D_Drake

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by D_Drake 15y ago
Users: Wow, android is neat, but why is the interface performance so crappy? Google: silence Users: Hmm, I bet it's X, because of ____. Google: No, no, X in android is great, it's awesome, and even if it weren't awesome it totally wou
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by D_Drake 15y ago
IBM 700T
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by D_Drake 15y ago
The article begins by taking pot shots at Americans. Classy. Following that, the article only presents statistics in the particular way that shows Australia as leading, while leaving the other ways unsaid. First it talks about GDP growth p
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Ah, the march of technology busily grinding the concept of intellectual property into dust. Glorious. Imagine if every patent troll was greeted by thousands of citations of previous use?
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Incorrect. Once capacitive screens that could detect a finger were invented, they were immediately incorporated into tablet PCs. Many tablets incorporated an active digitizer underneath a resistive one, allowing both fingers and styli. A
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by D_Drake 15y ago
You can add to that the Uren V1, the Samsung Q1, the i7210, the HTC Advantage, the Samsung Mondi, and the W1090, just for starters. Apple did absolutely nothing when it came to device innovation, they just made brilliant, easy to use softw
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by D_Drake 15y ago
By those standards Apple ripped off 50% of the UMPCs ever made along with quite a few tablet PCs and PDAs. (Cue poorly-drawn comic of Bill Gates hurling a TC1100 through Apple's front window.)
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by D_Drake 15y ago
I'm disappointed. Hyneman especially should have recognized the danger of combining energy levels like those with the elastic properties of a cast iron ball. If the firing range was within five miles of inhabited area, stone canonballs sh
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by D_Drake 15y ago
There are only two websites which I endorse enough to whitelist them in my adblockers. It's a case of having a finer control over the behavior of your web browser. Once upon a time, you had only rudimentary control, and had to use your eye
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Myths about the feasibility of reducing the spectrum of human personality into a binary value.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Is it just me or does this patent appear to be describing someone using a mouth to send a verbal order to an ear, which is processed by a brain, with the resulting sequence of actions being held in a thought. Doesn't NFC technology already
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Why would I use 8.0 and spend time and effort turning it back into 3.6, when 3.6 already does everything I want or need it to?
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by D_Drake 15y ago
- When you're in a bandwidth-limited situation like browsing over a tethered phone - When you're using an access point operated by someone you don't trust - When you want the best performance out of your system but need to have a browser op
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by D_Drake 15y ago
I just tried it. Guess what? The interface is still broken. You look at the page contents constantly, at tab names often, at the bookmarks toolbar sometimes, at the URL occasionally, and you almost never look at the page title. In 3.6 th
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Never before have I read an article and been greeted by the mental image of a vein bursting in my brain, the blood spewing out of my eye sockets, forming itself into an axe, and traveling through a magic portal to mutilate a company's board
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Problem is, that's exactly how the human brain interprets real-life people, too. You can call it the Monkeysphere or Dunbar's Number, but fact is that people are incapable of conceptualizing random strangers on anything like the same level
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by D_Drake 15y ago
If I hadn't had a family member willing to give up their upgrade for me, I would be locked into a phone running 1.6 until May 2012, one which has no custom ROMs.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
The non-smoothness of android interfaces is a gigantic hulking monstrosity of an issue. I deal with it dozens of times a day, and have been for years now on multiple phones. It is the sole reason why anyone cares whether android does hard
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by D_Drake 15y ago
When I opened the link I thought it was a domain squatter. Wow.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Thank you. Every six months some school or company has some miraculous super-battery that somehow never goes anywhere. I'm not reading any more of these stories until they include the words "Consumer Electronics Show."
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by D_Drake 15y ago
So, in summary, "We have hardware acceleration, have had it for a long time, but it isn't the reason android interfaces are almost universally clunky. We actually have no idea why that is." I don't use any apple products but I get tired of
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Every single app review says their phone was clean. That makes me think this app is less detector and more placebo.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
I would be wary of anyone calling him/herself a "web security expert" who tolerates a presence on multiple social networking sites. It speaks of a mindset not nearly paranoid enough.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
If you actually wanted this, you could just spend five dollars on a gameboy printer off ebay and make the exact same printouts.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
I'm uninterested in anyone's apology after they've been caught. If I'm convicted of a crime, I go to jail. No matter what comes out of Zuckerberg's mouth, anything less than people behind bars is a perversion of justice.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Controversial titles drive clickthroughs.
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by D_Drake 15y ago
You call it the X Attitude, I call it taking six thousand milliseconds to draw a five megabyte graphical email interface in order to read a five kilobyte email. You say your computer is "fast enough"? Imagine how little power your phone's
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by D_Drake 15y ago
Are the dots larger than average chunks of ice from the fuselage?
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by D_Drake 15y ago
That's his point. Some people don't want to grow and create, they want to relate, to transmit. I have absolutely no desire to make high-contrast lighting photos because they're "edgy," nor do I want to take "mysterious" photos of models i
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by D_Drake 15y ago
I don't see this as useful. Using USB drives to share pictures with friends was never popular, and with social networking is utterly dead. Sharing of larger files is already marginalized by the likes of dropbox and upload sites, and becom

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