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Re:Looks by Dr. Dre on Wednesday July 09, 2014 @05:02PM (#8012216)
Or... maybe the reason behind the acquisition has more to do with Beats' subscription streaming service than hardware.
Re:Gifpop.io – Print gifs with the magic of lenticular printing on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @02:44PM (#6849574)
Is there really no way to see the pricing structure before I upload things? That's frustrating.
Re:Improving democracy with lines of code on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @05:50PM (#6679045)
Re:Improving democracy with lines of code on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @05:07PM (#6678768)
I've been sketching up ideas for this for years. Want to chat?
Any chance of getting MLS in there?
I was way excited for this, but was a little disappointed as I went through the signup process.

I'm not terribly fashion-savvy, and I don't know how to pair things. If there were an 'outfit' option where you could receive a pair of pants / shorts and a fitting top for about $150 / month, I would sign up, and many of my friends would too.

Re:Using AngularJS/BackboneJS in Windows 8 JavaScript app on Thursday January 24, 2013 @01:15PM (#5111094)
That's a misunderstanding of what's going on here. It's quite easy to create or manipulate HTML5 elements in Win8 - it's merely that some of the methods used by Angular and Backbone don't play nice with WinJS unless you tell them to.
Re:Microsoft forgot to solve a problem on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @04:50PM (#4878793)
All of those are good points. None of them are in the article.
Re:Microsoft forgot to solve a problem on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @01:32PM (#4877733)
It's easy to forget what the iPad looked like when it first came out.

It was roundly mocked for merely being a larger iPod touch, and the same criticism that is the thesis of this post was levied against it. Industry experts claimed it had no place, and posited that Apple was inventing a need simply to push a product into.

Over time, people found and invented new uses for their iPads, and they came to realize that they can serve legitimate needs and desires.

This article is as myopic as those experts once were. Perhaps the Surface will be complete failure. Perhaps it will catch on, and people will invent new uses that make them compelling. Reading tea leaves and slamming Microsoft are fun to do, but this is hardly convincing.

Re:Larry said to Gaga, ‘Do you ever a/b test your music?’ on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:25PM (#4773998)
Lady Gaga's entire career has been an A/B test. She started out as a singer and songwriter who actually poured some meaning into her music, and had no success. Then she seized the common pop chords, added a heavy back beat, stripped her songs of any meaning, and started wearing meat dresses. I'd say that B worked for her.
Re:CascadiaJS - a JSConf for the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday October 10, 2012 @02:14PM (#4637500)
For $275? No way.
This is extortion.

There might be a way to fight them through this, if you claim that the poster didn't have the right to grant them the license:

6. Proprietary Rights/Grant of Exclusive Rights

By posting information or content to any public area of POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to POTENTIALPREDATORS.COM an irrevocable, perpetual, fully-paid, worldwide exclusive license to use, copy, perform, display and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing.

Re:The Mail Pilot Public Beta on Friday September 28, 2012 @05:37PM (#4587910)
So.. there's no way to try it without dropping $60?

It looks nice, but I don't even buy operating systems without trying them first, let alone subscription services.

Re:Sally Ride, First American Woman In Space, Is Dead on Monday July 23, 2012 @08:41PM (#4283762)
Sally Ride comes out as a lesbian in her obituary: http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/first-female-us-astrona...
Re:Nexus 7, Made for Google Play on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @03:00PM (#4168588)
Wow, you're right. I've been saying it wrong for some time, then!
Re:Nexus 7, Made for Google Play on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @02:01PM (#4168187)
"your own copy of Transformers: Dark of the Moon"

Oops! Accidentally a word, there.

Photoshop CS6 just locked my files behind a paywall.

Not intentionally or as a scummy sales technique, but the effect is the same.I've been working on some significant assets all day. I save intermittently, but it had probably been several hours since my previous save - the new CS6 autosave and recover function has spoiled me.I try to fill a layer, and CS6 unexpectedly crashes. I wince and reopen CS6, knowing that my files should all be...

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Re:Content Based CSS on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @02:36PM (#3949913)
The bang (!) sign would make more sense to me. It's already used in css to express priority (!important), so it's not much of a logical jump.
Re:Hey Paydirt: Your Site Works Just Fine In IE on Tuesday May 08, 2012 @07:14PM (#3946282)
Did anyone else notice that font smoothing was significantly better in the Win7 screenshots than Win8?
The Arabic in the header image is backwards, and the letters aren't connected (they should be).

I'm guessing Photoshop was used to make the image - PS doesn't have Arabic support unless you buy the Middle Eastern edition, which I consider a massive oversight.

It should look like this: http://www.muhammadspeaks.com/essalamoualeikoum-peacebeuntoy...

Re:Starbucks Style Guide on Wednesday April 18, 2012 @03:00PM (#3859647)
Does anyone know where they got that awesome debug panel?
Re:Are Newer Games Excluding the Disabled? on Wednesday April 11, 2012 @05:07PM (#3829646)
The Kinect might make a game unplayable to someone who can't move their body, but it opens up a world of gaming to people who don't have hands. Why do these able-handed people want games to continue to discriminate against the handless?
Re:JQuery Mobile Beta 3 released on Friday September 09, 2011 @02:51PM (#2979353)
...why doesn't standard jQuery have pushState?

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