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by rhplus 14y ago
What are the markings on the vehicle in this picture for? Are they some sort of visual tag for self calibration? http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/msl112511/m11_0404... They're also visible in the pictures from Mars: http://www.n
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by rhplus 14y ago
There must've been some cathartic cursing in NASA mission control in 1969, right? They just didn't stream it live... http://www.theonion.com/articles/july-21-1969,10515/
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by rhplus 14y ago
One of the comments in the article suggest something interesting: how about pricing it at $200 and adding a $10 - $20/month subscription to Microsoft services. Perhaps Xbox Music/Video or Xbox Live Game of the month or extra SkyDrive storag
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by rhplus 14y ago
I mentioned on a previous thread that satellite/cable TV companies need to be adding 1.1% to their subscriber numbers ever year just to keep pace with the growth of the number of households in the US[1]. If you looked at the percentage o
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by rhplus 14y ago
They are still gaining subscribers. Internet subscribers yes; TV, no: "Comcast's video subscriber base continued to shrink, though at a slower rate than in recent quarters. It lost 176,000 subscribers during the period." http://tv.yahoo.
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by rhplus 14y ago
The comments on their Facebook announcement page[1] are surprisingly positive. I think it's worth remembering that while Hotmail and SkyDrive might not have 'mindshare' in Silicon Valley or even across the US, there's a large population of
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by rhplus 14y ago
You're right that note-taking will be one of the killer apps for the next generation of tablets. OneNote for Metro ("OneNote MX") is already available in beta, so I'm guessing Microsoft is chasing that: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-
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by rhplus 14y ago
Dropbox policy says you must not use the service to: + publish or share materials that are unlawfully pornographic or indecent, or that advocate bigotry, religious, racial or ethnic hatred; + violate the law in any way, or to violate the p
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by rhplus 14y ago
I just noticed that this is from a 2009 paper. Has this method made its way into any products by now?
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm sure it's fantastic to get a 'bonus' every 6 months, but these government mandated '13th/14th paycheck' schemes are really just employer-managed savings plans. Personally, I'd prefer to get my salary as I earn it and decide for myself h
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by rhplus 14y ago
Note that the 28 days of 'time off' includes employee vacation and whichever public holidays the employer chooses to include. There are 8 public holidays in England and Wales, so the number of 'true' vacation days is usually closer to 20.
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by rhplus 14y ago
American corporations (in particular) have an economic interest in keeping employees healthy for one very important reason: they pay for their employees' healthcare. It makes financial sense to demonstrate to health insurance providers that
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by rhplus 14y ago
Some features of Lync came in part from the Parlano acquisition in 2007: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2007/aug07/08-29Pa...
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by rhplus 14y ago
I buy fruit and vegetables in bulk from a small local store and pick up beer and convenience food from nearby supermarket when I need it. It's crossed my mind more than once that the supermarket is the one that's most likely to sell my purc
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by rhplus 14y ago
It only works for me in IE10 when Compatibility Mode is enabled.
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by rhplus 14y ago
This isn't really hostile to hardware vendors if you think about their incentives. They're the parties who would benefit most from a user buying a brand new phone once the 18 months of support expires. There's zero incentive for most hard
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by rhplus 14y ago
From the Western perspective, Chinese regulations and processes have a long way to go. When was the last time a brand new building in the US or Europe simply collapsed before topping out? In China it was 2009: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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by rhplus 14y ago
Do we really need $1M to start a business these days? The EB-5 requires the investor to create or preserve 10 US citizen jobs within 2 years. Ballpark a median salary of $50K for each of those employees and double that number to account f
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by rhplus 14y ago
The Mac mini is 7.7 x 7.7 x 1.4 inches. That's almost four times the volume of this thing (4 x 4 x ? inches). http://www.apple.com/macmini/specs.html
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by rhplus 14y ago
According to their careers page[1], the NSA is offering $42K - $97K for mathematicians and $72K - $134K for computer scientists. I'm guessing that's on par with many academic and industrial research positions, especially for the locations t
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by rhplus 14y ago
The part I tried to stress was "fair compensation", but perhaps that's not the correct legal or contractual term. The closest real-world analogy I can think of is this: you want to by a DVD but cashier is ignoring you. So, you slap a $20 bi
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by rhplus 14y ago
Simply tweeting the intention is an empty gesture. How about setting up a publically auditable escrow account with the recipient set to be HBO/Time Warner. Deposit $20 (or whatever is fair compensation) and then go ahead an acquire a copy o
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by rhplus 14y ago
Apple stores can be found all around the world. This is only true if you consider "the world" to mean the US (~2/3 of all Apple stores) and a handful of major cities in each of just 12 other countries [1]. Most of Apple's sales and servi
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by rhplus 14y ago
Forbes ran an article recently describing how some social media companies may be deferring revenues of digital purchases by classifying them as "durable goods", which could be seen as a way to make themselves more attractive as an ongoing i
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by rhplus 14y ago
Let's say A wants to find B's IP address. In the case of email, A would need to trick B into replying to an email (and also use an email service that adds the client IP header). In the case of most IM servces, B would need to accept a frien
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm not suggesting that the split keyboard is a bug. I'm suggested that the behavior of ghost keys to the left and right of the split might have not been intentional.
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by rhplus 14y ago
I wonder if this is actually a serendipitous bug, rather than an intentional feature? If there's a hit-test heuristic associated with the general keyboard area, then the edge keys might be passing off the key event to their logical neighbor
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by rhplus 14y ago
See also: http://www.letsdothisapp.com
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by rhplus 14y ago
When I last tried, any client can access SkyDrive over WebDAV using http://d.docs.live.net/{cID} (cID can be found in most SkyDrive URLs).
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm probably in a very small minority here, but given that Google is making money by placing ads next to most YouTube content, then yes, perhaps they are responsible for determining who actually owns the content first.

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