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by kierank 16y ago
This will drive casual viewing in the same way as 99p apps drove casual app purchases. DRM and various licensing issues have made this very difficult to achieve so far.
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Yahoo gave them some server space in Seoul at one point.
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by kierank 16y ago
Clearly they are targeting the Fox News demographic.
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by kierank 16y ago
In spite of other products, Oracle seem to be committed to an Open Source Virtualbox.
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by kierank 16y ago
iPhone 4 32GB without a contract in the UK costs £599 which is about $900.
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by kierank 16y ago
Statistically speaking your child won't become a genius. Get over it.
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by kierank 16y ago
It's not as if it's affecting anything important like Adsense/Adwords.
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by kierank 16y ago
If Disney can create Fastpass, Apple can create something similar. But then they won't end up in the newspapers and on tv.
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by kierank 16y ago
The interpolation was about 2-3 minutes out and in that time it didn't poll the tfl server as far as I could see. However, when I hit refresh the location was pretty accurate.
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by kierank 16y ago
It'll be interesting to verify this as the trains pass me by here at home.
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by kierank 16y ago
Fax will be remembered like the telegraph. Telex won't be however, except when people are still messing with their UNIX terminals.
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by kierank 16y ago
Sky Sports aren't showing the world cup?
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by kierank 16y ago
The best quote: Such hyperbole reveals more about western fantasies for new media than the reality in Iran
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Iran's 'Twitter revolution' was exaggerated(guardian.co.uk)
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OVH are famous for cheap bittorrent seedboxes.
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by kierank 16y ago
You might be able to get away with just testing it on Darwin.
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by kierank 16y ago
This is because on techcrunch raising money is considered more important than having a product/service that is actually making money.
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by kierank 16y ago
In the famous Black Wednesday announcement after the pound left the ERM you can see David Cameron behind Norman Lamont.
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by kierank 16y ago
The bad thing about branding them collectively as some sort of "HTML5 standard" is when people start calling other browsers non-compliant with standards that aren't even stable targets yet. Or targeting one browser's draft implementation,
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by kierank 16y ago
History is clearly repeating itself with the proprietary "HTML5 extensions". EDIT: To the downvoters, I'm sorry that you don't like the truth.
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by kierank 16y ago
A lot of people I speak to associate x264 with pirated film downloads.
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by kierank 16y ago
You could perhaps try and internationalise it a bit. e.g. Hulu replaced with BBC iPlayer etc.
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by kierank 16y ago
If I want to look at one of my own pretty pictures, or some other picture I've chosen myself, I'll just make it my desktop background. One reason is that the customised background makes users feel more accustomed to the concept of a "clou
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by kierank 16y ago
Hacker News is the craigslist of Social News sites.
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by kierank 16y ago
Anyone could equally write their own version of Flash; the standard is freely available.
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by kierank 16y ago
What I don't understand is all the people praising HTML5 because it uses less CPU than Flash yet Chrome ends up using 15-20% CPU just to render a simple animation unlike Flash.
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by kierank 16y ago
Worth every penny to see the Red Arrows and Concorde in the opening ceremony.
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by kierank 16y ago
I assume the April 1st 2011 reddit site redesign has been decided then.
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This pledge not to kill oneself is as useless as the fine for jumping off the edge of the Niagara Falls.
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by kierank 16y ago
Presumably this will also install the Google Updater so you can have 7 updater instances humming away in your task manager at any given time...

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