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by arrrg 17y ago
This is an article about marketing browsers, i.e. what can browsers offer so that people start caring which browser they are using. I just don’t really see the big problem there. We have got a lot of healthy competition in the browser marke
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by arrrg 17y ago
Relativly low tech, i.e. existing, working tech. And I am not so much talking about costs, rather about whether photovoltaic is really sustainable.
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by arrrg 17y ago
There's still the question as to whether photovoltaic is as effective as we would like. It might just be the case that producing them takes more or not much less energy than they produce. The low tech solutions have the advantage that they
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by arrrg 17y ago
They plan to use low tech solar thermal power and high voltage transmission to Europe. They want to have it up an running within a decade. This low tech approach (all existing technology) seems to me to be exactly the right way to go.
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by arrrg 17y ago
It definitely sucks to be a outlier :) (Oh, I nearly forgot, the "F" key on my keyboard failed, too. It – i.e. the whole keyboard – was also replaced.)
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by arrrg 17y ago
I had tons of hardware problems. It’s just that I could be an outlier, these kinds of stories are always so freaking anecdotal and not really a help when deciding what to buy. My screen failed and was exchanged. Then my main board failed an
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by arrrg 17y ago
This article compares the US to a whole lot of school systems. There is nothing wrong with that, it’s just possible that if you constantly change the point of comparison you end up comparing the US to fictional countries – without the reade
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by arrrg 17y ago
I’ve just read “The People’s Choice” by Lazarsfeld et al. which was published in 1948. It’s about the US presidential election of 1944 – really old and a social science classic. By repeatedly interviewing 600 people in Erie County, Ohio, th
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by arrrg 17y ago
I’m really kinda surprised that the German Green party also supports that. I always thought of them as being less, ahem, “extreme”. But it is really, at least somehow, true. (See http://www.gruene.de/einzelansicht/artikel/das-netz-waehlt-g
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by arrrg 17y ago
Sure. But “epic fail”?! Come on, that’s just absurd.
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by arrrg 17y ago
Huh? MacBook and MacBook Air both have a vertical resolution of 800 pixels. That gives you plenty of space for everything to be displayed including browser chrome and the menu bar. Even browsers that have a higher browser chrome than safari
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by arrrg 17y ago
Only if your vertical resolution is smaller than about 750 pixels. Calling that an epic fail is pathetic.
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by arrrg 17y ago
Quite some ranting about stuff that has been known for quite some time. Nothing new there, although I guess I would have to agree with the general sentiment. I just don’t think that re-activation is really so hard. I always found Microsoft’
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by arrrg 18y ago
Firefox 3 and Safari 4 work with Tiger (4+ years old). You can easily skip one OS release without any problems.
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by arrrg 18y ago
If it freezes you are doing something wrong. I had no crash or freeze of the OS (any OS, really, XP, Vista, OS X) for years now. Well, it’s down to maybe one or two per year, but that’s certainly tolerable.
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by arrrg 18y ago
Why would you use flash for something like kontain.com? It feels so weird. Nearly everything you see there could easily be done with html. Doing it in Flash only means that you are going to create a lot of inconsistencies with the way every
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by arrrg 18y ago
Well, it’s complicated. The restructuring caused some chaos, quite a few problems and for many Professors to be unhappy. Universities are still reluctant to give one credit for things done somewhere else. Many universities offer increasingl
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by arrrg 18y ago
I don’t quite understand Rand’s relevance in this current crisis. Where is the connection? All I can see are contradictions to what is actually happening.
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by arrrg 18y ago
Nah, white racist vote = bad decision in one direction, black racist vote = bad decision in the opposite direction. If – in a two party system – there are about the same on both sides those bad decisions cancel each other out. Bad decision
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by arrrg 18y ago
Tamiflu is no vaccine but a antiviral drug. It doesn’t help with the current seasonal flu but it seems to help with the swine flu. Vaccines won’t be ready for months.
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by arrrg 18y ago
see also: http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4115 (Skeptoid Episode)
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by arrrg 18y ago
True, true. Apple just says nothing so everyone makes up whatever they want to. Now, you certainly cannot blame Apple for all those writing about them feeling like they know everything, but I would argue that there at least exist PR strateg
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by arrrg 18y ago
And yet the whole App-Store part always seemed oddly tacked on. There were times when web apps were all the rage on the iPhone. Only shows that either Apple are just making stuff up as they go along (which seems implausible as the results m