slyn

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by slyn 17y ago
Specifically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw Check out his entire youtube channel, it is full of interesting software/hardware hacks.
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by slyn 17y ago
What, you don't watch Top Gear? Though more entertaining than educational, I know the difference between my boot from my bonnet thanks to that show, as well as what a saloon, spanner, pillock and many other british-english mannerisms mean.
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"Why might the science be wrong? Because it's moved from science to an identity issue. Us vs. them. This guy isn't helping." This is exactly why I choose to avoid the whole global warming climate debate thing. It is so hard to find any sort
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by slyn 17y ago
Thanks for that, looks a little cleaner now.
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The email they sent to announce the beta (if you signed up to get it) has some interesting stats: Hi there, Thanks for signing up to hear from us regarding Google Chrome for Mac! We're excited to let you know that Google Chrome is
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Not to mention that the article skips over a couple important points. Granted, the iPhone will never see any sophisticated downloadable porn-tagging apps like described in this article, it still has the internet at its disposal. If just l
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Yes, they recently required that all accounts switch over to Battle.net (the cutoff date was sometime early november, after a months notice). The public reasoning about it is so users can use the same email/password combination for WoW as w
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by slyn 17y ago
I don't think the unemployment divide has much to do with technology. Imagine that the economy of every country in the world is a lake. The depth of the hole in which the water resides is roughly proportional to the population of a country,
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As long as EULA's in software are legally binding, yes.
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Slashdot offers this as an option for high karma users also, which I think makes sense. If your site benefits from a small subset power-users, giving them perks to keep those users around and engaged will make the entire site better.
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by slyn 17y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/02/sports/hockey/0...
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"Of course, I'm sure you'll find people fiercely arguing either of the products that have been competing for ages now, so trying to come up with a rubric based on your taste preference is pretty useless." The only people still arguing are t
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http://www.goodcleantech.com/2009/03/its_official_apple_mac_... "The mini uses only 15W while idling in our tests, and a low 34W while running the CineBench benchmark test. This is the second lowest active score, after the 18W observed on
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by slyn 17y ago
The benefit of an LED display goes beyond just the environmental benefit. LED backlights don't have a warmup time like CFL backlights, and they provide a more uniform brightness level across the panel. The panel will also be cheaper to run
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by slyn 17y ago
I would love to see some of these IPS panels in the Macbook Pro's. Currently the only things differentiating between the stock Macbook and the 13" MBP is build quality (unibody polycarbonate vs unibody aluminum), Memory Cap (4gb max vs 8gb
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by slyn 17y ago
If you use OS X, cmd+click. Cmd+click even works on some things that middle click doesn't, for example middle clicking on the home, back/forward, or top sites buttons in Safari will do nothing at all, but cmd+clicking will properly open you
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by slyn 17y ago
"[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago." It would be i
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by slyn 17y ago
David Chappelle I hate that he has faded so much from the public eye. If you've never seen Dave Chappelle's Block Party get it and watch it, whether you enjoy hip-hop or not. If you've seen that and are otherwise interested his Inside the A
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by slyn 17y ago
Even more surprising to me was this: "Brack went on to talk about the customer support staff, a group with 2,056 game masters, 340 billing managers, and a host of other background staffers." Programming, art and design, and cinematics adds
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As well as LLVM being the new up-and-comer of the group.
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HIV/AIDs?
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Printing doesn't work on OS X or on Linux yet either.
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Browsers and battery life in Windows(anandtech.com)
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I've begun wondering recently if we will end up going full circle and ending up with cartridges again as part of whatever next-gen or next-next-gen gaming consoles, this time based solely on generic flash memory. The cost of flash would hav
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Search Engine Optimization
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The death penalty is far to permanent of a punishment to be wielded by organizations with such high false positive rates. We wouldn't put up with it with an anti-virus program or a SMART-esque hardware monitoring program, why do we put up w
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Expect it to make a glorious comeback because of OLEDs: http://static.arstechnica.com/amoled.jpg source: http://arst.ch/60n