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Re:What tiny thing in Lion makes you smile or has caught you off guard?
on Sunday July 31, 2011 @02:32PM (#2829097)
"How about ability to resize windows from all edges of the window. That alone is worth the 30 bucks."
That made me smile...
China’s Biggest Search Engine, Known for Illegal Downloads, Makes Music Deal
Re:Facial recognition false positives lead to license revocations in M...
on Monday July 18, 2011 @04:54AM (#2775586)
Public transportation would be faster, more effective and comfortable then cars if more people used it.
Re:McDonald's / Disney Linked to Six Cent-an-Hour Sweatshop in Vietnam
on Friday July 15, 2011 @10:36AM (#2767489)
They list their sources at the bottom of the page.
Re:Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?
on Friday July 15, 2011 @10:05AM (#2767379)
Let's call it the Gathering of the New Herd!
Re:Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?
on Friday July 15, 2011 @09:02AM (#2767206)
Or we all can just stick with Windows XP. Wouldn't it be great?
Re:Hurd Progresses - Debian GNU/Hurd by end of 2012?
on Friday July 15, 2011 @06:18AM (#2766870)
Rivalry is always good, it's essential for evolution.
Re:France Tracks Down 18 Million File-Sharers
on Thursday July 14, 2011 @10:13AM (#2763093)
By Ayn Rand.
Re:Lesser known cool features of HTML5
on Thursday July 14, 2011 @04:07AM (#2762143)
The emphasis was in webkit.
Re:Lesser known cool features of HTML5
on Thursday July 14, 2011 @03:28AM (#2762073)
"HTML 5" features like
<input type="text" x-webkit-speech>
Re:Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @10:56AM (#2759143)
The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.
Re:Google+ can now hide your gender "in response to user feedback"
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @10:32AM (#2759070)
But in English it is. It's acceptable to develop faster for certain (popular) languages.
Re:A lesson on the importance of encouraging your children with their ...
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @07:48AM (#2758627)
I think the moral of this story is that it's not your business. She will decide what she want to do, and her parents should help, and not restrain her, or tell her what to do.
Re:Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years
on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @04:49AM (#2758292)
The time served might be much less then the sentence.
Re:Google Open Source Manager Says "Android Is The Linux Dream Come True"
on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @03:02PM (#2756007)
Android is the name of a distribution like Ubuntu or Fedora.
Re:Stanford's CS 101 course uses Javascript
on Saturday July 09, 2011 @11:46AM (#2745748)
I find the efficient version much clearer, too. It extracts one layer of abstraction: a beginner may wondering, how can a variable being less than a function (a<func()), then find out, that the function returns a value, etc.
Two more lines worth it.
Re:Samsung releases code of WebCL implementation for WebKit
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @02:57PM (#2739809)
Samsung is a Korean company.
Re:Brazilian government signs up to develop OpenOffice and LibreOffice
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @01:23PM (#2739362)
Good news, but I don't understand why both? Why don't they choose one (preferably LibreOffice)?
Re:Tesco: Homeplus Subway Virtual Store (Movie
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:50AM (#2738388)
There is not much difference between a photo on your screen and a printed photo.
Re:User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:26AM (#2737841)
Well then, they're called babies.
Re:User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @05:15AM (#2737820)
The world is full of people who have never used a computer. They are called children.
Re:File Content Histograms
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @10:08AM (#2733956)
English vs. Russian vs. Japanese text (UTF-8)
Re:A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @05:41AM (#2733138)
Two half brains. Everything has two halves.
Re:A Philosopher Every Programmer Should Know: Susanne K. Langer
on Wednesday July 06, 2011 @04:45AM (#2733034)
We have only one brain.
Re:Music Theory For Beginners (part 2)
on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @10:13AM (#2729871)
"I would hope you put more effort into thinking of a melody and harmony than this, but the point is that rhythm makes a gigantic difference, even if everything else is messy."
You should read the article before commenting.
Re:Google made my son cry
on Monday July 04, 2011 @10:18AM (#2726586)
why would Google enforce COPPA compliance internationally?
Because it's Google (an American company) who have to comply with COPPA and not some children (of any nationality).
Re:Why Google+ Will Take Half of the Social Networking Market from Fac...
on Monday July 04, 2011 @03:47AM (#2725748)
I don't know if Google will win or lose, but I don't think it's possible to split that market because of the herd mentality. People follow their peers and they will all either stay at Facebook or move to Google+.
Re:A Regular Expression Matcher in 30 lines of C
on Sunday July 03, 2011 @10:51AM (#2723770)
"In 1967, Ken [Thompson] applied for a patent ..."
Wow, he pioneered that, too...