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Or 1.5 Color's worth.
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"if you get one of the first 10 units you'll get a MAC address with a lot of zeros in it" And a price with lots of zeros in it, it would seem! (All in a good cause of course.)
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You have that right now. Every computer with a web browser has a JavaScript interpreter installed; but at some point some knowledge of programming, or a desire to learn it is required. The web browser is a gateway to that knowledge and lear
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"Why don't Apple, Microsoft etc. package the stuff you need to get start programming with their OSes?" They do, or at least Apple does with the inclusion of a version of Ruby as standard in OSX, various shell scripting options, and Xcode av
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I'm not sure on what basis you picked the comanies named on your list, but at least three of the four software companies you mentioned are incorrect, and two of those were never in support of SOPA other than by association with the BSA. ht
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Pity those of us who have neither ideas, nor the ablity to execute them.
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pushd / popd where have you been all my life?! How did I not know this? Thanks Zed!
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If effort/outcome ratio for blender is on the steep side for your granddaughter, have a look at Muvizu http://muvizu.com/ , it's no blender for sure, but it makes getting started with timeline based 3D animation a breeze (pre-designed scen
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This camera tracking test looks very promising: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjeFaexzOu8
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I'm glad it's worked out for him, and unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems he's double-counting his production costs in working out his (pre-tax) profit, so he may have done even better than that: "the production of the video cost around $
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Twitter didn't fuel U.K. riots, study says
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Okay, so I have to put it away - your argument is logical and compelling. But why do I have to turn it off? (And tangentially can anyone tell me what the safety grounds are for opening the window blinds? (Or is it just to make the turnaroun
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Surely simpler soultion would have been to respond to a search for "+this is a +search" with: Showing results for this is a search Search instead for +this is a +search As google does for other "typos". Failing that, a replacement for + wou
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"You can't just slap Norton on these things and call it a day" No, you can't - you have to slap Symantec Critical System Protection on them. /Then/ you can call it a day.
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OT: That's lucid dreaming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dream
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No, you're supposed to read the comment you're responding to in the context in which it was written. Did you bother to read the linked article before you responding? No? Didn't think so.
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Er - no. Downloaded from oanda.com, uploaded to google correlate.
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Possibly, but apparently 5 years of USD to EUR exchange rate data most closely correlates to searches for the king tut exibit! http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:l9QRCEVZg...
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Fantastic! Any particular reasn to only list DHH under "Authors"? (I assume the plural means more are possible...) Perhaps a link to http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/ ? Interestingly DHH is only #2 contrubutor overall, and number 9 thi
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> source? "A hospital consultant at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary in the UK was barred from boarding his flight at Manchester Airport earlier in the summer after he refused to use the scanner, claiming he could be exposed to X-rays." ht
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(Sarcasm noted :-) For the uninitiated, this was around the time comment scores were hidden. Only PG knows whether this had any real effect on traffic; and even if so, whether that's a good or bad thing is subjective (less poor quality traf
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Peter, I have to agree. I nearly made the mistake yesterday of visiting a restaurant claiming "best overall restaurant, <cityname> dining awards" on their website. The reviews contradicted this, and it turned out they'd been making
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isostick copes with ISOs >4GB by splitting them, YUMI doesn't.
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By contrast, I scored 23,300 putting me on par with the average result for a 15 year old, if this test is to be believed. I was brutally honest about not selecting words I only recognised and might be able infer meaning from in context, but
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I was genuinely expecting a hack that parsed google+ profiles to figure out who's single... doh!
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I've been happy with DomainMonster.com. Put 1and1.com on your scumbag list.
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And the anomolous ones seem to be getting pushed down the stack (the problem ones start at about 70 now) so it should work itself out of the system.But it would be interesting to know what went wrong. The oldest was about 3.5 years old!: "H
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Tell PG: HN seems to be broken...
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"What the wife buys on her console, the husband pays for on his". Oh boy!
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1966 prediction of the home computer
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