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- Adam Collins
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- Adam Collins
Catalyst: Homeopathy Part 2 - ABC TV Science - http://www.abc.net.au/catalys...
Science, done correctly.
- Adam Collins
CNBC is talking about the Google/energy story right now, says it's not just Google. Says in general websites generate 20mg of CO2 per *second* you are on the site. OMG, us FriendFeed addicts are killing the earth!!!!!!!
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maybe I'd better get off the web for a while and get back to driving around looking for neon signs to photograph.
- Thomas Hawk
comparatively the # of computers which aren't running at near max load & could be migrated to virtual are creating far more CO2 then those searches
- clarke thomas
good point Clarke. Someone I'm having a hard time feeling bad about the CO2 that my internet consumption creates. Maybe I should but I just can't imagine going without the internet and can't imagine it's really the worst polluting sort of thing you might do with your time.
- Thomas Hawk
Did CNBC publish this story on the Internet?
- Edward Zwart
It's OK; we exhale 11mg of CO2 per second so just hold your breath while surfing.
- Robert Hafer
Oh, it's no worse than sending smoke signals.
- Morton Fox
I generate 900g per day or 10.5mg/sec all day, every day. So, being online is equivalent to having two friends magically breathing with me, but only when I'm online. Considering the utility of "online" and the fact that I'm not online all of the time, I'd say that's pretty good.
- Adam Collins
A good read: http://icecap.us/images... (pdf link)
- Robert Hafer
I cut out a lot of CO2 by using social networking tools,skype, webex, email and sharepoint to work with my development team in Bangkok instead of catching a flight down there for each project. I think this cutting out by reducing travel has had a larger impact in various domains of human interaction has had a larger impact than what CNBC is talking about.
- The Fat Oracle
So, staying online, hardcore, 12 hours a day would produce less than 0.6 kg of CO2. Driving my car to work and back, however, generates about 11 kg of CO2. I'm going to have a talk with my boss...
- Adam Collins
"Per second you are on the site" is a pretty meaningless metric. If I spend 5 minutes reading a page it's not taxing their servers any more than if I loaded it and immediately shut down my computer.
- Kevin Fox
20mg per second? This seems to be "we're surrounded by deadly DHMO (aka water)" level of paranoia.
- Alex Power
Google has a great response post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... Money quote: "In the time it takes to do a Google search, your own personal computer will use more energy than Google uses to answer your query."
- Kevin Fox
Oh sh*t this is bad news! I am a top offender on FF huh?! Ok, we need to virtualize way more DCs folks!
- Susan Beebe
My backyard is filled with trees..does that count as an offset ?
- Mo Kargas
The story is a lie, The Times admit it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Kol Tregaskes
What? Did somebody say shooting neon? :-)
- Jeremy Brooks
Nut allergies -- a Yuppie invention - Los Angeles Times - http://www.latimes.com/news...
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"Your kid doesn't have an allergy to nuts. Your kid has a parent who needs to feel special. Your kid also spends recess running and screaming, "No! Stop! Don't rub my head with peanut butter!" Yes, a tiny number of kids have severe peanut allergies that cause anaphylactic shock, and all their teachers should be warned, handed EpiPens and given a really expensive gift at Christmas. But unless you're a character on "Heroes," genes don't mutate fast enough to have caused an 18% increase in childhood food allergies between 1997 and 2007. And genes certainly don't cause 25% of parents to believe that their kids have food allergies, when 4% do. Yuppiedom does."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
The one Stein article I'm still laughing at days later.
- Anika
Since food allergies kill about as many people as lightning strikes each year, we probably don't need to ban peanuts from schools or put warnings on every product saying it was "made in a factory that also has a break room where a guy named Dave often sneaks in a King Size Snickers despite this 'diet' he says he's on."
- Thomas Hawk
Go Thomas!
- Pete Gilbert
I dunno, I would tend to go the along with Thomas except that 4 years ago when my son was 1 yr old we gave him Yogurt (first dairy product we ever gave him since he was breast fed) and he had an anaphylaxic reaction. Massive swelling in the ears and tongue. Luckily his airway stayed mainly open. Very very scary. Paramedics didn't know at the time what the problem was. A large dose of Benedryl seemed to bring things back to normalcy. After some hospital time and testing we found his multiple food allergies.
- Brian McCartney
I had a friend in high school with a nut allergy. She died shortly after graduation because she was exposed to peanuts, went into anaphylactic shock, and died. Edit: I could be wrong about what type of nut she was exposed to that caused her to die. It was some sort of nut, but as Steven pointed out in a later comment here, peanuts are a legume.
- Rochelle
Schools in the uk have in some cases banned any peanut products from the school, including childs own lunch boxes! What next ban the cars from the road outside? A sense of proportion is needed here. Another case of the world gone mad I think.
- Rob Brammeld
Rob, my high school was the same because of the girl I mentioned. If she was even in a room where someone had eaten nut products an hour earlier, she would have a reaction. She didn't have to actually consume them herself for her to have the reaction. It was really sad.
- Rochelle
Haha great piece if it wasn't so anti-factual. A friend of mine has a kid with a peanut allergy. He's 2 years old and already been hospitalized twice. The first time was when they found out what he had - the second he grabbed a candy bar from a friend at a birthday party when nobody was looking.
- Tony Maro
Of course, people are missing the point.Anecdotes are well and good, but the fact is, we have all these people running around claiming to allergic to this or that, when the reality is there is a much smaller number are actually are allergic to these items.
- Anika
My son is allergic to casein and gluten, but not to nuts and his allergies aren't life threatening. They cause eczema and alter his behavior among other things. I am amazed at the number of kids who have nut allergies, because I don't recall a single one from my childhood.
- RAPatton
Anika: True, and hey, since only 1 in 100,000 will die, who cares? It's not your kid. <<sarcasm>> The thing is, it's PREVENTABLE. Justification for NOT saving a child's life is that you may not get peanuts at school? Think about that.
- Tony Maro
The point of Stein's article is that Yuppies want so much to be the focus of some kind of attention that they'll have fake allegeries to do it. He's clear that it's not everyone. I have several food and textile allergies, but I don't go out of my way to make everyone not have pork, pickles or latex around me.
- Anika
Anika, someone having a pickle around you will not cause an allergy, will it? Do you have to actually eat the pickle? For some people with severe allergies, like the nut girl I mentioned earlier, even being in the same room with it will cause a reaction. That's the difference.
- Rochelle
Personally I think it's good to have more disclosure about our food sources. I developed an allergy to pistachios at work one day. It was a really frightening experience. Since then I stay away from walnuts and pistachios, the rest of the nuts are fine for me. I'd been eating pistachios all my life till one day something flipped and my body decided I'm allergic to them.
- Bjorn Stromberg
I'm bothered by the people who claim allergies rather than say they just don't like something, because it makes those of us with allergies look like we're just crying wolf. Especially someone like me, who's allergic to SO MANY THINGS (and like Bjorn mentioned, sometimes I'll just suddenly have a reaction to something that's never bothered me before).
- Nine
Warning, this article contains a protein that made my immune system overreact and throw me into shock. Lucky I had my SUV shaped epipen handy.
- Todd Hoff
All people are born with a lactose intolerance because we were never meant to drink the milk of another animal. However, most people develop a tolerance by being exposed to a little at a time. Sometimes we become allergic to things by overexposure or a biological change we go through. If the anti-bodies that fought off your reaction to a food disappear at age 30, you just developed a late in life allergy. It happens all the time.
- Greg Tarnoff
Maybe the issue isn't a mutation so much as it's parental overprotectiveness preventing juvenile immune systems from developing normally. There's a study that says kids in homes with two or more pets are far less likely to develop asthma, probably because their bodies are forced to deal with all sorts of bacteria, etc. at an early age. Similarly, the overuse of anti-bacterial cleaners and other things means kids are exposed to far less in the home than they were in the past. IOW we are MAKING kids weaker.
- The original Kevin
++++ Kevin
- FFing Enigma
I'm still not exactly sure why my kid can't bring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school. When I was a kid we brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to school all the time. It seems odd to me, perhaps a little hyper-prevention -- if you're allergic to nuts, don't eat nuts, but what do I know.
- Thomas Hawk
what's the definitive difference between an intolerance, a reaction and an allergy?
- JoEllen
JoEllen: An allergy is the fast (within minutes) immune system reaction with IgE type antibodies. A sensitivity is the the slower (days or weeks) reaction from your IgG type antibodies. IgE causes anaphylaxis, rashes, itching, swelling, and other discomfort, while IgG reactions can range from headaches and pimples to internal tissue damage. There are other types of antibodies, as well, and most are quite mysterious in purpose and function. The complete human immune system is *incredibly* complex.
- Adam Collins
Pointing out that hypochondriacs and egotists exist, and yes exploit an issue more recognized today than just 30 years ago does not a yuppie invention make. I have always had a peanut allergy (moderate severity), so I know living with this first hand. Incidentally, if you can't eat M & Ms (even the "plain" have shards of peanuts) try Smarties - popular in Canada/UK). What's really annoying, though is within the last year I suddenly developed an allergic response to raw apple and pears - ahh! - I love those.
- Micah
supposedly it is possible to put apples and pears in the microwave a short amount of time which does not cook them but makes them ok for people with allergies. Don't remember where I read this but I remembered because I have a family member with an apple and birch pollen allergy (they supposedly go together often)
- Iphigenie
the "yuppie invention" is paranoia about children - rather than nut allergy. There are pedophile predators in every tree, and dangerous beasts under every grass blade, and dangerous poisoning in every dish, and not to forget the trillions of horrible germs... yes, it is very probable that some people think their child is allergic to nuts because the kid got indigestion on something with nuts - but peanut allergy is real. It is not common, but it can be deadly rather fast, unlike many other allergies.
- Iphigenie
I did not mean to be dismissive of the fact for some people this is a serious life threatening condition. I remember listening to a mother whose child had a milk allergy. She met with all the nursery staff, put a badge on everything her child wore there but still a temporary member of staff gave them a milk based cereal and the subsequent reaction led to the child dying. As a father I can only begin to imagine what that loss must feel like. I cried.
- Rob Brammeld
And keep in mind, Joel Stein is a satirical writer. He's 99.999999% unfunny, but this article was hilarious.
- Anika
Joelle, thank you for that microwaving tip! Btw, I have a blog post about the microwave oven coming out soon. *must finish*
- Micah
The article I orginally found was in french but here's a similar link, possibly based on the same original information http://health.usnews.com/article... Let me know if it works as my dad was too chicken to try
- Iphigenie
Greg Tarnoff, all people are *not* born with lactose intolerance. If that were true humans would have died off because breast milk contains lactose. A lot of people *develop* lactose intolerance. That has absolutely *nothing* to do with life threatening food allergies, though. Once a person is lactose intolerant it is life-long.
- Lisa
The comparison Stein made with being struck by lightning unfortunately isn't a very good one. Unlike the remote chance of being struck by lightning The Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network published research showing that the average person with life threatening food allergies has one reaction requiring the epi pen and a trip to the ER every few years. Once a reaction starts there is *no* way to tell how severe it will become. An epi pen is not a guarantee of survival so each reaction can be quite scary.
- Lisa
Continuing the above--in the past 5 years my son who has multiple life threatening food allergies has had 3 severe reactions and many other moderate and minor reactions. So, using the epi pen or having my son have a potentially life threatening reaction isn't some remote, theoretical thing. It is something that hangs over our heads daily.
- Lisa
People can have serious reactions to touching contaminated surfaces and then touching their eyes, nose or mouth. My son had a serious reaction to peanuts from playing with some Plah-Doh that other children had previously touched after eating. I had no way to know the Play-Doh was contaminated. It isn't as simple as just not eating a given food. There are people who have died from touching contaminated surfaces and then touching their eyes, nose or mouth.
- Lisa
Thomas, I've known a couple of kids who had the lethal kind of peanut allergy. Like ADHD, I think there is an element of overdiagnosis and an element of advancement in diagnostic techniques. It's such a scary thing...but I have more allergies today than I did growing up. Not sure if it's a function of age or being more used to smog than pollen.
- Karoli
This guy is an idiot who hasn't got the slightest idea what he's talking about.
- dpurrington
Just because I have to eat the pickle to have a reaction doesn't mean the other items I listed and those I didn't can't be around me. That's nitpicking. Kevin seems to be the only one to get the gist of the article. And I agree with Ninth, people who claim allergies do make it harder on those of us who do.
- Anika
What bugs me most is the helicopter parent who makes sure that no dairy/nuts/gluten things are served because little Addison is allergic to all of that, yet looks at me puzzled when I say that I can't eat pork (or any of the 70 items that trigger my latex allergy) and say, "Well, can't you just pick it out or eat around it?"
- Anika
@mvandenberg me too. the hovercrafters drive me nuts.
- Karoli
Anika, I think the point was that for you there isn't a danger being around your allergens. You have to actually eat them to react. For many, esp those allergic to peanuts and nuts because they are super potent allergens, touching contaminated surfaces and then touching eyes, nose or mouth can cause a serious, even potentially life-threatening reaction. My link above--the allergymoms one is about a tragic death caused by contact ingestion in a child who didn't eat his allergens but touched something w/..
- Lisa
To the people who think this is some kind of invention or mass hysteria: what you're saying is plausible but has no basis in fact. Once you present some facts of your own, you may then challenge personal stories as mere anecdotes. Here are a couple of facts from the other side: my child has tested positive for nut allergies. Also, each reaction is more severe than the prior one, which is why people are so cautious.
- dpurrington
Part of this seems to be due to skin tests that have a high false positive rate. Could it be that testing has simply increased significantly since 1997? http://www.unsw.edu.au/news...
- Ken Sheppardson
Interesting article Ken. Thanks for sharing.
- dpurrington
i know someone who died from his non-existent peanut allergy. fyi
- @baratunde
"A study of Jews of similar demographics and genetics in Britain and Israel found that British kids were 10 times more likely to have peanut allergies than Israelis. That's probably because Israeli kids have other things to be afraid of."
- Frances Haugen
How would you answer this interesting question i got in an email?... I was asked.."I have a blog i just started, only done 5 post so far, had a few visits and thats it, what should i do to get visits?... I asked what the blog was about...he just said...anything .. :o/
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Yeah, um... He needs to write stuff. I mean, what's the time for those 5 posts, a week? A month?
- FFing Enigma
he said over the last month... so i guess december.,.. he wont share the link lol... he is embarassed so... :o/ odd.. he did say two of the post were poems... I already told him, keep going, write more, if possble at leat two post a week. :o) but what traffic tips for someone so "new". :o/
- Rob Sellen :o)
Tell him to stop looking for attention and: 1) go out and do something interesting; 2) write about it, with pictures if possible; 3) go back to step one ;-)
- Adam Collins
ya know that is pretty great advice lol.. nice one adam! :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
'Safest' seat remarks get Muslim family kicked off plane - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Muslim family removed from an airliner Thursday after passengers became concerned about their conversation say AirTran officials refused to rebook them, even after FBI investigators cleared them of wrongdoing. Atif Irfan said federal authorities removed eight members of his extended family and a friend after passengers heard them discussing the safest place to sit and misconstrued the nature of the conversation. Irfan, a U.S. citizen and tax attorney, said he was "impressed with the professionalism" of the FBI agents who questioned him, but said he felt mistreated when the airline refused to book the family for a later flight. AirTran Airways late Thursday said they acted properly and that the family was offered full refunds and can fly with AirTran again.
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
Sounds like they were "properly" discriminated against. Good show. EDIT: realized that my sarcasm may not come through the tubes properly.
- Adam Collins
Good people need to realize to watch what they say on planes!
- Brandy Lea
fear causes many problems.
- MikeAmundsen
Brandy: Or else what? Is there to be no discussion of safety while on an airplane?
- Brian Johns
Damn. Just imagine if this family tried to take night photographs in Long Beach.
- Thomas Hawk
Racial profiling at it's best. I've had this same discussion *many* times with friends whilst flying. Never had this happen to me.
- Glen Solsberry
As a flight attendant I listen to what people say and how they are saying it. If it sounded somewhat like a threat then I would have taken them off the plane too. Its obvious that something seemed suspicious. People don't understand the dangers of flying what so ever and not to joke around with stupid comments while on a plane.
- Brandy Lea
You want to discuss safety on an airplane? I bet you are the first not to pay attention to the demonstration that the flight attendants do on all the safety features on the aircraft.
- Brandy Lea
It's not that I don't respect the attendants for having raised suspicions and reporting what they heard. But denying them transit after the FBI has specifically cleared them as being safe just shows poor corporate judgment. That's when the safety argument breaks down and it starts to look like discrimination. And don't get me started about Security Theater as interpreted by the TSA and the airlines. The flight attendants are _not_ what bugs me about the whole thing.
- Brian Johns
It might have been poor judgment but we have only heard part of the facts and it does say that they did get full refunds and that they can fly with that airline again. People on the later flights might have heard what happened earlier that day and didn't want them on the flight and instead of having a full flight with 100 some people flipping out. It could have been a good choice for the families safety not to get on the flight. People are crazy and I am talking in general!
- Brandy Lea
How could discussing safety be deemed a threat? Obviously somebody who was planning to destroy the plane wouldn't be concerned about where to sit.
- Gabe
The way they said it could have made it sounded like a threat! If they didn't want to die then yea they would be concerned.
- Brandy Lea
But they were talking among themselves. What could they have possibly said that sounds like a threat?
- Gabe
Feynman and the Train - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Beautiful !! the master professor...
- SnakeDoc
I love, and have always loved this man. What a guy!
- Todd Brunner
from twhirl
curiosity is such a powerful thing
- MikeAmundsen
Feynman has to be one of the most interesting people
- Adam Collins
Did you know that Feynman's job in the Manhattan project was to be in charge of the computers?
- Gabe
Spotify, An Alternative to Music Piracy | TorrentFreak - http://torrentfreak.com/spotify...
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"The music industry has taken some extreme measures to counter piracy, but it hasn’t found the silver bullet yet. The key is to come up with a service that will fulfill the needs of music lovers, and one that would even be embraced by the most hardcore pirate. With Spotify, this might just become possible."
- Chris Messina
from Mento
looks interesting but as it doesn't yet work in the U.S. not sure how well it will work for me.
- Thomas Hawk
A sensible looking solution to online music? Has to be illegal in the US. Yep, it is.
- Adam Collins
Spotify is fantastic. This has seriously prevented me from downloading music that I would have other wise pirated. The enormous selection of music is hard to beat and the software is smooth and pleasing. They just need to work out the regional issues.
- Brandon Titus
“I won’t support IE 6 in 2009″ - http://ajaxian.com/archive...
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http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa... : In really rough numbers, IE 6 has been losing about 20 points per year. That's freefall! Just take a look at that line and what it represents and then ask yourself, "what can I do to kill off IE 6?"
- arjo
Hear hear.
- Adam Collins
I'd love nothing more than to drop IE6 support, but as a library/tool developer, I have little choice but to support it, at least through another year or so. Graphs like this are usually either from a single site, or from a wide variety of sites, and fail to capture the fact that high percentages of corporate users are still on IE6, which makes it strictly required for a lot of products.
- Joel Webber
I'd love to drop IE6 support. But I need to keep my job.
- Toni @ NavinoT
any freelancer should totally do this
- Dustin
oh, but i think apple already started doing this though too.
- Dustin
Can we change this to "won't support IE7?" IE6 is not the only irritation.
- Ray Cromwell
30GB Zunes mysteriously begin to fail at 12AM, December 31st -- day of reckoning to follow - http://www.engadget.com/2008...
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Gotta love the fact that some people will be reading this on an iPhone or iPod touch.
- Adam Collins
Uh oh... my 120GB fired up fine this morning. Hope my 30 survived. EDIT: Yup, my 30 is bricked. /sigh
- John Denver
Hey! This happened to my 30 last night! "Hard reset" isn't really possible on these as they have no reset button, but you're supposed to be able to hold down "back" and "up" until they reset. Mine didn't, so I left it for the battery to drain overnight. We'll see if it starts up. You'll hear it here on FriendFeed first if/when it does. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
So as expected, mine was fully drained this morning. Plugged it in and got the full screen power plug icon indicating it's charging/plugged in. Went away for 20-30 minutes, came back, and it's once again stuck on the Zune logo screen and won't respond to keypresses. Maybe this is MS's way of generating buzz for a Zune phone the week before CES.
- Ken Sheppardson
Confused. The conventional wisdom is that Microsoft can't give Zunes away -- so this isn't really affecting anybody, right? Either it's no big deal, or maybe the conventional wisdom is... wrong?
- Sprague D
HA! Mark.
- Eric
@Mark Someone told me that if you play "Undercover Angel" on a Zune with the volume turned all the way down you can hear Cheney saying, "I am your father, Luke."
- Sprague D
Mark: This sorta makes me all happy, because if all goes well this thing will stay a brick and I can finally trash it and justify going back to a Creative Zen and Rhapsody. Woohoo!!
- Ken Sheppardson
Someone stole a Zune 30?!?? This is THE sign of the economic times we live in. Apple fanboys: "Your Pippin is no longer safe!"
- Trae Ruge
Hmm, I heard this was related to the handling of leap seconds in the firmware...
- Tyson Key
Yeah!!! Zune fail bigtime!!
- Drew Lucas
EPIC FAIL...gees M$ has become a giant FAIL company... *sigh*
- Susan Beebe
my, my. such a large amount of schadenfreude.
- Michael Markman
It's sure not great PR for them. It can be overcome if they are transparent about the problem and supply an easy fix for users. Apple has had their share of PR fails with the iPod too. My daughter was ready to strangle someone when her s/w update couldn't be downloaded after they charged her TWICE for it.
- Karoli
Adam I'm reading this on my iPod touch. :)
- Tony Speer
So it was some sort of date glitch, and they'll start working again tomorrow. Why am I disappointed...
- Ken Sheppardson
I can't believe it's almost Macworld/CES time again. What are you guys and gals hoping to see this year?
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I like to see an apple netbook like mac. Also some more devices using android OS
- Fee501st
I'd like to see Apple sell a netbook so I'm able to afford a Mac.
- Sylvain Nadeau
I'd like to see more Android devices.
- Mattie Kenny
An Apple netbook style device and the mythical iPhone Nano - the latter not because I want one, would just like to see the iPhone range start extending some ...
- Patrick Jordan
a 32gb iPhone
- Hobbsy
I think i see a trend here ;)
- Fee501st
I asked the same question the other day on socialmedian. The consensus was an a netbook, or improving Apple TV. I want an iTablet;-)
- Michael Fidler
I have the original Mac Mini hooked up to my TV and it is getting time for something new to fill that role. Waiting to see if Apple does *anything* at all with the ATV or the Mini.
- Michael Pardee
@Michael Fidler: Oh man a Itablet would be awesome. didn't think of that!
- Fee501st
I hope to see some new battery technologies debuted at CES. Re: "netbook", Psion owns that word and is sending letters to those who are using it on websites and products. Apple is finally getting away from the forced product announcements every January. They will release products when they are ready and on their own terms. At the keynote, expect an update on the progress of 10.6 and possibly a long overdue update to the Mac Mini.
- Mike Shulman
Mac with *touch* screen technology like my iPhone (Michael's iTablet idea sounds great!)
- Susan Beebe
I'd like to see more netbooks, ebook readers, and android devices.
- imabonehead
Wow, check this eReader out ...full screen w/ touch ---> http://www.technologyreview.com/computi... and here http://www.plasticlogic.com/
- Susan Beebe
Moar android devices, plz.
- Jonathan Hardesty
I'm hoping to see anything nice (to justify not purchasing for the holidays)
- Adam Collins
+1 Susan, Plastic Logic is going to have a great product, I think... assuming they don't price it at $599 :-D
- Karim
Cheaper OLED TV's!
- Jason Wong
more android!
- Mr. Gunn
An even faster apple workstation with the next generation FireWire. An even better large format Epson or Canon printer. I suppose if I ran into Veronica it wouldn't ruin my Macworld.
- Jim Goldstein
I had the opportunity to go to several COMDEX shows, but 2009 will be my first CES. I want to find more devices using Android OS / Google Chrome browser.
- Julio F ~ @SocialJulio
Differently a Mac netbook or tablet...
- John Spencer
Too much Mac/netbook here... need to see something really innovative in getting IP and Broadcast video sources together in the home so ordinary people get a wider view.
- Ian D. Nock
I just wanna see you Veronica. Realistically though, I'd like to see an 8" Mini MacBook.
- Brad Stolba
for CES...affordable LCD TVs that are larger than 52"!
- Mark Krynsky
Ian +1. How about a wireless way to make all these audio and video components talking? The beginning of the end for cabling?
- Michael Pardee
I'm getting pretty interested to see what Palm produces at CES
- Jay
Nothing...these shows are so irrelevant these days. All you see are the latest LCDs that are pretty much just like last year's LCD HDTVs. I don't really care how good something looks on the demo floor...it's how it performs at home that counts.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Westerlund 2: A Stellar Sight on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Just one of the many X-Ray astrographs from the Smithsonian.
- Adam Collins
Linus on C++. Wow. - http://lwn.net/Article...
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"C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, even if the choice of C were to do *nothing* but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. "
- Dion Almaer
That almost exactly mirrors a PHP vs. Python argument I've heard many times.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Hahahaha! Awesome.
- Dustin
I wonder how he feels about Objective-C...
- Adam Collins
What Financial Crises Reveal About the Real Nature of Money - http://blog.stealthmode.com/2008...
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Interesting, Francine, that you added the descriptive of "jewish" to Madoff. Why did you consider that relevant?
- eggsy
The charities that were destroyed were not about "attachment." Greed begets gambles. It is not for nothing Madoff is called a "confidence man."
- Phil Boiarski
Too often, the concept of money is implied or simply stated as "money = value." A more useful (and technically accurate) concept is "money = motivation." We need more people like you who find motivation outside of money.
- Adam Collins
Hmm. To the extent that value (or motivation) is fungible, then money = value (or motivation). To the extent that fungible things can be traded, it is useful to have an abstract medium of exchange. But not all value and motivation is, in fact, fungible.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I look at it slightly differently. When generating money you control is your intended outcome - you make bad choices. I prefer to focus on the outcome and assume that if I can achieve those, the money part just kinda takes care of itself.
- Brian Roy
Madoff's folly is exactly why spouse-the-investment-manager does not have any discretion over client funds. Every single transaction has to come from them. He may recommend, but no signing privileges. That way there is absolutely no question about where $ is, where it goes.
- Karoli
PapaMurphys - http://www.papamurphys.com/public...
Prepared, but uncooked pizzas at a good price.
- Adam Collins
RubyForge: Welcome - https://rubyforge.org/
Home of my Interpolate gem
- Adam Collins
Web 2.0 buttons maker - http://www.mycoolbutton.com/
You can create a web 2.0 button in only 4 steps. You can paint your button with preloaded web 2.0 icons or upload your personal icon and customize the font of the text inserted. Enjoy with php, gd2 and Photoshop base button and jquery ajax powered. Hos...
- Adam Collins
Mac OS X Software Updates and Mac OS X Downloads - VersionTracker - http://versiontracker.com/
VersionTracker is your source for Mac OS X software downloads, reviews, and software updates for all Mac commercial, shareware and freeware programs.
- Adam Collins
The Fink Team wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. We modify Unix software so that it compiles and runs on Mac OS X and make it available for download as a coherent distribution
- Adam Collins
Fink Tracker - http://sourceforge.net/tracker...
The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications
- Adam Collins
WSDOT Seattle Area Traffic - http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic...
Seattle Area Traffic Cameras
- Adam Collins
DesignMyRoom - Home - http://www.designmyroom.com/Default...
Looks pretty polished.
- Adam Collins
The Spanner - http://www.thespanner.co.uk/2007...
A tool for designers dealing with programmers dealing with designers…
- Adam Collins
iCalShare - http://icalshare.com/index...
iCalShare is the largest directory of shared calendars on the web, with over 1500 calendars in more than 35 different categories.
- Adam Collins
OpenBSD 101 - http://www.openbsd101.com/
A tutorial for first time users of OpenBSD.
- Adam Collins
YouTube - Olberman: Commander in Chiefs Credibility - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Nice and concise.
- Adam Collins
The Phrontistery - http://phrontistery.info/
English obscure words and etymology resources: online dictionary of weird and unusual words, word lists, technical vocabulary aids, lipograms, and word related essays
- Adam Collins
craigslist: seattle-tacoma - http://seattle.craigslist.org/
craigslist provides local classifieds and forums for jobs, housing, for sale, personals, services, local community, and events
- Adam Collins
I love it! It's Korean, BTW, not Japanese. More at sambakza.net.
- Adam Collins
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