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by zalthor 15y ago
Agree, though the only non English science fiction book I've read (translated to English of-course) is Roadside Picnic, which probably would be in my list of the best Sci-Fi books of all time.
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by zalthor 15y ago
I think Speaker for the dead should have made that list. Or at least they should have listed it as Ender's game + Speaker for the dead.
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by zalthor 15y ago
I'm just surprised that they actually published that on TechCrunch. I would be even more surprised if AOL doesn't have that deleted within the hour.
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by zalthor 15y ago
I remember Cadbury (the chocolate company) tried to trademark the color purple. I think they failed at it because “purple” apparently wasn't a clear and concise description of the trademark.
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Rupert Murdoch's wife throws a right hook at protester(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by zalthor 15y ago|0 comments
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by zalthor 15y ago
Considering that 40% of Indians earn less than 1.25$ a day, this still is not going to completely solve the problems faced by the "average person" in India. Anyone who can afford this house is probably working in one of the cities where the
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by zalthor 15y ago
Taking RTFM to the next level. Yes.
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Spreadsheet on Google doc to help victims of Mumbai attacks(spreadsheets.google.com)
1 points by zalthor 15y ago|1 comments
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by zalthor 15y ago
Wait, seriously, who uses Myspace?
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by zalthor 15y ago
It's really sad that its cheaper to have a person act like a computer than vice-versa. Its like we are going through the industrial revolution, only backwards.
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by zalthor 15y ago
I wonder what all these people would do if we ever managed to build a voice recognition system that actually works.