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One possibility: By the apps made by Google that are finely tailored for Android. Example is Google Voice.

So Google can indirectly generate money off Android.

Are you referring to Anshe Chung? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshe_Chung

So you never purchase anything online?

I think Twitter and any other social platforms are good for the kind of activism that you stated above.

However for something so revolutionary, it takes more than just being a slacktivist who sits their ass on a comfy chair while doing a 'political reformation'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism

Let's not forget that George W Bush is 2004 Person of the Year.

Anyone here care to give some opinions about Zend PHP Certificate?

Can I know your choice of language in web programming, and why?

If you rotate the favicon of HugeURL by 90 degrees to the left,you'll get the favicon of Foo Hack. Were they made by the same person?

This article can somehow help me to justify why I no longer interested in joining any social networking sites.

9% market share in US only. The edited title here in HN can be misleading.

Why is that the same unicode character, in the same machine, can has two (or maybe more) different designs? Check this screenshot: http://i38.tinypic.com/2pqqntj.jpg

(FF, Windows XP)

Try here: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1186838200

Just USD 7.35. It's a secondhand book, published in 1959!

The website is most probably designed in Mac and the designer forgot that Lucida Sans and Lucida Grande do not exist in Windows by default. Although the Arial and Verdana are also declared in the CSS, however for some weird buggy reason, Windows fails to perfectly render the text in either Arial or Verdana, or any other sans-serif font. That's why it looks like sh*t.

In my Linux, the text seems okay and perfect although my computer lacks any Lucida typefaces.

http://www.newmogul.com/ ?

IMHO, being "memorable" is something objective. Even badly designed logos can become very memorable over time.

"A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence."

This is a correlation, not causation. If you study the period of Islamic Golden Age (comparable to the European Renaissance), you'll find people at that time were highly religious; more religious than the Muslims from this era.

I'm using Ubuntu, Firefox 3.0.3. MooTools is faster than jQuery by 52 ms. But strange enough, Dojo beats MooTools by 144 ms!

(Nanotechnology = Awesome - Swords)?

From the article: "The team from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) found the new number by linking 75 computers and harnessing their unused power. This enabled them to perform the enormous number of calculations needed to find and verify a new prime. "

It's probably just a matter of processing power needed to find that number(s).

Wow, I never knew about this. Is that hard for someone who does not know Lisp and Arc to install it?

Yes I agree. I just want to emphasize the "causation" effect because people here generally dislike piracy but they don't have a choice. The price is so expensive. It's either we pirate it or we don't use it at all.

It's kinda remind me of why the President of Romania told Bill Gates that "piracy helped the young generation discover computers". http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/224452.shtml

If that is true, I'll start questioning why the price of the DVD LOTR Trilogy Extended Editon here, costs us around a third of average monthly salary.

I suspect it is a causation, not correlation. I'm from Malaysia. The cost of Photoshop CS3 Extended here is about 4 times average monthly salary.

This is the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12247590/

Yeah it's true generally. However, check the EULA of Google Desktop: http://desktop.google.com/eula.html

The word "shall" in it can be replaced with "must" to make it more plain.

Edit: This is some of the advice from the article: The use of "shall" creates confusion. To impose a legal obligation, use "must." To predict future action, use "will."

I have a dream. It is a dream that one day EULA will be written in a plain language.

Environmentalists care. The more bloated a software is, the more power it uses, the less greener it becomes.

I have to agree with you. First time I saw the Finder icon, I thought it was a metaphor for an IM application.

It makes me wonder how can he did very well as a scientist, a physicist, an anthropologist, a comparative sociologist, astronomer, a chemist, a critic of alchemy and astrology, an encyclopedist and historian, a geographer and traveller, a geodesist and geologist, a mathematician, a pharmacist and psychologist, an Islamic philosopher and a theologian.

Today, even to become a decent mathematician is not an easy job!

I wonder if the name 'Panda' was inspired from the Sneezing Panda.