DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
I wouldn't put it past Steve Jobs' Apple.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Also noscripters like myself are undercounted, since I read your whole post, but didn't have any reason to turn on Javascript for your blog.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
You're an atheist, Checkov was not. For the theist the giving up earthly wealth ensures eternal bliss.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
What's your point? Such a device does not have a mainstream user base without wireless or video.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The aricle is neglecting the most important features of the iPad: video and wireless. It's like looking at a TI-83 and comparing it to a modern cell phone and wondering why nobody walked around with a TI-83 in their pocket except engineers.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
If your definition of rational includes no authentication or security.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The real issue is this concept of putting a frame in a website that you click on and then automatically does something with your credentials on another site. It really should be handled by a browser toolbar plugin (for those who want this o
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by DrSprout 16y ago
$600? I wish someone would just make an electronic wifi typewriter. Full-size laptop chassis, 7" screen, space for spare batteries if you want. The bare-bones model with 4 hours battery life and a 400mhz processor could easily clock in at $
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Looking at the situation objectively, we will either destroy ourselves, or incidentally gain rocket technology capable of destroying an asteroid long before an extinction-level event occurs. There is no reason to make asteroid deflection a
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by DrSprout 16y ago
> What a subset of geeks want is an open architecture that with fine-grained privacy controls. The average person wants that about as much as they want to ensure that they have access to the source code of their operating system. That's
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Well, I think what we really need a standard, bare bones open source platform that implements something rational, and several providers (they would have to be fairly large ones) so that there's competition. Social networking needs to be a u
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Actually, by most accounts we did fine without them for 200,000 years.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Marketing is necessary to a degree, and insofar as marketing gets potential consumers knowledge of devices they may want, it's important that marketing happen. But what this blog is essentially saying is that Gizmodo ruined Apple's hard wor
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Sharepoint and Outlook web access have a significantly degraded user experience on anything but Internet Explorer running on Windows (client.) Full outlook web access isn't even supported. The fact that Microsoft is building their new platf
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>The data reevaluation that resulted in 1934 being declared the hottest year in the 20th century This whole argument is getting extraordinarily tired, but 1934 could well be the hottest year on record in the 20th century without invalid
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I really hope WinMo 7 doesn't go very far. The touchscreen-enabled web has been significantly better since all they've really had to target is Webkit and Opera. MS is going to have to allow at least one third-party browser, or get IE9 porte
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by DrSprout 16y ago
If this goes the way Microsoft and Facebook want it to, it's going to reopen antitrust investigations. At this point Microsoft is almost going out of their way to break cross-platform compatibility.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
While it's true that there's no consensus on the source of the warming, it is true that the planet is warming. That's something that tends to get lost in the shuffle, and it's really scary what percentage of the American public believes tha
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by DrSprout 16y ago
With that in mind, why buy ARM? Why not buy something new and really innovate. We're at the point where there's only one platform that isn't doing multi-architecture development, and even Microsoft has Windows CE / Mobile running on ARM and
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Internal code is always very specific to the platform upon which it's installed. It's hard to justify spending time to make software run in environments you're not using. I'm having a lot of fun with that right now, knowing that we're
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I heard you like walled gardens, so I put a walled garden in your walled garden. As if Facebook didn't have enough lock-in, privacy, and data integrity concerns, they now want me to add this 'docs' thing to the equation, so that literally a
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It would be better if there were some way to suspend US citizenship. That said, you shouldn't be allowed to vote while not being subject to the tax code. It's the flip side of "no taxation without representation," and it's equally important
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I only use Foxit for filling out forms from trusted sources now. Now that Evince has been ported we're in really good shape (also Sumatra, but its implementation is minimal - which can be a good thing when you find security vulnerabilities
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Standardized tests stunt the curriculum, forcing an inflexible notion of what is worth knowing onto students. How, for example, do you have a standardized test to judge undergraduate research? Doing something absolutely absurd based on a fu
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by DrSprout 17y ago
>Modern liberals have greatly expanded the list of government functions, but, aside from totalitarian regimes, I know of no modern political movement that has shortened it. We hear conservative and libertarian voices constantly decrying
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Pricing is not done by purely rational actors. Saying "charge what you want" creates goodwill that can improve your rates.
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Student evaluations are there to determine how effective the professor is at teaching. Only talking to the students the professor succeeded at teaching gives you a completely skewed and overly rosy perspective. Also it may surprise you that
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by DrSprout 17y ago
It depends on enrollment at the institutions in questions. If overall enrollment has not increased in step with population, then it makes sense that the quality of the students at the most selective schools has increased.
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by DrSprout 17y ago
Generally speaking Glass is uncomfortable to rest against your bare skin while talking. It's one of the things I miss about my flip phone, that it had some air in there. Earpieces are a bit better, but I can't stand dealing with a second ba
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by DrSprout 17y ago
How is the SAT relevant? They should be looking at the GRE exclusively. This is one of the biggest problems with the US education system (and education in general.) The assumption is made that certain people cannot learn based on the fact t

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