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by nhebb 15y ago
> Another turning point in the last 10 years is that basically any PC made since 2000 will probably be sufficient for what most normal users want. I bought a desktop PC back in 2001 that I used daily until early 2010. In those 9 years,
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by nhebb 15y ago
On a related note, searches for many symbols do not product results. Searching for '&' will bring up results for ampersand, but most others that map well to words do not, e.g. $ => dollar, % => percent, etc.
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by nhebb 15y ago
My bias is that this had a big impact. A few years ago I might of asked around for a beta invite for the Next Big Thing, but after the Google Wave debacle I'm much less interested in being a tech lemming for an uncertain social networking s
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by nhebb 15y ago
In other words, there are lies, damn lies, and pie charts?
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Do you really have a registered trademark already? If not, you should remove the registered trademark symbol.
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Humidity means water vapor. You can't have water vapor without water. The article says "water may be present". QED.
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by nhebb 15y ago
It wouldn't be muggy (humid) unless there is water. Shouldn't npr's title be "Hot And (May Be) Muggy, Livable".
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by nhebb 15y ago
I'm not sure there are details yet. The stimulus / jobs plan has been proposed, but there is no bill written yet. It will be another ten days before Obama presents his plan on how to pay for the jobs plan, and the bill won't likely be writt
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by nhebb 15y ago
I never got that to work on a pair of Vista / XP systems. The target system had several password protected user profiles. I needed to have a keyboard on the target system to do the login, and then Synergy would launch after the user logged
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by nhebb 15y ago
> In addition to the file movement features, Mouse Without Borders also allows the user to log onto all the PCs linked together by the program via just one PC. That's the big one. I use a commercial tool (MaxiVista) right now, and I've
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by nhebb 15y ago
> The Zagat "brand" resonates huge as a trusted consumer brand Only because they focus on a niche. If they start expanding their ratings to other areas, it could weaken their brand. Rating doctors? Unless we're talking Beverly Hills pl
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by nhebb 15y ago
You are correct, but it's worth noting that having 9.9M followers didn't make news last month. Losing 40k followers in a single day did. Stasis doesn't make news in politics and causes. Movement does. If Al Gore ends up irritating a large n
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by nhebb 15y ago
They need to rethink this. Obama saw a 40k drop in twitter followers last month after posting 100 tweets in 6 hours. People like being connected and involved, but not played.
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by nhebb 15y ago
While I generally agree with what you've written, I still think it's odd that Microsoft has never included many features in Explorer that are the main selling points for 3rd party file explorers, e.g. dual pane view, bulk rename, toolbar cu
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by nhebb 15y ago
I didn't take that as an anti-intellectualism slight. People who write tech pieces on the web, be it on blogs or tech publications, are more computer savvy than the the majority of computer users. If you don't believe this, go watch the Goo
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by nhebb 15y ago
Don't always believe that bit about sell the benefits, not the features. It depends on your target market. Robert Bly, author of The Copywriter's Handbook et al., has written several good pieces on marketing to technical people. In one, h
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by nhebb 15y ago
When I learned assembly years ago, my favorite assignment was a binary bomb. The goal was to "defuse" the binary bomb, which you did by using gdb to disassemble and step through the code in order to figure out how to get to the next phase.
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Some of our best ideas come out of annoyance(qualitydigest.com)
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> AMC is ending Breaking Bad next season because of Madmen sucking up the budget Thankfully, that's not going to happen. AMC tried cutting BrBa back to only 6 episodes next season. But Sony owns the rights to the show, so they shopped i
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by nhebb 15y ago
Yeah, I saw that in the FAQ. I tweeted a question to them about the camera. Their reply: "the camera is a Zeus plus built by insite pacific..a high end hd fantastic camera but not 3D". Here's the camera product sheet: http://www.insitetri
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by nhebb 15y ago
I never thought looking at underwater lava formations could be so mesmerizing. I could easily spend an hour or more looking at that. Half of it is just lure of the ocean, and half of it is just the coolness of watching a live feed of a und
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by nhebb 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the statement "why the heck does Excel support embedded Flash is a great question" was made by the F-Secure blogger. Microsoft Office applications have a long history of allowing embedded OLE/ActiveX objects. There are
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by nhebb 15y ago
I was thinking the same thing, which in turn reminded me of the ultimate productivity blog (linked from Coding Horror): http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
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by nhebb 15y ago
That question actually made me question the technical competence of F-Secure. You would think an anti-virus company would be more knowledgeable about embedded objects in Office documents.
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by nhebb 15y ago
There are a few cases where Double Recall wouldn't be so bad. For example, if I had to pick between a Double Recall interstitial and watching a commercial before a video starts, I'd go with Double Recall. I'd also prefer them to pop under a
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by nhebb 15y ago
I wish I had a link, but I recall reading that Dijkstra said the backlash against goto's was overblown. You hear the same kind of dogma repeated about globals, multiple points of return, and others. It's not that these constructs should ne
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by nhebb 15y ago
This doesn't tell you anything without knowing how many hours a day the test subjects usually surfed the web. A lot of people are addicted to it, so this just may be the result of satisfying a craving. By this logic, maybe alcoholics are mo
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by nhebb 15y ago
I was about to post the same thing. If you don't have an old PC laying around, running a VM is an easy way to test an application with limited resources. Another tip on is to setup another user account on your system with large fonts to qui
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Harvey Golub's Response To Warren Buffett(online.wsj.com)
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by nhebb 15y ago
It's not on the same level, but it is considered a mean, insensitive word. When I was a kid (70's - 80's), it was used occasionally, but not that much. Advocates for the mentally retarded became vocal about the use of the word, and, for lac

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