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marco, referencing this.

yes, it seems silly, but you are not considering the large amount of people that LIKE this stuff. seriously.

my mom (and others who are not of the internet generation) LIKE when boxes pop up that tell them what is going on. the annoying vista dialogue boxes that we are so quick to disable? they help her use the computer, as they are intended to do. i know multiple people (who are not related to me) who have shared similar sentiments.

they are insulting to you, because you ‘get it’, but not everyone does. and yeah, apple doesn’t do stuff like this. that’s cool. apple has its own market of hip, in-the-know people. in response to that, my mom looks at mac desktops with bewilderment. apple is actually arrogant enough to just assume they are so awesome that people will ‘figure it out’.

disclaimer: i am not saying microsoft is super-happy-awesome, but windows isn’t as shitty as everyone makes it out to be.

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lickystickypickyme:

Researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have created a special paint which can block out wireless signals. The paint, which could cost as little at £10 per kilogram, contains an aluminium-iron oxide which resonates at the same frequency as wi-fi – or other radio waves – meaning the airborne data is absorbed and blocked. While paints blocking lower frequencies have been available for some time, this new technology is the first to absorb frequencies transmitting as high as 100GHz (gigahertz). Signals carrying a larger amount of data – such as wireless internet – travel at a higher frequency than, for example, FM radio.

The paint has a number of interesting potential applications including: keeping wireless networks secure, blocking phone calls during movies, shielding hospital rooms from unwanted electromagnetic radiation, and making clothes that protect people from electromagnetic waves.

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lickystickypickyme:

I personally don’t, but I find people who can handle code sexy. FYI

interesting!

vb:

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bildungsroman:

This is the cover of last week’s TIME magazine, which ironically enough, showed up in my mailbox Friday (European delivery is a bit behind the U.S.). While the article itself is quite insightful at times, most of it reads like a reluctant love story between the author and the microblogging service: at first he resisted the wooing, but then he let his guard down and the coy vixen wormed its way into his heart and iPhone.

But more importantly, surely there are far more important things to put on the front page of an international newsmagazine - like the slow death of the newsmagazine, perchance?

just to remind!

dubliner:

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only one question: 16, 32 or 64Kbytes?