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"A language is a dialect with an army and navy"

It's an issue of using a subpar client, not a subpar format. I have yet to find a decent epub reader for a computer. Stanza for iPhone, iBooks, and dedicated hardware render epubs …

You can get $5 O'Reilly EPUBs from the App Store everyday. Extracting an epub from an iPhone app is easy. First you unzip the .ipa file. Then you cd to Payload/*/book. Finally, you…

I suppose everybody here knows the ins and outs of the browser landscape and has their own favorite. Most everybody else doesn't care about browsers and would find a selection scre…

King County also levies a sales tax.

>The browser should have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with video and audio decoding. I know! While we're at it, who had the brilliant idea to put image decoders in browsers? I say let …

Most of those titles are public domain books scanned as part of Google Books and complete with OCR typos. Right now, Amazon's selection is better.

Hopefully this means we can standardize data exchange on something like Ethernet so that if some faster technology is invented on the physical layer, it would be easy to upgrade. T…

https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_geolocation

Video of a Netflix hub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWA0LKfEv3c

LG was never an ODM (sic). And they don't manufacture hard drives. Sure, they manufacture displays but so do Sharp and Philips. Also, I was under the impression that Lenovo merely …

You sure about LG and Lenovo?

I think it has to do more with policy than it does with the telcos. Japan, Korea, and Sweden are outliers which have had massive funding (direct and indirect) from the governments …

In regard to the printer sharing problem, it's pretty much solved today thanks to zeroconf (marketed as Bonjour by Apple). It makes addressing computers and advertising services in…

Here something similar based on social sites: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/

Or you can just use Amazon's console. https://console.aws.amazon.com/

He did this by including obfuscated code that modified the internal state of Adblock Plus without notifying the user.

The plugin is updated frequently also because doing so lands itself in the Most Popular Add-ons chart. Giorgio has a history of pushing the limit to see what he can get away before…