Splines

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by Splines 14y ago
I wonder if there is a market for android-ready shells. Screen, webcam, keyboard, touchpad, battery, storage, and a slot for any android-on-a-stick PC. I'd buy that, knowing that I could "upgrade" the stick when I needed to.
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by Splines 14y ago
Ubisoft last weekend offered some of their games for $1. I'd bet those games sold like hot-cakes. They also sold most of their catalog for $1 a few years ago (for about a day completely by accident), I wonder what their sales numbers were
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by Splines 14y ago
It would also help if Ubisoft ended their relationship with Digital River. Digital River for some inexplicable reason enforces a limit on the number of times you can download a title. For a digital download service I have a hard time unde
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by Splines 14y ago
> C] If you have no DRM then your game will sell well All things equal, I'd choose a DRM free game over a DRM-encumbered one. Amazon's Digital Download service group often has Steam and DRM-free versions of the same game available - t
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by Splines 14y ago
If you run an openwrt/dd-wrt firmware on your home router you can bounce of it too. Just configure ssh access on it and you have pretty much the same thing.
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by Splines 14y ago
> Playing devil's advocate here but can you effectively be wandering the grocery store looking for item X at the same time as your wife is looking for item Y while she remembers that you should get Z instead of X and update the list in
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by Splines 14y ago
> But seriously, ditch the real time sharing stuff. I don't know why so many todo lists focus on that. It's a common scenario for me and my wife to share a list and update it real-time as we traverse the store. We might split up and
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by Splines 14y ago
Part of the problem with HN (and reddit) is that the format is still linear. A comment system results in multi-dimensional conversations both in subject and in tone. Some comments are on-topic and are helpful, some are on-topic and humorou
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by Splines 14y ago
At MSFT my 1:1 with my manager is pretty much this. If there's any immediate good/bad things that he needs to share with me, that's the venue we do it in. It's one of the reasons why I really appreciate working for him (I had previous man
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How a drug mule named "Big Foot" helped create terrible GPS search law(arstechnica.com)
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by Splines 14y ago
If you're running under Hyper-V, Alt+Home is the same thing as pressing the start button. Otherwise it's highly impractical trying to hit the bottom left corner in a floating window. You can also turn off all animations in Windows, which m
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by Splines 14y ago
> I imagined that whether or not all the bags (or even passengers) made it was of little concern to the pilots. I'm imagining the pilot nonchalantly pulling away from the terminal while late passengers are spilling out of the terminal
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by Splines 14y ago
I'm glad it's so easy today. "Back in the day" you had to rely on all sorts of oddball codecs to get something to play. It's the reason why VLC was (and still is) so loved - it could play anything. Using a standard means that I can take a
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by Splines 14y ago
> Otherwise, it's worth it if it gives you enough more joy, and not if it doesn't. That's the point. For many people it just doesn't matter, they can't tell the difference without focusing on it. I'm typing this on an HP dv6 laptop t
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by Splines 14y ago
Even with opt-out, it can make you wonder if Quora is still keeping this data. What stops them from disabling the opt-out portion of the feature and "outing" everybody?
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by Splines 14y ago
I don't know if you could call it the "least efficient" - they seem (to me) to be a simple way to understand what and where something is. Look at the problem users are having with Mountain Lion's "Save As" feature to see what could go awr
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by Splines 14y ago
This sort of thing kind of bothers me. Is Blizzard in the business of verifying state-issued identification? What prevents me from photoshopping my target's name on top of my own ID?
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by Splines 14y ago
I read "Ghost in the Wires" (a book about Kevin Mitnick's life) a month or two ago, and it's astonishing how well he knew the system. He was doing stuff like the above, but also getting around the callback as well (I don't recall exactly w
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by Splines 14y ago
You can fight it to a point, but that just ruffles everyone's feathers. As stated elsewhere along this topic, sometimes author's have a moral viewpoint that lending books to complete strangers using the internet violates the spirit of the f
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by Splines 14y ago
I doubt all the OEMs would leave. Surface may be great, but there's still room at the high-end for powerful desktop-replacement laptops.
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by Splines 14y ago
Logitech does really well too (so maybe there is still room for OEMs?). I work at MS but I use a Logitech as my daily-driver mouse (it's hard to find a MS mouse that has a wheel with detents, is wireless, and has back/forward buttons).
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by Splines 14y ago
I've never used LendInk (or any other e-book lending sites), but they could have a "For Authors" section prominently visible on the site, telling the authors why their work may be on the site, what they can do (it probably doesn't hurt to c
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by Splines 14y ago
Agreed - if they want to have a hope for general application adoption they will need to loosen their DRM somewhat. Having to use their launcher is also annoying - while it's nice to have the majority of my games in one place, none of my non
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by Splines 14y ago
Plus some colors aren't readable on pure black. Dark blue or dark red, for instance, are very difficult to read on a pure black background. (I used to use a pure black background for my terminal windows and switched it to a dark gray for
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by Splines 14y ago
Maybe if you had some sort of AR setup that projected what you were interested in onto the environment. E.g., passengers would be able to read a book as if it was on a billboard floating on the horizon. Would that be enough to combat the
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by Splines 14y ago
It's too bad there isn't some sort of reconfigurable QR code stamp thing that you can use to sign something. Say, for example, you enter in the payee, amount and date, it digitally signs it with your private key from your bank, creates a Q
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by Splines 14y ago
I love webhooks - they provide a neat portable layer between services and devices. Currently I have Growl set up on my desktop computer and run a number of desktop programs that talk to it. I have Growl set up to ping Prowl (previously Not
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by Splines 14y ago
I've only dabbled in Linux, but what's the advantage of using 32-bit Ubuntu? Why not the 64-bit version? Especially in the Linux world where you deal with binaries less-often compared to Windows. Is it because of the video card drivers?
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by Splines 14y ago
If you miss the history channel of six years ago, trust me, you're not missing anything now.
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by Splines 14y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. While Windows 8 desktop is pretty much identical to Windows 7 desktop, the rest of Windows 8 offers quite a lot. Metro works really well as a consumption interface - I was using it the other day to

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