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This data set has some interesting possibilities. It's interesting to note the languages that take up the most room. - lilbyrdie

Definitely a good writeup and worth reading. - lilbyrdie

Definitely a good writeup and worth reading. - lilbyrdie

These are surprisingly ... oh, just watch. The production quality is great -- done by The Washington Post. - lilbyrdie

These are surprisingly ... oh, just watch. The production quality is great -- done by The Washington Post. - lilbyrdie

Honest, Google has every right to stop people from distributing their own software. Luckily, the Android platform itself has no restrictions -- so if folks want to create their own, complete, end-to-end mods, they can. Problem is, no one else has stepped forward (yet) to replace the core Google apps for non-Google distributions. This will happen sooner than later, I think. - lilbyrdie

This image makes the parking space look pretty big -- IIRC, they're usually somewhere around 200 sq ft (and sell for $200k to own in Manhattan -- same sq ft rate as living space). - lilbyrdie

Hey, this is our book being reviewed! Cool. :) - lilbyrdie

There are three interesting things about this article: 1. Lists are easier for readers 2. Lists are easier for authors 3. Lists aren't always bad ;) - lilbyrdie

doubleclick, too? sounds big. - lilbyrdie

That's a lot of data. But the math is wrong -- 461GB/day is 5 MBps or around 43Mbps. It's probably a 100 Mbps connection, complete with protocol overhead for data redundancy, etc. That is, however, over 8x faster than the average US home... and well over any propose bandwidth caps (that will fail because they're sooo 1990). - lilbyrdie

Getting some [blog] press. Excellent. :) - lilbyrdie

This is great! - lilbyrdie

This is not all that different than barter clubs that basically use their own currency, often called scrip instead. - lilbyrdie

"This was the main problem I saw with this solution, actually. But here's the catch: Regular Joe user wants to create a short link. Site YYY.com, seeing the light of the short URL future, has shortlinks for all of their stories via ZZ.com/xxx. They control YYY.com and ZZ.com, so can keep ZZ.com up as long as they want. This is great and something Company YYY is providing for all their users. I suspect this is actually the use case Dave envisions, but _every single site has to implement it_ -- that won't happen. Tech savvy Jane user wants to create a short link. Site RRR.com is old fashioned and only has one set of URLs: extraordinarily long ones. Jane creates JJ.com (using the above method) and creates links to RRR.com. These are Jane's links and these links will work so long as Jane wants. This helps Jane as she can grow her own brand, track how her own links spread, etc, but hurts RRR.com when Jane closes down JJ.com. Jane doesn't care, though. This is not so great, overall, but Jane..." - lilbyrdie

Wow, at these prices -- especially the three year, although given the quickly dropping prices, not sure how much that makes sense -- I could get 4-5 for the same price of my current dedicated server, not counting bandwidth, domain fees, and extra IP addresses. Even given the reselling of pieces of my server, it might be worth looking in to the cost structure again (although the 2TB of free bandwidth is nice, it's only at 100Mbps, too). - lilbyrdie

Excellent info. - lilbyrdie

Oh, this is very interesting! Though, being an Archos, it probably won't have many takers in the long run... still, hrm... I hope it's $99 or less. - lilbyrdie

So many interesting tidbits in this: IDE drives don't always report their capabilities correctly. Millions of servers (millions!) Only dozens of data centers? 5 million servers * a low 1% annual fail rate == nearly 6 servers failing EVERY HOUR! Wow. All cool stuff. - lilbyrdie

More GDrive references. Funny. Too bad this doesn't work on Mac Chrome yet. - lilbyrdie

So, is Linux now available on it? With a port of Doom? - lilbyrdie

I definitely agree with #2. Every time your knowledge increases, you'll start seeing things in a new way. That may allow you to read new things in to existing documentation, grokking something in a new way, or just finding something you overlooked. I suspect this is true in all fields of knowledge. Perhaps the brain compresses knowledge with time and allows room for more of the same type to be added later. - lilbyrdie

Get podcasts in morsecode -- from 5 WPM to 30WPM -- and practice listening. - lilbyrdie

Hmm, this is interesting... - lilbyrdie

This is pretty neat. ;) - lilbyrdie

Why do the studios try their hardest to keep their content away from viewers??? - lilbyrdie

Nifty trick. - lilbyrdie

Nice, the WiFi part sounds a lot like the app I have for my N95. - lilbyrdie

Great for developers with lots of devices. - lilbyrdie

No plugins, perhaps, but if it's a JavaScript API, something still needs to be installed for hardware support. Though, I imagine a pure JS solution could be done on HTML5 -- it would probably be fine for simple images or static 3D on modern browsers and modern JS engines. - lilbyrdie

Amusing. Picking phrases that reach equilibrium immediately are the best. It's a good sign of how good machine translation is. And how misunderstood automatically translated documents might be. - lilbyrdie

Our new article is at developer.com: http://www.developer.com/ws... - lilbyrdie