Splines

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901.
by Splines 15y ago
Indeed. I should create a patent that describes the use of a patent to block patent trolling.
902.
by Splines 15y ago
I completely agree. Use over 250GB? Your internet gets slowed down to molasses until the start of the next month. Customers will notice and adjust. Here, Comcast is saying "we don't want you as a customer", which they're allowed to do, b
903.
by Splines 15y ago
Exactly. I think it'd be incredibly cool to walk in front of a thin transparent wall with this property, run around to the other side and see yourself walk along it. I wonder if you could information in this fashion.
904.
by Splines 15y ago
I've never read Battlefield Earth, but I found The Forever War to be a really interesting view on the effects that relativity would have on light-year-scale war (and the expansion of the human race). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foreve
905.
by Splines 15y ago
Even so, I think it would be fascinating to interact with a device that consisted of mirrors, even if was just to experience a delay of a millisecond (or whatever is the minimum amount of time to perceive a delay).
906.
by Splines 15y ago
I find the Nasa stream is timing out. The UStream one is more stable for me: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/ustream.html
907.
by Splines 15y ago
FWIW, as an end user completely unaware of FB internals, facebook.com is as fast as I need it to be. It’s called NewSQL [..] Pushed by companies such as Xeround, Clustrix, NimbusDB, GenieDB and Stonebraker’s own VoltDB, It would be easy to
908.
by Splines 15y ago
... and you also get stuff like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmC28cXWqLc Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is really cool. The thing is that the 80's midi background track was just a terrible way to implement it.
909.
by Splines 15y ago
* but you shouldn't design with that in mind (unless you're somehow aiming a product at them, in which case good luck with that sir). Put a 7 year old on a computer and he'll figure out how to find a restaurant in 10 minutes.* To a point, m
910.
by Splines 15y ago
Those youtube videos of a 2 year old using an iPad also.. My 2-yr old has gleefully wiped my PIN-locked iPhone several times, as it was synced to corporate Exchange (Here Daddy! sigh Thank you, dear).
911.
by Splines 15y ago
Time will tell, maybe we need a Blaster/Stuxnet like event on smartphones in order to realize what's really going on. I think you're right. Most people who see what JailbreakMe is doing probably don't understand that you're not supposed
912.
by Splines 15y ago
I don't think the concern is that FB will die, but that FB is in control of the platform. Outside of any agreement Zynga and FB have, if FB takes an action that hurts Zynga (for example, hiding all Zynga games), there's little recourse for
913.
by Splines 15y ago
I'm going to be honest here and say that I think it looks horrible. The ALL-CAPS on buttons looks amateurish, and I want my separators and selected-mail-box background highlighting back. The non-dense theme also is too sparse. I suppose
914.
by Splines 15y ago
though if you saw the OnLive CEO's talk posted on Engadget yesterday you'll see that there is the potential for some revolution in the wireless game For anyone curious, here's the article (includes a video): http://www.engadget.com/2011/
915.
by Splines 15y ago
It's used in OpenWrt and probably most (if not all) of the FOSS router firmwares out there.
916.
by Splines 15y ago
I think it's fascinating that someone can construct something so long-lasting. It synchronizes itself to noon and powers itself using thermal energy. Amazing.
917.
by Splines 15y ago
When you design something and the default case is to shoot yourself in the foot, you should stop and rethink things.
918.
by Splines 15y ago
Pool of Radiance had a bug where the uninstaller would wipe your hard drive. Oops. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q4/pool_of_radiance/pool-1....
919.
by Splines 15y ago
The nice thing about no hardware buttons is you don't need to worry about them failing.
920.
by Splines 15y ago
There's a certain amount of novelty in seeing what pictures other people took who were once standing where you were. Imagine seeing what your neighbourhood looked like 50 years ago. Now, whether or not Color is the best place for that to h
921.
LulzSec takes down Eve Online, Escapist Magazine, and Minecraft(twitter.com)
5 points by Splines 15y ago|1 comments
922.
by Splines 15y ago
Considering Gearbox and 2K's recent track record, it's not too surprising -- they've been relatively mediocre at best lately I thought Borderlands was fantastic. It can be a grind at times, but it's a really well done FPS-as-RPG. The fo
923.
by Splines 15y ago
... and it feels really natural. Amazon identifies me easily, but if I do anything that feels like I need my password, it asks for it. Apple's App Store has similar logic, although it bothers me in one place where they ask for your pass
924.
by Splines 15y ago
Me too. I have Growl set up to forward notifications to Notifo so I can get notified when interesting things happen during my work day (machine pave events, automation problems, etc.). I feel like I'm a bit of a free-rider though, using No
925.
by Splines 15y ago
.. and the nice thing is that it's a close representative of what you're trying to measure. If it's warm enough to melt a significant portion of ice, it's warm enough to spoil your food. I was thinking of some sort of canary that would tri
926.
by Splines 15y ago
Microsoft had a shot at this with Hailstorm[1], it's too bad that it was killed.[2] [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb263932(v=vs.85).as... [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/11/business/technology-micros...
927.
by Splines 15y ago
There's not a chance in hell that Apple would trust something so core to their business to someone else - let alone direct competitors like Microsoft or Amazon. Next. I do find it interesting that internally developers were using AWS/Azur
928.
by Splines 15y ago
I don't mind opt-out, as long as I know it's opt-out. The way FB rolls features out is they do it silently in the background, which is sort of grating. I wouldn't mind at all if there was a one-time "Hey, we made this cool new thing, I'm
929.
by Splines 15y ago
(I think you meant opt-in) How would Facebook be able to innovate if everything they released was opt-in? This isn't some privacy-leaking piece of the site, it is a feature that helps one of their core components be better. This is defini
930.
by Splines 15y ago
Well, it looks pretty. Poke it the wrong way and it explodes horribly. Sort of like the Hindenburg.

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