Archive for August 6th, 2008

Comment on Mayoral Candidate Jon Denison video platform by Bob

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I think it’s fantastic that you’re doing these interviews with the candidates. I watched this Denison interview with great interest, as I have found him to be a curious character in city government. I come away from it with a more

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Comment on The ultimate public-private partnership? by Mark

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

You don’t seem to feel any reticence in supporting it, and I’ve noted that a number of Indigenous leaders are also raising questions. There is naturally nothing at our end stopping any Indigenous people who want to comment on it here

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Comment on Google Takes On Mechanical Turk With Translation Center

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Hi,. I’ma translator at http://onehourtranslation.com and I don’t understand why should I work for free to help Google improve their MT if I can get a per word payment over there? I didn’t do a lot f work yet but It’s very nice to

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Comment on Knowledge Base Article of the Week #34 My Selection is

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Also note that rezzing a whole complex building and trying to rotate it will lead to unpredictable results, since each linkset might just rotate on its own, but not the whole group… Although this is a cheap workaround, you’re safer off

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Comment on Delta Outfitting Entire Domestic Fleet With Aircell’s

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

@John - Good point, but then what would be the reason - security? There’s also the possibility that they’d miss out on revenue from in-flight cell phone usage (if it ever happens). It might stay banned in the States, but Europe looks

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Comment on Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

rumors for a while on the possible acquisition of Digg by the Mountain View behemoth. Yesterday TechCrunch reported that the negotiations should be on the final stage. The price tag is around $200 million, and Digg [...]

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Comment on An Evolving Cultural Curiosity: We Need A Fake Follow

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

This is a pretty solid observation… I like the idea of being able to define a subgroup rather then fake follows. Whats best is that Twitter does not even have to take a risk on development, all they need to do is measure how increasing

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