abrowne

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1. 871.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   Yes, and they would have sounded more similar before the great vowel shift.
2. 872.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   Although the shires became counties after the Norman conquest, the rulers remained earls, probably because 'count' was too similar to a rude word.
3. 873.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   Entire Place, Private Room, Shared Room or a mix?
4. 874.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   Thanks for fixing my only niggle with Android Firefox!
5. 875.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   The Rosetta Stone is a stone, found near Rosetta, Egypt, with an inscription in three scripts (Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic, and Ancient Greek), which led to the modern decipherment of the hieroglyphs.
6. 876.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   The typography isn't bad . . . but for an app whose purpose is to read articles it should be great! Helvetica/Arial is common enough, and sites like the BBC use it for body text, but there are so many free fonts available that are
7. 877.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   The top bar comment is definitely an opinion, and I'd consider it usable with the current design. Now that I've tried it on my phone, I'd say the default font size is a too small. (I tried Firefox on Android.) On desktop, I c
8. 878.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   My quick feedback: Nice and simple, seems fast enough. I like that it's a responsive design. I need an option for oldest first. (I can't use a feed reader without this option.) Needs j/k for next/previous entry. Top bar
9. 879.▲
   by abrowne 12y ago

   This is actually why I use Google Calendar. The web version has a great 4 week view.
10. 880.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    > they can't re-apply the thermal paste because they don't have the tool to do it anymore They don't have the same screwdriver they use on the latest MacBook Airs, some alcohol wipes, and the same thermal grease they use o
11. 881.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    And the updater (for Mac/Win).
12. 882.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I'm glad people are still experimenting with the browser, but – especially considering the history of Opera itself – I'm not especially interested in a browser that's not open source.
13. 883.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I had played with using the Flame images a while back, but I had never gotten around to building anything myself. Just a couple days ago I read that the EU Ebay version (but not the FR version!) is the same as (or similar enough to) the US
14. 884.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    Verizon has the best coverage in rural areas, at least where people I know live: southeast Minnesota, western Wisconsin, and Iowa. Many of my (and my friends') relatives in these areas still use flip phones or have reluctantly upgraded
15. 885.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I like that they are targeting the low end, both in developing countries and now in the US. I need a phone for email/sms/phone, and I use the browser, calendar, calculator, and authenticator, but really that's about it. I don
16. 886.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I forgot to mention, after running AdwareMedic, make sure to check browsers' search engine and homepage settings.
17. 887.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I've seen a lot of Mac users with adware in the last few months. I've found Adware Medic[1] to remove nearly all of it pretty easily. [1]: http://www.adwaremedic.com/
18. 888.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    I think the link should be http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-... Currently the link is for the science section, and this is the top article.
19. 889.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    That one is a weird case because it's still the latest model of "classic"/non-retina MBPs. And, probably, the last.
20. 890.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    The Vislon is a plastic zipper (i.e the zipper teeth, not the pull), so I'd guess cheaper than the other, which is for a metal zipper. Maybe that explains it?
21. 891.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    FWIW Wikipedia lists Polish at 40M, Ukrainian at 30M, and Serbo-Croatian at 19M, for native speakers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
22. 892.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    That's the company that still exists called Nokia, not MS Mobile, the hardware arm that Nokia sold, which until recently still sold phones as Nokia.
23. 893.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    And on the phone webapp version, at the bottom of the left menu drawer.
24. 894.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    Per year, I think.
25. 895.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    > It doesn't make sense for everybody to have it on their keyboards just to serve low-level developers. It did in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_request
26. 896.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    MS has a license for use with non-smartphones for several more years.
27. 897.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    Series 40 (and Asha Platform) is dead: http://www.knowyourmobile.in/microsoft/nokia-x/10262/microso... Nokia had Series 30 and 40 (both non-Symbian) and 60, 80, and 90 (all platforms on Symbian).
28. 898.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    > Time Machine no longer spins. This started with 10.9 (or 10.8?) FWIW.
29. 899.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    John Searle reviewed Floridi's latest book recently: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/oct/09/what-yo...
30. 900.▲
    by abrowne 12y ago

    Sometimes I wonder how much of Apple and IBM starting to work together was due to the shared love of Helvetica Neue.