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nickerson.t
On The Verge since Apr 06, 2012
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I appreciate that you jumped on the joke, but you discredit the fact that it takes only an instant of contact with the teeth (the affected part of a tooth to be specific) for the fluoride to do its job. It’s more effective if left around for a while, but like the 5-second rule pop culture latched onto, it’s the first instant of contact that matters.
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“In the tablet world, we’re going to become better than number one. We call it number one plus.”
- HP’s Eric Cador
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Somebody pull up a gif of Josh stumbling over this one ;)
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No, but it’s a ridiculous car to drive. Rear wheel drive and the potential for 430hp with as little as $800 invested. I would drive a pontiac vibe if it offered as much.
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I wonder when the App Catalog hit 1 billion.
Yeah, the App Catalog. Who? That was webOS. No, not WebOS, webOS. Palm. Ringing a bell? They made the Pre. It was only a few years ago. No no it was the Preee not the Pre- Ahh whatever. It was better.
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Is there any word whether MSFT will charge for 8.1? Or is that reserved for major updates like Windows 9?
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It really isn’t. The reciprocating engine can produce increasing levels of torque at increasing levels of rotational velocity. When you’re racing, this is key. I don’t care what kind of torque I can attain at 0 RPM. If I’m in the lower RPM region where the torque curve is indeed more desirable in an electric motor than in an ICE, I’ve already lost the race.
What electric motors do provide is a superior response to throttle pedal inputs. This is why parallel hybrids are desirable as race cars and hypercars like the LaFerrari.
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Competition leads to innovation.
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You know what I was looking on and off for months. It’s really hard to find something that’s “laptop-style”, scissor-action keys. DON’T, whatever you do, get a membrane-style that purports to have good action. I tried a couple and they’re worse than the standard mechanical action keyboards.
Just get a full-size mac keyboard. Aesthetics be dammed! The Command button is automatically mapped as the Windows Key. Other things like the printscreen button can be mapped using KeyTweak. I got mine off Amazon for $25 (used). And you know what? It’s just a great keyboard. I’ve been enjoying it for a few months now.
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I thought she was somewhat overwrought as Applekid mentioned, but I like that they’re trying to stay true to the comic. I’d rather it this way, actually.
Yet in retrospect, I bet her character was a bit better realized in the comic than in the movie. I wish they’d slow down the plot and give the movie time to sink in, rather than curate to the “explosion every 10 seconds” expectation/mentality. I’d rather watch a 4 hour long movie with real substance (and occasional explosions) than a 2 hour movie with just explosions and little substance.
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It’s illegal because they’re profiting off another’s established brand. Although, that’s almost a parallel to those who garner “likes” on facebook sites through some event or pop-culture phenomenon then sell the site with likes in tow.
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This is making me miss my pre. It truly is better when you can expect to find an app just as you left it, like on a desktop computer. It may not be noticeable, but every time you switch an app on any other phone platform there is always a question whether you’ll see the app as you left it. It’s up to the developer what happens.
This brings me to the other huge advantage of webOS: the back button. It always does the same thing in every app. In Android, it’ll do what the dev wants it to do (which is a huge mistake in UX design if you ask me). The facebook app will cycle endlessly through stories you visited while the gmail app will go back to the inbox (or back to the homescreen, which, if I wanted the homescreen, why the hell wouldn’t I hit the home button??). Tapatalk is the worst – if you entered a thread from the notification window, the app will spit you out at the homescreen and you enter back into the app in the forum list. Yet if you entered that same thread from the thread list, you’ll be back at the thread list. It’s asinine. webOS wouldn’t give the obnoxious devs a choice, it would always go up in the tree of screens/views.
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You bring up an interesting point. We have fossil fuels because there was an age of “unintelligent” life that preceded us for 200M years, steadily breaking down into the extraordinarily energy dense fuels we used to industrialize. I wonder how easy or difficult it would be for intelligent life to industrialize without it.
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That’s one object to one other object, so yes you’re right. But the above post points out that you can’t compare one species to multiple species.
It’d be like saying “My Chrysler has [insert sum total of horsepower that has ever come out of a Chrysler factory here] horsepower compared to your BMW’s measly 300.” It’s just not even a concept that would come to mind.
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