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by ableal 15y ago
Interesting detail: an official-looking "Java TM Powered" swirly cup logo on the bottom right of the Quick Start guide for the new Kindle: http://kindle.s3.amazonaws.com/KindleQuickStartGuide.pdf (also in that PDF, a figure that shows the
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by ableal 15y ago
I wouldn't recommend trying web browsing on E-ink, unless it's through some Readability filter or similar. The screen updates are too slow for it, and the DX browser didn't render perfectly. I suspect the CPUs don't have the oomph for the m
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by ableal 15y ago
The iPod Touch is a killer 'gameboy' (as Nintendo is finding out ;-)
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by ableal 15y ago
See if my comment elsewhere here is of use to you http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048411 I find the smaller E-ink screens a great fit for comfortable reading of fiction, or non-fiction prose like biography or history, where one does
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by ableal 15y ago
I have an older Kindle DX which can do technical PDFs. Aside from the cost (nowadays triple the smaller Kindle), it's still not entirely satisfactory for three reasons: - It's cumbersome to do anything other than reading sequentially. - The
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by ableal 15y ago
Thanks for the link, looks good. The price "with special offers" is U.S. only, but most everybody else can also buy from amazon.com at 109 USD. Seems that E.U. Europeans get to pay VAT: "Your international shipment is subject to VAT. This i
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by ableal 15y ago
> ridiculous .mobi format What's ridiculous about it, apart from the competing DRM schemes and Amazon vs. all others aspect? Both formats are essentially zipped XHTML ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#Mo... )
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by ableal 15y ago
More of the same kind of amusement can be found on the esoteric languages page, which explains: A Turing tarpit is a Turing-complete programming language whose number of commands, operators, or equivalent objects is very small. These inclu
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by ableal 15y ago
Bezos was around for the CueCat scanner. He will not drop the price to zero. He knows that would be giving free hardware to anyone who can find out how to jailbreak a device.
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by ableal 15y ago
I forgot who it was that said he wasn't so much worried about computers thinking like people as about people thinking like computers. So now writers and designers are in it too ... P.S. and sports managers (The Lessons of Moneyball for Big
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Cringely’s second column on the firing of Leo Apotheker(cringely.com)
68 points by ableal 15y ago|14 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
"Die, heretic scum", by Emo Phillips ;-) (e.g. http://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/EmoPhillips.htm )
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by ableal 15y ago
Another point for transcripts is that most non-native English speakers will have a much easier time understanding written material.
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by ableal 15y ago
LWN notice and discussion of "Garrett: UEFI secure booting" at http://lwn.net/Articles/459569/
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by ableal 15y ago
Neat blog, with a catchy tag ("The End of Anonymous Data and what to do about it"). The previous article mentioned upfront also looks interesting - Everything Has a Fingerprint: The Case of Blank Paper ( http://33bits.org/2011/09/13/everyt
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The amazing shipping container: How it changed the world(channelregister.co.uk)
82 points by ableal 15y ago|21 comments
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by ableal 15y ago
I downloaded the first couple dozen megabytes. It's all nulls. $ od 500megabytefile.tar.gz 0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 * 27200000 (besides not being a .tar.gz, it's not 500 MB either
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by ableal 15y ago
On that one, the lack of foot rests looks very uncomfortable. My old ones were somewhat like this: http://www.officechairsforless.com/Square-Bar-Stool-ES25VS3.... Except sturdier, unpadded, and slightly tilted forward. They were also slig
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by ableal 15y ago
A picture like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Exponential.svg would help. To rub it in, the x axis should go to 20 or so, e.g. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2**x+vs.+x**2+%28x+from...
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by ableal 15y ago
This bit sort of describes Macs/PCs around 1985: Instead, I had to make conscious decisions to switch over to IM and respond to several people at once, or go to IRC to see what the rest of the staff was up to, or go back to Writing Kit to
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by ableal 15y ago
The post author did not reference it, but he may have been following up on this other recent piece: An iOS Developer Takes on Android, http://nfarina.com/post/8239634061/ios-to-android
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by ableal 15y ago
Many moons ago, my engineering school had classrooms full of wooden drafting tables (not unlike this: http://www.plotter-printers.com/oak-drafting-tables-2/ ). I cannot find online a picture similar to the wooden stools we had: tall, squa
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Cloud startup's business model defies laws of physics(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ableal 15y ago|0 comments
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What’s a Yahoo to Do?(cringely.com)
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by ableal 15y ago
Really, they could have tossed Pierre "Planet of the Apes" Boulle in there, if they knew the name. Although my favorite Boulle story was "Les Jeux de l'esprit", where scientific rationality takes over the world, and, for entertainment, cont
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by ableal 15y ago
Thank you. I believe Golden Age is the series I was trying to remember in a conversation a few weeks ago as an example of extreme use of augmented reality. I'll toss in my recent favorite space opera: the Polity series by Neal Asher. Simila
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by ableal 15y ago
It takes a while for the spammers to get up to speed on new domains. Six months should see relatively little spam. I'd bet on reply-all and auto-complete as means of perpetuating small mistakes in addresses. There's no cleanup mechanism for
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Crunch Time at AOL (2010; Google & Yahoo included)(cringely.com)
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by ableal 15y ago
Yesterday Google mail was having conniption fits about "invalid cookies" in one of my machines (personal + business gmail). Trying to get to the settings page only led to the same error page advising clearing browser cache and cookies. Ende
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by ableal 15y ago
I feel that it would be more polite to let him, the owner, be the one to do the gracious sharing at this scale.

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