mrspandex

I still lend this book out to friends who want to learn HTML.

So, they decided the following must be true: - Textbooks are something that people want right away and can be delivered outside - Students are willing to pay a premium for fast delivery from a nearby location fairly often - A small helicopter is an efficient way to deliver thick paper books

I feel like they couldn't have chosen a worse product to deliver via drone.

I think the key is knowing what high school she went to. From there, you could possibly get yearbook pictures and student lists. Knowing an approximate age would narrow the possibilities significantly as well.

I think Amazon could make more money by offering an option to disable the ads for $x. Whoever is willing to pay is likely not someone to click on the ads anyway, but they avoid upsetting people who don't want to rent out their eyeballs.

I wanted two XML files defining issues and stances which I could do a diff on or as the basis of some application. This is just glorified HTML.

Why on earth would I want my camera to be running a full phone OS? It's one thing to build a camera into a phone for convenience, but when will having an OS and touchscreen in the back of my camera make something more convenient?

> a city car running on compressed air (as well as a battery-powered electric motor)

The range sounds implausible to me at any reasonable speed on compressed air alone. How is the electric motor involved? Is the air a backup for the battery or vice-versa?

Personally, I don't see games the same as other software. Generally, they are more like content (movies, music, etc). Especially in the world of game consoles, where the games come on read only discs.

Games that are able to be "modded" of course add additional value and surely open source games would only expand the possibility, but there aren't the same concerns of my work and data being locked away in a proprietary ecosystem. If a game from 10 years ago stops working, it is disappointing, but not debilitating.

I really like the way Winamp handles shuffle. It takes the current playlist (whatever is selected to play), then shuffles it in memory for stable play order. If you select a new song manually, it will play that song, then resume the old play order.

Worst headline ever?