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by zandorg 16y ago
We'll be saved by Robert Rodriguez' Machete, perhaps the greatest C-movie ever made.
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by zandorg 16y ago
PDF: Fine HTML: Rename file to .txt and it lets you read the HTML page like a text file. But it's not perfect and sometimes complains.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Not a real complaint, but I got my DX too soon, had to pay custom charges, and the model I got is US-only. I figured they'd never have all-Web access in the UK, as my previous Kindle 2 only did Wikipedia. Then they fixed it in the 2.5 upgra
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by zandorg 16y ago
I wonder how much money they're getting from Intel for this?
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by zandorg 16y ago
In 1998, I actually made the first soft synthesizer in Windows, controlled by MIDI, based on an emulation of the C64's SID chip. I sold 2 copies. Apart from that, nice-looking project.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Don't worry, Adobe's slowly getting there.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Pop bands on the front page? What's happening to HN?
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by zandorg 16y ago
Someone should take that QuickDraw source code and build a hyper-fast version of X-Windows on it.
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by zandorg 16y ago
lvp.com sure ain't Lightspeed Venture Partners (= 'Lawrenceville Press'), bad reporting?
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by zandorg 16y ago
I realised the web browser (from Netscape onwards) is easy to use mainly because of the mouse cursor changing to a hand when it hovers over a link. Or a text thingy hovering over an input form. Without the mouse changing cursor, you wouldn'
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by zandorg 16y ago
The advert was for Hanson, the junk-bond takeover conglomerate founded by a guy from the same town (in England) as me.
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by zandorg 16y ago
We need the gadget from Waterworld that turns urine into clean water, but somehow doesn't turn sea water into the same...
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by zandorg 16y ago
A European pop band (Beborn Beton) had a track called 'Encounting', which they clearly mixed up with 'And counting', which is what those guys say in the movies. "75 seconds ENcounting!"
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by zandorg 16y ago
I vote for the moonbase.
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by zandorg 16y ago
A friend of mine at University said the only true 'Big O' is Roy Orbison.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Thanks for setting me straight on this.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I use a Pezzetti which sits on a gas stove. It makes about 1 cup in about 5 minutes. Also, I buy 500g of ground-from-beans coffee at a proper coffee store in town, and put it in the fridge so it doesn't go stale (I can't get to town that of
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by zandorg 16y ago
My only criticism of this article is the vagueness about Orbitz NOT being part of ITA: "purchase of the flight information software firm ITA, with which it plans to enter the online travel search market occupied by Expedia, Orbitz, Bing and
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by zandorg 16y ago
You can already get little LCD picture frames which do a slideshow of JPEG images. My grandma has one. They go quite cheap.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Max Levchin said on Nerd TV that tackling fraud cost Paypal $100,000,000.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Where's Amazon's Bibliofind acquisition?
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by zandorg 16y ago
I'd love to see an Internet-themed prog rock album from Prince.
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by zandorg 16y ago
Also the arrow indicates the flow of the river Amazon (I think).
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by zandorg 16y ago
He should build a moonbase with it.
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by zandorg 16y ago
My Mum was going online for flights yesterday (though she's never been one to go to a travel agent). I pointed her to Orbitz. She was impressed, but another (UK-based) website she'd tried was $200 cheaper than anything on Orbitz. Not sure w
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by zandorg 16y ago
Not only do I buy a DX which is US-only (wireless-wise), not knowing they'll make the Web available in the UK (my Global kindle 2 could only access Wikipedia until the 2.5 update recently) but 2 months later they drop the price by $120 and
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by zandorg 16y ago
They used to have capital and corporal punishment for thievery in England 200 years ago. Now it's less tough.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I read it a while back from a gossipy book review, so it must be true (don't shoot the messenger). I think it was some time in 1990, a long long time ago. As I said, it was a story from a book about Bill Gates.
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by zandorg 16y ago
I once read (in maybe 2003) that Bill Gates stopped his limo downtown in some slum and was boasting to some rough 'homeys' about being the richest man in the world. His PA told him to get back in the car as he was in danger. I just wish I
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by zandorg 16y ago
The 2nd book (Green Mars) starts with kids doing stuff like 'kissing ears'. It's all pretty dodgy stuff.

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