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Your pix, brewed perfectly.(percolatorapp.com)
1 points by brisance 16y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 16y ago
As devastating as the Japanese earthquakes and tsunami were, it would pale in comparison to an earthquake in California, which has long been overdue.
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by brisance 16y ago
This article doesn't really cover new ground. Software engineers have known about this for many years and Microsoft's OLE and Apple's ill-fated OpenDoc[1] were developed to address some of these issues. [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wik
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by brisance 16y ago
In simplest terms, the derivative (in this case, futures contracts) is causing the price of the underlying instrument (oil) to increase in price, because the value of the futures contracts themselves have appreciated due to inflation. Analo
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by brisance 16y ago
He's saying that commodities are expensive now due to exemptions granted to banks, and only to them, that allows them to rollover perpetually long positions while charging management fees. This is causing inflation because there is a lack o
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by brisance 16y ago
>> Having said that; their points are valid because in Clojure (and likely most, if not all functional languages) recursion should be seen as a low-level2 operation and avoided if at all possible . That part was even in bold. Which
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by brisance 16y ago
There's another thing that its competitors can't match. Steve Jobs's willingness to ruthlessly "knife the baby" if necessary, even if the "baby" is a product that is a large source of revenue. The iPod Mini was EOL'ed with the introduction
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by brisance 16y ago
I have no idea why you were down-voted. Your explanation is cogent and similar to what art historians mean by "postmodern art".
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by brisance 16y ago
However, the argument that multitasking on computers is bad because humans can’t multitask is flawed. That was right in the article itself. I believe the author's point is that focus/attention is more important than being able to "m
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by brisance 16y ago
One thing that drives me crazy is how each competitor focuses on one or two things, usually hardware specs, and use those things to extol its superiority over Apple's offerings. That's like a car maker homing in on horsepower or number of c
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by brisance 16y ago
The author must've missed the entire range of keynotes from the late 90s through the mid 2000s when the highlight of each was to have a shootout between a Power Mac and a Wintel PC at Photoshop. My memory is poor but they seemed to stop thi
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by brisance 16y ago
Wow... just... wow. The obvious question is... how was this done? Mechanical Turk?
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by brisance 16y ago
When the original iPhone came out, the only way to deliver apps was via the web. Developers wanted an iPhone SDK, and that's exactly what they got in subsequent versions, which led to the App Store's success. When Apple came out with the "n
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Rep. Holt beats Watson the super-computer at 'Jeopardy'(washingtonscene.thehill.com)
2 points by brisance 16y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 16y ago
CC is a good book that's not steeped in programming terminology and is easy for even laypeople to understand. However it would've been nice for Steve to incorporate some code snippets from a functional language, just to compare and contrast
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by brisance 16y ago
Pinch-zoom and tap-zoom allow you to view the content at greater magnification while retaining the UI control size so you don't lose context. http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/#video-gestures at the 1'00" to 1'28" mark.
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by brisance 16y ago
And how would they look if, as the original poster surmised, it were possible for a competitor to produce something similar to Watson on today's laptop? IBM would've spent millions of dollars making themselves look very silly. It's a simila
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Apple Announces March 2 iPad Event(digitaldaily.allthingsd.com)
1 points by brisance 16y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 16y ago
I can't see how that would be marketing. Most people would be more impressed if Watson could run on a laptop, today. I know I would.
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by brisance 16y ago
Yes, but if you read the article, all the acquisitions were done in 2005 onwards i.e. in the last 5 years. It was quite clear by then that the dot-com bubble had burst.
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by brisance 16y ago
While that was probably tongue-in-cheek and meant to be humorous, Walt Mossberg is one of the more respected tech reviewers and is pretty clear on his ethics policy, which you can read here. http://allthingsd.com/about/walt-mossberg/
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by brisance 16y ago
That was a really long time ago, at the beginning of the dot-com craze. On the contrary, in the last 5 years, YHOO share prices have declined about 50%. http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=YHOO+Interactive#chart2:s...
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by brisance 16y ago
Even though back in the day Origin Systems were known to have stiff hardware requirements, these games programmers were real hackers in bringing entire worlds to life. Kudos!
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by brisance 16y ago
How did 15 million tablets become $15 million?
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by brisance 16y ago
It's just his opinion advising caution. Not bad advice, really. On the other hand, Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung was commenting that NVDA runs the risk of having "excess inventory" for tablets. I honestly have no idea how that can happen con
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by brisance 16y ago
I think this whole thing is overblown. When I trade stock, options or pretty much anything, I get charged commissions. So by the same reckoning e*trade, Schwab, Ameritrade, <insert brokerage here> are thieves and have been "stealing
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by brisance 16y ago
That's like saying because Paris Hilton has an address in Beverly Hills and attracts tourists, the city should pay her. Actually that's not quite as insane as it sounds. Cities and counties give tax breaks to companies that bring jobs to th
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by brisance 16y ago
You get heavy promotion. Look at how Angry Birds and all the other games did by being featured on "New and Noteworthy" or "Staff Picks" or "Top Grossing Apps". It's a two-way street; don't make it sound like Apple is taking advantage of you
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by brisance 16y ago
>There's claims that switching the engine off while in motion is dangerous, but that's a wholly unproven and rather stupid claim. The problem, if there is one, is that people would panic and over-steer because of the resistance of the w
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by brisance 16y ago
I hope HP has a plan for reaching out to consumers and getting them to look at the TouchPad because the Apple Stores are doing a very good job at it. People get to use the device and can make a purchase decision easily.

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