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by riobard 16y ago
“Its SLA is impressive, too, at a 100-percent uptime guarantee with 50x compensation for downtime in certain situations.” 100% uptime? We’ll see…
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by riobard 16y ago
TL;DR: He used free Mozy backup account. Hard drive failed. Replacement took 2 months. He never tried to recover the file within 2 months. Mozy's policy is to delete data of free accounts if no activity for 30 days. Data deleted. He went ma
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by riobard 16y ago
The problem is that the number of people hosting their own OpenID solutions is, and will be, rather insignificant.
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by riobard 16y ago
Is anyone feeling that Apple products are particularly sticky and viral? I found myself keep wanting to buy more Apple products ever since I bought my first MacBook. And I tend to recommend Apple products to my friends much more than any ot
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by riobard 16y ago
No, I'm not OK with pollution in China at all. I'm from China! And having lived in Germany for a while, I do believe there are clean technologies. The place where I used to live is close to a coal-burning power station. I can see the white
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by riobard 16y ago
Same problem here with Safari. I'll vote for process-per-tab as the single best feature of Chrome.
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by riobard 16y ago
That's when you need to use Readability! Seriously, I spend one second glancing at each page i'm about to read, and decide if i'll click the Readability bookmarklet. I find about 50% of the time I'll need to click, which is an unfortunate n
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by riobard 16y ago
it's quite frustrating when you know about the asian cuisine but cannot open the page!!!
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by riobard 16y ago
That's exactly my point. You don't want pollution. Factories in the U.S. need to take care of that. And it costs money. Moving to less regulated places like China and India saves that cost.
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by riobard 16y ago
Their blog and forum are constantly refusing connections……
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by riobard 16y ago
You want all the (potential) pollution?
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by riobard 16y ago
This is their Chrome webapp.
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by riobard 16y ago
No, it's not. The components that China imports from elsewhere to assemble iPhones will be credited as China's import value. The same happens recursively for those countries that export the components to China until it eventually traces bac
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by riobard 16y ago
I remember when I was taking an entry-level Economics course in China. We were using Paul Samuelson's classic textbook “Economics”. The English version mentioned China in some not-so-pretty examples. Apparently the translated Chinese versio
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by riobard 16y ago
There will be a latency and CPU usage penalty every time a new instance is invoked to serve requests.
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by riobard 16y ago
They probably won't give a damn. The power is highly unbalanced. Try talk to Google for a deal.
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by riobard 16y ago
By the very same logic Microsoft should push as strong as Apple because it makes even more business sense for them. They don't sell hardware. Their profit comes entirely in software. Do we see the same behavior? Hell no.
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by riobard 16y ago
Same in China. All major banks require IE (6 in most cases. though 8 works most of the time), in addition to some stupid security USB keys that you have to insert into your machine to prove it's really you. Oh, of coz the drivers only works
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by riobard 16y ago
Actually for drawing Chinese characters it's not that bad. I plan to get an iPad for my parents so they can draw Chinese characters instead of learning how to type (there are many older generations in China who cannot type Chinese on a comp
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by riobard 16y ago
This sounds great! The touch interface is really suitable for drawing tree graphs like these.
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by riobard 16y ago
Appscript is pretty cool! Is there anyway to produce a bundle and distribute to other machines without Appscript installed?
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by riobard 16y ago
My take is that the lower powered devices tend to be retired much faster. I would expect on average a CR-48 would last (in the sense of people actually using it) much shorter than a, say, MacBook Pro. Also a used MacBook Pro (or a comparabl
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by riobard 16y ago
I had the same weird feeling watching that video. There is something fundamentally wrong there. I'm especially worried about the last part when the little girl destroying the last CR-48: she was so calm to do that without a blink. I was sho
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by riobard 16y ago
Should make a law to completely forbid subsidiary of mobile phones from carriers. The current situation is so harmful to the long term development of mobile Internet and mobile devices.
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by riobard 16y ago
About antialiased: apparently Apple does it too. And BBC. I really hate that.
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by riobard 16y ago
Interesting. I've discussed that silly article last week in a mailing list. Here's the body of my post there: I disagree. I've been using Reeder like crazy since the first beta is publicly released, and up till now my experience is: it is t
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by riobard 16y ago
It also uses about twice as much memory as Mail.app. Anyway the interface is so much better that I'm willing to make the tradeoff!
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by riobard 16y ago
Nothing. But it catches attentions.
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by riobard 16y ago
One sentence summary/advice: don't hire a pretty girl. [edit]: hey why the downvote? go read the story and you'll see why.
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by riobard 16y ago
You don't get access to the phone line on anything without paying extra money to put a WiFi router there, especially in high-priced locations in city centers. Reusing phone booths eliminates that cost. The idea sounds cool, but I doubt it's

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