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by halo 17y ago
It covers R6RS. Edit: More specifically, quoting from the book's site at MIT Press ( http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&#38... ): The fourth edition has been substantially revised and expanded to bring the content up
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by halo 17y ago
The issue is that they're both flawed solutions and you should pick the solution that's the least worst depending on what you're trying to do. Sometimes that's tables, sometimes that's CSS, sometimes it's some combination of the two. They b
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by halo 17y ago
Microsoft paint Apple as expensive, elitist and irrelevant. Apple paint Microsoft as unfashionable, unoriginal, and unreliable. This has been going on for years, this isn't news. Who cares?
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by halo 17y ago
Their logic is that it's easier to sell advertisers a single search advertising platform with 10% of the market than two competing advertising platforms with 5% of the market, especially when combined with the savings by avoiding the costs
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by halo 17y ago
I'm British and have never heard that turn of phrase before. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, though.
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by halo 17y ago
No, Pepsi were beginning to beat them in sales as well, partially due to the success of the "Pepsi challenge" taste test advertisements.
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by halo 17y ago
Saying a winner-takes-all contest is "zero sum" in any sense is utterly nonsensical, as it's clearly not zero sum since one group wins $1,000,000. Also, "one guy" doesn't necessarily get all of it, as team co-operation is implicitly encoura
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by halo 17y ago
To visit, yes. To work, no.
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by halo 17y ago
I'm honestly surprised that there has been no attempt to form an open-worker policy among a group of more developed nations, similar to the one the EU has.
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by halo 17y ago
Google wants to organise the world's information. Hard to do that when a rival website has a large proportion of that information inside their closed garden.
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by halo 17y ago
This functionality makes perfect sense as soon as you realise that at its core JavaScript only has a single data structure, and that is objects (aka dictionaries, associative arrays or hashmaps), and arrays are simply a special case with so
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by halo 17y ago
For online companies, the domain and search engine rankings matters much more than the name being trademarked.
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by halo 17y ago
As does IE8 and Chrome. You can also download Opera Dragonfly.
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How Typekit works(blog.typekit.com)
2 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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Web fonts — where are we?(ilovetypography.com)
1 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
Mobile phone operators in the UK have done this for a while.
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by halo 17y ago
Yes and yes, it doesn't differ much from Vista and the launch issues from Vista such as poor driver support have largely been ironed out. Get Home Premium unless you need to connect to a network domain, hard disk encryption, Location Aware
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by halo 17y ago
Based on reputation, it's undoubtedly Cambridge and Imperial College London.
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Hollywood-Style Lectures(vonahn.blogspot.com)
1 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
...for a 6 year old PC.
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by halo 17y ago
That's a moot point, because it's not possible to theme Mac OS X.
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by halo 17y ago
I don't really find these arguments compelling. Using the Acid3 test in this context is misleading. Acid3 tests a random selection features to ensure they work corrrectly. In this case, Firefox 3.5 fails on 7 of the tests and 5 of these are
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by halo 17y ago
It's a self-deprecating joke.
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by halo 17y ago
They're relevant because in practice the W3C is where vendors come together to develop web technologies, and the specification is the end result of that. The fact that vendors have, to some degree, implemented their specifications in the pa
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by halo 17y ago
The permanent fate of any specification is down to whether people are willing to implement it. Whatsmore, the original intention of the W3C wasn't as a dictator to companies as to what to implement - the use of the term "recommendation" r
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by halo 17y ago
I didn't understand the purpose of your site just by visiting its front page - provide a short explanation.
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by halo 17y ago
The BBC shows ads on its website to non-UK visitors and have done since 2007. From http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/bbcworldwide/worldwidestori... : "The BBC Trust has approved proposals for the BBC to establish bbc.com, a commercial ventu
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by halo 17y ago
For UK readers, the majority of which are license fee payers, I agree. But I'm not sure about international visitors as the BBC generates revenue from ads shown on their site, so I'm not sure if it would make sound financial sense and be go
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by halo 17y ago
Keep one eye on Joost. If Hulu gets too popular they could leave themselves open to accusations of anti-competitive practices and forced licensing of content to other vendors at equivalent rates, at which point Joost will have an advantage
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by halo 17y ago
It uses the video tag as default, but also provides a Flash fallback for when it's not available. This means it works in all the browsers.

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