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This staples editor responsible for this 25” LCD product...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:47:17 -0700

This staples editor responsible for this 25” LCD product listing revels in ignorance.

Protip, wikipedia says: “Response time is the amount of time a pixel in an LCD monitor takes to go from one value to another and back again. It is measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower numbers mean faster transitions and therefore fewer visible image artifacts.”

Hilarious dumbassery.

Kit vs. Extract vs. All-grain Brewing

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:04:00 -0800

Kit vs. Extract vs. All-grain Brewing

http://www.etradesupply.com/blog/lg-nexus-4-tougher-screen/

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:14:13 -0800

http://www.etradesupply.com/blog/lg-nexus-4-tougher-screen/

Why I own an LG Optimus G.

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:13:40 -0800

jrl290 gets it, comment from http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/14/rough-hack-converts-an-optimus-g-to-a-nexus-4/

“At current, the AT&T and Sprint LG Optimus G are not supported by CM10. CM generally waits for manufacturer released Jelly Bean drivers so that time is not wasted engineering drivers that will soon be released anyway.

LGOG and Nexus do not run the same operating system: one is ICS, the other JB. Having access to Nexus updates means being the first to get the latest Android features.

This hack is not the whole answer, but it’s a big step in the right direction for the LGOG. Many people bought LGOG because of the similarly to the Nexus 4 (without the glaring limitations of the Nexus 4). This hack is exactly the kind of hope that many people had for the LGOG.”

thx 4 no adblock+, <3 reddit

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 08:39:10 -0700

thx 4 no adblock+,

<3 reddit

crazy 8/16bit RPG collage

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:07:04 -0700

crazy 8/16bit RPG collage

"People who think well, write well. Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters and..."

Sun, 08 Jul 2012 17:06:32 -0700

“People who think well, write well. Woolly minded people write woolly memos, woolly letters and woolly speeches. Good writing is not a natural gift. You have to learn to write well.”

- David Ogilvy – from British Intelligence to the ‘Father of Advertising’ « Clio Publishing (via slantback)

(Final Fantasy games) made-up-words pronunciation was never...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:08:04 -0700

(Final Fantasy games) made-up-words pronunciation was never important (but it is hilarious)

Brewtarget - open source beer brewing software

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:32:26 -0700

Brewtarget - open source beer brewing software

The armed geek | FMP Tech Blog

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:43:18 -0800

The armed geek | FMP Tech Blog

Duff Beer 24 Can Pack

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:48:58 -0800

Duff Beer 24 Can Pack

Fantastic - remixed FFVI characters themes (instrumental)

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:27:19 -0800

Fantastic - remixed FFVI characters themes (instrumental):

Hero Muzik Vol. 1 | Neosonic Productions

The Greatness of Ron Paul - Robert Wright - Politics - The Atlantic

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:50:30 -0800

The Greatness of Ron Paul - Robert Wright - Politics - The Atlantic

Get your TITs here: How to set network device priority in Windows 7

Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:01:05 -0700

Get your TITs here: How to set network device priority in Windows 7:

Something I needed to do recently… W7 seems to, by default, put Wireless devices ahead of wired ethernet; annoying!

truthintech:

1. Click the Start Button

2. Right Click “Network” and then left Click Properties

3. From the “Network And Sharing Center” window click “Change Adapter Settings”

4. On the “Network Connections” window, press the ALT key on your keyboard to being up the menu bar

5. Click the “Advanced”…

boingboing's tribute to steve jobs

Sat, 08 Oct 2011 15:22:34 -0700

boingboing's tribute to steve jobs

"I’d been running for 5 hours and it was getting dark, meanwhile my bowels went..."

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:28:47 -0700

“I’d been running for 5 hours and it was getting dark, meanwhile my bowels went crazy-apeshit-monkey-bananas on me and I wound up spraying poo all over the trail.”

- While training for an Ultra Marathon - The Oatmeal

slantback: Would you still pay a dollar for Honest Tea if you...

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:00:36 -0700

slantback:

Would you still pay a dollar for Honest Tea if you could take it for free? On July 19, the company conducted an Honest Cities social experiment—it placed unmanned beverage kiosks in 12 American cities. There was a box for people to slip a dollar in, but there were no consequences if they did not pay.

Turns out, Americans (or at least Americans who like Honest Tea) are pretty gosh darn honest. Chicago was the most honest city, with 99 percent of people still paying a dollar. New York was the least honest city—only 86 percent coughed up the buck. (via Honest Tea Declares Chicago Most Honest City, New York Least Honest)

One Hour Ago - PHP vs Python

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:04:19 -0700

truthintech:

date(“YmdH”, strtotime(‘1 hour ago’))

vs

datetime.now() - datetime.timedelta(hours=1)).strftime(“%Y%m%d%H”)

Not actually as bad as I had thought.

"…according to Hesse, is that the merger will give AT&T and Verizon a stranglehold on the..."

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:50:46 -0700

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…according to Hesse, is that the merger will give AT&T and Verizon a stranglehold on the cellular market in America. “The industry just won’t be as innovative and as dynamic as it has been,” he said. “It’ll gum up the works when everything has to go through these two big tollbooths, one that’s called AT&T and one that’s called Verizon.”

If the AT&T and T-Mobile merger meets regulatory approval, Sprint will have a hard time competing against the combined company and Verizon when it comes to pricing and snagging the hottest new phones. AT&T, of course, argues that the merger will benefit consumers since it will be able to provide better service. Others like Microsoft, Facebook and certain VC firms have also written letters to the FCC supporting the merger.

Sprint is organizing industry opposition and filed a 377-page dissent with the Federal Communications Commission. The company even tapped its own engineers to show AT&T how to get more capacity from its wireless network so it wouldn’t need to buy T-Mobile.”

[Sprint] is being outspent by AT&T in Washington by more than 12-to-1, so Hesse needs regulator support to pick up the slack. Sprint’s political action committee contributed just $257,500 on federal candidates in 2009 and 2010, AT&T on the other hand contributed $3.26 million
…

Should the merger go through, Sprint likely won’t last very long on its own. At that point, it could get snapped up by Verizon, although that raises even greater regulatory concerns. Perhaps federal regulators will take that possible future into account when it’s weighing the AT&T/T-Mobile deal — but there’s little chance of that happening. It would be difficult to argue that Verizon would definitely end up buying Sprint if the T-Mobile merger occurs.

Right now, it seems more likely that the T-Mobile purchase will be approved.

”

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Sprint CEO doing his damndest to stop AT&T’s T-Mobile purchase

"…offering a cloud platform as a service is not core to Google’s..."

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:58:32 -0700

“…offering a cloud platform as a service is not core to Google’s business….commercial software vendors have little to fear from vendors that produce software primarily for their own use and then opt to secondarily open-source the code. Unless and until the open-sourced code is picked up by one or more vendors whose core business is tied to the project, enterprises will shy away from adopting it.”

- http://m.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/googles-aging-tech-raises-questions-about-relying-google-app-engine-459?page=0,1