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by froo 17y ago
The bright bunny was quite awesome... I want one!
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by froo 17y ago
He's talking about a powerbook. By open, he means what happens when you lift the screen.
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by froo 17y ago
I actually don't mind the unibody stuff. I'm prone to fiddling with batteries in my electronic devices and end up breaking clips consistently. But I'm an edge case at best.
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by froo 17y ago
I'd be curious to know what the position of Mahalo's investor's are in this debacle? Are they aware of what they're investing in? (for reference, Mahalo's investors include Mark Moritz, Elon Musk, Mark Cuban and Ted Leonsis) I'd be willing
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by froo 17y ago
>I don't really consider them all that open these days, but I suppose they're better than many companies Note the article is from 2005, before Apple started that stuff with their iphone/ipad/ipod touch. Things have definitely changed. I
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by froo 17y ago
I have never, ever seen public defecations or urinations on my public transport system either. The worst I've seen is the odd excessively loud person and perhaps people having sex - but that's it. It's really not that bad, it could be like
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by froo 17y ago
Oops, sorry I wrote the comment when I woke up in the middle of the night. Ok, Medicare in Australia is a funded by an income tax levy that every Australian pays, set at 1.5%. It's an almost paltry sum of money when you consider it's free h
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by froo 17y ago
I have issues relating to other's health care problems. I suppose here in Australia we're spoiled. For example. I have the best private health coverage I could find and I pay less than $130 a month AUD; but it doesn't stop there. We still h
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by froo 17y ago
In other news: Coke runs advertising without mentioning Pepsi. Sports coming up next. Honestly, is this really news? Company X writes an article and fails to mention a competitor? Where's the conspiracy?
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by froo 17y ago
Well for the 1 pic that is on the entire continent of Africa... it's dickless, but that guy was well on his way to getting his tackle out.
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by froo 17y ago
It's the SEO equivalent of a shell game
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by froo 17y ago
>That beast is worthy of a Frankenstein moment. I agree, who's spirit can only be really captured by a large toggle switch mounted on the wall that you have to flip which dims the lights as it happens.
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by froo 17y ago
Whenever I've done this type of stuff, I've just farmed out my article writing to elance. Some article writing services do pretty much the same thing, being essentially middlemen rather than having talent inhouse, which is why I don't recom
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Tell HN: Sleeping for insomniacs, found an interesting product.
1 points by froo 17y ago|1 comments
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by froo 17y ago
I'm only speculating (which is dubious at best) but there are 2 probable reasons why Calacanis continues to get away with it. 1) Sequoia funded both Mahalo and Google, so there's probably some leeway granted to Mahalo in that respect or (my
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by froo 17y ago
I think you are perhaps getting mixed up. The uncanny valley effect occurs when something that you know isn't real that approaches a more familiar state. As your familiarity with the nonliving object increases, that can paradoxically cause
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by froo 17y ago
>So what does that say about the tool? That there is probably room in the market for more search engines - perhaps specifically ones that specialise in translating only human queries and returning results rather than trying to be more g
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by froo 17y ago
Well I've been doing some work with facial recognition lately and I came across some interesting research along those lines. http://leyvand.com/research/beautification2008/ I've also seen similar warping techniques used on more recognisab
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by froo 17y ago
>I am just waiting for Calacanis to show up here and say just that. Lets not forget he'll use his obligatory "Peace n love" signature...
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by froo 17y ago
Unfortunately no. Uncanny Valley is a result of things that aren't alive being made to look lifelike which ends up creeping people out. This is something usually avoided in 3D graphics now (The Polar Express comes to mind)... returning pict
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by froo 17y ago
On a scale of 1 to creepy, I'd rate this a 6 Although, I've seen a similar idea suggested that attempts to find if your loved one has ever starred in anything... which would come closer to an 8 I think.
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by froo 17y ago
Which is why the current 9th CCA of Vernor vs Autodesk is a fairly important case in regards to this.
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by froo 17y ago
tl;dr edit - that's not entirely true, I got about 1/10th of the way through and realised I could do more constructive things with my time.
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by froo 17y ago
What an interesting video.. plenty of fire. Using a Rube Goldberg machine would make one heck of an interesting way to light the Olympic Cauldron wouldn't you think?
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by froo 17y ago
I think the best thing about this whole debacle is how the minister's office is now engaging in IP theft and is unwilling to comment on any criticism of their office. I often wonder how these jokers get voted in.
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by froo 17y ago
I'm not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, but I'd have to disagree. There is potentially more information that is contained in a tweet than Twitter republishes. For example, if I was posting a tweet using SMS the original publishi
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by froo 17y ago
Lots of interesting facts and tidbits in there. I'm guessing we all know that Google was misspelling of the number Googol, however, I wonder how many of you know that the Googol was inspired by a cartoon character from the 1930's named Barn
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by froo 17y ago
It seems members of Whirlpool managed to track down the IT guy who made the changed for Sen. Conroy. http://twitter.com/desko I'm curious whether it was an intentional "mistake" so that it could be discovered, instead of being hidden serv
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Blockbuster boss: Greedy studios killing online video-on-demand(news.com.au)
1 points by froo 17y ago|0 comments
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by froo 17y ago
Oh, I know you can get timtams in the USA at several specialty stores, but its actually cheaper to just send them from Aus even when you factor in the high cost of shipping. To illustrate. A 200g block of Cadbury Dairy Milk costs $8.95 US f

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