ConstantineXVI

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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Yeah, it's much cleaner vs. the old FileVault. The decryption happens at boot-time, as far as most of the OS is concerned (incl. TimeMachine) there's no encryption at all.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The FCC doesn't really care if you can stab yourself with your phone. They do require that phones stay below a certain level of radiation output (which given root access, it's possible to muck with), thus a disclaimer is necessary to make i
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
They have to say that, in the event some idiot screws with their radio and actually does fry their brain out.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Just like the old days, graphics are the big sticking point. Most current shipping devices have some mix of the following: - Resolution: * HVGA (mostly only low-end phones now) * WVGA ("standard") * FWGVGA (early Motorola) * qHD (most high-
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
It's worth pointing out that the Ace is much closer to the 3Gs vs. the 4 in terms of components; naturally it'll have a price advantage. Not to say price is the only reason for it's success (I presume the 3Gs is on sale there as well), just
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Hover[1] says they'll handle xfers for you; not sure how far that help extends (we xfer'd ours manually without a hitch) but they've generally been very pleasant so far. [1] https://www.hover.com/
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Difference being: GoDaddy very blatantly and explictly supported SOPA (until doing so stopped making business sense). All Google's done here is give money to this member of Congress (which could have been with the intent of for or against);
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The idea of being able to "rent" a supercomputer at a moment's notice (relative to buying one, at least) is interesting. Makes one wonder; what % of Amazon's capacity is this; and how high up the Top500 would all of it be?
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
One exception: the vast majority of Android games use a portion of native code; which won't run on Intel chipsets without at least a recompile. All WinPhone apps run on the .NET VM; however it's up to Microsoft what chips get used in Window
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The stock Android browser treats all URLs as Intents; this is by design so apps can catch URLs from their service. Normally, when you hit a URL that an app has registered for, you're prompted for what you want to open it with. Amazon's brok
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Google buying them would be even worse for competition than AT&T. It'd be a total closed loop: Google OS, Google handsets, Google network, Google services. John Rockefeller could only dream of that sort of integration.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
That's fair enough. The normal on-contract rate is subsidizing the $300+ discount on your phone. If there's no phone to subsidize, it's logical that the subsidy gets bounced back to you.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Wrong. An all-Webkit web would be just as bad as an all-IE web. IE and Mozilla serve to keep WebKit honest. Plus, there's no sense in condemning them based on IE6 when IE9 has come so far.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Not too surprising; given Microsoft's recent crush on JavaScript. W8 will allow for first-class JS desktop apps; only makes sense to enable JS on the server at well. Using node vs. some sort of Chakra-based system is a bit surprising given
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Explicit node.js support shouldn't be surprising at all, given that MS funded the Windows port and JS is a first-class language for W8. Java, OTOH, caught me off guard. I'd have thought MS was totally done with Java given that it's a direct
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The difference is this one plugin is capable of covering much more ground than Unity3D alone. Once it's there, nothing stopping one from porting, say, id Tech, Unreal, Frostbite, RenderWare, OGRE, Avalanche, Crystal, CryEngine, EGO, Source,
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Nope, this Palm (fka PalmOne) that HP bought doesn't own any of the original PalmOS or BeOS assets; they spun them off as PalmSource in '03 (at the same time they bought Handspring IIRC), who got bought by Access a few years ago.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
> "HP will be an active participant and investor in the project" "competent" is up for debate, but they're planning on still running the show.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
The physical design of a humanoid robot? No; Asimov's designs would constitute prior art (not to mention the existing real-world humanoid robots, or even humans themselves if you want to get existental). Any novel mechanical workings that m
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
I'd worry about relying on Android-x86 at the moment as it's not an officially backed project from any OEM. However, Intel and Google have promised first-class support for x86 soon; so virtualized Android will likely be more trustable at th
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
It's said that ever since launch, not sure why the dev hasn't updated it. Normal price is $3
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
High-res screen: expensive[money] Super-sampling: expensive[cpu]
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Google has to be giving them something out of their own pocket; unless they've got a special deal with their processors the $0.10 is being melted down for cigar cases at Visa and etc. before Google sees any of it.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
It's hard to say in this instance, Google has historically been very hands-off when it comes to the Market. I think this is the first time they've explicitly done a sale like this; as opposed to devs operating on their own.
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Like Backupify? (not to be confused with Backify) https://www.backupify.com/ (PS: Rob, if you're on here, you still owe me a beer next time you're in town. :)
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
I highly doubt they'd go 4K at launch: 1) 4K panels are still ridiculously expensive. Apple's mastered the supply chain, but not the laws of physics. Also keep in mind that anyone Apple could source 4K displays from at any useful volume wil
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Slightly different fail in the Newton's case. The tablet/PDA/smartphone/MID/palmtop market was niche at best and effectively non-existent at worst when the Newton came out; it simply was in too small of a market to go anywhere. The PlayBook
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
Oddly enough, most games that impose some sort of ethical behavior (either through law, social, or gameplay aspects) exist either before the Convention (Assassin's Creed doesn't allow you to get stab-happy on civilians), after most particip
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
You actually get the first two as well: https://github.com/github/hubot/graphs/traffic https://github.com/github/hubot/graphs/clones
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by ConstantineXVI 15y ago
They already do a fair amount of stats for repos, for example: https://github.com/github/hubot/graphs/impact

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