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by Maakuth 15y ago
> Again, a completely different branch of Android is forming, it's like desktop Linux all over again (and we all remember how well that went when it came to dislodging Windows). I for one am optimistic though, as Google-branded Android
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I wonder what are they going to do with the money. Build datacenters of their own? I hope they don't bloat their service with some expensively developed value-add stuff that nobody wants, but are force-fed nevertheless. One would think they
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by Maakuth 15y ago
All the calls are P2P, and if the peers cannot connect directly, the calls are routed through someone else's computer that's called a supernode. Pretty much none of the actual VoIP traffic touches Skype's servers.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Whoah, that was fast! Of course WebOS uses Linux kernel as well, so no need for driver porting and such. Still, impressive feat.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Deep in the field of off topic, but person that was doing nothing probably could keep up with it after passing.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Out of curiosity: what operating system does automatically queue separately initiated copy operations? Wouldn't it be quite confusing if some copy operation just wouldn't start at all before some other - possibly very time consuming - opera
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I don't suppose this "mom" user would click "More information" -button at all.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Considering that Samsung seems to like CyanogenMod sending them devices and all that, I wouldn't think it's impossible he'll be able to contribute to CM on company hours.
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Self-silencing cooling fans cancel out their own noise(dvice.com)
1 points by Maakuth 15y ago|0 comments
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I wonder what are they going to do with it! Perhaps building datacenters of their own - it's not cheap to store everything in S3 after all.
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Dropbox Is Close To Finishing A Mega-Round That Could Value It At $5-$10 Billion(businessinsider.com)
2 points by Maakuth 15y ago|3 comments
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Nokia is way too big compared to the Finnish state to be bailed out by the government anyway. Nevertheless, Nokia gets Finland's biggest subsidies anyway for R&D and such.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
My understanding of the situation has been that most of the FaceTime technology is indeed in the open just because they mostly used already existing technology. What is not in the open is the cryptographic key that is used to sign all the F
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by Maakuth 15y ago
Maybe some heavy logging in this field test phase could explain it? Indeed 60TB sounds like very little. I thought Google would use their GFS system to back this kind of things so the disk space wouldn't be an issue. What do I know.
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by Maakuth 15y ago
It's pretty much same story with Nokia's devices, older Windows Mobiles, etc. It's not that Apple invented smartphone, they just made it so that normal people could and even wanted to use them. This of course blows the minds of us geeks as
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I've heard that Medicare + Medicaid actually cost a bigger part of your national budget than in Europe, yet it ends up creating a weaker coverage health service coverage for only part of your people, compared to covering everyone in most of
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by Maakuth 15y ago
I haven't read the bill, but does it really require court orders to be shown? For what I've gathered is typical for this kind of legislation, private companies get privileges to send some kind of takedown notices (see DMCA) to the others. I
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by Maakuth 15y ago
For what I understood, the protocols are open, but you can't join in the network without a private key signed by Apple :). It seems to use fairly standard protocols though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime#Standards
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by Maakuth 16y ago
Finns often call it "miumau" (meow meow) because it looks like a cat's tail.
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by Maakuth 16y ago
Except that all the forms listed there actually mean something and could be used in everyday conversations (some of them are pretty rare, of course). In English those would be communicated by a lot of prepositions. Take "kauppoinennekaan" [
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by Maakuth 16y ago
F-Secure didn't find it either, and hasn't seen a peak in StarLogger detections: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002132.html
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by Maakuth 16y ago
"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p85xwZ_OLX0
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by Maakuth 16y ago
My bet is that in ten years, today's Blu-ray DRM schemes are pretty much as busted as dvd-css is today. It sure shows cracks already, and the bittorrent scene certainly seems to have no problem having high quality bd-rips. Of course, if the
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by Maakuth 16y ago
I've never tried iOS development, and I'm a bit surprised by many of these library recommendations. For example HTTP requests, regular expressions and progress indicators strike me as something your platform definitely should provide you wi
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Fire in Japanese Onagawa nuclear plant(reuters.com)
3 points by Maakuth 16y ago|0 comments
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by Maakuth 16y ago
Good point, except that Qt licensing has never bought in very big money to Nokia or Trolltech before it, especially after they changed the license from GPL to LGPL. I think Qt's being strategic lies in their being part of Nokia platforms. O
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by Maakuth 16y ago
I was under impression that iOS apps are pretty often just HTML5 applications packed in iOS app format. Can't that mechanism be used to enable these games to be played offline? Of course it's some extra effort for the publisher, but I think
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by Maakuth 16y ago
You have to appreciate though, that $50 is still a modest price if the service is as good as it claims. Just look at domain squatter prices, you get pretty much nothing with $50.
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Edit Chrome input boxes with any editor (Linux)(chrome.google.com)
5 points by Maakuth 16y ago|1 comments
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by Maakuth 16y ago
I don't think it's about the cost of paperwork. I assume they get to keep the money, and the point with this requirement is that something's actually going to happen in the Stiftung with this kind of money. Wikipedia has more information ab

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