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by skalpelis 15y ago
That reminds me how Ogilvy wrote in Confessions of an ad man - how his copywriting style was more successful (sales-wise) than others even though his copy was lengthier and more descriptive than others'.
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by skalpelis 15y ago
The zoomed image was meant to illustrate why the photoshop button was rendered better at default size - it has nothing to do with browser zooming.
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by skalpelis 15y ago
However, discontinuation of server hardware (Xserve) production probably won't help.
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by skalpelis 15y ago
So does this mean that Chrome will drop support for JPEG, PNG and GIF? I mean, that was the case with the video tag.
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by skalpelis 15y ago
I'm not sure #3 is really a benefit.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Generate another password upon request, store both hashes with the user account and make the user account accessible with both passwords. Not that I condone such snooping, but that isn't that hard of a workaround to implement.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Does it really say you cannot at all store hashed passwords, or does it mean just that you have to give the authorities the password for a user account if they ask you to? After all, if they want a password that can access a user's account,
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Wasn't Arethusa spelt with an "s", not "z"?
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by skalpelis 16y ago
That was just the storage unit, check the image linked from the page - http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/... - all of those servers were doing the real work. Of course, it is humbling to know that just 14 years l
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by skalpelis 16y ago
I believe some Windows 7 tablets might still experience these problems.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
He meant Mos Eisley.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
I doubt you'll have to pay to develop for Mac, the 99$ are for joining the developer program that allows you to get your apps on the App Store (Mac or iOS). Xcode, compilers and the possibility to run and sell your programs via other means
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by skalpelis 16y ago
They will make it smaller to fuck with the netbook people.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
They (Apple) were actually working on a phone in 2005 which they announced in September of that year - the first "iPhone" before the iPhone - http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokr/ . Of course, that turned out to be a crapfest noone wa
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Perhaps the South Park and Daily Show comparison is just there because they both are running on Comedy Central.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
The message is still there, it's just that there are much more sales talks because, well, they're doing much better as a company now. The message has matured now - perhaps it wasn't just enough to be different - now their message is that th
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Italian also has "Lei" which means both she and you (in the formal sense).
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Don't know and don't care much about it, but it says in the article that sneaking in undisclosed easter eggs is verboten and that is why [this version of] the app was rejected.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
> Internet traffic has to prioritized on the backbones and local networks before it gets to the local wireless transmitters therefore it will be available in a prioritized order to local wireline consumers too. Is this true? Given that
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by skalpelis 16y ago
They just cannot please everybody. There was a fuss when they were being arbitrary with their rejections and now there's a fuss when they reject an app for not following the rules.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
If anything, the chair is worth it because of the warranty - imagine buying a 100$ POS chair every year and compare it with the cost of an Aeron over 12 years (at least twelve, but it's likely to last more). However, the 12-year warranty is
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by skalpelis 16y ago
I know that Google Checkout isn't a "real" financial institution but surely, I'd think those problems were of the same class - perhaps it's just that they don't have to worry about legacy problems (yet).
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by skalpelis 16y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" - it's more likely that Microsoft's PMs and developers felt swayed by new features and possibilities and when the issue of performance came up, it was "meh, the
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by skalpelis 16y ago
If you're getting enough sleep and don't have any other psychological disorders, e.g., depression, etc., most likely it's burnout. A serious lifestyle change should help (e.g., spend 6 to 12 months travelling through Europe, work as a logge
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by skalpelis 16y ago
Whatever they should do, they will announce tomorrow what they are going to do. Meanwhile, it's just a phone.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
It is our all generations' responsibility to work together in the whole world to prevent such atrocities happening again.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
In just means that the US isn't a manufacturing economy. Manufacturing is a very small part of US economy but that doesn't mean that in absolute numbers it might be higher than other countries', especially if most of the goods manufactured
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by skalpelis 16y ago
The same HP Windows 7 Slate that was killed off in April? ( http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-win... )
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by skalpelis 16y ago
That is what the tinfoil hats are meant for.
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by skalpelis 16y ago
You should probably clarify the spritz part, I wouldn't want some kinky Dutchman showing up at your doorstep and expecting something entirely different :)

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