Maakuth

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541.
by Maakuth 15y ago
I'd imagine they'd prioritize lowering the barrier of creating .net webapps over Azure success. Azure is just one service but .net success is key part of their strategy.
542.
by Maakuth 15y ago
People, your domain ideas are excellent but instead of posting them here for all squatters to take, please just register the darn domains. It's only couple of bucks after all.
543.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Something like that was my initial thought. However, you have to remember that there is massive amount of very notable things going on and data shown. As brazzy pointed out, the stall warning was as prominent as possible and still was prett
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My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan(myoccupylaarrest.blogspot.com)
11 points by Maakuth 15y ago|10 comments
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by Maakuth 15y ago
This would be true if rockets actually never exploded. But it seems to me they actually do, and that's why it's useful to test very unfortunate scenarios as well. It's not like they design jet engines' blades to come loose and cause destruc
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I don't know about that. Certainly there are large differences under the hood, but isn't Chrome OS just supposed to run browser apps really well? I don't think that's a very hard compatibility measure for Android to match.
547.
by Maakuth 15y ago
That is probably not in Google's hands to change. It's the same with the vendor-supplied GPU drivers in desktop Linux as well.
548.
by Maakuth 15y ago
There already is a lot of energy-heavy industry here in the Nordics: paper and steel mills, nuclear power, etc. Having a couple megawatts worth of datacenters is really really minor thing.
549.
by Maakuth 15y ago
My guess is that most of the savings come from the auto-away feature that's apparently backed by some sensors (motion detection?). I don't doubt that auto-away could save energy as most people probably don't either care or remember to adjus
550.
by Maakuth 15y ago
That is correct. Pardon for referring it incorrectly.
551.
by Maakuth 15y ago
With all these great minds from our field passing away, I'm beginning to think we should pause for a moment and think what we could do to thank all those legendary computing figures still with us? Knuth, Kernighan and Woz come to mind, cert
552.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Takes shit from no one?
553.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Well, probably most of us don't see their utility bills as a problem per se but wouldn't mind 50% reduction. And Nest claims to deliver that. Certainly that claim is to be taken with a grain of salt but I don't think that it's a bad idea. E
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Details of Nokia's Windows phones leak(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by Maakuth 15y ago|0 comments
555.
by Maakuth 15y ago
I'd say in most cases UTF-8 is already used. Of course this depends on the source of the text.
556.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Certainly, but the practical privacy implications are probably similar. In case of a stolen phone, the thief has access to all the files in both of these cases. Sure it would be cool if Dropbox wouldn't have any access to our files, but I d
557.
by Maakuth 15y ago
We've been told they do encrypt files internally. I don't think there is any usable way to have users manage their keys by themselves. Who wants to input large encryption keys to their mobile phone every time they want to use Dropbox? And i
558.
by Maakuth 15y ago
I'd think it's a deliberate design choice having it this way. If you think about it, paying only for actually used space would mean a lot smaller income for the company. Maybe it would also erode the magic in it - people would start thinkin
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Of course if they're profitable, with that kind of user base they could keep growing organically. Perhaps they see some potential strategic investments that would give them lasting competitive edge, and that need big money.
560.
by Maakuth 15y ago
I beg to differ. Jännite has the same word base as "jännitys", which translates to tension or suspension. And that is a natural concept that is related to voltage and thus helps internalize the concept.
561.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Mostly no, I think, because most of Android source code is licensed under Apache license, so they don't need to publish their modifications.
562.
by Maakuth 15y ago
The point (of GPL) is not that new community has to form around this released source, nor that the consumers having bought devices using GPL software would be able to recreate them with their own software modifications. The point is that fo
563.
by Maakuth 15y ago
To quote Steve Ballmer: "I've got four words for you: I LOVE THIS COMPANY!"
564.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Tolerance for radical style choices are one thing but unfortunately in IT circles, it's all too common to have people that have no sense of basic hygiene at all. If you constantly wear dirty (maybe also worn-out?) clothing, smell like the d
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British Transport Police: Illegal Downloading Kills Babies(techdirt.com)
4 points by Maakuth 15y ago|0 comments
566.
by Maakuth 15y ago
For your first point, if they own their own root CA that is trusted by browsers, then the capability is definitely in their hands. And that doesn't need any kind of special hacking capabilities, just signing a certificate that is for Google
567.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Well, since a lot of Windows software runs on .net framework's CLR (VM with a bytecode interpreter not unlike the Java VM), a lot of legacy apps actually should run just fine on ARM.
568.
by Maakuth 15y ago
Do you actually mean this kind of bullshit is legally sound in the US? Whoah. IANAL, but in Europe most of the EULA clauses are considered invalid due to consumer protection code and this sort of thing definitely would fall in to that categ
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Actually just today one Finnish paper speculated ( http://www.kauppalehti.fi/5/i/yritykset/yritysuutiset/?oid=2... ) that they might soon take over Nokia with their market cap! Sounds pretty far-fetched though.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
It's not that simple. One would think that 3.x series is the current one, but on the other hand, there has been at least one major release in 2.x series after the release of 3.0.

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