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by TechNewb 15y ago
From an IP perspective, do you think Android is legal? From Java, to multi touch, to design aesthetics. Is Google doing to the OS industry to what they did to the news paper and media industry where IP is considered 'obsolete'. And a silen
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by TechNewb 15y ago
Constellation should be restarted.
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"First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA? -Neil deGrasse Tyson" http://wp.me/p1bnM2-qW
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by TechNewb 15y ago
The Y coordinate is constant, thus giving a 1D feel. But yes, technically speaking, it's still a 2D game, with 1D movement.
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As a dyslexic, what you say is interesting. I think this font is a step in the right direction, for at least causing greater awareness. But I would like to try and read a short story in it, and see if it helps. A dyslexic does not necessari
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by TechNewb 15y ago
Steve Jobs describes the iPhone experience at WWDC 1997 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEXae1j6EY&feature=youtu...
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Ask HN: Best magazine to tablet process?
1 points by TechNewb 15y ago|0 comments
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by TechNewb 16y ago
Chrome was causing my 6-core mac pro w/ Nvidia Quadro 4000 to have kernel panics a while back, but it seems to be working fine now.
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by TechNewb 16y ago
YouTube in HTML5 is an amazing experience through the YouTube5 Safari extension from Connor McKay. H.264, through YouTube, on Safari. For the low low price of free: http://www.verticalforest.com/2010/10/27/youtube5-version-2/ Best YouTube
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by TechNewb 16y ago
The biggest part of the 'rage' towards Google over the drop of Chrome's native ability to use H.264 in the <video> tag, is that Google is trying to spin as its for the benefit of innovation. Which is not the case. Flash has been gre
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by TechNewb 16y ago
Or people just stop using Youtube, and use Blip, Dailymotion, and any other 'modern' forward thinking video services instead.
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by TechNewb 16y ago
As a content producer, this upsets me. I would only consider WebM if it is superior to h.264. But either way I'm having second thoughts about using Chrome and Youtube if they really nix h.264. Google thinks they are bigger than they really
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by TechNewb 16y ago
Of course it would not end South Korea. But South Korea geographically is in a much weaker state than Japan was during WWII. First, half of South Korea's population is located in Seoul. Second, Japan is roughly three times as large, and has
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by TechNewb 16y ago
Sad news. North Korea starves millions of it's own people to build weapons, which shows the current leadership would rather kill it's own people than give up broken ideals that have lead the country to nothing but poverty. Hopefully when Ki
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American Design Schools are a Mess(fastcodesign.com)
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Here is a mini doc on the 10 Principles by Coolhunting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz8m9VMYRpM
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by TechNewb 16y ago
I'm currently learning to code for the first time, and it is a bit more of challenge than what I imagine it might be fore a non dyslexic person. It took me awhile to find a typeface that agreed with my eyes, and I think Lucida Sans Typewrit
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Using Mac OSX's built in text-to-speech function, although I would like it to read faster than its current maximum speed limit. But text-to-speech technology allows dyslexic people to have access to information that was almost previously in
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by TechNewb 16y ago
There are many definitions of stupid, but I would not classify speed as one of them. As a dyslexic I'm very slow at reading, but I can use technology to augment that slowness.