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That reminds me how Ogilvy wrote in Confessions of an ad man - how his copywriting style was more successful (sales-wise) than others even though his copy was lengthier and more descriptive than others'.

The zoomed image was meant to illustrate why the photoshop button was rendered better at default size - it has nothing to do with browser zooming.

However, discontinuation of server hardware (Xserve) production probably won't help.

So does this mean that Chrome will drop support for JPEG, PNG and GIF? I mean, that was the case with the video tag.

I'm not sure #3 is really a benefit.

Generate another password upon request, store both hashes with the user account and make the user account accessible with both passwords. Not that I condone such snooping, but that isn't that hard of a workaround to implement.

Does it really say you cannot at all store hashed passwords, or does it mean just that you have to give the authorities the password for a user account if they ask you to? After all, if they want a password that can access a user's account, they could get that but that doesn't mean that it has to be the exact same password that the user uses, does it?

Wasn't Arethusa spelt with an "s", not "z"?

That was just the storage unit, check the image linked from the page - http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/... - all of those servers were doing the real work.

Of course, it is humbling to know that just 14 years later the average smartphone has that kind of power. (ok, well, probably not the average)

I believe some Windows 7 tablets might still experience these problems.

He meant Mos Eisley.

I doubt you'll have to pay to develop for Mac, the 99$ are for joining the developer program that allows you to get your apps on the App Store (Mac or iOS). Xcode, compilers and the possibility to run and sell your programs via other means will still be free.

They will make it smaller to fuck with the netbook people.

They (Apple) were actually working on a phone in 2005 which they announced in September of that year - the first "iPhone" before the iPhone - http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/rokr/. Of course, that turned out to be a crapfest noone was happy about and Jobs couldn't help wincing even while presenting it.

Perhaps the South Park and Daily Show comparison is just there because they both are running on Comedy Central.

The message is still there, it's just that there are much more sales talks because, well, they're doing much better as a company now.

The message has matured now - perhaps it wasn't just enough to be different - now their message is that they aren't being just different, they are better. You can see it in those product videos they do in keynotes, you can see it in Ive, Schiller, Cook, Jobs interviews and they definitely are trying to be better. In their products they don't have much to excel with the common stuff everybody does because it's the same suppliers for everyone - Intel, NVidia, Foxconn, Samsung, etc. but look at where they are trying new approaches everyone else has tried and given up on or haven't tried at all - a touchscreen phone when everyone said touchscreens don't work or a tablet computer when everyone thought that had been tried and failed or just the spectacular attention to detail (ironically, the most similar company in that aspect would be the IBM/Lenovo with the Thinkpads).

Don't get me wrong, Apple isn't infallible, they have failed spectacularly on some fronts and have been unable to compete on others but they seem to be doing just fine as it is.

Italian also has "Lei" which means both she and you (in the formal sense).

Don't know and don't care much about it, but it says in the article that sneaking in undisclosed easter eggs is verboten and that is why [this version of] the app was rejected.

> Internet traffic has to prioritized on the backbones and local networks before it gets to the local wireless transmitters therefore it will be available in a prioritized order to local wireline consumers too.

Is this true? Given that this is the main argument of the article, the author could have elaborated a bit and I don't know nearly enough about the inner workings of Internet providers, so is this actually true or just some senseless punditry?

They just cannot please everybody. There was a fuss when they were being arbitrary with their rejections and now there's a fuss when they reject an app for not following the rules.

If anything, the chair is worth it because of the warranty - imagine buying a 100$ POS chair every year and compare it with the cost of an Aeron over 12 years (at least twelve, but it's likely to last more).

However, the 12-year warranty is only for structural parts. If I recall correctly, the mesh had only a 5-year warranty.

I know that Google Checkout isn't a "real" financial institution but surely, I'd think those problems were of the same class - perhaps it's just that they don't have to worry about legacy problems (yet).

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity" - it's more likely that Microsoft's PMs and developers felt swayed by new features and possibilities and when the issue of performance came up, it was "meh, the average computer selling today can cope with it" and therefore little thought was given to performance on older tech or tech that has most of its performance diverted to other tasks.

If you're getting enough sleep and don't have any other psychological disorders, e.g., depression, etc., most likely it's burnout. A serious lifestyle change should help (e.g., spend 6 to 12 months travelling through Europe, work as a logger in the Canadian wilderness, join the Peace Corps) but, alas, not all of us have the luxury of doing that. Perhaps also just finding a less stressful job might help.

Whatever they should do, they will announce tomorrow what they are going to do. Meanwhile, it's just a phone.

It is our all generations' responsibility to work together in the whole world to prevent such atrocities happening again.

In just means that the US isn't a manufacturing economy. Manufacturing is a very small part of US economy but that doesn't mean that in absolute numbers it might be higher than other countries', especially if most of the goods manufactured were with high added value (e.g., the aforementioned jet engines).

The same HP Windows 7 Slate that was killed off in April? (http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/hewlett-packard-to-kill-win...)

That is what the tinfoil hats are meant for.

You should probably clarify the spritz part, I wouldn't want some kinky Dutchman showing up at your doorstep and expecting something entirely different :)