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by Cowicide 12y ago
AFAIK, there's been problems with building new plugins when it comes to video codecs since these Apple changes: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2300/_in... Here's more info
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Would there be a way to implement libVLC as a replacement for Quick Look in Mavericks and Yosemite? That would be fantastic! Right now (as you may know) Apple depreciated Quick Look and it no longer works with far too many video formats ev
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>My grudge, if I have any at all, is not with Chomsky or his politics, but rather with the Myth of Magical Numbers, which has so entrenched itself that even mathematicians have fallen prey to it in one form or another for centuries, if n
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Whoops, you must have written your response and submitted as I was typing mine. Thank you for saying this far more succinctly and intelligently than I could have (or tried to).
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>Living organisms likely exploit this property of self-similarity for easy scaling. Do note your usage of the term "likely". You don't know exactly why, just like no one else really does. You're making a likely suppo
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by Cowicide 12y ago
> It would be unusual for them to shut this down entirely. Right, but what they have done is shut down development on certain platforms. For example, they'll continue to develop Sunrise for Windows Phone, Windows OS but not for And
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by Cowicide 12y ago
What people hear MS will do and what MS says it will do doesn't really mean too much to me. It's the actions that count. I remember when lots of people told me how great it was going to be when MS bought Virtual PC for Mac (from
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Grass-fed steak has about twice as many omega-3s as a typical grain-fed steak. And since grass-fed cattle are typically leaner, almost all cuts of grass-fed beef have less total fat than beef from corn-raised cattle. Of course, Beef Magazi
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Well, if one is to rely on anecdotal evidence only... there's been no studies to back it up. There's also this: http://www.naturalhealth365.com/ketogenic_diet/cancer_part_1...
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by Cowicide 12y ago
I really like the way they've implemented tab previews. I can hover at over the tab and it'll show its thumbnail or I can drag the menubar down under the tab bar and all the tab thumbnails show at once. It makes more sense to me
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by Cowicide 12y ago
I agree with some of what you're saying, but you left out tidal energy sources which are a factor especially once you consider the preponderance of people that live near coastlines. Some examples: Tidal tech here and now: http:/&
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by Cowicide 12y ago
This might end up being fantastic news for more sustainable energy battery storage down the road.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
I agree, Apple's silence on various issues is incredibly unprofessional and is creating increasing resentment among consumers and developers, etc.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>Apple's strategy of assuming that their users should just throw away three year old devices seems not to work out any longer. Yeah, as I've been saying... Some may call all of this growing Apple consumer angst and issues &quot
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by Cowicide 12y ago
That may be the case, but I've also noticed that too many Apple users have been less critical than they used to be and easily go on the attack of even the smallest constructive criticism of the company's products. Maybe it's
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by Cowicide 12y ago
> Yosemite. It's not that bad Is that Apple's tagline for the product now?
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>Would someone even dare try this on Android? Via Google Voice/Hangouts the answering/calling of a phone through a Mac or other PC has been around before Apple's introduction of it. Also, things like SMS MightyText for An
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>since only people with negative experiences tend to write I haven't found that to be the case at the Apple subreddit on Reddit. IMO, it depends on the topic and where the discussion is located.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>I don't think that detracts from what kind of company they are. I think it depends upon the specific lawsuits and their validity.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
FTA: " ... I’d like to be able to say that the Reach79 will solve your cellular reception problems, or even to flatly declare that it won’t. But I can’t say either. After nearly a week of testing it, using two methods in a variety of l
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Cheap Android tablets via major retailers ship with serious privacy backdoors(bluebox.com)
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Clicked link. Read entire article. Saw this at end: " ... He hesitates to chalk up the wasting event to climate change. But he does worry all the same. ..." Closed tab with still open mind.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
I'm not sure if this is accurate or not, but according to this there was "essentially" a control group session of sorts: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130501193204.ht... " .
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Can Obama force him to resign or outright fire him? I'd like to see a "I brought you into this world, I'll take you out" approach from Obama at this point.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Agreed, the part where he says, "... Piracy doesn’t pay artists a penny – nothing, zilch, zero." - I involuntarily muttered, "Bullshit." out loud. He should probably listen to Neil Gaiman's story on how piracy can,
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by Cowicide 12y ago
I just now watched their reaction after the successful separation where it's now on its way to landing on the comet. Very cool, thanks for posting this! The video stream was flawless, by the way, with great quality audio and video.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
Haha... I have to wonder why something so noncontroversial got downvoted without mentioning why I'm "wrong" about this. I guess a knee-jerk, lizard brain fear response? Haha... Oh boy, I bet they'd really downvote me if
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>a little disconcerting, to be honest Yep, this is yet another vector to assist in de-anonymization of people - especially those using machines that often stay at a certain, specific x-y axis tilt on some desktops, etc.
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by Cowicide 12y ago
There's a much more complete breakdown that's being worked on by a group of others and myself. In the meantime, I just throw some of these sources of evidence out there and quick summaries in various forums for those who are will
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by Cowicide 12y ago
>You're imputing the economic value of every externality you can trace to Microsoft back to Gates' own bank account. Not really, I'm much more focused on the externalities of Gates' anti-competitive, monopolistic busi

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