the_real_r2d2

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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I wonder if the app is asking for permission to do it. If not, in my neighbourhood we call it "spyware". Seriously, it is a clever idea but I hope they are doing the right thing and asking the user for approval.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Good point, I do not either what he meant. I think importance would be difficult to measure, but volume growth would be easy for Google to do. I imagine that Schmidt is not talking blindly, he has access to the growth rates of content and t
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Well, may be a lot of people that currently uses if because it is free would stop using it.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Well, it is and overflow tweet. =)
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
via @leolaporte and @jmatuk
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A 300-person human tweet to protest an Internet tax in Mexico [PIC](twitpic.com)
1 points by the_real_r2d2 17y ago|3 comments
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I like the ranked feed and I like to have an option to see it unranked (as live feed). I wonder if FB has an option to set the default to either rank/unranked. In the past many of my friends have these annoying applications that fortunatel
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I always thought (until some years ago) that Red Hat would do what Ubuntu (or Canonical) has done to bring a friendly Linux Desktop to "normal" users.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I agree with lazy but dumb I do not think so. In fact I think that good programmers are lazy and smart.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
HDTV and PC vendors will converge to a similar product. In Europe the iniciative is called Hybrid Broadcast Broadband ( http://www.hbbtv.org/ ). One of the pushers I think is the BBC.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Thanks, good to know.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I imagine that they are only for OLPC because of some copyright agreement. Anyway it would be nice that they were available to the rest of the Internet (or may be they are and I did not read well the news).
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
That's why we are "sapiens", our physical strength is not as good as ancients homos but we are smarter. Smarter proved to be better than faster or stronger. We may be wimp, but we survived.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I have seen three at least.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I will keep using Chromium (and manual updates if necessary) until Google releases an official beta. I do not why but I trust more in the developers in Chromiun that in Google itself.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Yes, you right. Never thought about it
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
He could have use "the_real_timberneslee". Nevertheless I do no see why the fuss. Yes, it is the inventor of the WWW but people is seeing this like "the blessing" of Bernes-Lee to the now-omnipower twitter. I think is not, it is just anothe
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I tried the "magic" and at least I feel that it is more fun to read. News are not sorted by date any more, which it gives me some "feeling" of randomness reading that I like. The new sorted news "seems" to be ranked according to my previous
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Google Reader Adds Magic to Your Feeds(mashable.com)
1 points by the_real_r2d2 17y ago|1 comments
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Well, it is better late than never. I do not know if they are going to do it, but it would be nice that you can customize it with your preferences about type of news (sports, politics, etc.), location, etc. For what I have read it includes
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Not as fun as the "Robot Cop" in Wallace and Groomit "A Grand Day Out". I tried to find a bit of the movie but no luck.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
May be you want to search for a tweet, a link, a video or a photo that one of your friends posted. Today the search in FB and Twitter are very bad, so using Google may help. Also, they may try to merge organic search results with data from
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Is Chromium for Mac = Chrome Mac? I ask because when I read the title I imagine that suddenly Google had released the Chrome for Mac, then after reading I realised that is a review of Chromium for Mac. Now, I have been using Chromium for ma
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
You can use Arduino. These gadgets are quite good and not very expensive, I have seen pretty clever hack projects using them (GPS, Lego Mind Storms, webserver, etc.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino I think you can use an arduino boar
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Incubating Change to Immigration Law with the Startup Visa Movement(techcrunch.com)
1 points by the_real_r2d2 17y ago|0 comments
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
It seems a nice experiment to search all around your friends and connections. Would it make the results better if they are incorporated in the main search? I do not know ...
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Well, that could backfire. I would imagine that the parents complaining about the WiFi radiations are very probable to be non-smokers.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
Cool, they finally add the Google login. Nevertheless the site is still as ugly and unusable as it has been since I registered for the first time. I do not what it is, but Orkut is so unappealing for me.
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
I am with you. This is going over and over, the FIA, the FIFA, the NBA, the NFL, and now the IOC. Sometimes I am just so tired to hear about the abuse/misinterpretation of Copy Right laws that I do not want to talk about it. However I alway
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by the_real_r2d2 17y ago
It wouldn't surprise me. Lately the Australian Gov. has done crazy stuff related to Copy Rights Laws, "Net Security" and Net neutrality.

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