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In a sense, the tablet format is more than just a software or hardware platform. It's more akin to a new kind of material - one that you can mold at will, through software, into a myriad of distinct widgets.
I don't use iTunes and thus can't compare their respective librairies, but I know first hand that even in more remote corners of the musical world (think obscure recording of a jazz reprise of Bach), Spotify almost always delivers.
In both cases, fighting had been going on for centuries before the empires were finally toppled. Thus even if overall less advanced, the "barbarians" had comparable warfare technology.
In most known cases where a true first encounter event occured - such as Columbus arrival in Hispaniola, Pizarro in Peru or Cook in Australia - the less advanced civilization was indeed overrun if not exterminated by the more advanced one.
Self-doubt can also make you a more likable person, especially if you are successful.
The latest release only weighs 130 MB and there is a large choice of distributions (puplets) including one specifically tailored to netbooks (Puppeee).
Just make fun of them. Make them the laughing stock of the whole class. Bully them verbally. Make fun of them and suddenly you'll become more popular - which will likely insulate you from any further bullying.
Maybe I was lucky, but this strategy worked wonders for me back in the days.
I'm sincerly surprised that a community as educated as HN only suggests brute force as an effective response to school bullying.
This amounts to an average $1.19 CPM, which sounds very very high for in-game advertisement. Mochiads in flash games are usually in the $0.1-0.2 CPM range.
Can the iPhone market really command such a high premium or is there something specific to Backflip Studio's games that I'm missing?
The original Japanese text is probably not at fault here.
It's as if Firefox was rescaling the canvas without hardware acceleration.
We had a real argument over slots. (...) Steve said, "All people really need is a printer and a modem." And that was just false because he'd come from a different world than I. (...) He wanted just one slot for a printer and one for a modem(...), so I said, "If you want 2 slots, get another computer." That was the only time we had a real argument.
Before it was unified in 1870, Germany was made of a number of small independent kingdoms, loosely associated through the Holy Roman Empire until 1806, then through the German Confederation from 1815 until the unification under Prussia's dominance in 1870 [2].
This late unification (in comparison with France or England for example, which already had an embryo of a unified central state as early as the XIIIth century [3]) explains the non-centralised nature of the German state and economy. The Allies had very little to do with it.
1: http://countrystudies.us/germany/151.htm
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire#Modern_period
3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_France#Saint_Louis
This is a common misconception (which I shared until I studied Japanese).
Writing a sentence may be more of a hassle than with an alphabet based system - and even that would remain to be seen - but reading it is much more efficient due to the more condensed form factor: a page of kanji would take much more space written in romaji.
The fact that Japan and China stuck to an ideogram-based writing system did not stem from a lack of alternative. Japanese actually has had not only one but two syllabic alphabets for more than a millenia (1). Yet kanji were kept, notably because of the numerous homophones in the Japanese language.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katakana#History
Of course having a sizeable amount of savings is important for all the things you described. Yet the "low six-figures" income of her first example is probably largely sufficient to handle these.
Cutting bandwidth costs for video websites could be a significant incentive to slow down HTML5 adoption and keep Flash in the game a little while longer.
A majority of the worldwide mindshare you are referring to do not think in English. Yet they do watch Hollywood movies in English...with subtitles.
Hence #1 Spanish, #2 French, #3 Japanese, #4 Sign Language.
Although we do enjoy faster and more mobile access to internet and computing in general, most of the advances over the past 15 years are incremental improvements over technologies that already existed back then.
What breakthroughs comparable to the advent of e.g. the train, the plane or antibiotics occured over the last 15 years?