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by berryg 17y ago
Yep, but then the articles would not viewable for "free" anymore thus cutting off a huge number of potential readers.
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by berryg 17y ago
Isn't the metered system as adopted by the Financial Times simple to circumvent? I simply open each article in an Incognito Window in Chrome and I can read as many articles as I want.
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by berryg 17y ago
Also interested.
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by berryg 18y ago
If you turn up the fan the cloth moves in the wind but it does not move like a flag in the wind. The cloth currently maintains one form like the wing of a plane. It should move more like a flag in the wind though. But, still it is very cool
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by berryg 18y ago
http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=953
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by berryg 18y ago
It is all about political will. Germany has shown the world that it is possible. And it is made possible via a so-called feed-in tariff scheme. 14% of Germany's energy originates from renewable energy sources (mainly wind power). And German
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by berryg 18y ago
Portugal has also signed up! The third country. See: http://www.forbes.com/afxnewslimited/feeds/afx/2008/06/30/af...
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by berryg 18y ago
I like the idea. A lot. Agassi has created a vision. An idea that is apparently appealing to a lot of people. And he has convinced two countries that are willing to put his ideas to the test. Who knows: this thing just might work! Ethanol,
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by berryg 18y ago
In the podcast ( http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/sci;1162018/DC2 ) Nocera explains the process perfectly. This "missing link" in electolysis has been the production of O2. Now this is possible. And now a closed loop of water spli
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by berryg 18y ago
In The Netherlands a group has succesfully fought against the use of voting machines with secret software. For now the use of voting machines is not allowed anymore and the Dutch people have to vote using pen and paper. More info: http://w
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by berryg 18y ago
In the latest Webkit with the squirrelfish javascript engine it runs very smoothly. Really nice program.
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by berryg 18y ago
Until there is a law that prohibits SSL VPN services or requires them to store traffic data, etc. etc. Law ultimately dictates what technology can be legally used.
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by berryg 18y ago
One step closer to The Singularity? Maybe Ray Kurzweil is right with his predictions on the growth of technology and knowledge.
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by berryg 18y ago
Looks very interesting. Ordered it right away.
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by berryg 18y ago
I am using SciTE again. I recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 and started using GEdit. But, I was really annoyed with the text selection in GEdit (programming in Python) and I missed replace within selection in GEdit. So, I switched back to SciT
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by berryg 18y ago
Of course there are better options than to use oil to generate electricity. But what I am interested in is: what is more energy efficient? x million combustion engines or a few centralized power station plus x million electric cars?
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by berryg 18y ago
If all the people in the US would drive electric cars, you obviously need electricity to do so. Let's assume the power stations use oil the generate electricity. How much oil would you need to keep all these electric cars in the US going? W
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by berryg 18y ago
It just happened to me. Ran into a problem while programming and fired up HN and started reading PG's article. Now how do I get out of this time sink again?
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by berryg 19y ago
Very nice! An indeed, why hasn't Google done this on their own yet?
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by berryg 19y ago
Just installed Denyhosts. It immediately blocked 6 ip addresses. Seems to be working just fine. Nice tool.
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by berryg 19y ago
This notion of 'where are the (mainland) Europeans?' not only occurs at SXSW but also at this website and websites like techcrunch. Where are the European web start ups? UK websites do popup now and then (Clickpass for example). Within 5 mi
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by berryg 19y ago
Django. You won't regret it! The url mapping, the views and escpecially the template engine is fantastic. Almost every element of Django behaves as it should be. Strict separation from code and layout for example.