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by rhplus 15y ago
TechCrunch profiled a company called Mind Candy recently that is dominating a market in the UK you might not immediately think of a big money spinner: social gaming for 6-10 year olds. The money comes from subscriptions and... merchandising
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by rhplus 15y ago
The most apparent disadvantage would be the fact that it bipasses traditional caching methods. And this should be considered a fairly big disadvantage if what you're pushing is publically cacheable. Consider places where a HTTP URI might
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by rhplus 15y ago
What are the steps required by random service before they can start requesting access to Gmail? Is there any form of review before Google issues them an application key, etc?
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by rhplus 15y ago
I've been seeing a lot of adverts recently for Google security. This third-party authentication system for Gmail, as described, seems like a complete step in the wrong direction if they're trying to educate regular users about the importanc
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by rhplus 15y ago
As commented above, yes, it is possibly illegal under UK law. For example: (1) A person is guilty of an offence if, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, he: (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavio
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by rhplus 15y ago
This particular guy was located in Wales. Speech is protected under European and UK law, but I'd say that it's not quite the same extent as in the US. For example, there are particular laws against defamation, harassment or racism in speech
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by rhplus 15y ago
I found the numbers too small to be readable. I'd expect that two states (notify on, notify off) would be enough to serve the same purpose for most users, perhaps with the number in the title too.
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by rhplus 15y ago
One of many April Fools' Day RFCs. A full list here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1_RFC
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by rhplus 15y ago
This is the "309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Recycling and reclaimation is what they do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and...
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by rhplus 15y ago
From their blog: "The ability to sell Kinect for Xbox 360 at its current price point is in large part subsidized by consumers buying a number of Kinect games, subscribing to Xbox LIVE, and making other transactions associated with the Xbox
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by rhplus 15y ago
Users click on ads in Google search because they're looking for answers. For one in every couple of thousand search results, a Google ad will provide the answer that someone is looking for. They'll click it. Revenue is generated. Over at Yo
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by rhplus 15y ago
"I made a $1,000 (mostly to cover expenses) to shoot a friend’s wedding... but weddings are so much work that I’ve decided to avoid shooting them if I can help it." OK, I admit that I don't know the business, but isn't the "so much work"
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by rhplus 15y ago
A photograph doesn't grab 3 minutes of attention like a video. Or, more specifically, you can't ask someone to watch a 15 second ad just to see a picture.
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by rhplus 15y ago
Is this really something worth fighting for at this stage in his music career, especially if he's having to pay lawyers? There would be far more value in him cultivating a social media presence (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Last.fm, MySpace,
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by rhplus 15y ago
There's a detailed article discussing the feature here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/12/16/signing-in-wit... The important thing is that this feature is completely optional and can be disabled in organizations by group policy.
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by rhplus 15y ago
From a CPI calculator: $50 in 1951 has the same buying power as $435 in 2011. That's a heck of an expensive toy!
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by rhplus 15y ago
Fiddler is a very useful HTTP proxy debugger for Windows. http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/
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by rhplus 15y ago
since Internet service would cost $10/mo more without a bundled television package I'm convinced that the only reason for them to do this is to whitewash the "myth" of cable-cutting. Comcast in my area has a similar deal - it's a couple o
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by rhplus 15y ago
They have. Kinectimals, Fable, Crackdown and Need For Speed all have Windows Phone mini games/apps that allow you to earn unique achievements and items. Halo has a 'dashboard' app, but not a game, afaik. See also "Xbox LIVE Extras" (messagi
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by rhplus 15y ago
Suggestion: don't use the iPhone for screenshots. I say this because I saw its chrome on the homepage and my immediate thought was that I'd have to get everyone in my carpool to own an iPhone and download an app (which isn't damn simple)
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by rhplus 15y ago
The "average" is the mean of gross revenue ($10.6 billion for 2010) over audience numbers for the year (1.4 billion). This would include both 2D and 3D movies, plus matinee and child ticket prices. It's not clear if they include 3D glasses
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by rhplus 15y ago
2. Ticket prices are too high. People have always made that complaint, but historically the movies have been cheap compared to concerts, major league sports and restaurants. I had to check this claim, because inflation and purchasing powe
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by rhplus 15y ago
The Google paper you're referring to is here[1]. Their results show that very high temperatures do affect older drives (> 40ºC, 3+ years), but temperature variation within lower and mid ranges shows little correlation with failure rates
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by rhplus 15y ago
In that case, the headline and summary are very misleading. The summary says "edu, .gov, websites from US" but you say the sampling includes Turkish/Azerbaijani academic websites. I don't think I'm the only person who would read ".edu" and
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by rhplus 15y ago
FWIW, the Kinect SDK includes both C++ and C#/VB.NET versions, not just C#. Regarding the the upcoming commercial release, the FAQ implies that those commercial restrictions will be lifted, but of couse, the exact details aren't yet known:
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by rhplus 15y ago
I think your rant against foreign developers is completely out of place here. There's no evidence to suggest that this application was off-shored, unless you've found something to the contrary. Quite clearly, the two companies you cite are
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by rhplus 15y ago
I didn't downvote, but possibly it's because you're suggesting people build webapps to compete with anti-virus firms, CAD/CAM vendors and a couple of hardware manufacturers.
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by rhplus 15y ago
What will happen to all those -webkit and -moz declarations in the wild once a feature gets added to the standard? Will all browsers be expected to observe -webkit-feature-foo or -moz-feature-foo as though the author intedended to use featu
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by rhplus 15y ago
When you look at the internet from the protocol level, it seems borderless, but - as we saw during the Arab Spring - at the infrastructure level it really isn't. You have to get traffic into and out of a country somehow, and for the majorit
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by rhplus 15y ago
The mapping zip codes to city is not strictly 1:1. I don't have a better source for this, but the description in Wikipedia states: "The Postal Service designates one _default_ place name for each ZIP code... Additional place names may be re

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