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by davweb 15y ago
You could use the same argument to say IP Address are obsolete because of DNS, but I don't think IP addresses or phone numbers are going away any time soon.
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by davweb 15y ago
It's possible he's using the photo sharing site along with Twitter or something similar and doesn't realise that images attached to private message are still become public.
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SOPA is like planting dynamite under a highway bridge in order to catch burglars(wondermark.com)
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by davweb 15y ago
Usually people are asked to take pay cuts because the company isn't doing well, often with the understanding that pay will go back up if things get back on track. Here it seems people are being asked to take a pay cut not because their comp
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by davweb 15y ago
I'm currently staying away from iCloud syncing as I'm hearing lots of bad stories from people using its _supported_ functionality, so I too definitely won't be using a undocumented feature. Since Dropbox is both free for 2GB and rock solid
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by davweb 15y ago
In proof of your point I was searching for comments by PG and instead found your request.
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by davweb 15y ago
The key difference does seem to be that the jump from $99 to $499 turns DevDays from a conference that you can pay for yourself into one that most people are going to have their employers to pay for. $499 for a two day conference is pretty
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by davweb 15y ago
Apparently when Steve Jobs announced they would be opening up FaceTime as a standard it was the first the development team had heard of it which might explain the delay. http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/11/facetime-standar...
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by davweb 15y ago
The 2-3 day wait isn't the case in the UK anymore. UK banks - under pressure from the government via the Office of Fair Trading - now process money transfers in half a day. The point is that the transfer never required that long to process
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by davweb 15y ago
I think the Daily Cap is intended for situations just like this. So if you see someone with 5k+ reputation it's a good sign they've given good answers to a fair few questions (or asked good questions) over a period of time rather than just
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by davweb 15y ago
US companies can store data from EU countries if they comply with the "Safe Harbour" principles. Organisations can self-certify and as yet no company has been challenged as failing to meet the guidelines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe
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by davweb 15y ago
I'm not sure roads is the best example to give here. Doesn't Amazon benefit from the state maintained roads since it would be difficult to get its order delivered without them? Although as his been said, Sales Tax is usually regarded as a
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by davweb 15y ago
Gmail already has something similar built in with the Last Account Activity Alerts: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&a...
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by davweb 15y ago
Since you can already buy upgrades to Windows 7 Ultimate from other versions Windows 7 online as a "Windows Anytime Upgrade" this is just the kind of thing I'd expect to see in Windows App Store. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore
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by davweb 16y ago
Eric Lippert introduces some new features in C#: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericlippert/archive/2011/04/01/compo...
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by davweb 16y ago
If you're running on Windows XP GPU acceleration in Chrome has been "blacklisted" due to problems. You can re-enable it with the --ignore-gpu-blacklist command line flag. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=72975
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by davweb 16y ago
Even if you started up 10,000 Dedicate Instances you would not tie up 10,000 physical machines. A Dedicated Instance won't share hardware with another customer's VM but it could share hardware with your other VMs. It would probably be bene
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by davweb 16y ago
This does work for me, but I think you mean DVD rather than VCR.