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15y ago
Hopefully this helps out smaller book sellers. There will still be a market for hard copy books but it won't be large retailers selling them.
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This could have been said about the industrial revolution, invention of agriculture, etc. Each time in our history when a new technology has made our lives more efficient some people have lost their jobs. In their place more jobs have been
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15y ago
Yup, Twilio + OpenVBX is pretty nice.
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16y ago
Using a git backend for this kind of service is great since it would provide a common synchronization engine for all your files. Thus if I have 3 or 4 of these services pointing at the same folder everything should work.
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16y ago
Half the price of dropbox, this is just begging for a kick ass desktop/mobile app.
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16y ago
Operating systems seem to care a lot about write access , less about read access. As much as browsers should care about this an OS should do some sandboxing.
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16y ago
And then there were three...
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16y ago
The real story here is how valuable and important free internet access points are. We should all support companies and individuals that provide free network access.
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16y ago
Showing that one developer makes more money on Android doesn't really prove anything. There are more games for iOS than Android so logically the games on Android should be making more money.
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16y ago
Also covered by TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/04/google-to-shut-down-gizmo5-...
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Google Shuts Off Gizmo5 Service
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Even processor agnostic programs will run poorly on a GPU. GPUs are about doing very basic tasks very quickly. CPUs can do more but are slower. Most computer programs take advantage of the extra features in a GPU and would not be able to ru
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16y ago
Its funny that they are targeting end users vs content creators. As a content creator I assume you would enjoy having subtitles for your content.
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16y ago
I totally agree. Facebook has become a bad place to flirt. Who wants to share pictures of their grandma with their latest crush? This has the potential of becoming the standard for dating.
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16y ago
Hah!
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I thought this was going to be a joke like the 12V battery hack: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/773138/12_volt_battery_hack_yo... Turns out its real and very useful!
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16y ago
I don't think you can actually delete a Facebook account. It still exists somewhere...
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16y ago
Eat! Best food in the country. I like Ping in the international district.
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16y ago
Its always hard to tell which one of these things is going to be the "serious" one.
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It would be nice to get a commitment from Oracle saying that they would support a Mac version BEFORE Apple drops support...
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16y ago
They have an army of Grandmas testing this stuff. If they can't use it it gets rejected.
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"In June 2003, Robinson was knighted in for his achievements in creativity, education and the arts." ~Wikipedia He has plenty of ideas. This speech is trying to get people to see that the current ideas aren't working and work together to cr
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16y ago
Actually that would be a "flat" tax. A regressive tax is where the rich pay less than the poor. Eliminating the lower and middle classes will only destroy Washington's startups. You don't see Steve Balmer working 80 hours out of his basemen
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Its actually a little more complicated than that: http://www.packetstan.com/2010/07/special-look-face-time-par...