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skalpelis
17y ago
I don't disagree on any particular point but I wouldn't call XCode mediocre in comparison to Adobe Flash (which is the most impacted tool in this decision). Also, I believe, they are at least partly doing this to improve the quality of the
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skalpelis
17y ago
Aside from your squeaky clean inboxes there is another front in the spam war - the botnets in which your, your relatives, friends, and colleagues' infected computers may be participating unknowingly - and in this aspect the situation is wor
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skalpelis
17y ago
I'd guess that the biggest strength of the iPad against this Google Tablet Concept is that it actually exists.
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skalpelis
17y ago
I suck. I thought we were still talking about rot13-ing words and that I should point out that Julius Caesar could not have known what the modern English language word "earth" means and that it is the same as "terra" in Latin, i.e., a point
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17y ago
He had no idea what the modern English word "earth" means, even if he somehow could have stumbled upon it.
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skalpelis
17y ago
Also, he had no idea what "earth" means.
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skalpelis
17y ago
Ever wonder why there's no concrete buildings after the Roman Empire and before 1756?
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skalpelis
17y ago
So "AT&T To Curb AT&T Use" then?
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skalpelis
17y ago
Actually, couldn't you cut into the power cable instead of the wall plug?
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17y ago
It definitely is an improvement and it is beautiful, however, I see two problems already with this: 1. moving parts - this would make the plug a lot more liable to break; 2. I assume this plug doesn't have the fuse. All in all, wouldn't the
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17y ago
> They want to force users to register before viewing any articles, but they also want Google to index these same articles (and a forced registration would prevent that). Google wants the same thing (to index the pages), but seeks to av
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17y ago
See the løveli lakes, then.
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skalpelis
17y ago
It might explain why his software is hated so much, if it routinely rounds off 5+%.
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skalpelis
17y ago
What, again?
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skalpelis
17y ago
Only if by team you mean unit and by relished you mean awash in sheer terror, day and night, of getting killed by a missile they never saw coming.
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17y ago
Or, I either raise the price or lower the employee discount so that there is a sufficient margin and get all my employees to sign up and profit.
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skalpelis
17y ago
A fast lens might help (if you're into SLRs). f1.8 50mm prime is cheap, though anything faster will cost you.
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skalpelis
17y ago
Yes, the iPhone doesn't have an IR transmitter, for one.
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skalpelis
17y ago
The Mac software updater actually runs weekly in the background, it just doesn't bother you in case no updates are available.
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17y ago
Well, if the ants ever start causing significant damage to humans due to this genetic similarity (attacking crops or even, in a more sci-fi spirit, attacking people), shouldn't it also help eradicate them more efficiently due to them being
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17y ago
Or because of firearms proliferation. It was the 18th century, after all.
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17y ago
> This style demanded that I project an image of rationality but not indulge too much in actual reasoning Now that's a very eloquent description of bullshit-artistry.
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17y ago
It's a fanboy rendering, done in Maya and 3DS MAX, just like the credits to the video say.
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17y ago
It's already there - it doesn't break down completely in the digestive tract and some of it gets flushed out with the urine, which, well, sooner or later ends up in the water supply. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3545684.stm
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17y ago
Isn't the problem with most of current DRM solutions that they make paying for content equally or even more of a pain in the ass than just downloading it for free?
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18y ago
Trust me, you don't want to know.
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18y ago
Sorry, messed up, confused it with SproutCore.
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18y ago
Apple used this to build its mobileme webapps.
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18y ago
Is that the prosthetic finger from the guy who had a finger-flashdrive in an article a few days ago?
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18y ago
How, exactly, can a selective college like Stanford, Harvard, MIT, etc become less selective? By increasing the campus size tenfold? Staffing it with more, though less capable professors? As long as there is a size and quality limit, there
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