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> Fuck any SSD not made by Intel or Samsung

Why?

you're speaking on behalf of a "vast majority of men"?

> This will be a device people can actually use.

Assuming they use Chrome or Android, that is...

Another possibility is that older PCs are still good enough. My 4 year old Core 2 Duo MacBook with an SSD has felt speedy enough for all my day-to-day tasks (including driving a 24" display) that I just haven't bothered upgrading.

How well do Windows 7 and 8 perform on older hardware?

deeper where? comparison of fan types? a study into which species are the weakest flyers?

I hope you're joking about fan death

why is it banned if it's one of the safest?

For me, the most interesting part is the iPad remote. Looks like Apple is getting into distributed interfaces.

I generally agree but the iPod argument really downplays the effort apple puts into industrial design and UX. At the time of the 3rd gen iPod and being a high school studeny I could only afford one of the few of its competitors, the HDD-powered Creative Nomad, and its infuriatingly unintuitive and inconsistent UI. I'm not even talking some kind of "attractive" UI like the rather useless cover flow view introduced later. The Nomad was literally a pain to use where a little wheel had to be rotated to scroll between the many albums. in hindsight, the clickwheel UI would've been worth more than a few extra gigs of space.

I think we're talking about different things. I meant my own organic waste bin, which gets emptied into the Green Bin: http://www.toronto.ca/greenbin/index.htm

Some things I've learned while renting a room in a house:

* Don't store expensive alcohol or munchie relieving foods in common spaces.

* Some people don't close the washroom door when taking a leak, even with strangers around the house.

* Establish a dish washing and house cleaning protocol. Split the costs of all supplies, or have a piggy bank for this stuff. Can be used to order pizza too.

* Some people believe Febreeze helps clean your fart repository sofa. Or mask the odour coming out of the organic waste bin on a hot day.

* A low rent is more likely to attract a problematic tenant. I've seen tenants ranging from complete slobs to the two students who could not pay the rent and eventually set the basement on fire (by accident). Fix up the place at least cosmetically, buy low-maintenance plants, take pictures on a sunny day with plenty of natural light, and up the rent. Good tenants are worth the extra work.

* A short-term tenant is more likely to treat the place like shit.

* A laundry machine in the house is great. If not available, check that the laundromat is within walking distance of someone carrying massive laundry bags, and that it closes at 12am and opens at 6am, or is open 24/7.

* A walking-distance grocery store and/or fruit market is a massive plus.

I would hope at least Mozilla would not comply with such a request..

So if the issue is tracking regardless, why not use a non-tracking web app?

The changing fixed background trend is on the rise.

Google has enough cash to invest into both native and web platforms, and see which one (if any) prevails. At the end of the day, more platforms is access to more developers and the apps they make, which in turn is more incentive for end users to buy the devices, whatever OS they happen to run.

Mozilla is leveraging a large existing developer base and relying on the brand power and capabilities of Firefox that they have full control over. Their choice of market is interesting too, as it seems to be largely served by low-cost hardware stuck with outdated Android installs with no upgrade paths on the horizon. Meanwhile, Google is distancing itself from Android as a product and instead pushing own devices as "the" Android experience, leaving the low-cost hardware market with stale software.

These seem like thought-out strategic moves Mozilla is capable of pulling. It'll be interesting to see how things play out.

Very interesting, thanks for the writeup.

On a related note, I'm curious how many here find user ratings of new movies coincide with their own. Personally, I've been sticking to critic reviews because the authors usually have a much larger base for comparison and developed tastes than the casual movie goer like me, and because user-submitted ratings like IMDb can be highly inflated as waves of unusually high ratings pour in in the first few weeks of the release ("Best romantic comedy EVR, 10/10!"). Once the dust settles, the reviews tend to sober up a bit and even out at a value that I tend to agree with more.

You like your trip-hop.

Looks like the server is under fire, and Google didn't cache any of those links, either. Tears of desire.

Nobody is doubting there's plenty of great software written in C. That doesn't mean we should choose C for all the new software we write, though. I'm sure one will find slow and unreliable code written in C if they look hard enough..

Why not read the source of whatever you're using before running it?

Rather, his philosophy assumes that if you are a white hat you cannot be concerned about a reward. In reality white hats simply have enough moral compass to not place the exploit into wrong hands, which doesn't mean they don't care about a reward. By this rationale lawyers, for instance, should not be setting a price on their time when they believe defending a particular case will be doing a good Good Deed.

Would the whey be usable for production of protein supplements[0], or is it too acidic? It seems like a fairly major industry.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein

Is this true for Xbox One as well?

Never knew! Thanks!

The keyboard shortcuts make no sense on OS X, either. Most of them are very Windows centric. Eg pressing anything on the F row or that uses Ctrl is not very native. I feel like Eclipse on OSX is an afterthought

Right. My comment is more on the adoption rather than availability of open standards.

>Because its machine parseable, it makes a lot of presentation options available that aren't available when you rely on a standard hyperlink without a data format with a standardized identification of the requested action.

You're right: this addition turns email into a data or event queue of sorts with standardized actions that can be performed on it. I like it. Given that email is one of the few non vendor-locked communication technologies we have and we already have a lot of infrastructure to deliver it reliably, this seems a promising evolution path.

I'd like to see something similar for IM: currently SMS is the only open standard for instant messaging, and any other option locks you into either a platform or a specific client, which the other person will probably not use.

What the hell is a 8" anyway? Aren't those called 3.25"?

text handling and CMYK support are not essential? Personally, I find lack of non-destructive color adjustments ie adjustment layers a deal breaker

I've finished that book and I think it could be edited down to a quarter of its length. useful but the page count is highly inflated