GHFigs

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541.
by GHFigs 15y ago
The link doesn't actually provide any information. It's only waving it's hands in my face and telling me that I should be angry, telling me that a lot of different things are connected, and telling me that certain people are so inherently b
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by GHFigs 15y ago
"I have followed your work for a decade." "I have followed your work for a decade." "I have followed your work for a decade." But... Here are some suggestions for what to do with your money.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Excerpt from actual US policy: "When warranted, the United States will respond to hostile acts in cyberspace as we would to any other threat to our country. All states possess an inherent right to self-defense, and we recognize that certai
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The Way Things Work by David Macaulay. The way it mixes comic illustration, simplified explanation of everyday things, and fictional narrative is deeply engaging to curious minds but also very forgiving of a child's fickle attention. I'm
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by GHFigs 15y ago
No, I get it. You're attributing misinterpretation to misinformation, and using that as an excuse to get your facts wrong. It's not that I don't get that, it's that I think that's fallacious, stupid, and wrong.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Many of us were led to believe that inserting the control rods would immediately "stop the reaction" and prevent a meltdown from occurring. I'm not sure how much you were "led" to believe that, given that the control rods became fully ins
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by GHFigs 15y ago
- can it sync with an iPod or iPhone? Nope. (The Hacker News-y response is that the i-whatever is terrible and people shouldn't use them, but my point is that a lot of people own them. People who are thinking about recommending Chromebooks
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Bigger slice of a smaller pie.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
This is because it was Apple that devised the Agency Model and was the first to propose it to the Big Six publishers as a way of getting them on iOS. "....which I think is understating the role of the publishers, who would have rejected i
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by GHFigs 15y ago
tl;dr : retailer's cut under agency model - platform provider's cut of in-app purchases = 0 The author attributes the agency model to Apple, which I think is understating the role of the publishers, who would have rejected it if it hadn't b
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Lt. Col. David Coombs, Manning's counsel: "PFC Manning was transferred to the Joint Regional Corrections Facility (JRCF) at Fort Leavenworth on April 20, 2011. I was able to tour the facility and meet with PFC Manning last week. PFC Manni
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Hiding the truth of their situation and brushing it under the rug won't make anything better. The fact that it's in the open now hopefully will motivate. Who elected Brad Manning or Julian Assange (et al.) to make that decision?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
At one time, most people believed slavery was a good thing. Discuss. This may be true for some places and times, but societies that practiced slavery commonly suffered from the demographic problem that the slaves outnumbered their masters
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by GHFigs 15y ago
You might know it as a web chart or spider chart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_chart It isn't just that it resembles a radar chart, though: on the site the (Flash) logo mutates to reflect the current temperature and wind conditions.
555.
by GHFigs 15y ago
HP has been shipping Splashtop (as "HP QuickWeb" and "Voodoo IOS") and on many models for several years now and nobody cared. Why would they, when Windows is right there? WebOS (though better than Splashtop) faces much the same problem. It'
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Yes, it will be. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2011/...
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The LGPL allows Apple to keep the rest of their stack that links against Webkit proprietary. However, they have to release their changes to Webkit. Quite right, but for this point of pedantry: Apple's fork of KHTML is known as Web Core .
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Are you sure about that? http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/WebCore Edit: I would greatly appreciate an explanation of what is inappropriate about the above link.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The truth is always worth being told. I count this as a point against Wikileaks as an organization. Would you not agree they've engaged in a considerable amount of spin? At the very least don't you think that "Collateral Murder" was not s
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I didn't say it was. But are you going to defend shit like this? "And ultimately, Apple just wants people to keep calling, even if tumors are growing in their heads."
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by GHFigs 15y ago
tl;dr: professional-grade trolling
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Barnes & Noble has had some success aiming directly between those two types of devices. The Nook Color is priced at half an iPad and just over twice a Kindle and reportedly has sold well compared to 'offical' Android tablets. I can see
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If they can't manage to set the product apart, at all, why am I going to give it a look? Because it's Panic, a company that has earned your attention by consistently delighting you. If that doesn't describe you, they probably aren't reall
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Not necessarily. Holding still is useful, but a modern submarine isn't dramatically louder when in motion than it is at rest. Sound from turbulent flow over the surface of the hull is minor and doesn't travel very far (IIRC it's more of a p
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Hand out short-term (up to 24-hour) mandatory noprocrast vacations (i.e. bans) freely, visibly, and arbitrarily. If somebody makes a stupid comment, they get asked to leave for a while, and everybody sees it. Simple and unambiguous. It also
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The table indicates that Google's share growth (+7.0%) has come at the expense of RIM (-4.6%) Microsoft (-1.3%) and Palm (-1.1%). Apple's share continued to grow (+0.2%). The breakdown is similar for all of comScore's figures for the last s
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by GHFigs 16y ago
A significant and recurring step for myself has been recognizing that in my scramble to consume everything that seemed interesting I was trying to hoard something that's in rampant abundance. You will never have enough time to dick around
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Is it time for Apple to consider a format to allow more people to attend? While undoubtedly not a perfect substitute for attending, they did take a big positive step last year by posting the session videos only a week after and eliminatin
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Your documents can carry in them hidden past versions without you being aware of it. That's not how the feature is implemented. Versions are maintained in the filesystem, not within the file.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The remarkable thing is that for thirty years we've been using tools that default to destroying your work . I can't think of a better example of our collective tolerance for janky technology than the persistence of such a glaring regressio

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