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by ernesth 14y ago
I have already seen this Simpson episode http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Brothers_Little_Helper Since 1999, the name of the drug was changed but the debate seems exactly the same.
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From what I see, google has the same map for this crossroad, but a different satellite view.
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> OpenID uses URLs as identities. True, the fact that URLs identify them confuses some people. However, http:// being usually superfluous, I don't see why roger.example.com is more confusing than roger@example.com. > Most sites wo
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On the bright side, it also has the best GPS. Too bad it is a smartphone.
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by ernesth 14y ago
To the ones eager to open a PDF, http://www.fang.ece.ufl.edu/reject.html ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3493803 )
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> Access to chemotherapy or radiotherapy or surgery is much easier for wealthy people than it is for poor people. Is it? When I underwent chemotherapy, I did not pay for anything (to be honest, I paid gas to get to the hospital, but did
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> What about the maps used by GPS units? Couldn't they have made a deal with Garmin or Tomtom or someone like that? They have made a deal with Tomtom (teleatlas). Concerning Garmin, they don't do maps but use navteq (a subsidiary of nok
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I don't understand your chain of thoughts. Why would nokia be adding an openstreetmap overlay instead of a nokia maps one? > are they waiting for webgl to be on mobile? Are who waiting? You may not know that nokia not only sells cartogr
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In yhis case, trackpad clicking is at fault, not yahoo. Whenever I use someone else's laptop, I find myself clicking things I didn't want to click. I believe, that the default should be for trackpad to not interpret a tap as a click.
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Quite nice. Two bugs however: In the "séances" view, if I choose my city, then change the day to mardi, it goes back to Paris. Also with the "Aujourd'hui à la TV" bezel, there seems to be a button that adds the broadcaster and hour. Unfortu
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> The problem is, programs need to be able to access the system Not necessarily: to be on the Mac App Store, an application must access only files in its own resources (configuration and so on) or through user interaction (open file dia
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> What's the win for going to Micro-USB beyond letting you reuse your Blackberry charger? Complying with european regulations.
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The higher resolution was pioneered by iRiver one year ago, the frontlit screen by Barnes and Noble 4 months ago. And the combination of both by Kobo yesterday. So not a breakthrough by amazon ;-)
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Mailing list archive message: http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2012/msg00495.html Commit on the official repository: http://zsh.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=zsh/zsh;a=co...
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by ernesth 14y ago
If a step by step is provided, it'd better work. When I follow point 1, I receive a "Invalid email address" alert.
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Opera 12.0, Linux (debian sid), works
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Among the 10 email addresses I have, only 6 are linked to an smtp server and exactly one implements spf. This makes me think that today, defaulting to using one smtp for all accounts is saner than bugging the user and having 8 out of 10 mai
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>>This has been possible in Opera out-of-the-box for half a decade. >But it hasn't been in other browsers and Opera has a very small percentage of marketshare. If you're BitTorrent and you want people using their client in the b
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> By default Thunderbird tries to send all my outgoing mail through 1 smtp account. This is the sane default. Your average access provider gives you an smtp server. Your average mail provider, if it provides smtp, may give you an smtp s
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by ernesth 14y ago
Maybe there: http://www.developer.nokia.com/Resources/Library/Symbian_Des... ?
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> Opera scores 338+9 385+9 to be precise (and 400+9 for me).
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Another way to put it would be that the taxpayer was subsidized by France Telecom.
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That perfectly explains why nokia and blackberry are the biggest winners of the mobile devices market.
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Far more revenue is generated from Windows. Mac is a very distant second. The camembert says something like For each 6$ from windows users, there are 2$ from mac users and 1$ from linux users...
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Is this a serious piece of writing or just trolling? > 2003-2008 = back when euro was worth real money. 1 euro was worth between 1.1 and 1.5$. Now, it is worth 1.25$... > Rather than spend its resources on building an OS that depend
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> Opera is much slower than Chrome, at least on my computer It is the contrary on my computer: chrome is painfully slow, whereas firefox is OK and opera is faster. I guess opera is not the best for everyone.
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What is amazing in this? Returning goods bought by mail order or online is the most basic service sellers have to implement. Refund if the product is not open and is returned at most seven days after purchase is guaranteed by law. If it is
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Isn't the fact that s/bcrypt is by design costly preventing this idea from being executed?
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From Samsung, supporting linux is not exactly a new trend as they are among the funding members of the Linux Mobile foundation and were silver members of the Linux foundation before the discussed story.
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> It's perfectly safe to drink the water out of virtually any tap in America. [...] > Remember that Europe isn't a country Is America a country?

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