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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I've seen a lot of people latch on to this writeup as authoritative, and I'm not sure why. Oehmen may indeed be a "research scientist" at MIT but his specialty is supply-chain risk management, not reactor design ( http://web.mit.edu/oehme
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Well, neither can H.264 be a standard, it is a non-free codec for video. The word "standard" doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. (I wish standards were free -- I've always wanted my very own copy of IEC 60908.)
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
We had a PDP-11/34a running RSTS/E v7.0-07. About 50/50 split between VT100s and printing terminals, plus one Tektronix and later on a few GiGis; storage was two washing machine-size RK07 drives (swappable 28Mb dual-platter cartridges the s
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I wonder if a similar effect is responsible for the little stalagmites that occasionally grow in my ice cube tray. (Yes, stalag mites . No, there is no moisture source above the tray.)
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Registered Apple developers only. Though there's at least one iOS bug that's getting close to being $99 worth of annoying to me (they broke an edge case of "sort album artist" behavior in cover flow a while back -- though I suspect it was o
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Photoshop on a tablet without pressure-sensitive input isn't much of a step up from Photoshop with a mouse. And in the press so far I see a lot of mentions of pressure-sensitive input on the MeMo, but nothing about it on the Slate.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
It's an excellent lesson in just how thoroughly you can be defeated by your own preconceived notions.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Except that Apple didn't decide not to move forward -- Sivers assumed that Apple had decided not to move forward, based on an offhand reference by Jobs in a keynote.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
They're a little touchy over at Adobe these days.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
He's doing solitary piecework that requires absolutely nothing from him other than his physical presence. Find the bar code, scan it, save or discard based on the result, over and over again. It's on roughly the same intellectual level as s
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Seems pretty straightforward to me: Hulu has a much smaller catalog than Netflix, and is watchable on a lot less hardware. The only content they soundly trounce Netflix in is "current" TV shows, but how many people a) prefer watching TV on
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
But everybody doubts when you say, 'I'm dying.' They think you're being a Victorian actress. They think you're doing Bernhardt." People suspect Ellison is making over-the-top public statements in order to draw attention to himself? Where
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Someone apparently swapped the definitions of "random kindness" and "humiliating harassment" in Zappos' corporate HR policy. (On the other hand, if it'll help morale, I'm willing to suck it up and attend my company's upcoming pennant-race b
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
That's the death rate that can be clearly and unambiguously tied to something that happened during a test. The problem is that deaths due to radiation exposure can take place years or decades after that exposure, and the data needed to clea
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Did any of their partners really think they'd push PlaysForSure as the DRM platform for Windows media if they were going to abandon it once they launched their own player hardware?
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
The copyright holder doesn't get to decide what constitutes fair use. But neither does the person posting the content, or the site that's hosting it. The only entity that can determine whether a given use is "fair" is a court of law. Rega
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Ugh--sorry for the inadvertent downvote. My bad.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
The huge disks look stupid in retrospect, but during the '80s (and well into the '90s) Laserdisc was the only way to get movies in their original aspect ratio, with digital sound, or with special features like commentary tracks. It was a
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I start from the premise that eBooks should cost less, because you get less. No right to lend, no right to sell, no way to insure against loss or theft, no guarantee you can even read it a couple of years down the road if the platform f
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I'm in IT and six out of the dozen or so managers I've reported to in my eleven years here have been women. (We're definitely a serious outlier—there was at least one time when my entire five- or six-level management chain was female except
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
* I've also noticed that 9/10 people who keep their phone out and visible are basically wearing their iPhone as a fashion item rather than a functional device.* I'd love to know how you're determining this. Does Swarovski offer a brooch-mou
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
While I always enjoy a good rant, I don't see why it had to be so vicious and insulting. The cygwin maintainers are not known for their patience and affability.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
There is a world of difference between getting acceptable manufacturing yields on a 300ppi+ iPhone-sized screen and a similarly-dense iPad-sized screen.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
According to the About text Eucalyptus relies on a customized version of libhyphenate, plus a number of other open components (including LinuxLibertine as the display typeface). I love the look of Eucalyptus and haven't seen any other reade
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I don't know how much you read, but I read a lot and I have no problem whatsoever with leisure reading from a "lit screen". I've been doing it since the Palm IIIc. The lack of legitimately-available content -- and its price when it IS leg
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Once you get past the DRM issues, though, presentation issues are a big hurdle, particularly on the desktop. I still haven't found an ePub reader for Windows that renders text attractively, and I have an ongoing beef with how most PDF viewe
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
A. Being single for 2+ years and then getting into a relationship with someone you genuinely like being around pretty much all the time. B. Being with someone now who's a constantly unreliable, annoying reminder of how you could do better
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
I have a Wikipedia client on my iPod that does something similar -- touch-and-holding on a link dumps it to a queue instead of navigating to that entry. So as you go through an interesting article, you can queue up related stuff and easily
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Do you get free updates across editions? Seems unlikely to me.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
They also repeatedly refer to the excerpt(s) as "FORTUNE's exclusive". It's not an "exclusive excerpt" if TechCrunch is republishing it in its entirety, which makes it extremely unlikely that FORTUNE believed it was offering to let Arring

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