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1201.
by extension 18y ago
I think I saw this guy on a street corner yelling "the great visual computing era is upon us" through a traffic cone.
1202.
by extension 18y ago
Reducing carbon is not being productive? Isn't it saving the world and whatnot? As long as care is taken when creating offset credits. Like, don't give someone a credit for not buying a hummer. But if they buy an electric car.. or make on
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by extension 18y ago
As I understand it, photons can meander in any direction at any time but due to the way probabilities cancel each other out, they tend to move in a straight line when not in the vicinity of other particles. However, because EM diffraction i
1204.
by extension 18y ago
and light doesn't travel in a straight line (it radiates in all directions) I only found about that one recently
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by extension 18y ago
There seems to be an explosion of these online storage services. They will become much more useful when/if there is a standardized API with per-app isolation and access control. The closest I've seen to that is Openomy: http://api.openomy.
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by extension 18y ago
would be much funnier if they gave Gates some jokes.. how bad can he be?
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by extension 18y ago
Am I alone in feeling that search is just about perfect as it is? Aside from machine translation, all of these ideas strike me as solutions without problems. The mobility thing is a problem with mobile computing in general, not search. And
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by extension 18y ago
Here's the Sun-Sentinel approved story: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-flzunited0909sbsep0... Apparently, we're supposed to guess article dates by reading the copy or look at the dates on the comments. Nonetheless, they appear t
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by extension 18y ago
So, the Tribune put an undated story on their front page under "top stories" and blames Google for not figuring out that the story was old? How would a human even realize that, let alone a bot? If accounts of the story are accurate then t
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by extension 18y ago
The once clear meaning of "operating system" has become vague with today's software stack, but that's a semantic debate. The web is undeniably an application platform and in that capacity, it is improved significantly by Chrome. The most
1211.
by extension 18y ago
even as a non-expert, I can debunk most of those
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by extension 18y ago
OpenID is not that hard to understand and will become even easier when more social sites become providers. The concept of your Facebook profile being your universal online identity is quite intuitive, especially to young people. There is al
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by extension 18y ago
Bill Gates predicts sun will rise tomorrow with an embedded touch screen
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by extension 18y ago
This is the opposite of the problem. For any non-trivial application, the user needs to understand the data model they are working with. They don't need to know the gritty details of how things are encoded and enumerated, but they do need t
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by extension 18y ago
Since mealtimes are usually when families get to converse, the children do not learn the art of conversation Children learn the art of conversation from television and practice it with their friends at school. From their families, they le
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by extension 18y ago
CSS was originally intended as a text formatting language and it serves that purpose adequately.. not exceptionally but adequately. This is why box widths are internal: it was assumed that the content of a box is more important than its po
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by extension 18y ago
Any idea how the attacker is getting the browser to run an image, presumably in an <img> tag, as a java applet? Or maybe it only works if you view the image directly and the browser decides it's an applet by sniffing the contents?
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by extension 18y ago
I mapped the windows keys on my keyboard to the underscore character, and disabled the normal one to force myself to get in the habit of using it. It takes a bit of getting used to but now I_can_type_these_all_day without wrist strain.