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by com 14y ago
There is significant prior art around larger-than-Apple-magsafe magnetic-attach power connectors - if you ever used a Japanese-made domestic deep fryer in the 80s or 90s, you'll have noticed the same concept. Design IP is a different matter
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by com 14y ago
Dutch service is considered bad by some foreigners (including me at times) primarily because of incompetence and laziness, not a lack of deference. In fact, I beleive that some of the best service in the world exists in the Netherlands, bec
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by com 14y ago
Heads up, if you're an American going to Europe, be aware that attitudes to living on credit or via credit cards are at times very different. In Belgium and the Netherlands, it's not usual to see supermarkets even taking credit cards, and s
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by com 14y ago
I have had really great experiences inviting strangers into my home during the Eyjafjallajökull eruptions when they were stranded at my local airport, credit cards maxed out and with young kids in tow. Then I tried Couchsurfing, where vette
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by com 14y ago
Or who has never experienced the bill-shock nightmare that is international data roaming. Always on is nice if you live in a city with good coverage and you can afford the bill.
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by com 14y ago
The carriers have "delusional flailing strategies" because they really are delusional and flailing, at least in the parts of the organisations that are capable to driving structural change. The cost structures, swivel-chair automation, arth
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by com 14y ago
Verbosity is a subjective assessment that concepts require too many or complex, specialised words to express compared with some other approach. Expressiveness is subjective too, but in this context talks about ability to express concepts in
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by com 15y ago
I remember once going through the non-EU queue in Manchester, when the (black, probably Nigerian) guy in front of me got a bit of a going over about his visa status, until he broke down, then the agent discovered that he was a UK permanent
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by com 15y ago
It has been done before, at least according to the article, it appears that there already is competition in this market: Arizona-headquartered Microchip Technology designs and builds a rival range of 32-bit "Pic" microcontroller, while
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by com 15y ago
I think your comment about elite desensitisation is fascinating: I gape in horror (I'm a north-western european these days) when I'm in San Francisco and people casually walk around people sleeping on the sidewalk near their front doors.
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by com 15y ago
Interesting, although I was hoping for tips about those weird kinds of shoelaces that always come undone, no matter whether you double-knot them - suspect something to do with being circular cross-section, slightly shiny (why?), and having
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by com 15y ago
Actually it's not just language, a lot of startups are US focussed which can be frustrating when you'd love to be their customer, don't mind using English etc. Of course, with things like deals sites and so on, you might need to have locali
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by com 15y ago
I think it's an interesting read on social entrepreneurship, although I was expecting something more nitty-gritty on workable approaches to define and resolve wicked problems in general (not all wicked problems require social entrepreneursh
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by com 15y ago
IBM apparently still does a lot of interesting fundamental research, in their PR it looks like they've got a focus on materials science for storage and medicine and they do interesting data-driven work around health, population genetics wor
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by com 15y ago
Third-part candidates don't matter because of the structural gerrymander. Including them in the conversation is like including me, a non-citizen in the conversation - I don't matter because I'm not remotely electable, and neither are they.
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by com 15y ago
Depending on your English dialect it might be a terrace, pavement, patio or even verandah seating.
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by com 15y ago
Yep - they use excess revenues from us, their customers, and don't even translate that into excess profits for us, their owners. Instead they use excess costs to reward us, their executives and us, their contractors. The difference between
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by com 15y ago
Just to add nuance: mobile was heavily dependant on landlines. In my experience, not any more. Recently began (2009) a national gigabit to the mast rollout project in a medium-sized European country which is almost complete now. This didn
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by com 15y ago
I'll check tomorrow; I simply used it as a telephone and was forced to interact with UI features to do so: first impressions are sometimes quite important, and it really did the opposite of wowing me.
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by com 15y ago
I just used an N8. My pocket review: absolutely not ready for prime-time - number pad shrank and grew a couple of pixels every time I touched it during a call, with associated delay for the redraw. The hardware seemed ok (although I'm no fa
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by com 15y ago
I think the nice thing for me is that it creates a hierarchical method of finding my next activity - app > window > tab The MS Windows-specific alt+tab model means way too many things to choose from without context. What I'd love in
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by com 15y ago
I think your article hits several issues on the head, and I'd like to drop my thoughts on what might actually happen... I have some history in the telco world and while at a gig with one particular legacy carrier, noticed that when this top
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by com 15y ago
Yep, but the Honeycomb that's running there is a hacked version of the SDK image (!!). On my Nook Color it works, barely. I get crashes in the browser, have issues getting apps available from the Market etc. An amazing effort, but not the s
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by com 15y ago
It's not just almost eerie. It really is, and makes me think of zombies walking. PR zombies. Seriously, though, I imagine that there are pretty intense discussions taking place within a number of handset manufacturers right now about how
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by com 15y ago
Can you find references for these German government subsidies for exporters and their percentage value per exported unit? The US also runs a very complex series of industrial subsidies too, but it seems to be somewhat ad-hoc and therefore d
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by com 15y ago
Well, just before the precipitous fall on the markets there were letters between various parties in Europe (European Commission President, European Central Bank President and the German Chancellor) which showed that they had some fundamenta
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by com 15y ago
The US demographic wave hasn't stopped; that's why, from at least a European long-term investor perspective, the US is still a good bet compared to countries that have already peaked: Italy, Japan etc. There are many paths to wealth. German
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by com 15y ago
Just like most other disease control campaigns, you appeal to people to change their behaviour, you use social control to support their choice to comply and ultimately you use laws and the iron fist of the state (see smoking or leprosy as g
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by com 15y ago
Fascinating reading - my take-home is that US corporates are going to have to have disclosure rules whether they want to or not. The question is whether this will come from Congress or the regulators.
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by com 15y ago
Except that the Heptarchy were East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria (Bernicia, Deira), Sussex, Wessex (I know it's true because wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptarchy told me ;-) But yeah, Lancaster->Lannister seeme

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