAL STAGE. When first hired, this is critical. If you cannot last a week because you said something stupid or broke some unkn
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Deconstructing Corporate Culture to Find Microsoft's Soul(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 12y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Word. The other day I typed the correct name of an app into the Apple web search box, no hits. Try Google, first hit straight to the app store. Last month I posted the John Dvorak piece where he suggests Apple should buy themselves some sea
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by ableal 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_saecula_saeculorum : "The saeculum in Roman antiquity was the potential maximal human lifespan, or roughly a century"
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Indie ISP to Netflix: Give it a rest – The other side of the debate(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
No, the way this uncertainty thing goes is that you can know, but then you do not talk. (Maybe.)
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by ableal 12y ago
Thanks for the id. I took a peek at the first few pages here: http://books.google.com/books?id=kh8NbTzaalwC&printsec=front...
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by ableal 12y ago
Somewhat apropos, my favorite long-time earworm: Wreck, by Gentle Giant, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6n8-b7uk9E
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IBM and Apple just not that big a deal(cringely.com)
63 points by ableal 12y ago|39 comments
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A Modest Proposal for the Telephone Network(apenwarr.ca)
1 points by ableal 12y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
> only 6 data-points Eight, seems to me. Agreed on the Excel behaviour. Also, the blog post states: "ticks on the x-axis are separated by 20, 50, 43, 37, 20, 20, and 22 years." The first two ticks are 1700 and 1820, so 120 ye
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30 years of X(lwn.net)
2 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
> Online multiplayer doesn't happen well without servers to mediate the experience. Those servers cost money. This remains a massive unsolved problem in the gaming industry. Coming to think of it, I believe Disney has a good solutio
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by ableal 12y ago
We're talking ten year old children, in my experience. I'm slightly amazed at how much they love playing Minecraft. With home WiFi they can run their own servers in their touch devices, and run around in each others play areas. P.
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IBM back in the USSR?(cringely.com)
3 points by ableal 12y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 12y ago
Well, in the past there was also some hoopla about IBM's Josephson junction and Intel's bubble memories. After a few years, the subject goes away to die in encyclopedia articles. If you do not have a viable product after six years
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by ableal 12y ago
I liked Konqueror as a web browser. Nice touches such as stopping image animations ...
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by ableal 12y ago
"Watson’s budget, if the rumors I heard are true (and I knew a couple of people on the Jeopardy team so I didn’t doubt them) IBM spent north of $1 Billion to win that game. Marketing and Research shared the cost." (I don't
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by ableal 12y ago
Contributed by a commenter on J.C. Dvorak's "How Long Before Apple Gets a Search Engine?", http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2458892,00.asp , musing along the same lines.

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