charltones

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by charltones 17y ago
There have been trials of placebos against placebos. That's how it has been established that more placebos are more effective than fewer and also how the shape and colour of the tablets relates to their effectiveness. If you want some refer
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by charltones 17y ago
Some Nokia devices have a TV out facility that lets you see the screen output on an attached TV. Coupled with a Bluetooth keyboard you have the beginnings (I know it isn't perfect) of an acceptable input and output arrangement. Then take a
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Colly Myers: Only one App Store can compete with apple(aqa.63336.com)
1 points by charltones 17y ago|0 comments
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by charltones 17y ago
Did I imagine it, or was there a website posted here a while ago that tracked these kind of predictions against reality? I had a quick google for it but couldn't find it.
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by charltones 17y ago
As I understand it, and I am not a kernel expert, the existing real time patches reduced latency to improve the soft real time responsiveness of the system, but were still priority based. The Ericsson patch appears to be closer to the idea
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by charltones 17y ago
To be fair to the author of the email, he didn't entirely assume his approach was the only good one, since he did suggest: "either use the data, and structure your data (at that layer) to take advantage of it, or don't use a database." e.g
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by charltones 17y ago
If I read it correctly, the article is implying that recent scientific study of the strength of the bird's pelvis has shown that the bird was likely to have been strong enough to make killer blows and crush prey (backing up the Maori legend
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by charltones 17y ago
Also a Cambridge, UK project started 2006: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/nova.php As well as taking photos, they've taken passengers: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~cuspaceflight/images/nova9selected...
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by charltones 17y ago
This is true, though it is possible for phones to check the certificate online at install time, so the app could potentially only affect phones up until the certificate is revoked then no more. Also, I had to go through a number of hoops to
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by charltones 17y ago
I wonder how many cover letters they will get with that in them. Fun puzzle, but does it really help selection?
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by charltones 17y ago
>Specifically for telephony, does one need something else? Often, yes. Device manufacturers and operators have traditionally been very cautious of allowing low level access to telephony APIs. For instance, getting access to the audio up
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by charltones 17y ago
From Wikipedia: The following combinations do not support SNI: * Windows XP and Internet Explorer Well that's going to be a bit of an issue then.
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by charltones 17y ago
I found the easiest way was this: You pick door A, the host opens door B or C and offers to let you switch to door C or B. He is effectively letting you choose between either A alone (by sticking) or B & C together (by switching) - i.e.
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YouTube predicted to lose $470M this year (itproportal.com)
6 points by charltones 18y ago|1 comments
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by charltones 18y ago
or (3) everyone making source available? Could a more heterogeneous processor market drive people towards open source purely from the practical aspect of being able to built the right version to run on their kit?
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by charltones 18y ago
I think you need much more flexibility than this. I've worked for several companies with this kind of scheme and had to fight and juggle with the system and the scales to be able to reward my staff appropriately. It is very easy to end up w
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by charltones 18y ago
6. Make sure certain callers only ring certain phones 8. Never have your dinner interrupted by a telemarketer again 13. Block your boss from your BlackBerry on the weekends These three points assume that your friends, your boss and any te
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by charltones 18y ago
Deleted means deleted and resume doesn't mean undelete. Pause / resume, and delete / undelete should be kept separate IMHO. So resume should just resume paused campaigns and a new undelete option should allow you to reverse the status of
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by charltones 18y ago
Both literally and figuratively speaking, walnuts are “brain food”. Physically the walnut looks a lot like the human brain. The thin, outer green cover that is taken out before the walnuts are sold is similar to the scalp. The hard shell o
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by charltones 18y ago
The brain is not a general purpose computer running the "me" program. The brain _is_ the "me" program - the software is in the structure of the hardware. Different software yields different results. IANAN(...euroscientist) though, I just li
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by charltones 18y ago
...two bowls of rice, three bowls of coke? It mounts up when you're living that life.
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Did BBC Botnet break the law?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by charltones 18y ago|0 comments
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by charltones 18y ago
check you mailbox recieves confirmaion importatnly looks like a good idea, just needs running through a spell checker
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by charltones 18y ago
These people http://www.spinvox.com/ do exactly that. The answer is that it works quite well, but maybe not well enough to rely upon. It struggles with people's names, jargon and noisy environments as you might imagine. Also there's been