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Comment · 12 years ago
Sooo.. how much will it cost, and why is the price so difficult to find?
Comment · 13 years ago
I would imagine apps that work on undoing iOS7's visual changes are going to be popular. I personally would like one, at least for those icons.
Comment · 13 years ago
I switched to Chrome because it was faster and I didn't care about extensions.

I switched back to Firefox because it became faster than Chrome (from my user experience, I don't know about tests and whatnot)

Many of these updates are helping them stay fast and haven't resulted in any bloat (yet), so at least from my perspective, great!

Comment · 13 years ago
Does anyone know what is special about the pollutants addressed by these plants? Are there other pollutants that are helpful to filter, and why did NASA focus on this set?
Comment · 13 years ago
It's a matter of degree then. Saying "doing work to change pronouns isn't worth it to me" is one thing - you may find the benefits of that too trivial to be worth your time.

Rejecting (multiple times) work that has already been done for you leans much more in the direction of some sort of agenda.

Comment · 13 years ago
My impression was that the problem with the original post was a denial accepting a change, which the author took to mean a militant exclusion of gender neutral language.

The author wasn't taking a militant stand against someone who simply writes gendered language, but against someone who made a decision to exclude gender-neutral language specifically.

Comment · 13 years ago
While not really useful in any computer sense, M-D-Y matches common English spoken construction "January 4th, 2015" is 1-4-15
Comment · 13 years ago
Excellent! I'm excited about mixed media articles getting better and better!

One small tweak I would make is to have the video start playing not when it's in the middle but closer to the top of the page.

Reason is, I find myself distracted by listening to the guys speak before I finish reading the text.

Comment · 13 years ago
Service packs have always been free in Windows though. Except for maybe Win 98 SE?
Comment · 13 years ago
This is the exact way in which metadata, in the age of computer analysis, is just as important as the data itself. With a computer looking for patterns, it's possible to sift through billions of pieces of data to single out someone trying to hide in the noise.
Comment · 13 years ago
This will find its biggest market (I think) in NYC apartments - you only need 1 usually, and tiny unventilated kitchens are a near guarantee to send off an alarm.

I lived in an apartment where we essentially had a broom handle hanging next to the alarm because it was inevitable, and during Sandy blackout the thing constantly chirped because its landline was disconnected. Not a good experience.

Comment · 13 years ago
This seems like a mistake... it's hard to build a brand around a huge amount of products with only marginal differences. Yes there are advantages of one aspect over another, but having to choose which aspect to spend $500 on could be an infuriating choice to make.

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