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I have a running bet with a friend that it will be. I made the bet several years ago before its actually starting to do in other markets already. When I made the bet my friend (who works in the cell phone division for an large multinational
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Especially if you are a skim reader, that grey to bright colour jump just ma me loose my place, and made it impossible to refer back. Probably the worst document page I've ever tried to read :/
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When I was about that age I got an intro to electronics kit, I absolutely loved it. Just making little LEDs light up, speakers buzz, nothing that complex just things I could understand, think through, and make work myself.
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13y ago
Apple has been doing colorful consumer devices for over a decade... iMacs come to mind... they do the modus operandi and they are suddenly copy someone? you have some serious tunnel vision.
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Or you could reverse the question and ask if the Lumia is inspired by a decade of Apple doing colourful iPod ranges...
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One of my friends did this in London. Except he was a recruiter and was floating fake CVs to cause other recruiters to ring him. He eventually got chased down over fraud charges but nothing every ever eventuated in a legal sense (as far as
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13y ago
No Im just jet lagged :/ and gave you another reason for the double standard towards Russia.
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Its got a mythos as the last frontier of Europe, of hard country and hard men, enduring under dogs ... down trodden but never giving up. Emerging from each massive injustice with a new culture rich from strife, from the cossacks to beauty h
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Or are just about to start testing it ;)
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Since I miss eve wormholes so much I thought I'd entertain myself with some reminiscing. Heres goes. I was amongst the first people to take up living full time in a worm hole in eve. We got stranded, and while getting ourselves out we
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The use of details/summary as a hierarchy device doesn't strike me as very semantic. Anyone got an explanation which would fit it being so?
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I've been humming and harring on starting a decentralized RSS based social network idea I've had bugging me for awhile, probably two years now. There where a few of these around 2007 and Facebook brought them out and shut them dow
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The app was free, so the motivation was literally an arms race I'd guess.
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I did some contracting at a place last year, while there the competition released a complete clone (as in identical) of the companies app. While we where having a laugh at how similar it was we noticed expanded the app store description and
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I used to work with a guy who did the same thing every time you went and asked him a question while he was in the middle of something. He would answer your question politely and talk you through it etc... but when you got back to your desk
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I just had a quick look onto it myself and can official say its a complete joke of a ranking system. Apparently some of my friends from the news industry (where I used to work), being minor local celebs/TV personalities... with thousan
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I've never had a migraine in my life, but have constant visual snow since I was a child (as I can remember having conversations with adults and being surprised they didn't see the same way I did).
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I dunno about google, but my experience was more copy cat behavior by someone that didn't get the purpose of it I think... maybe I was to blame as well as I pushed back expecting to be challenged more.. not just told I was wrong. It en
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I got off to a real bad footing in a job interview using a questions like that once. With a guy looking for a 'right' answer, and it didn't go down well when I challenged his assumption. He asked how many plumbers worked in t
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And unsurprisingly there are many accounts of this being abused already, heres a few high profile examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_... , http://arstechnica.com/tech-
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You're behind the times if you think people had trust in Facebook before this latest round of issues. I've had friends and family closing there accounts and not returning in a slow dribble for the last two years. Go have a look at
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Should be self explanatory. What would companies in say the manufacturing industry want? ... access to sensitive foreign competitors data stored on the cloud. Industrial espionage plain and simple. It's in the interest of both the US
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OR I rarely pay more than $1 for a phone game, and get a lot more cynical when I'm forking out +$50 for something that often has less replay-ability to the $1 game... And by mine you mean 'ours' right? because a huge issue be
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You might have missed this release from Sony putting the boot in on the topic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
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Thrash metal for me, no idea why it works for me but it does. Oddly enough I'm not really a fan of it while I'm not working.
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Been using this since the release candidate a week or so ago and absolutely loving it. Has a few quirks here and there which need to be configured or ignored, but I've found it the best organising tool for mail on OSX in a long.
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While I understand your point, and can agree in part I don't think it applies here. Reading what I've read today its not about single incidents, its about continuous incidents by a government that doesn't resonate with the people. And infac
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Send them a message, suggest a stretch goal for digitizing. They might not have thought that far ahead, more concerned with immediate problems/threats.
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Its become an umbrella term like mafia for organised crime. I'm surprised of a decade of its use in this fashion you still can't understand what people are referring to.
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I don't use my personal name anywhere except linkedin, specifically for business reasons on all accounts. Even Facebook I use a pseudonym. Over the years I've done a lot of contracting for big business and government agencies, often requiri
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