"MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin spent much of his annual question-and-answer televised exchange on Thursday seeking to reassure Russians that the effects of the global economic crisis on the country would be minimal. He also denied increased speculation that he might seek an early return to the presidency." - Jonathan Le Plastrier
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Ah yes, the annual Putin Telethon. Much like the Jerry Lewis Telethon, only with more lies and slightly less philanthropy. - Jonathan Le Plastrier
"it is not the time to talk of such things as the presidency..." - Robin Barooah
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The text on the front page of the Times reads "Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin spent much of his annual question-and-answer telethon seeking to reassure Russians about the country’s economy." - Jonathan Le Plastrier
"So there you have it. If you want to achieve 50 years of almost continuous growth, you now know what you have to do: abolish management and get rid of all the employees." - Paul Buchheit
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cause and effect are not what they seem, in one sense there have never been managers and employers, they have all been sailing to the same wind, not caused by any of them - Gregory Lent
What's interesting is that they were sustainably this way for 50 years. My theory is that this can only happen if you grow slowly (i.e., not at VC-funded rates) - Piaw Na
off-topic: If you change the authorised = false to true in the URL, you don't have to register to read the article. Just a time and hassle saver if anyone's interested. :} - vijay
"It would be interesting to do a comparison with a solution that included MobileMe. Granted that it's a laughing stock, but it does a bunch of useful things that people generally don't consider: - Pushes contacts and calendar events to the iphone (I am not aware of an alternative for this) - Creates a 'instant vpn' with back-to-my-mac. I don't know how many people use this, but I have been pretty impressed. - Syncs Safari contacts. I used to use weave - which works very nicely - but I prefer Safari to Firefox. - Syncs Keychains - this one is very nice. Having the web passwords that I entered on my desktop available on my laptop is surprisingly cool. Even more useful has been having wifi keys magically present on all my machines. I am very unhappy with iDisk though. Sync mode is completely unusable, and so it's basically just a WebDav. I have switched to the fantastic DropBox instead. On the topic of DropBox - FolderShare used to do almost all of what DropBox does (and some things that..." - Robin Barooah
"“The grid system is an aid, not a guarantee. It permits a number of possible uses and each designer can look for a solution appropriate to his personal style. But one must learn how to use the grid; it is an art that requires practice.” Josef Müller-Brockmann" - sara
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“Does anyone have any recommendations for the best coffee timer? I'm looking for something easy to use, that doesn't need the countdown time to be reset each time.”
I just ordered this: http://www.espressoparts.com/p... EspressoParts is not the cheapest place to buy them but they were there to pick up the phone get a timer in front of them and answer all of my questions about it. - Robin Barooah
I'm using a vac-pot to make my coffee. It turns out that a key factor in the quality of the results is how much time the coffee is in contact with the water after all of the water is in the top flask and before I take the heat away. I've been using the timer on my microwave to time it (about 1:20), but that is no good if the microwave is actually being used for cooking! Also, I want to start experimenting with it a bit more systematically. - Robin Barooah
"Well, I agree that it may not be passé yet, but I think that's where we're going, and I don't see apple building infrastructure for wired syncing because they will then be encumbered with supporting that model for years to come, furthermore it will expose them to buggy conduits etc. that will reduce the perception that the iPhone 'just works'. I. for a while lived a slightly more nomadic lifestyle than you, wherein I could only sync with my 'desktop' computer about once a week, even though I had an apple laptop with me most of the time. MobileMe made a massive difference to my experience under those conditions, and the ability to enter an appointment on the laptop and have confidence that it would appear on the phone changes the way I feel about the technology. The iPhone continues the iPod model of having a one-way flow of media from the computer to the device. From this perspective, apps are treated as just another kind of media that the iPhone 'plays'. One may quibble with this by..." - Robin Barooah
Before clicking through, the first thing that popped into my head was "it had better be as thin as the iPhone, and my guess is that it is not". It would seem that felix had the same thought. - Robin Barooah
Is that blood on the keyboard? Oh no, my eyes must be playing tricks on me - Jonathan Le Plastrier
Does this mean that Putin has a Macbook Pro? Or maybe the dual quad core tower? - sara
do not concern yourself with the affairs of Mr Putin because he has not been the president since Mr Medvedev was elected by the Russian people. - Robin Barooah
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If you know the methods, the names of the people involved, then let them send a letter to the Apple Computers. - Jonathan Le Plastrier
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Glad to see you finally got on the train. Have you tried the interactive add mode where you can add a patch, hunk by hunk? Seems like something you could dig. - Jonathan Le Plastrier
Haven't played with any fancy bits yet. Getting all 3 gigs of MSOY repository into GIT-land has taken a lot of time. Now I'm learning to love the branch. - Michael
Wow - are you seriously considering a switch for MSOY? That would be super-cool (as they say in france). - Robin Barooah
I don't think we'd ever switch the primary repository (and I don't think it necessarily makes sense for such a non-distributed-project), but I'm experimenting with using git-svn so that I can maintain multiple pending feature branches since I frequently end up working on many things at once. - Michael
It looks like someone might be working on a Bamboo GIT plugin as well. - Jonathan Le Plastrier
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"Yes, too much crack. I agree with you that syncing is a problem for the iphone, and that every app having it's own wifi based sync application isn't the answer, however neither is the palm solution. I used palms for years and used handDbase for invoicing as a contractor and later a treo300, and at the time it was by far the best solution, but those days are over. Firstly the 30,000 apps are really out of date and unappealing. Not just aesthetically, but in terms of usability and functionality. Secondly, desktop apps may not be passé but syncing directly with the desktop over a cable certainly is. The favored solution for the iphone is to sync both the desktop app and the device with the cloud. Apple themselves are moving in this direction with MobileMe (implementation issues aside), the mobile app store, and itunes on the device. Omnifocus is a great example of taking this approach. The main reason why this is taking time to emerge is that developing the backend takes different..." - Robin Barooah
Good, so far! Having some issues with the dosage of coffee, but still experimenting. - Veronica
very interesting - would you say it's better than a beehouse and paper filter? (like they use for drip at blue-bottle) ? - Robin Barooah
I wouldn't say better... similar principle. Blue Bottle Mint Plaza sells the Chemex, and the barista recommended it to me as well (I got mine on Amazon). - Veronica
This looks like my coffee setup I use when camping. :-) - Jenny R.
You know, I never really had a good answer for the old 'What do you want for Christmas' question . . . (cue Jeremy Clarkson Voice) until now. - sara
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"It’s hard to see how this posting has any accuracy at all. Searchwiki is opt-out by default - you only see those comments if you scroll to the bottom and click “show all comments”. Furthermore that isn’t a toggle. Next time you search for the same thing, you don’t see the comments unless you scroll to the bottom again.
What exactly would an off button do that isn’t already done by default?" - Robin Barooah
I wonder if electricity costs have risen or whether that's just gouging the tenants. - Robin Barooah
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before the summer they raised the washing machine to 1.95 here, but lowered the dryer to 1.05 (so same price overall), I thought it was to screw people who air-dry their clothes, but they haven't changed it back yet. - Brian
got one report that says the best thing about the new bond movie was the star trek trailer... - felix
That's not untrue; but it's really a testament to how fantastic the Star Trek trailer was. It would have been the best thing on a lot of movies. (The Bond movie is actually pretty good) - James Williams (willia4)
Wow that looked great - or was it just the tension building music? - Robin Barooah
“*Credit card checks* - If you have not already done so, call your bank immediately and insist that they stop sending them to you. My significant other has just spent the last hour dealing with a charge resulting from one being stolen from her mailbox.”
and people are worried about 'socialized medicine'?? - Robin Barooah
The US doesn't just own the land, it manages it. Just to put the figure into perspective, the Department of the Interior owns one out of every five acres in the US! I found that to be pretty surprising... - Ryan
They've been doing a heck of a job "managing" Groom Lake out there in Nevada. They've been managing to make a lot of holes. - Jonathan Le Plastrier
With a name like the "Buffalo Commons", I don't see this happening anytime soon. - Casey Muller
