CalmQuiet

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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
Since the details on his "credit card replacement" were sparse, what caught my eye as more disturbing was: >Addressing "creepy comments": Schmidt laughed off questions about recent comments he made about Google "knowing where you live a
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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
I know a lot of HNers are moving to develop on Android, but another of Fortune's stories today puts into perspective how significant the iPhone is likely to continue to be as a platform with a dominant consumer presence: http://tech.fortu
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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
Moodle is OSS. Why not get involved and contribute there?
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Why universities should hate the iPad(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
5 points by CalmQuiet 16y ago|1 comments
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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
And Gizmo claims that Frank Shaw at MS says: "At any given time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativ
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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
> based on income and assets In other words, "Sure, you can leave. Just send us a chunk of yourself... even if you made it on foreign soil and using foreign resources."
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IBookstore prices climb back up to $13 post-leak(electronista.com)
1 points by CalmQuiet 16y ago|0 comments
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by CalmQuiet 16y ago
>> A bit more sleuthing reveals several "webkit" (the foundation of the iPad's and iPhone's mobile Safari browser) calls after peeling open the CSS Now that I web-surf with Click-to-Flash installed, I am really struck by how many la
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
You could say this is bad news for developers... or good news... if more jobs are created by news sources wanting to court the iPad crowd. But in the larger scheme, if this trend continues, it could bring a tipping point where major sites
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
There's an amazing amount of heat, but little light on this, particularly regarding exactly what impact the legislation threatened to have on costs, labor, etc. for Amz, affiliates (exactly what is that? someone selling via Amz Marketplace?
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Seems more likely than that they would hack themselves.
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Actually, I appreciate having the comments available on TC - so that perceptive readers can occasionally take them down a peg or two.
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Critique Steve what you will. Point out iPad's lacking features what you will... The point to learn from decades of digital naysayers who proved clueless is: Predicting how people will use (and how many will buy) is not as easy as it look
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
True, sadly. Headline-writing seems to be its own domain - and one charged primarily to be effective baiters (i.e., marketing specialists). So those who care enough about the impact of news-reporting have to develop some of the same (mark
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Maybe there is need to develop means/skills for it to work in more jobs. As Pascal hyperbolized: "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. " [If not all human evil... at least we can now append
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
As someone of Jobs' age I would be most pleased to discover that there are still some human/silicon interfaces waiting to be dramatically polished to someone 's sense of perfection. When someone else amasses both the will and the capital
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
As a college instructor and a citizen concerned about the cost of financing higher education, I share the outrage over textbook costs. But I don't expect to be outraged for long about the dinosaus textbooks are. The sale, bianuual revision
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Since there still seems to be a debate about exactly what weakness was exploited, that conclusion is unwarranted. For that matter, a truly thorough cracker (with more time than constructiveness) might go to the trouble to identify more t
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
A page which politely invites you to enter your Twitter user name & pw. [ I politely declined. ]
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
I'm not sure why TomJen2's comment was barred - since he may have been asking what I would like to know: what method of "banning" have you found effective (with such a rowdy, determined group), i.e., how do you know a member's real iden
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Thanks for asking. ...however, no: even our basic cell service often forces into roaming mode here. —21st Century pioneer
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Hopefully the counseling will include skills for coping with ignorant authoritarian bureaucracies - essential for tech innovators outside of tech-savvy settings.
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Please say a prayer for your rural friends who are trying to survive on DSL: http://www.speedtest.net/result/684003092.png Edit: Forgot to tell you "the downside": it's $65/mo :/ PS: Sure there is "an alternative": ~satellite~
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Or - in Safari - you can put such a style sheet in your user/library/safari folder for viewing it according to your preferred font (selecting it in Safari Preferences/Advances).
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
That would be a corollary of "do be evil".
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
And who would dare even enter such a search result from an ISP in China? One of the "search results" would probably not appear on your screen... but in some sort of government database of "suspected dissidents." A government-run search e
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
Plus: it is awesome when you want to print an article - and not all the ads & navig surrounding it !
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
More like: Upgrading to two wrongs may - in this case - make a right (for consumers).
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
I think the huge challenge is in the final sentence: "The result is a problem a bit like trying to stop a mob of looters. When the majority of people feel entitled to someone’s property, who’s going to stand in their way?" How many politici
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by CalmQuiet 17y ago
What about just having blue tooth - and the capability of working with an wireless kb?

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