meow

19 ms·

151.
by meow 15y ago
"you either really need a great product (that can't easily be cloned) or very strong network effects." Or a business model where advertising won't easily support the resources needed to provide the service. Theoretically storage is one such
152.
by meow 15y ago
There are already doubts on number of real users in facebook's 750m user base. I guess things like this will increase the dummy accounts.
153.
by meow 15y ago
Visiting an article need not be same as reading an article. Many times I end up clicking link baits with out knowing what they contain. So combined with auto posting, I'm increasing the noise for everyone without meaning to.
154.
No Jobs for Bureaucrats as East India’s Bihar State Bids to Curb Poverty(bloomberg.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
155.
German court upholds Apple design claim(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
156.
The India-Pakistan Border Is Visible From Space(dailymail.co.uk)
4 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
157.
by meow 15y ago
Considering most of google's revenue comes from ads, may be English Language Arts (ELA) isn't such a bad thing :)
158.
by meow 15y ago
Looks so much like OpenRasta framework.
159.
by meow 15y ago
May be filing law suits is how it survives.
160.
by meow 15y ago
The article was mentioning md5 hashes of songs to find the matches. Besides, its not a question of whether the system can be foolproof.
161.
Diamond particles discovered in candle light(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by meow 15y ago|1 comments
162.
by meow 15y ago
I think it is also related to the angle of sunlight falling on the leaves - not just the shading. The passive arrays may be completely unshaded but they may not receive the optimum sunlight through out the day.
163.
Romance Novels, Filled With Passionate Love and Torrid Sex, Mislead Women(healthland.time.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
164.
by meow 15y ago
I think the requirement to be silent about handing over data is more for the corporations than the government. No wonder this remained secret for so long.
165.
LinkedIn sinks more than 17 per cent, Silicon Valley fears doom(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
166.
by meow 15y ago
May be the future will be like Wall-e movie. Where humans do no work at all (even walking).
167.
by meow 15y ago
This reminds me of the AC vs DC debate in late 1800s. There were public staged demonstrations showing how harmful AC was. Of course none of this stopped AC from becoming the default standard for long range power transmission. Same goes with
168.
by meow 15y ago
One example that comes to my mind is that Indian IPOs can be subscribed by foreign institutional investors using AAA bonds (they just show this as backing instead of paying the full price in cash before getting any shares allocated). I thin
169.
by meow 15y ago
Someone should schedule Mock-A-Cop day on facebook to celebrate satire.
170.
Timing and Synchronization in JavaScript(dev.opera.com)
1 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
171.
by meow 15y ago
"argued that it would be unlikely that malware writers would tailor their code to exploit flaws in Sophos given that it controls only 10% of the enterprise market" It seems to be a ridiculous argument to make. This would still not rule out
172.
by meow 15y ago
One might argue all our activities are geared for one thing: existence. But then it is not mere existence that counts, but what the existence results in, that makes any one useful to the world. Same goes with Google. They have to exist to d
173.
France, U.S. Have Highest Depression Rates in World, Study Suggests(bloomberg.com)
2 points by meow 15y ago|0 comments
174.
by meow 15y ago
Whats next.. tracking users using browser exploits ?
175.
by meow 15y ago
It's more of a CDN than web hosting (like amazon cloudfront).
176.
by meow 15y ago
I think your analogy refers to data limits in a single channel. According to the article, dido creates different channels for users so that data rate in each channel isn't affected.
177.
by meow 15y ago
But what about the uploads from user devices to access points ?... according to the explanation provided, this seem to be optimized for data transfer from access point to user devices..
178.
by meow 15y ago
It is Spotify today, which is just a music streaming service.. for which a lot of other alternatives already exist. It could be a high-tech foreign robotics company in future which might just decide not to market products in US or worse pri
179.
by meow 15y ago
I'm not entirely convinced (of course the article might be missing several key points since it doesn't seem to be that tech oriented). Won't this sending of multiple signals actually increase the interference. Also there might be passive de
180.
by meow 15y ago
Mpeg,h264 series of patents. I'm not sure any one would invest the same effort in these particular domains if they knew every one can copy them (though current crop of internet companies like google have an incentive to do it).

More ›