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by sjh 2y ago
RTÉ (Ireland’s national broadcaster) has a 404 page with a nostalgic touch for anyone who grew up here in the 1980s: https://www.rte.ie/404
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by sjh 7y ago
> So you think the reason the Soviet union was less colourful was because there wasn't ads? I think it can have been a contributory but not a determinative factor. Mainly, I was just relaying an interesting observation, about the im
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by sjh 7y ago
I recall watching, some years ago, a documentary about the making of Tetris in which one of the contributors noted how much less colourful public spaces were in the advertising-free Soviet Union compared to the West. Which isn't to say
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by sjh 8y ago
Last Train Home: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1512201/
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Magical Thinking about Isis(lrb.co.uk)
2 points by sjh 11y ago|0 comments
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by sjh 11y ago
ys1010 is (accurately) describing the marginal rate which effectively applies to all income above a threshold (although the different taxes/charges have different thresholds). It’s quite the thing when it kicks in.
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by sjh 13y ago
As such, the software which makes up "Android" resembles OS X to me: open source in parts (even large parts), but the bit which most people (including developers) use is closed source and restricted to running only on sanctioned h
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by sjh 13y ago
I wonder whether, after he returns to Earth, Cmdr Hadfield will expect things to hang in the air for him; looks habit-forming.
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by sjh 14y ago
It would have been better for aspirant attendees to have been able to put the price of the tickets into an escrow attached to Google Wallet and/or pre-authorise the transaction with their payment provider.
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by sjh 14y ago
It's a quasi-random lottery. If the client-side code is similar to last year's, then the Javascript on the holding page polls the server at random intervals for an "available" ticket, which are released at random intervals and/or as orders
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by sjh 14y ago
I had this as well, but the payment was ultimately declined.
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by sjh 14y ago
Same here, using a Mastercard.
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by sjh 14y ago
That is also blocked in Tokyo: "We're sorry, but this video is not available in your region due to right restrictions."
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by sjh 14y ago
I'm in Tokyo, and streamed an episode of PBS' FrontLine from pbs.org only last week/the week before last.
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by sjh 14y ago
It's 'football' in the UK, but in most of the rest of the Anglophone world, it's 'soccer'. Australia has its own 'football', as does Ireland.
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by sjh 15y ago
I've had a Microsoft Ergonomic 4000 keyboard for a couple of years, now. Apart from the (relative) comfort, it's a well-built, sturdy (i.e. heavy) peripheral, which in itself improves the typing experience, I think. If you are thinking of s
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by sjh 15y ago
The nominal value of public debt is an unreliable measure. Ireland's national debt was €30bn in 1987 and €36bn in 2002. But in the same period it went from around 128% of GDP to 32% of GDP.
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by sjh 16y ago
Reminds me of 3D Hidden Picture, a DSi Ware puzzle game, available in Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5QSclrIdlE Supposedly this uses the DSi's camera the track the motion of the device and adjust the displayed image to give it dep
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by sjh 17y ago
The protesters are trusting that the process by which the pills are prepared doesn't introduce some other substance which is toxic when consumed in relatively large quantities.
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by sjh 17y ago
And Woods alone attracts a not-inconsiderable portion of the audience: TV ratings for this year's US PGA Championship were around 50% higher than for the same tournament last year, the principal difference being Woods' absence in 2008 due t
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by sjh 17y ago
I presume he means that you should have up-to-date contact details for all existing investors, and that they should be contactable - e.g. they don't throw down the phone when you ring them - and ready to sell. I know of a mid-sized company
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by sjh 17y ago
There may be a support issue for Apple here. Imagine a customer purchases a Pre and syncs it to iTunes, but Palm's reverse-engineering of the iPod-iTunes protocol is incomplete and iTunes crashes as a result (and does so reproducibly). Many
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If you add an OS to Chrome, it's an OS(theregister.co.uk)
57 points by sjh 17y ago|26 comments
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by sjh 17y ago
Microsoft's announcement next Monday has almost certainly been in the pipeline since before Google revealed Chrome OS, so it's not a response.
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by sjh 17y ago
I don't think it's simply a case of "some lazy and irresponsible journalists" - standards generally seem to have slipped. Shane Fitzgerald was intereviewed on the radio here in Ireland earlier today by the former editor of a national Sunday
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by sjh 18y ago
Resident registration is still required in at least some EU member states, even when one is a citizen of another EU member state. In Germany, all residents - including German nationals - have to register each change of address with the loca
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by sjh 18y ago
Without wishing to belabour the point, the prices for the same unit (the lesser-spec'ed Mac Mini) also seem to have gone up in the Irish and German stores (to pick but two), from €499 to €599.
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by sjh 18y ago
By chance, I was looking at Mac Minis in the UK online Store this morning (GMT), and the price of the lesser-spec'ed unit was £391. Now the price of the new lesser-spec'ed unit is £499.
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by sjh 18y ago
According to the write-up on Wired ( http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/magnolia-suffer.html ), Ma.gnolia also took a snapshot of the page being bookmarked. This may account for the size of the database.
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by sjh 18y ago
Apple may perceive a cost in supporting developers who may be less likely (or unlikely) to contribute to their platforms. Inasmuch as charging a fee for WWDC videos, or the iPhone program (or whatever), would deter such developers, not only

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