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by nagrom 14y ago
This is a wonderful article that gives great historical background to the middle eastern conflict and sets it in a very real context of the distrust of authority that has become so much more visible in the past ten years. But: This is an ex
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by nagrom 14y ago
I went up a level to http://www.datapointed.net/visualizations/math/ and was thoroughly disappointed to be 403'd. Are there more available?
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by nagrom 14y ago
Watching this play out is hilarious. I'm not quite sure if it is schadenfreude, the morbid curiosity akin to that experienced from watching a snake eat a rabbit, or just the prospect of watching an 800lb. gorilla behave like a spoiled child
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by nagrom 14y ago
With bluetooth and induction charging, can we now make beautiful, fast phones with no flaps to cover the ports? I've had two phones broken through water damage; surely the time has come for a manufacturer to add such an obvious feature to i
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by nagrom 14y ago
Can I suggest that you think a little bit about adding Saudi Riyal too? There's a huge host of expat workers there who get paid in Riyal but generally only ever spend dollars, pounds or euros...this kind of service would be perfect for them
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by nagrom 14y ago
As others have noted: it is difficult to counteract the effect of negative publicity brought against Samsung by Apple's accusations. Having Apple publicly retract those accusations is the court's way of trying to mitigate that. Your analogy
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by nagrom 14y ago
A lot of the posts that are saying something like "The judge didn't say that they couldn't do it like this!" are deliberately missing the point. In the UK, you are expected to comply with the spirit of such a court order, not just the let
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by nagrom 14y ago
Hm. There were rumours about 18-24 months ago that Ive wanted out of Apple. I wonder if this decision is a consequence of that previous discord. I also wonder what this means for the future of hardware design at Apple. If Ive must now look
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by nagrom 14y ago
It's worth noting that Dixon's eventually scaled back its high-street presence completely and is now found only in airports. If his role at Dixon's was what got him a job at Apple, I'd be really surprised!
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by nagrom 14y ago
The replies about iPad vs. Surface vs. Android tablets have reminded me of nothing so much as the kind of silly arguments that console fans have over Playstations, Xboxes and Wiis. I think that the reason is the same: when you spend money o
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by nagrom 14y ago
From the link, it appears that to get 'lower' volume, you scale the output values if digital, whereas you may scale the output signal if analogue. If you have an analogue output (stereo jack), then you probably generate a lower-power ou
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by nagrom 14y ago
I agree with you - but I've read in several places that Apple were ordered to apologise. Their feelings (or not) don't come into it. [BTW - the linked text kind of implies that they do have feelings; the article comes off as surly, resentfu
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by nagrom 14y ago
If they were truly told to write an apology, then people are down on them because this isn't one. You cannot really apologise for anything without using the words 'sorry' or 'apologise'.
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by nagrom 14y ago
A lot of comments on the SE site make the same point: it's clear that such a person needs to wear a space suit of some type. And it's clear that it is possible to do with an elaborate vehicle. So the question really just depends on how elab
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by nagrom 14y ago
In the UK, regardless of manufacturer's warranty, the manufacturer is bound to replace the device if it begins to fail within a reasonable time period due to manufacturing defects. For electronics, this is generally accepted as being 5 year
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by nagrom 14y ago
Allow me to counter your anecdote. My 18-month-old Kindle Keyboard screen broke last month, while I was travelling in Russia. It hadn't been impacted or scratched, it just started to become unresponsive on about 40% of the surface and faile
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by nagrom 14y ago
I think Dalton was an excellent Bond, better than Connery or Moore. I find Moore and Brosnan to be ridiculous, whereas Dalton is suitably psycopathic and dark. I like Craig's take on Bond too, but the plot lines of the films are disappointi
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by nagrom 14y ago
Everything that you say is true. But I really like the ceremony of using a corkscrew to open a bottle of wine; it is a lot more tactile than opening a screw cap.
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by nagrom 14y ago
Not necessarily (if the data exists then this paper would already have referenced it, surely? These are serious scientists at very respectable institutes - the INT at Seattle is highly prestigious). Firstly, you would need to select rays th
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by nagrom 14y ago
This is interesting. If you could map out preferred directions in the universe (even if those directions changed across space), you would be able to establish an absolute, universal reference frame. That would be...incredible.
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by nagrom 14y ago
It shouldn't take so long to get from the UK to France though, eh? ;-)
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by nagrom 14y ago
It's very pretty, and I'll likely buy some. But oh-my-gosh is your server slow! Having to wait 60s between page loads is stopping me from exploring your collection and buying stuff. You need to fix the speed issue, because it's costing you
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by nagrom 14y ago
On a similar topic from a recent experience...I recently got into a conversation with KLM about delayed luggage. You fill in a web form that emails them with your complaint. They reply to your email address. If you reply to their email, you
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by nagrom 14y ago
They're actually retaining 20% of AliBaba, so your theory doesn't hold. More likely, AliBaba's management want to consolidate their independence and see the use of a cash reserve to boost share price as a good thing.
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Lulzsec Hacker Arrested in the US(bbc.com)
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Amazon.co.uk updates UI(amazon.co.uk)
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by nagrom 14y ago
I love the info bar in the middle of the site; the design is very pretty! I'd like more information (maybe code examples?) when I click on the sections (Publish/Subscribe, Direct Messaging, etc.) without having to sign up. Right now, you're
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Hewlett-Packard loses $8.8bn in third quarter(bbc.co.uk)
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by nagrom 14y ago
Your post is similarly charged and you get more confrontational during this thread I think, although I think it may be a cultural thing. In the UK, swearing isn't a big deal, but table manners can be. Part of basic courtesy (for me) is to p
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by nagrom 14y ago
I get really annoyed when I eat with someone and they have their phone on the table. There's something about that behaviour that seems to say "I'll pay attention to you for now, but I'm really hoping for a distraction.". I'd much rather go

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