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Как убрать полоску LjTimes
Вам надоела панель LjTimes? Она выводит из себя и мешает сосредоточиться на чтении?
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Последний вопрос и можно отправляться в путь!
Вот, помогите решить люди! Есть два варианта добираться из Нижнего Тагила в Питер.
Вариант 1.Летим в Москву на S7, потом на поезде ( Read more... ) -
Apple "stealing" from PARC
It’s funny, every time you mention to people how Apple is innovative and how all Microsoft does is copy them, everyone loves to bring up the Xerox PARC example and how Apple didn’t actually “invent” the GUI. Sure, that might be so, but:- Xerox granted Apple engineers three days of access to the PARC facilities in return for the option to buy 100,000 ( Read more... )
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GPAs and grad school admissions
So since I didn’t get into the CS 5-year MS, I’m reapplying, albeit to a different department. In the process, I started redoing my Cal application, and discovered that my GPA calculations, which I submitted, were actually lower than what was the reality. I’m not sure how much of a difference it would have made, but still ( Read more... ) -
iphone etc
so apple announced the new iphone. wohoo. they also lowered the price on the current model by $100 ( Read more... ) -
voting this tuesday in california: my take
so i mailed my absentee ballot earlier this week and since i feel like i spent good time on picking my choices, i figured i’d let others know how i made them so that i may perhaps help you make a decision. i’ll be touching on just the presidential position and state-level propositions, as those are the only real issues i actually researched.- ( Read more... )
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McCain/Palin vs. Obama/Biden
explain to me again why the former still has any support at all ( Read more... ) -
random quotes
one of these days i’ll start using this like the real journal it was supposed to be... « were we happy tonight because we were happy or because once, a long time back, we had been happy? was our happiness tonight like the light of the moon, which does not come from the moon, for the moon is cold and has no light of its own, but is reflected light ( Read more... ) -
simple math
can someone explain this to me?
The AP says “Clinton Wins California Primary”.
I look at the Secretary of State’s website. It tells me that in the 6 most populous counties of California,† which make up almost 60% of the state’s population combined, only about 9% of precincts are reporting any results at all (keep in mind: these results are not even ( Read more... ) -
why did PDAs die?
the question of why the PDA market completely fell through is one that I think is both interesting and worth considering. about 4 years ago would be the peak of this market, by my cursory and uninformed observations of it. namely, it was in the summer of 2004 that sony pulled out of the PDA market in the US, and less than a year afterward, ceased ( Read more... )
