JunkDNA

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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"Whatever aspects religion has, they are thoroughly dependent on an unquestioning acceptance of some metaphysical model." I would be careful with such a sweeping statement. My personal experience as a Catholic is that through some pretty in
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
You hit it right. According to this article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-10453550-78.html Verizon is having trouble getting voice to work over LTE in their test markets, so they are going to go data only on LTE initially and use
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Even after reading the quote at the end from the Facebook rep, I'm not clear what benefit this is to users. I get that it's a way to stroke wireless providers, but that seems to be its only reason for existing. Why would a user care if Face
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"...the first handsets are supposed to hit the market by the holidays of this year." Kudos to Microsoft for realizing they need to be bold here and re-invent things. I'm encouraged by the lack of the "Start" bar. They have an incredibly bru
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"Whether the stout ad-packed books that land on the doorsteps and driveways of millions of American homes are an endangered species is far from certain." This really jumped out at me as a reminder that sometimes people like us inhabit a dif
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon, I don't get what differentiates the (new) "synthetic biology" from the (old) "genetic engineering". They seem like the exact same thing to me (I'm open to be convinced otherwise though). The only d
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
This article makes an excellent point. I can only speak from the US perspective, but I think a lot of the reason the average non-scientist has trouble with things like pluto suddenly not being a planet anymore is the way science is taught t
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Thanks for digging that up! If I understand this, it's not just that there is simple depth of field in the 2D/photography sense where the background of a primary subject is blurry. They are literally forcing your eyes to look at the primary
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Agreed. This is one of the reasons a sufficiently large (non-3D) IMAX screen provides an incredibly immersive experience for all kinds of long distance "big" shows like "Everest" or my childhood favorite "The Dream is Alive". You get all th
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I really wish there was a way to do 3D that allowed your eyes and brain to naturally do what they do in the real world, though perhaps we're a long way from that? Anyone familiar with or doing any research on better mechanisms for 3D? I hav
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm not sure this will have the effect on competition some around here think it will. The only way this will cause traditional providers to lower their rates and increase their capacity is if they actually feel threatened by Google's offeri
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I have seen code reinvention in my career a number of times. In one instance, I was actually asked to code up a method where the code and method had been published in a scientific journal. When I asked why I should implement this on my own,
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
With the huge investment Apple is making in touch these days, this guy's investors were right to worry about Apple. No matter what happens to the iPad, you can bet the laptop line and OS X are going to continue to support more and more tabl
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
From the headline I had assumed this was going to be another garden variety "in defense of MS" kind of article. I do think that MS has done some innovative things here and there, but I agree it's hard to really call them a "leader". They ar
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Wow, this is pretty neat. I was surprised to see that you need to pay for the code, but the prices seem pretty reasonable considering what you're getting. This really seems like it could be a way to bridge the gap between little "toy" Ardui
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I highly suggest the "beginning embedded electronics" tutorials over at sparkfun ( http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorials.php ), just to get yourself up to speed. I have no experience with any kind of hardware hacking (never even had on
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I don't fully comprehend all the angst over the "closed" nature of the iPad. Where were all these people when Sony brought out the PS3? or when Microsoft brought out the Xbox? How about the Wii? DS? PSP? Amazon Kindle? Nook? All of these ar
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"Either way, it’s a concrete lesson in just how far removed the publishing industry can be from reality" I'm sorry but this is an example of how far-removed the Silicon Valley echo chamber can be from reality. When you're dealing with peopl
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think this is the right idea to have. Take the design of the modern laptop. Apple was the first to pioneer the idea that you could put a touchpad at the bottom of the keyboard and give the user a place to rest his/her hands in the process
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm with you on this. None of these "leaks" actually have any information that hasn't been well-established by other sources who are outside of the NDA. In fact, Apple as much confirmed all these details themselves when they allowed the dev
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Just for a point of clarity, I was merely making the argument that both Apple and IBM have figured out how to leverage open source in their respective business models in a coherent way. I'm not necessarily claiming that either of them are r
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"...leaving the company in the hands of new owner Oracle (ORCL) and its very profit-minded leadership" Maybe I'm reading too much into the above statement, but the point of a company is to make profits. There are these things called "charit
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I used to think these claims were a bit bogus. However, my macbook pro was locking up solid and completely unresponsive at seemingly random times requiring a hard-reset (running 10.5.x). The constant thread I noticed was that I was always u
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I think once you have sent him a forceful note or two asking him to back off, I would probably drop it. If you want to try and drum up some publicity over it on some other blogs, you might be able to make some headway. But I wouldn't expend
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I doubt it was an oversight. I suspect Apple starts to relax their procedures as they near an announcement. This allows a controlled flow of "leaks" to emerge and build buzz.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Can you imagine the size of the kickback MS would offer for something like that? I wonder if that could impact how much of a carrier subsidy Apple would need for the device.
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I had forgotten about this old article. It is a truly great story. Though I have to say, nothing screams "1990's" like this line: "...public key is now ubiquitous, on every copy of Netscape and Lotus Notes - and may one day wind up in every
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
I'm sorry, but every day hundreds of newspapers and magazines devote pages and pages to honest critique of the government. Add to that all the commentary on television, radio, and the net. The vast majority of those individuals partake in t
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
"I also talked to a few Chinese expatriates who had left the country for the U.S. and met with the delegation. They only wanted to publish their first names because they were worried about making critical comments of the government publicly
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by JunkDNA 17y ago
Talk to him, recognizing that you may be getting a very jaded opinion. Also, I think it's a perfectly relevant question for you to ask for a ballpark dollar amount of your budget and what they expect you to accomplish. I've intentionally st

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