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by jcnnghm 17y ago
The real winner this generation is Netflix. They now have streaming video on all three consoles.
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The use case I want something like this for is so that I can browse the internet and write emails from bed or from the sofa. A wireless keyboard would make it much less useful in these contexts.
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I'd love to see a hardware keyboard. It's a chore typing on the iPhone screen. In particular, I think you could mount a keyboard on the back of the device, so that half the keyboard was on each side with T, G & B being the top keys on
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It depends on the range. Personally, I think the sweet spot is 80 miles of range with a 8 hour charge. Electric cars should be very cheap to operate. The volt is expected to cost $32,500 after a federal rebate, which doesn't seem excessi
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Yes it does, because if you can't bring it to market fast enough to meet demand, prices will spike reducing demand. When the prices spike, oil companies are willing to spend more resources to extract oil as quickly as possible in order to
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T. Boone Pickens would disagree. In his book The First Billion is the Hardest, he asserts that we've already reached peak oil. His reasoning was that reserves held by oil companies are being depleted faster than new reserves are being dis
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Student test scores also strongly correlate with parent test scores, even more so than inter-generational earnings correlates. In the paper "Do Smart Parents Raise Smart Children?", Anger and Heineck assert that while a 10% increase in par
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And probably because it's easy to see how thoroughly unionization has thrashed other industries.
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You should know the score when you go into games programming. There is a lot of demand for those jobs, so the employers can push harder than they would otherwise. This is kind of like moving next to an airport then complaining about the n
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This reminds me a lot of the book Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. It seemed that, at least with respect to successful people, a large part of his thesis was that they were only successful because of their circumstance. However, the only uni
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If I had just kept growing at 20-25% annually I'd be over 260ft tall today.
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A relative of mine always used to say "just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me." Perhaps he was right. Also, given the topic of his research, nuclear weapon design, it doesn't seem too unlikely that government agen
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Not including flash on a tablet seems like a mistake to me. It's one thing on a cell phone, but quite another on a device that will probably be positioned as a casual use computer.
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Are you the creator? If you are, have you considered incorporating some of the hacks that will show meta programming line numbers in stack traces?
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This looks like it could be pretty useful. As with all meta-programming though, if you're going to use this it's probably a good idea to make it clear in your comments and log files. It can be very difficult to debug.
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More regulation isn't a panacea for regulation. The heart of the problem is that it's now a common belief that everyone must attend college, even for things that don't require a college education like communications or Fashion Design. The
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Ouch... That's about $400 more than I'd probably be willing to pay for a decent tablet. I wonder what kind of use-cases they're envisioning.
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It's behind a subscription wall. Do you know what the suggested pricepoint is?
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I think that an approach like that would have severe performance implications. The really impressive thing about Textmate is how fast it is in relation to Eclipse and Netbeans.
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I've got a whole crate full of Brio wooden trains from when I was a kid, including up/down pieces. I bet if I modified this software to work in three dimensions it could build millions of configurations with the parts I've got. Could be f
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I'm actually very glad it doesn't support background apps. The biggest problem I had with the Windows Mobile smartphone I had before the iPhone was with the background apps. The phone was already underpowered, which was a problem. When Ap
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If they're announcing the tablet in January, I wonder what kind of release date they're looking at. Does anyone know what the average announce to release cycle is for Apple products?
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It's relevant because this amounts to nothing more than another cash grab. There would be no need for ridiculous new taxes like this if it weren't for the incredible mismanagement. And before someone asserts that it isn't a tax, keep in m
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More importantly, every pen writing interface I've ever used has basically sucked, including the Windows Mobile interface. I doubt that is a solved problem.
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DC is only cash strapped because of gross mismanagement and systematic corruption.
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He has open-sourced code that isn't on Github. His Markdown Sharp project is available at http://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/ .
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The obvious conclusion: The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead. [a man puts a body on the cart] Large Man with Dead Body: Here's one. The Dead Collector: That'll be ninepence. The Dead Body That Claims It Isn't: I'm not dead. The Dead Colle
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Don't polluters already pay? The proposed measures are designed to curtail carbon emissions, aren't there already supply side taxes on carbon generating fuel sources like oil and natural gas. Has carbon actually been scientifically proven
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Manufacturing didn't go away because of anything other than the rise in unskilled labor costs in the United States. At the time it was cheaper to manufacture overseas and ship to this country. With the falling cost of robotics, and the ri
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The changes advocated at Copenhagen only make sense if your financial future is tied to either green tech or carbon trading. If the stuff was economically viable or offered an attractive alternative (e.g. Tankless water heaters never run o

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