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And the overhead projector was used in a lighted conference room, so that people could see the presenter and one another and consult papers, and black-on-white was easier to read. …

Classic Microsoft in its high-productivity period was strictly private offices for everyone, solid doors and almost all with outside windows, soundproofed so each office could have…

Such agents are common in the US, they are called "brokers". Brokers are especially good in negotiating with multiple dealers, and getting the exact car you want from the dealer wi…

Apple had an insoluble problem, and they failed to fit the iPad Mini into a man's suit, sportcoat, or blazer inside chest pocket. Apple iPad Mini width (Apple specs): 134.7 mm Man'…

Also, Chrome on Nexus 7 has a lot of "accessibility" options, so you can size the default reflowable text to your comfort, which reduces any need to manually squeeze/expand. (Nexus…

Kindle Paperwhite newly implements two-finger pinch (smaller font size) and expand (bigger font size). On the way to carrying out the font size change, it pops up the font-size sel…

No, that's not the right history. Caltrain is the remains of the old Southern Pacific commute lines; the SP brought people FROM the peninsula INTO San Francisco to work during the …

Non-competes are totally unenforceable in CA as a condition of employment. If you sell your startup to an acquirer, the contract can include a non-compete subject to fairly strict …

"If anyone could drive a cab, the profession might only barely pay a living wage, ..." That isn't the case in London, widely thought to have the best taxi service in the world. The…

Brooks particularly had in mind IBM's System 360. One of its goals was to have a single architecture span an extremely wide range of performance. So there were many models (e.g., 3…

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Kindle app on Android phones also uses single tap to page; it's extremely convenient (compared to the old Kindle with physical buttons which I also use). Touch for paging is certai…

*"The system knows that women generally favor stories about Brad Pitt, but after some real-time analysis, it can quickly realize that men are far more like to click on a Brad Pitt …

The website is exceedingly poor--sorting by distance doesn't work, bits of template text are not even filled in and it's obvious the information is generic. The website is the oppo…

Yes, but don't use the non-functional US postal service. UPS or FedEx work fine. There's a reason why knowledgeable shippers (such as Amazon) use the USPS only for rural parts of t…

Google for "The editor authors the newspaper hired liked laughed."

Not so true about the UK. In my building in London, one unit was being quietly sublet for holiday-type use, in violation of the contract, and when complaints from the residents' as…

Windows Live Mail, included free in Windows 7, does a perfect job of backing up a Gmail account, including sent mail. Configure Win Live Mail to pick up via POP3 all Gmail every co…

Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit (1987-1992) built out a long and thin building at 2460 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, in this way, using central hallways; every person had a privat…

Here's a description of how MS Word and MS Excel were actually used to create 4,600 parameterized web pages, complete with samples of the Excel and Word documents used: http://www.…

Yodlee's own free consumer webservice is outstanding. https://moneycenter.yodlee.com Once you enter your accounts, you see every transaction from yesterday aggregated in one place …

"... people who consume more omega-3 fatty acids enjoy lower rates of inflammatory gum disease (periodontitis). "... the study linked moderate intake of fish-derived omega-3 DHA to…

In the US, recently a number of small overnight delivery services have consolidated into "regional" overnight carriers, thus offering delivery areas large enough to entice large sh…