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by rhplus 14y ago
Perhaps the set designer just searched for "handdrawn map" and filtered to "Large" images. For me, Google is returning that Dungeon map as the 2nd result.
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by rhplus 14y ago
This link just wouldn't have been quite as clickable: A dozen USB chargers in the lab: HP is the best .
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by rhplus 14y ago
Just put the wire inside your shirt!
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by rhplus 14y ago
The pictures clearly show that the entire mall is empty, not just the Microsoft store.
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by rhplus 14y ago
From the list[1], authors such as Kipling, Potter or Wilde would be crowd pleasers, but a figure like Winston Churchill would likely win if this were decided by popular vote. Saying that, recent Bank of England notes[2] seem to sway much mo
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by rhplus 14y ago
Yep, since at least Vista, I think. The UI guidelines recommend against in-app volume controls for everything except media players: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa51...
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by rhplus 14y ago
Perhaps it will be a very good year for Stardock... http://www.bing.com/search?q=windows+8+start+menu+replacemen... (First result for me was "Stardock’s Start 8 Windows Start Menu replacement to cost $4.99")
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by rhplus 14y ago
The hybrid drive feature in Vista was Ready Drive , not ReadyBoost. It never took off due to lack of driver support from manufacturers and/or Microsoft. Even so, you're right that techically it's a cache because copies are stored on both ph
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by rhplus 14y ago
Not ReadyBoost, but Ready Drive : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyDrive#ReadyDrive
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by rhplus 14y ago
If you've ever purchased Apple apps through the app store in Europe, you'll notice the developer is listed as "iTunes S.a.r.l". It's similar for web-services purchased through "Amazon Services Europe S.a r.l" and transactions through PayPal
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by rhplus 14y ago
Blacklists are a constant game of whack-a-mole. Anything you add to the blacklist will be replaced by 10 more variants. Whitelisting would be a more reliable solution. It has snuck into consumer computing under a different name: app stores.
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by rhplus 14y ago
Office 365? Free versions of the Word and Excel webapps can be tried via SkyDrive[1] and you can try the native app integration using the Office 2013 preview [2]. Other strong alternatives could be Zoho[3] or Zimbra[4], depending on your ex
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by rhplus 14y ago
Well, they stopped that one specific redirect "and others" [1], but this will just be a game of whack-a-mole given the huge number of organizations (local, state, federal) hosting sites under .GOV. I'm sure there are tons more redirects lur
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by rhplus 14y ago
no maps but Google maps has street view. A similar feature to Streetview has existed in Bing Maps since 2009 [1]. Google was first, but others are chasing hard. Plus, they are moving into mapping shopping malls, parks, stores, and even t
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by rhplus 14y ago
You're completely missing my point. I'm recommending against using flags at all , correct or otherwise. It's just too much of a sensitive issue for many users. And to your point about correctness: there are specific issues such as illegibl
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by rhplus 14y ago
A bit of advice: avoid using flags altogether in your user interface unless you really, really need to refer to specific national/political entities. There's far too much room for error or offense, whether you're incorrectly assigning the w
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by rhplus 14y ago
Chrome and Firefox aren't interested in selling OS upgrades, which means they're not going to cannibalize their own sales. If we look at the closest comparison (i.e. OSX/Safari), it looks like Windows/IE is doing a little better with respec
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by rhplus 14y ago
When you have a multi-million selling game and a new platform comes along, you don't tell the world you're definitely going to port it. You wait for the 6 figure check to arrive and then port it. If it's 7 figures, you call it a platform
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by rhplus 14y ago
This question reminds me of the work Microsoft Research developed to automatically create 'hand drawn' maps for Bing. The process relies on four steps: data selection, data simplication, layout and decoration. The tool seems to be offline n
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by rhplus 14y ago
"People don't get depressed in Nigeria" http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/People-Dont-Get-Depressed-... [via http://www.metafilter.com/119650/You-must-always-keep-an-ope... ]
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by rhplus 14y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but if you're willing to wait, some of those Saville Row suitmakers will produce a bespoke suit for much cheaper than $4000. The trick is to add a 4 week wait time and ship the measurements off to India. And of
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by rhplus 14y ago
Does anyone know any of the technical details yet? Was it a DNS hijack or a full server hack? This appears to have only affected the Arabic version of Aljazeera, not the global English version. Interestingly, it looks like the two sites are
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by rhplus 14y ago
Can't a generalized line/grid detection algorithm be used to correct the skew from photos of any lined or squared note paper? $25/notepad is way of the charts for the types of notes and sketches that I actually need a notepad for.
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by rhplus 14y ago
LCIDs in the URI remove ambiguity about which language to serve (do you use Accept-Language? Or IP sniffing? Or user prefs in cookies?), they remove ambiguity about which storefront to show for a market and - most importantly - they make al
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He'll still respond to correspondence sent to him via clacks.
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The 'spike' is the difference between 1 datapoint and 2 datapoints.
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Obviously I can't get into as much detail as I'd like, but that's the gist of it. Come on, we all know that security through obscurity is weak. Tell us how the security system works and the community will test it for you!
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by rhplus 14y ago
iPhone and Android support I'm curious why a small kickstarter would want to build specific apps for each device. Is this critical day one stuff for small startups like this and is there a real customer need for an app in a marketplace? I
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This is just a life insurance policy being rebranded and puffed up by Google PR & Google HR. Life insurance is a standard benefit among many top employers. What makes Google a bit different is that they're paying out 10 x salary, which
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by rhplus 14y ago
"He was the designer of Microsoft’s upcoming Excel 2013, after all" The concepts look great, but the pitch that he was " the designer of Excel 2013" rubbed me the wrong way. The Office UX design team is not a one man show. I thought mayb

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