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by acg 16y ago
Are you sure that this will work on an iPad? Just because it's available in the browser doesn't mean it can be used. Take Google docs as an example.
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by acg 16y ago
It would be laughable a few years ago that people would view the whole web through a php portal. Now it's just a little ridiculous, but not unimaginable. Can't the world do better than this buggy portal?
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by acg 16y ago
Their spam filtering service looks interesting: http://so.yandex.ru/all/index.xml
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by acg 16y ago
There is more at stake than this. The danger for Google is that Microsoft controls the experience of most clients. If Microsoft's services become the standard then this cuts off Google's revenue and kills their business. It's easy to see
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by acg 16y ago
I'm not sure that New Labour really identified themselves with being progressive until they felt they needed to attract would-be liberal voters. Labour might have had some progressive policies but was supposed to be a blend I thought: hence
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by acg 16y ago
I heard something recently from a colleague about one of these NHS systems. The consultants that were brought in advocated that the system be written in COBOL and with similar technology. Whether this is true or not it. It would be easy to
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by acg 16y ago
This pays too much homage to Ant in my opinion. If you were to strip out the XML from Ant what is left is a poorly designed language which has little expressive power. Short of the surface structure of Ant is nothing like Lisp. The Ant comm
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by acg 16y ago
With all this talk of flash you would be lead to believe that Adobe are the worst company in the world. I just isn't, they have some really good products that nobody in the industry has managed to copy yet. Let's face it, the reason for A
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by acg 16y ago
I don't follow this issue closely but it strikes me as ridiculous. Descent against China's human rights is not exactly something that many people think about all the time unless it affects them directly. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/a
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by acg 16y ago
And there was me thinking I wonder if Google has done enough. The competition that search is facing now is fierce. Google was in danger of looking tired against other offerings and a user base can turn against a service quickly.
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by acg 16y ago
I had been using http://aquamacs.org/ , I'm going to have to weigh up whether to switch for these features.
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by acg 16y ago
In certain countries there is law protecting information about people held digitally. My understanding of this legislation is to allow the citizen to access information held on themselves and give them rights over that information. http:/
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by acg 16y ago
There may be a legal reason for this, doesn't Apple hold patents on the canvas tag? It's likely to be royalty free in HTML5 though.
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by acg 16y ago
Thought this http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/03/ie9-standards-... was interesting. It paints Miscrosoft as a company that aims to thoroughly support standards, although what they may be doing is looking for under-specified part
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by acg 16y ago
Isn't ACID3 independent? If it is why does IE do so badly?
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by acg 16y ago
I wasn't advocating holding money in a teapot, just that erosion of wealth is built into the system. I was not also advocating the gold standard, just saying there are other dimensions why some professions have not attracted money. To redu
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by acg 16y ago
There are other forces that have a part to play in this, although having engineering and other creative industries is important: 1, The change in the nature of money. Once money hand an intrinsic value, it was linked to a commodity: gold o
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by acg 16y ago
There's nothing wrong with Mozilla. The browsing consumer has a choice to choose another browser. I happen to think more than one video format in HTML5 is good for the consumer. If H264 does become the dominant format, then there is nothi
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Anatomy of a Hack(pcmag.com)
1 points by acg 16y ago|0 comments
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by acg 16y ago
FUD? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1312180
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by acg 16y ago
There is a reason, Apple will get revenue from the likes of Google. Apple is a licensee of H264.
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by acg 16y ago
There is a link to a petition in the comments, although few signatures. http://www.openplayer.net/
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by acg 16y ago
The video itself outlines that for research LSD needs to be treated like a drug: Karl Janson... warns of the dangers of unsupervised use I think one important lesson is psychodelics are by-and-large catalysts. What happens very much dep
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by acg 16y ago
To represent LSD as risk free way to expand your mind just is not right. If you are going to take LSD be sure of your environment or who you are around. It isn't just whether you have certain mental state beforehand as you mental state is
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by acg 16y ago
I know people who took LSD innocently in the wrong environment and they're sectioned under mental health. Use with care.
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by acg 16y ago
To paraphrase one of the people in the video LSD is like a catalyst: it depends on who you are and where you are. Against all the benefits that these drugs offer they can also create mental illness. These drugs definitely need some control
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by acg 16y ago
Your description of Microsoft might be true for recent years but their dominance in the Market was through business practices not through superior technology. I think back to DOS and windows3.1 and the PC software was terrible. I'm not jus
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by acg 16y ago
I thought the acquisition may have been almost exactly 5 years ago, but you're right that it wasn't complete till December. Also I was thinking if the plugin were opensource over this period when there has been increased browser competition
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by acg 16y ago
This reads like Adobe left flash to wither on the vine. In retrospect perhaps Adobe is better at tools and they should have open sourced the flash plugin 5 years ago. Allowing them to concentrate on world class tools. I can't help thinking
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by acg 16y ago
I'm surprised the degree to which Apple is setting the pace in this new market. With all the resources available to these big players the combination of hardware and software is proving difficult.

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