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Scripting News: Mozilla == Osborne?
june 2011 by nathanperetic
Bingo. Not so much about Mozilla, which is incidental and merely an object lesson, but about being "done." Versioning is a nice touch for OS 10.7. I'm afraid, though, that most tweaks and touches are going to nerf the system in a (not altogether misguided) attempt to make it easier for novices to use.
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june 2011 by nathanperetic
1491
november 2009 by nathanperetic
«Erickson and Balée belong to a cohort of scholars that has radically challenged conventional notions of what the Western Hemisphere was like before Columbus. When I went to high school, in the 1970s, I was taught that Indians came to the Americas across the Bering Strait about 12,000 years ago, that they lived for the most part in small, isolated groups, and that they had so little impact on their environment that even after millennia of habitation it remained mostly wilderness. My son picked up the same ideas at his schools. One way to summarize the views of people like Erickson and Balée would be to say that in their opinion this picture of Indian life is wrong in almost every aspect. Indians were here far longer than previously thought, these researchers believe, and in much greater numbers. And they were so successful at imposing their will on the landscape that in 1492 Columbus set foot in a hemisphere thoroughly dominated by humankind.»
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november 2009 by nathanperetic
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