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by wriq 16y ago
The US and other western nations would make up for it quickly. According to http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display... we currently use 200 Billion gallons of water per day for the current Coal/Nuclear system. There's
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by wriq 16y ago
Free ADC members still have to go through App Store and pay the $4.99.
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by wriq 16y ago
I would guess thats one of the motives behind them seeking a deal to get unlimited music downloads for itunes. Link: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-04/apple-said-to-negot... )
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by wriq 16y ago
"That means cutting the hardware price to the point where you're not making a profit but where your prices are at least competitive with Apple." Microsoft has the funds to take a loss for a while (like the 360) and push Windows/Xbox Live Ma
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by wriq 16y ago
"Why do people pay for this?" Cause the implementation of a feature is more important than the feature itself. Apple rarely comes up with new tech on its own. They rebrand existing tech and work on the experience to create a product and a p
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by wriq 16y ago
I don't think it's open-source projects specifically, but anyone that threatens there "innovations" in user experience - open-source and commercial alike. Saying it's an attack against open-source developers doesn't fit considering how much
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by wriq 16y ago
>It kind of saddens me because racing platforms (esp. Rally) are big drivers of car innovation (suspension, safety, power). Arbitrarily banning things like rotary engines has - in a way - killed an immeasurable amount of research money
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by wriq 16y ago
"...Project Denver where they are building high-performance ARM-based CPUs, designed to power systems ranging from “personal computers and servers to workstations and supercomputers”."... It looks like there targeting everything from mobile
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by wriq 16y ago
Im guessing they will use the cash reserves to fund their own growth. They just bought HP's old campus in Cupertino and will spend quite a bit on the build out.
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by wriq 16y ago
Why do people think Apple will make a huge acquisition? There biggest purchase by far was NeXT for 400m back in '97 with PA Semi and Quattro coming in 2nd/3rd at ~275m. A 30 Billion dollar purchase doesn't seem at all in their nature. Apple
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by wriq 16y ago
Rhapsody's (OSX's codename) first two developer releases were available for X86. It wasn't until OSX Server 1.0 that Apple only publicly released PowerPC versions of OSX.
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by wriq 16y ago
Coming from linux, I would install a package manager first. Homebrew ( http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ ) or MacPorts ( http://www.macports.org/ ). Be sure to install the developer tools from Apple.
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by wriq 16y ago
The link is giving me a 403 right now but you can find screenshots over at http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/12/22/when-is-design-inspir... .
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by wriq 16y ago
To be honest those numbers don't seem all that great considering Microsoft is running a buy one get one free deal with both AT&T and T-Mobile. It'll be interesting to see how the activation rate changes once those deals expire. AT&
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by wriq 16y ago
Rovio has been moving away from Chillingo/EA for a while now. All their new releases are self-published. Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/20/angry-birds-chillingo/
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by wriq 16y ago
"Tech meccas are born from hundreds of small technology companies constantly pushing the limits of a platform, not from the presence of a single, large employer." I would think having a few large tech companies in an area would aid in the c
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by wriq 16y ago
WebObjects was essentially the precursor to the large j2ee app servers such as WebSphere or WebLogic and not a priority at all after the Apple purchase. They moved WO over to Java and dropped the price to $699(IIRC), although by that time n
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by wriq 16y ago
Same here. His .plan updates were always very opinionated and interesting. I'm happy he is now somewhat active on twitter (@ID_AA_Carmack).
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by wriq 16y ago
"The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The popular search engines Google, MSN, Yahoo!, Wikipedia and YouTube are used to calculate the ratings." I'm going with flawed methodolo
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by wriq 16y ago
Web Apps and iOS/Mobile the popular platforms right now. While large commercial games require huge development teams and budgets, mobile/webapp games are commonly done with one or two people. Minecraft, for example was one guy for a long ti
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by wriq 16y ago
Well there is http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/08/the-moth... , which would add touch elements to iMac's.
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by wriq 16y ago
"Even though they can do that now, people still decide to pull over. They are not forced to." If you decide not to, then you are forced to. Unless you have Jason Bourne-esque driving abilities.
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by wriq 16y ago
I think it's interesting that at NeXT he went from building hardware with NextStep to selling an OS and API's for NT/Solaris. Then after his return to Apple he killed off the clone vendors and focused on hardware again. I wonder if the firs
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by wriq 16y ago
"While he was personally willing to take this offer, the Digg board decided to turn it down." He wanted to accept it.
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by wriq 16y ago
I hate concept videos. They solely exist to raise everyones expectations to unattainable levels. Should the product ever get released people will be disappointed by realities like battery capacity and a pico projector only working in a very
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by wriq 16y ago
http://www.southwest.com/about_swa/terms_and_con.html They don't allow it.
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by wriq 16y ago
Disclaimer: I believe 'The Wire' is the greatest TV series I have ever seen Well it seems to be a class on urban inequality that uses characters from The Wire as examples. The show was critically acclaimed and many of the characters are bas
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by wriq 16y ago
Barça does this for most sections. link: https://entrades.fcbarcelona.cat/web/en/entrades.html
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by wriq 16y ago
There is also a python port available @ http://wiki.github.com/gregmalcolm/python_koans/
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by wriq 16y ago
What about Black & Tan's?

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