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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 de…

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…

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 al…

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 wo…

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 th…

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/r…

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'…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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., spe…

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