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by ableal 14y ago
"[...] is a lamentably cretinous miscreant and a primitive armpit-licking mass of neuroses and pathologies." "[...] is a sickly backward scoundrel and a belligerent toe-sucking piece of excrement attached to a dogs posterior." I sense a
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On Win8 launch day a look back at Steve Ballmer, circa 2001(cringely.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
> maximum bang for the bunk That ranks up with "rear-window defrogger" and "string-loaded door" in my collection of amusing typos ...
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by ableal 14y ago
Apple are exploiting one obvious flaw of the current "accepted wisdom" - that 16:9 movie-oriented wide-screens are to be foisted on all devices in sight. Personally, I'm grateful someone is sticking to the 4:3 aspect ratio. If that made a c
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by ableal 14y ago
Thanks for the tip. Explicit support for the DX is missing in the more recent releases. There seems to be some help here: http://flip.netzbeben.de/2010/11/duokan-available-with-engli... (via FAQ at http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showth
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by ableal 14y ago
The Asymco.com site seems to have had a hiccup. Text, but no charts, at the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m1lNim-...
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Want a cheap room in Phoenix? Apple cancels competing event(cringely.com)
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A lesser-known new feature in iOS 6: It's tracking you everywhere(theregister.co.uk)
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Flashboys: HEELLLP, we're trapped in a process size shrink crunch(theregister.co.uk)
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Back When the Cloud Was Dumb(pcmag.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
Reputedly, amplifiers that oscillate, and oscillators that do not, are the two great fears of analog designers ...
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The Saddest Movie in the World - Make someone cry for the sake of science?(smithsonianmag.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
"I’m not one of those “old people.” After all, it’s not like I remember punch cards." Ha, that's nothing. Some people remember their first transistor radio. Instead of a heavy valve box plugged into the mains, you'd have this small batter
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Can Email Be Fixed?(pcmag.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
There was the all Erlang front page, a few years ago, if memory serves. (HN got airplay somewhere, it was a scare-away-the-newbs prank.)
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by ableal 14y ago
The 3quarks.com page is exhaustive in detail about the station clock, with a customizable working clock well worth a look. At the end the author, Rüdiger Appel, points to his free iOS clock app: http://itunes.apple.com/en/app/clockmaker/id
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by ableal 14y ago
Well, then the upcoming self-driving vehicles will give us another bump up in the life expectancy figure. Probably some part of the vehicle deaths will "leak" over to other categories, but there should be an overall reduction.
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by ableal 14y ago
That quiet little phrase may be the most intriguing thing I read all year. Looking at things like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States , it implies that the US murder rate would have doubled, rather than halved. I'd sugg
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by ableal 14y ago
> main advantage is for reading PDF's, on which they make money. I suppose you mean "make no money", assuming PDFs are off-the-net stuff, which is quite likely. A couple of years ago I got a Kindle DX for technical PDFs, and haven't u
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by ableal 14y ago
Good catch. It's probably less than the 11h they announce for the 7" Fire HD. Unless nearly all of the 6oz weight difference is in the battery. Speaking of which, "Weight 20 ounces (575 grams)" is rightly not touted in an otherwise very con
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by ableal 14y ago
It's now on the front page, product at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007OZNZG0/ The previous model is now cheaper too (USD 69/89 with/without ads). PS. Good summary appreciation at http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/06/amazon-kindle-pap
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by ableal 14y ago
The auto insurance companies will make a killing for a year or two, issuing coverage that will not be cashed in. Then the auto insurance business will go nearly extinct - after all, their margin is a percentage of the compensation paid. If
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by ableal 14y ago
The reason this is interesting is that finally someone twigged to the contradiction between the word "buying" and not being able to dispose of the property acquired. This applies to iTunes, Amazon and the other app-stores around. No re-sal
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Bruce Willis to fight Apple over rights to music collection after his death(thesun.co.uk)
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by ableal 14y ago
I'll second this. It is also my experience, having used both Fedora and CentOS (2002-2008) and Ubuntu (2004 to now).
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by ableal 14y ago
"Google is a paying customer for Canonical's Ubuntu Advantage support program." Good news for desktop Ubuntu users. 'Chris Kenyon, who is Canonical's VP of Sales and Business Development, and was present for Bushnell's talk confirmed thi
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Microsoft Academic Search(academic.research.microsoft.com)
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Zuckerberg Better Watch His Back(pcmag.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
> you merely rent Sadly, that seems to be the actual situation. It is therefore reasonable to demand that the word "buy" not be used to refer to those transactions ...
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by ableal 14y ago
Search for C. Northcote Parkinson's wisdom on the fate of organizations who build their dream headquarters. It's the chapter of the Parkinson's Law book titled "Plans and Plants". (Hint/spoiler: by the time the building is done, they are ir

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