mikecane

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by mikecane 13y ago
It's there for me too, in the order of: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, then others. Odd how G+ isn't first.
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by mikecane 13y ago
Depression is mentioned. As I'm sure everyone else here will say: There is no shame in getting help for that.
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I cracked the Google Authorship Code(comicsbeat.com)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
And yet with a modem and comm software, they could all connect to online services -- The Source, CompuServe, BBSes.
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Why should they change? Because there's the example of the iPod. It wasn't the music player to have until Apple employees wore down Steve Jobs so they could let it connect with Windows.
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Yeah, Amazon is actually the worst at this because of their e-book DRM. iBookstore, Nookbook store, and Kobo -- the other three big players also have eBook DRM (via Adobe). Kindle is no "worse" than them.
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Installing VLC Media Player voids your speaker warranty(en.community.dell.com)
490 points by mikecane 13y ago|218 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
Still Mars. Unknown companies, unknown quality, unknown warranties (as in mostly non-existent). And sending it back to China to exchange a defective unit? Suddenly that $30 isn't.
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>You can buy smart phones for 30$ in shenzhen electronic malls today. 1) That's in Shenzen. Might as well be Mars for most people. When Shenzen hardware is sourced by global brands, they usually have a generous markup wher
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Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO(microsoft.com)
141 points by mikecane 13y ago|17 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
Anyone interested in books published by former slaves, go search Google Books. 12 Years A Slave is there among others.
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by mikecane 13y ago
In the Kamalaya section, it doesn't seem to scroll down. Using the latest Firefox. Am I missing some sort of control that's too light to see on my bad-contrast screen?
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by mikecane 13y ago
"and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business" http://bnowire.com/inbox/?id=2158 And they reveal the hand they'll use to shut it all down.
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by mikecane 13y ago
Knew a guy in his his forties who wanted to work for an ad agency. Convinced them to use him for free for a while as a test and they wound up hiring him. YMMV.
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by mikecane 13y ago
I had a Canon CAT. The praise for it is overrated. It was never as simple as people claim nor really any joy to use. The hardware itself also tended to die suddenly. When mine died I went to repair place where I happened upon the Canon r
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AnTuTu Benchmark for IOS will land Apps store soon(antutu.com)
2 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Remove the DRM from your ebooks You've missed the point. Something like a Scribd or Oyster subscription use an app and its own eBook format. The books are cached or streamed, not downloaded permanently. You are paying to
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by mikecane 13y ago
"industry" is the key word.
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by mikecane 13y ago
See Kobo's Reading Life: http://www.kobobooks.com/stats
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by mikecane 13y ago
It will breed sequelitis, a specialty of movies. And more grave-robbing of dead authors (see fourth Millennium series book recently announced while Stieg Larsson spins in his grave).
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2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner(blog.steventroughtonsmith.com)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|0 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>despite the fact that inflation is running at the lowest level in decades. Here is someone who does not do his own food shopping. Food prices have exploded since 2008, when the house of cards first collapsed. I used to be able
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by mikecane 13y ago
This article ties in with the recent Block change on Twitter. See all that vile material posted? Now imagine having that tweeted to you on a daily basis from multiple fake accounts. This is why the change to Block mattered. Because of
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by mikecane 13y ago
Yes, they exist. I Follow people on Twitter who have made me aware of that issue. There's one prominent columnist in particular whose name I can't recall that seems to have it in for trans people and restrooms, for example.
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>They could get that region-level information already from ISP routing info. I think they want to know you are where you say you are. You'll find if you travel out of the area -- particularly out of the entire country -- yo
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4-year-old genius has same IQ as Einstein(nydailynews.com)
1 points by mikecane 13y ago|2 comments
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by mikecane 13y ago
Oh please. This is still the champ: http://www.lingscars.com/
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by mikecane 13y ago
>>>Just recently I ran into problems with a TV station's app on iOS that refused to play video without Location Services Enabled. When it comes to things such as entertainment, regional rights restrictions probably have more t
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by mikecane 13y ago
It creates havoc with all the services that create metrics about Twitter. It's also bad for Twitter in terms of selling advertising based on user numbers. If advertisers, say, want to target people with N Followers, how can they be su
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by mikecane 13y ago
Someone who was bombing my account saw my announcement that I was going to Protect my account and tried to bomb it before I did. I was faster and the fake Followers wound up in a request queue. Now that Twitter has restored Block, my acco

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