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Sure it gives faster results and will get better and more accurate as years progress. But to hype it to a point where people think its the next big thing is ludicrous. There was the AMD vs Intel processor speed wars. Did it really matter to 90% of the users? If i have to type [...]
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A 2008 video. While the others have beaten Opera to it, they did come out with it first! I think i promote Opera a little too much now! Bookmark It
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Say a BIG THANK YOU on their 17th birthday! There is no philosophy or politics or any other shit here … just plain STABLE software! … update: just upgraded to squeeze from lenny. Since squeeze is still ‘testing’ i had to do a bit of removal and addition of applications. Result a gnome install with [...]
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US generally has been a consumer oriented society; this means people consume more than they can produce. This is actually an interesting premise. We are now talking about consuming goods versus producing them. Now consuming by its very nature is limited by a boundary of limitation of resource to consume more. Whether its food grain [...]
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From comments at /. You have to design the car so that the user doesn’t get the idea of looking into the fuel tank with a lighter, or if he does get that idea, that he can’t do it. No matter how silly it sounds. This is why our society works, because we can safely [...]
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An entire book can be written about my dumb mistakes. Like the time when i always had a risk reward ratio of 0.5. Which means if i target a profit of 100 my stop loss is at 200. So for every 100 i hope to gain, my risk is always double my potential gain. I [...]
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The comments on this post at Smashing Apps has me irritated. Firefox and Chrome Fanboys keep yelling with the utmost of ignorance. People keep yapping about tabs, about addons and about features which Opera has had for years and years. Opera Browser Features So just to get things straight. Opera introduced tabs to the world. [...]
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I have never really been a big fan of social networking. I quite think that this is a fad which is going to or aleady has suck up a lot of investor capital and then go bust! Its only a matter of time. Foursquare raising another round of funding with a particular two paragraphs caught [...]
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Forget what the critics and the “I only follow critics” people say. Its a good movie; Watch it! You will be glad you did! Bookmark It
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Thank god i have Ubuntu on my home machine. I can’t use my copy of Windows if i buy a new Motherboard according to this guy. Why hasn’t anyone sued them for this? If i buy a car, am not “allowed” to turbo charge it, add radial wheels, convert to CNG and its illegal for [...]
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