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by eftpotrm 15y ago
The screens are always going to be black. Is having a black surround to match exclusive to Apple? The device is always going to have corners; are Apple the only ones who are allowed to evenly round the corners? I'm viewing this on a Samsung
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
And equally, from a resource utilisation perspective, the world is enormously more sustainable at a population level of 300m than of 6.94b; a long-term downward trend in population would be a net environmental win and is preferable as a m
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Funny; I used a Palm III then a Psion 5 for several years in the past. Both were resistive touch screens, both were accurate, I didn't lose either stylus. In fact, I found the resistive screen more accurate than my current capacitative on
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
No, it's for your total month's viewing.
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The downside of that approach though is that you end up wrapping the bulk of the API functions you're using to make them conformant. You've got a huge amount of extra work creating and maintaining these components, and a major training wo
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Flame suit on, but I really don't understand the appeal. I have reams of arcane bits of information to commit to memory already. .Net in two languages plus VB6 for legacy code. SQL in more dialects than I care to list, each with their own
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Meanwhile, HP UK have them at £349/429 for 16/32GB. Pity, for anywhere near $99 it'd make sense for me.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If a manufacturer can produce a virtual keyboard that I can type blind on at 100wpm, without slowly drifting off target, and correct typos that I've felt rather than seen, then we might be getting somewhere. Until then, no way. Which migh
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Agree absolutely. I'd long ago decided that even with the £3,000 per year fees (which Labour said they wouldn't do in their election manifesto, got an overall majority then did anyway - remember that Aaron Porter and others slamming the Lib
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If that's for sales, would it not be quite predictable that iPhone sales are dropping when a new model is anticipated in the next few months?
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Not that I agree that other devices don't look quite like an iPad, but... Exactly how many possible styles are there for a handheld LCD device with a touchscreen as its primary / only input? That's what's so utterly ridiculous about this; e
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
My statistic was showing $31k, but if we say $50k, fine - it's now merely five times the median, not eight. That's still a comfortable situation by almost anyone's standards. Now, if your $50k household is in a 25% tax bracket, they're payi
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
While I agree there's a big distinction between someone earning $250k/year and $10m/year, are you aware that if your family is earning that much then you're earning over eight times the median household income?
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
If you're using Flickr as a carefully curated art portfolio, I agree, it's unusual and easy to sort. If you're using Flickr as an event display solution, it's quite easily done. I have two pro accounts with Flickr, specifically so I can sho
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Cheap and fast hydrogen for fuel(bbc.co.uk)
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Well... Within the colloquial definition, the plane is of a class known as 'RC planes' - it's of a size and general design pattern that is conventionally controlled by a ground based radio pilot, it couldn't be used for carrying passengers,
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
OK, so set up a filtration system. If you're good enough to build a system capable of running at that level you should be able to set up some basic mail filters or even a more complex bayesian filter to knock out at least bounces and probab
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
OK, perhaps I misworded it, but... it wasn't that it was happening but that it was happening regularly enough to get into the top 10 queries - that strongly implies that it's deliberate.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Or, dumb people reduce functionality for the rest of us because work has to go into handling their mistakes rather than coding the better product the devs really wanted to make.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I remember once seeing a list of top X popular searches which included the term 'www.hotmail.com'. While I've no doubt it'd work, the level of understanding necessary to even attempt it is somewhat scary.
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
I don't mind this and think the selling of this as 'The End of Net Neutrality' is OTT hyperbole. I don't believe anyone's arguing that what NewzBin2 are doing is legal. Nor do I believe there's any doubt that it's technically possible for B
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But the reason they're currently able to extract the profit they are from the market is that they've been able to build an aura as the only true 'premium' quality device, in some people's mind I've no doubt the only device of its kind. Tha
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
(Why the new account to reply to me?) 'Freedom' is one of those 'motherhood and apple pie' terms that gets thrown about, but with very little rigour behind its use. Freedom to what, exactly? The alleged virtuous benefits for freedom of the
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
Yes, it is. * Boehner has been in the House since 1991 and has been in a senior position for most of the time since 1995, so he has his part in the history. * If a balanced budget amendment was such a major priority, there was plenty of tim
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Including oil in inflation costs distorts the picture though. The standard response to inflation is to suppress demand within the economy to make price rises unsupportable and dampen things down. When the inflation is due to factors that ar
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That's a gross mischaracterisation of the situation. The banking collapse was significantly due to a combination of over-weak market regulation causing a real estate market bubble and outright fraud at credit ratings agencies - I can think
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Which is frankly ridiculous grandstanding. If nothing else, a quick look at exactly how the deficit developed will reveal the hollowness of current pleas from some wings of the Republican party for a balanced budget amendment: http://www
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
It's not an unheard of abbreviation for Godfrey. Jack Bruce, formerly of Cream, named an album that way: http://www.jackbruce.com/2008/Music/Albums/more_jack_than_go...
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by eftpotrm 15y ago
But a company on the scale of Microsoft have the resources to systematically dismantle their patents, track down prior art, produce material demonstrating that the patent in question is demonstrably 'obvious to anyone skilled in the art' an
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Childhood phone numbers - if your parents still live in your childhood home and haven't changed phone number (not that unusual) then it's just their phone number. First teacher - actually I can't remember mine (I was only there for a single

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