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by noibl 16y ago
Gruber says nobody is arguing that there's a “How dare Google compete with Apple?” sentiment. That Apple merely took the gloves off and started taking the fight more seriously. But aggrieved sentiment is written all over Steve Jobs's reacti
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by noibl 16y ago
I use NameCheap's RapidSSL product for $10/yr. The only thing I don't like about it is that when you register, the 'Organization' value you enter gets overwritten with the common name/domain name. This means that when someone reads the cert
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by noibl 16y ago
> The page talks about emerging web standards and talks about Safari and Apple's support for them. It doesn't say 'emerging'. It says 'reliable'. > It mentions that not all browsers support all of the latest standards, and then it g
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by noibl 16y ago
Compare: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ 'W3C Working Draft 4 March 2010' http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ 'W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999' So by 'recommendation', am I to assume you're talking about HTML 4.01? (edit: again with the downv
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by noibl 16y ago
> Some of the demos only work in Safari Which, given other browser-makers' commitment to supporting the emerging specs, just goes to show that 'standards' is a misnomer in this case. In informal usage that's OK; most of us hope that the
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by noibl 16y ago
If you wanted to be able to drop your Flash plugin I could understand, but Chrome bundles Flash so...hm.
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by noibl 16y ago
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/05/30/Feelings-A... "What About Apple? · Hating (or loving) them seems about as equally unreasonable. I’ve been vocal about my loathing for their app-store regime but they’re my favorite compute
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by noibl 16y ago
I think it's even simpler than that. MPEG-LA is basically a cartel. Google has consistently demonstrated that it considers monopolies and cartels that slow down the technological development of the web or create technological bottlenecks fo
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by noibl 16y ago
Sure, I get that. But my point was that I don't see the trashing.
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by noibl 16y ago
For email, anonymity and disposability go together IMO. The main problem you want to avoid is getting spammed or harrassed through an address that you can't afford to turn off. I currently pay Sneakemail a yearly fee for a service that help
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by noibl 16y ago
Remember, these are averaged numbers. The Australian broadband market is highly segmented according to speed. Until quite recently Telstra Bigpond was offering a 256Kbit connection labelled 'ADSL broadband' with 512Kbit and 1.5Mbit connecti
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by noibl 17y ago
1. I don't believe Google is in the business of killing off other companies' products by strategic/underhand/'evil' means. One possible reason for this is a corporate belief in a kind of technological natural selection: the optimal solution
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by noibl 17y ago
Say 'surge' again. I dare you!
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by noibl 17y ago
I used to use Etherpad and Dabbleboard for rough collaborative specs and mocks because they're realtime. Now Google Docs will do nicely.
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by noibl 17y ago
"making Google's engineering problems into the Internets' engineering problems" -- indeed, and more specifically, saying that because Google can't/won't embed a JS engine in their crawler, publishers should embed one in their webserver. For
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by noibl 17y ago
1815: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer Not sure about the joy bit since large SO2 emissions have a catastrophic effect on agriculture as you noted, but do not have effects lasting more than a few years. CO2 lasts a good
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by noibl 17y ago
If ever there was a strawman. He says: "Planes emit CO2 - but they emit almost completely clean CO2 (note that bar global warming, CO2 isn’t considered harmful). Volcanoes blast tons and tons of all kinds of nasty and not so nasty stuff int