GoofballJones

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by GoofballJones 13y ago
They did from Apple. Despite the lore of Steve Jobs "stealing" everything from PARC, there was a deal in place before Xerox ever showed anyone.
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
I remember drawing my own mouse pointer on my Amiga. Made it really small, could barely see it, but didn't take up as much space as the default. Actually, quite easy to put anything you wanted as a mouse pointer on the Amiga.
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
Yum is an independent company since spinning off of PepsiCo in 1997. While it has ties to PepsiCo, it's nothing direct and there are even Yum own restaurants that don't even serve Pepsi products. This chart is enlightening for sur
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
According to Siracusa's review, Mavericks resorts to using swap as the last possible resort, and then as sparsely as possible. Maybe check to see what apps or plug-ins is hogging all the RAM? Which should also be very hard to do in Mav
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
I get the opposite, I get videos that play fine for a web-browser, but won't work at all on mobile, even though it should. I've even taken a video, uploaded to my account and it STILL says "the owner has indicated that this v
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
I'm intrigued by using Chrome OS, but the choices of Chromebooks is pretty sparse. You either have the ultra-high-end of the Chromebook Pixel that costs as much as a Macbook Air 13", or you have the ultra cheap and cheap-feeling l
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
I agree, no one deserves having to go to Stanford. Go Berkeley!
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
Okay, who are you and why all of a sudden are you popping up in news aggregators like Techmeme? Sorry if I missed out on some new (or old...I have no idea) thing here, but I've never heard of you nor your site. Is this suppose to be so
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
51 here. Never really learned how to code, though I always wanted to. I fooled around with AREXX on the Amiga and Python later on, but that's about it.
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
Actually, I do get to tell Linus what is or isn't professional...and so do you and everyone else. It's called "opinion". Also, while I admire what he's done, let's lay off the hyperbole for a bit. "..one o
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by GoofballJones 13y ago
“I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me". So in other words, you believe in the "good of society", but now that you have legal fees, s
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by GoofballJones 14y ago
Which lends to the theory that it did indeed fall through the cracks. The bigger you are, the more you miss. My theory is that it was from a 3rd party contractor and it just slipped through.
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by GoofballJones 14y ago
That's a rather old paper though, it's 8 years old and I could have sworn that it was shown to not be effective in detecting current TOR traffic. From what I understand, you have to have massive traffic shaping capabilities to even begin to