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by abruzzi 13y ago
Exactly. I think it boils down to the fear that we don't know when the camera is active. When we're holding out our smart phone in a certain way, people know we're taking a photo. Google could build glass with a bright fla
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by abruzzi 13y ago
This may be right, but to me, as a doubter, I'm well aware of potential benefits, but my creepiness radar comes from the feeling that there is a point where recording becomes too intrusive. If I'm in a public bathroom and someone
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The one thing that has always kept me from Live (and this probably applies to .001% of DAW users) is last I checked it doesn't support score based composition. To me the easiest way to visualize my music is good old-fashioned 350 year
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by abruzzi 13y ago
It does on page six.
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Shades of Ferris Beuller. Hopefully he doesn't have a son.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The easiest/quickest lossy text compressions that could theoretically almost halve the size of your data is to drop capitalization (and also assuming you're using some minimal encoding that can only encode the characters you'
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by abruzzi 13y ago
oddly, I am in almost complete disagreement with this article. The only point of agreement is I hate the camera icon (the full camera looks clunky. they should just use a diaphram shutter.) The other icon I hate is the new music icon. Th
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Actually there are plenty of artists whose livelihood isn't about appealing to 100 million people and making fat cash. They release one work, and the 1000 or 10000 fans earn them $100 a month on that work. Then another work earns the
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by abruzzi 13y ago
The first think I think of when somebody (usually a developer trying to predict the future) says the file system is going away, is: So, without a file system, how do you organize the Linux kernel code? Or the WebKit code? The reality is the
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by abruzzi 13y ago
the cube also didn't have a fan, it just used a chimney effect. And no I never heard of an overheat problem, I still have my cube--13 years, and it still runs fine (slow these days though...)
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by abruzzi 13y ago
Actually the test was closer Socorro and the small town of San Antonio, NM (birthplace of the Hilton dynasty.) It was on what is now White Sands Missile Range which is very close to Alamogordo, but there is a mountain range between the tes
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by abruzzi 13y ago
An early Saab also had covered front wheels, to improve economy. It was problematic though because it under certain conditions it could get packed with snow and hinder turning.
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by abruzzi 13y ago
My second biggest gripe with the Chrome UI it the tabs shrink the size of the window title bar which makes it harder (read slower) to move windows around. (first biggest gripe is the single search/url field, but that is getter hard to get a
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I'm just glad they brought back volume control on the mini player. I use the mini player all the time at work, and the inability to set iTunes volume independently of other sound generators on my computer was really annoying. The album ar
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by abruzzi 13y ago
I hate to say it, but aside from a little bit of "social" stuff which I'll never use, and a slightly revised UI, it doesn't really seem all that different. I'd prefer fixes to the map data itself. I've been having pretty severe routing is
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Also, their exit and sale to google was perfectly timed. As copyright started to loom on their future, they got bought by deep pockets.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I don't think range anxiety is irrational. I may be that I only need extended range in 5% of my driving, but unless I own a second vehicle or am prepared to rent a vehicle for that 5%, it essentially makes a it a non-starter. In other wor
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I thought Apple did licence Tom Tom data? The problem with maps is not the app, but quality of the data, which came from other sources.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Computers can do more now, but relative to expectations of the time, computers were more fun then because they were new. I had more fun with my Apple //e and later Amiga 1000 than I have ever had with an iPhone, because expectations were l
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by abruzzi 14y ago
but what about with color and motion? I know the TV sees pixels as discrete, but if the encoding of the content is 4:2:2, 4:1:1, or 4:2:0 higher resolution might be noticeable. Of course improving the color sampling would be a better solu
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I wonder if you could argue some variant of the nyquist theorem justifies resolution significantly beyond our ability to discern pixels? (Just a random thought, as I know little about visual perception.)
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by abruzzi 14y ago
It has little to do with the price being set by a computer or a person. He sees the price for everyone else is one third cheaper. He doesn't say it, but without making the connection to the price fixing anti-trust action, a reasonable con
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by abruzzi 14y ago
$6.99 on the iPad to print? Mine prints for free. I also set up a print server at work (also free) so a couple dozen enterprise printers are accessible from the iPad on the internal wifi.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Haven't seen the video (and the article had no link) but in my mind, the key differentiator would be is the music part of the natural ambient sound, or is it an overlaid soundtrack? It's a lot easier to assert fair use when it is part of t
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Maybe they should be counted for 3/5ths of a monthly active user.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I recently canceled my AT&T contract, paid my ETF, bought a straighttalk SIM, and now $50/mo ($45 plus taxes.) for 'unlimited' service. It works without unlocking because straighttalk is an AT&T based MVNO (or at least the sim I bo
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Panic was first with an emoji domain: http://www.panic.com/blog/2011/07/the-worlds-first-emoji-dom... http://💩.la
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by abruzzi 14y ago
For someone who has suffered depression for 35 years continuously (almost all my life) and had tried talk therapy, CBT, and over a dozen different drugs ranging from SSRIs like Prozac and Paxil, to Tricyclics like Tofranil. I'd hardly call
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by abruzzi 14y ago
Actually it depends on how you use GPSs. Its certainly possible to write a mapping/GPS app for a smart phone that is competitive with the more advanced features of handheld or dashmount GPSs, but I simply haven't seen one yet. None of the
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by abruzzi 14y ago
I saw a presentation from an evolutionary biologist who may the point that we die because there is no evolutionary pressure not to die. Once we've birthed and raised out young, we are no longer relevant from an evolutionary perspective. H

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