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by mitjak 15y ago
Another example is Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I strapped myself for another grimace filled ride, but Jim absolutely shattered all my expectations and prejudices with his tenderness and onscreen chemistry with Kate
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I think a lot of self-help books are dismissed by most people. I would love to know why.
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I didn't even notice there's a new AppleTV. Superb news!
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The colourful buttons, with their cheesy 2006 aqua reflection; near invisibly thin highlighting of the current section; too many colours not inline with Apple's increasingly monochrome designs; the reflective posters from the same era etc..
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But it won't play 1080p, correct?
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I think the author was referring to C and all the other popular languages that similarly enforce the brackets for expressions.
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I don't know how others prefer to drag, but I have the three-finger gesture enabled: holding down the fingers counts as a dragging motion, and if you release the fingers, it gives you about a second to lift the fingers, move them elsewhere,
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Precisely! But it is how it could become a replacement, eventually. The hardware is becoming increasingly capable.
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Combining mobile and desktop apps in one
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"Push It" by Garbage. Also, I don't think I could work at a startup that would place me in an environment where I would hear "The final countdown" more than once a year.
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I like to think of myself as more technologically aware than an average consumer, and I've never heard of PowerVR. The manufacturers of graphics hardware I do know never use cores in their marketing.
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I've been using Vim exclusively for about 2 years now, and I don't even want to begin to know what the hell is going on in that diagram. It was clearly not created for the purpose of teaching Vim but probably as an exercise of mapping out a
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Good point. Perhaps the problem is the work station and not the device itself. Still, the way tablets work now, they have to be at a fairly low angle, or one's hands will quickly get tired. That coupled with lack of real world applications
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> it's like saying that the microwave will kill off the oven Great analogy. Unless tablets grow in terms of connectable peripherals, I can't imagine secretaries, programmers, accountants, or anybody else spend 8 hours staring down their
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> Find me an office suite that does (2) that interops basically seamlessly across other businesses and old versions of my own business. This is the key point here: there are many other office suites out there, but no other will provid
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I quite like Safari myself, save for the visible tab limit (8 or 9 on my monitor, and have to use the drop down on right hand side to get to other tabs; what year is this?!) and no favicons. Do you or anyone else happen to know of any remed
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I suppose you are an exception then, because the traffic problems, at least here in Toronto, arise from a large majority of people who positively do not need a personal vehicle for their day-to-day activities.
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And right there you define where you should and shouldn't use roll-over based UI elements: if a UI element is only useful as part of interacting with another, then hiding it in other situations makes sense (e.g., clearing a text field as pa
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Pretty cool indeed. A question though: how much of a need is there for a service like this? Beyond the more mainstream artists and festivals, most of the artists whose shows I've seen have typically had more respectful audience members who
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* "Without this third party package there is a high chance of getting a virus or getting hacked" * "More expensive HDMI cables produce a better quality image" * "Higher megapixel cameras produce higher quality pictures" Etc. Those are the o
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I'm personally afraid of the more likely possibility of networks spinning off their own Netflix clones which is arguably even worse: to watch an NBC show you would need an nbc.com subscription, a CBS one for CBS shows etc.
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There is no way to view your links outside of the Apple's browsers, it automatically archives links you click on even once, even if just to peak, and it's entirely locked to the Mac and iOS devices. For the target audience the feature was d
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I guess it really was taken for granted until closed systems like iOS came along. A closed operating system from Microsoft prior to Apple would be very difficult to image indeed.
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It was frustrating to me personally. Of the 4 sharks, EMI was the most forward thinking one, at least to a degree a major label can be. If commenters recall, they were the first to jump onboard with iTunes, and explore other digital deliver
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I'd argue otherwise, in any other case, but since a label's success solely depends on the success of its artists, which isn't always predictable, and considering the shrinking number of artists wishing to be signed onto a major label, there
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Why are you assuming small labels want to grow bigger? Many indie labels are owned by or have contracts with larger labels to provide wider avenues of distribution. Alongside with those, there are plenty of small labels and small artists, v
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Which is completely unfounded given that, with Spotify, one pays a flat fee to listen to as much music as one can; there is nothing stopping him or her from listening to the entire album.
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I think if that ever happens, we will basically have iOS X on our hands. Unless they want to completely merge the two operating systems, I don't see that happening anytime soon.
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I had to go back and re-read but couldn't find anything relating to it: why did you assume they used hours of usage as a metric versus the number of visits to the site?
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All the more puzzling is that they waited so long to do it. There has always been dissatisfaction with Mail.app but it's taken them 3+ years since the launch of the iPhone SDK to come up with a half-assed wrapper around a website that perfo

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