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Remember the interview show HotSeat with John McChesney? Ah, the early days of Real Player.

Amazon is fabulous, but that sort of real-time return policy workflow is for relatively low-mass & low-expense items from high-volume retailers. Try returning custom car parts or, …

A case isn't there primarily to protect the screen. It's there to absorb shock, protect against nicks and scuffs on the non-glass regions, and provide a non smooth-as-glass grip su…

A 1% efficiency won't be a net-energy-gain for any sort of large-scale commercial production. Three key questions: 1. What is the relative scarcity, if any, of the materials used t…

Nice book plug. I'm reminded of the old CSS Box Model hack for earlier versions of IE. For those not already familiar, Paul is the maintainer of HTML5 Boilerplate: http://html5boil…

I suspect this is more about isolating the phone from the radio energy sinks of the human body (surface moisture on the skin & saline blood plasma) than anything to do with the gla…

It's not about education or productivity. Top colleges, military training, and most early stage start-up environments all have either explicit or implicit cultures where part of th…

I can't help but be reminded of "hacking" casino comp systems. Please. In truth, this trip cost well in excess of $418 due to the other purchases and time tie-ins involved. I'm all…

Indeed. After I finished it, I was sad for weeks. I just missed being in that world with those people. None of Clavell's other endeavors even comes close (though Tai-Pan was, relat…

Um. Wow. He's THAT desperate for press these days? The author of the article (Jill Fehrenbacher) is married to Peter Rohas--formerly of Engadget/Weblogs Inc. Mr. Rohas is a co-foun…

Without a link describing the methods used to garner this information and the raw data itself, these conclusions are, at best, suspect.

As a fellow bullied child, I can empathize with the treatment, but I could not disagree more with the proposed solutions. You simply can not treat children as adults nor can all fa…

I wouldn't use the term "interesting" so much as "foolish". Much like Best Buy's recent firing/non-firing of that employee, the act itself only serves to add more fuel to the negat…

Summary: Imperfect system is imperfect. 'Ya gotta love a tautology adorned as journalism. Are there any reasonable alternatives for privately funded research? No. There will always…

For those that wish to learn more about the Korean pro Starcraft scene, I urge you to watch the English YouTube commentaries at SC2GG ( http://starcraft.homelinux.org/VODTracker/#v…

"Spam" is done as part of warming-up during pre-game chat and during approximately the first 10s of most builds. These players aren't spamming. They're selecting individual unit ab…

Is this content really within HN's bailiwick?

The aforementioned to be read in the voice of Bender.

All we're missing is violet, indigo, and orange. Then we'd have a full Green Lantern Corps ;). I can understand the philosophical underpinnings, but honestly, it smells of 7-Habits…

While this does do away with one more modal interface in side-by-side battery arrangements, judging only by the pictures, it looks extremely shock-sensitive. It would seem suitable…

This article reminds me vividly why, at my Alma mater, EVERY engineer (even EEs and CEs) were REQUIRED to take a class in their freshmen or sophomore year called "Manufacturing Pro…

Two words: Sarbanes–Oxley

Um...Wow. Aside from Mr. Garrison's gyro-thingie ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entity_%28South_Park%29 ), that's the most emasculating mode of travel I've ever seen.

As a D.C. metro resident (living in NoVA), I share your pain. When I moved, I made sure to live close to at least 1 airport (ended up being IAD) for that verysame reason.