Tloewald

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by Tloewald 12y ago
Sure but the modern school system was designed to produce workers for the industrial age. The information age accelerated change to the point where the stuff that was current while you were in college was already obsolete by the time you gr
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Once change became the norm (probably the 1970s) this was probably the case all over the world. Given that it's pretty difficult to change school curricula and retrain all your teachers, what does anyone expect? In any event, it's
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Since when is Tobacco in Australia sold in plain packaging? AFAIK (it's been a while since I lived in Australia) the health messages have to be very prominent, and they can't advertise on TV, radio, or near schools, but they can s
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by Tloewald 12y ago
That would be the CIA, but fair point.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
And it works in fewer places than h264 video tags.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
The NSA doesn't shoot black teenagers in the back, so I'd say they compare quite well to the police. 9% of homicides in Nevada are police shootings. We don't have figures for the most of the US because law enforcement agencie
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I meant the question to be rhetorical! ;-)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
If you want an actual free but very solid programmers' text editor for the Mac, try TextWrangler (the baby sibling of BBEdit). Sublime is great but _not_ free. I used to like Coda when I was mostly developing PHP stuff solo with MAMP,
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It's interesting that a lot of the arguments against UDP are because networks deprioritize the packets or that routers don't handle them. If you know a message is going to be lost if you don't handle it, perhaps it should rec
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Hilariously, this is the rival school of thought in literary criticism. The author's intent doesn't matter.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
O'Reilly books uses Mac Classic to run the last version of Framemaker that still ran on the Mac. (Not sure why they don't use Parallels.)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Read my original post.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Does it matter whether a person who writes a sign saying "enter at your own risk" means it as a joke or as a genuine warning?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
"A judge of course can do what they will. But their job is to try to interpret what the CURRENT congress intends the laws to mean, NOT what some previous congress did. The first congress formed by the framers is just one of those.&quot
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Thanks for the response. Being able to switch providers AND create a hotspot is pretty damn cool though.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
@galaxyLogic: Yes but judges are people, and their decisions are based on what they believe the rules they're enforcing mean, and they are interpreting those rules based on parsing the meaning according to their theory of how you compr
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I'm curious as to what word-processor on Android (or Mac, or Windows) is superior to Pages. I think that's a pretty hollow claim. Make no mistake Pages is flawed, but it seriously kicks word-processing butt.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Good point. It does create some very interesting price points. The iPad Mini 2 at 16GB is a really good deal (and definitely worth $50 more than the iPad Mini 1). Similarly, the iPad Mini 3 at 16GB is a terrible deal, but the iPad Mini 3 at
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Also -- am I right that this is the first iPad to be able to create a hotspot? This changes the economics of mobile -- you can grab a data plan as you like it and when you like it, and use VoIP calling and so forth. I wonder if the watch ma
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Well, there are two points. First, we live in a constitutional democracy. The constitution is supposed to be the set of meta-rules which dictate how and what the government can do. Like it or not this turns out to come down to literary inte
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It's basically the iPad Mini Retina with touch ID and cheaper memory upgrades. My guess is that the real update was held back by the much-rumored production issues. So, if you want 16GB and don't care about Touch ID, get the old o
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Careful examination of the specs reveal the iPad Mini 3 is basically an iPad Mini 2 with touch ID, and less expensive memory options. It doesn't have the CPU, screen, thinness, or improved camera. It's kind of like the iPad 3 whic
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by Tloewald 12y ago
434g would seem like a reasonable way to express the mass of the thing too.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I had the same problem with my gen 4, until I plugged it into my Mac and it did the upgrade with no problems at all. It's not exactly a crippling issue (versus, for example, my three times and now permanently bricked Nexus 7, which nee
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by Tloewald 12y ago
16GB is fine for, say, schools and enterprise (it's effectively ~11GB usable if it's like my gen 4). It's hopeless if you want to use it to handle photographs, movies, or lots of games. The next step up (64GB) isn't even
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I would imagine being energy efficient and cheap is their main goal. This is the kind of computer people will leave on, plugged into their TV.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You can buy a good 24" display for a lot less than a similar 27" display. That's a whole different discussion.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It seems to me that a top-of-the-line consumer machine should be able to compete with a 3 year old workstation (that hadn't received a significant update in two years -- effectively 5yo hardware).
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Thanks for the info -- didn't know Haswell has that limit. (I guess that's one of the benefits of buying pro stuff.)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I can't believe you can't believe it. Have you heard of Apple before? If anything I'm a bit more perturbed that they max out at 32GB of RAM. My aging Mac Pro has more than that in it. I imagine that they preferred shipping wi

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