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by halo 17y ago
It's difficult to judge. The US has the highest GDP, but it's also the largest western country in terms of population, which makes direct comparison difficult. It does not have the highest GDP per capita (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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Wikimedia Foundation board approves license migration to Creative Commons(creativecommons.org)
1 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
What's wrong with converting TTF to EOT for IE-only?
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by halo 17y ago
As I've previously posted, they did ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=618707 ): Microsoft included Digital Locker with Vista allowing you to purchase applications from 3rd parties via Windows Marketplace, but it has since shutdown, pres
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by halo 17y ago
Microsoft included Digital Locker with Vista allowing you to purchase applications from 3rd parties via Windows Marketplace, but it has since shutdown, presumably due to lack of popularity.
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by halo 17y ago
GNOME System Monitor is largely a clone of Windows Task Manager, which is accessible via the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Esc (or via the Ctrl+Alt+Del menu) on any Windows system. Mac OS X also has Activity Monitor which serves a similar purpose.
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by halo 17y ago
Hm. I've been avoiding the hype about this, but it fails on queries like "Chancellor of Germany" which seems like something this should do. Am I missing something, or is there just very little data in it?
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by halo 17y ago
Valve own Steam, and take a cut on every game sold on their platform without having to sell any hardware.
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by halo 17y ago
I think it takes bits and pieces from various languages. Python's influence is obvious: iterators, whitespace, and default values for arguments. Pascal's main influence seems to be type declarations and the way things are named. C-esque enu
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by halo 17y ago
Hm. I'm unsure. I think current software patents last too long, to a point where non-obvious inventions become obvious as a field develops, and too many obvious or suitably vague patents are passed as well. Clearly you shouldn't be able to
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by halo 17y ago
This reminds me of a UK site called WriteToThem.com ( http://www.writetothem.com ), formerly FaxYourMP.com, which provides an interface to contact your local MP automatically, either via e-mail or fax. The people behind it later went on to
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by halo 17y ago
Doesn't almost everyone have a Paypal account?
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by halo 17y ago
I'm not sure why a link to drop.io is used, when you can read online or download this book for free from Simon Peyton Jones' site ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers... ).
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by halo 17y ago
Same reason as iTunes for Windows and the iPod monopoly then. On the other hand, Office for Mac likely has <5% marketshare at most, so Microsoft could legitimately justify less development resources as making financial sense, similar to
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EU Set to Fine Intel for Anti-competitive Practices(eweek.com)
1 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 17y ago
Only if you abuse your statistics and choose numbers from different sources - 65% is the lowest figure for present market share and 85% is the highest for last year ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers ). It's true tha
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by halo 17y ago
It's only Microsoft who can make a product with "only" 65% market share and have people describe it as 'becoming irrelevant'.
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by halo 17y ago
For those who are considering replying, that's a (uncited) quote from Atlas Shrugged.
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by halo 17y ago
Seems reasonable to me?
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Innovation - Miguel de Icaza(tirania.org)
8 points by halo 17y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
Palm have long been candid that Pre was only the first WebOS model in their lineup, so this is almost certainly a Centro or Treo successor. Engadget ( http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/30/palm-eos-super-thin-3g-an... ) have what may be a rend
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by halo 18y ago
For people like me who didn't really know who IAC are, they own Ask.com, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Match.com and Reference.com, among others.
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by halo 18y ago
Yes, I have read the article. Yes, they are mentioned in the article... alongside another dozen Macintosh features which have little or no bearing on the reasons that developers specifically buy Macintosh machines compared to ordinary user
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by halo 18y ago
I think this is an extremely poor article, particularly as this largely seems like just a random selection of vague talking points while giving anything concrete. I'm slightly frustrated that people think that this sort of article is worthy
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Samsung i7500 announced - the first non-HTC Android phone(engadget.com)
1 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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by halo 18y ago
I believe the argument is supposed to counter the prevalent viewpoint that global warming is automatically a bad thing that will cause huge catastrophes without critically examining these claims. This doesn't automatically follow, and that
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Red or Green? Accessibility of Lufthansa Seat Selections(fredericiana.com)
1 points by halo 18y ago|0 comments
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Secret No More: Revealing Windows XP Mode for Windows 7(withinwindows.com)
38 points by halo 18y ago|20 comments
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by halo 18y ago
ARM is hugely popular on portable hardware. ARM processors are everywhere: consider that each Nintendo DS has 2 ARM processors, and that's sold 100m units alone.
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by halo 18y ago
The syntax seems perfectly reasonable, or even natural, to me. Perhaps you're over-thinking the specifics, or are too used to other functional programming languages where 'reduction' has a slightly different, more specific, meaning (i.e. fo

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