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by abruzzi 14y ago
A map application by itself is certainly useful, but streetview provides certain benefits that a map alone doesn't provide. For my uses it is critical. Every year I take a 7 day vacation with my father on our motorcycles. Streetview allo
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by abruzzi 14y ago
as the old saying goes--the best text editor is the one you have with you.
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by abruzzi 14y ago
This would seem to be an opportunity for CS people to do what the do best--obfuscate through bad UI design. If they're legally obligated to provide an interface, then why make it a good interface? I'm thinking that the FBI's interface to t
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by abruzzi 15y ago
It's not simply nostalgia, but the fact that our eyes, brains, and expectations are firmly rooted in 24FPS, and anything else will have to overcome that aesthetic training. A good analog would be the diatonic system of western (Pythagorean
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Commerce isn't a bad thing, but exciting new technology to try to separate me from my money faster may be a cool thing for Google, but not for me--the consumer. Maybe I'm weird, but I already know what I want to buy, I don't need technolog
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by abruzzi 15y ago
One more piece of 'revolutionary technology' whose main goal seems to be to sell me things or make me spend my money in other ways.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Interesting. I've never read anything by Suzanne Collins, but except for the occasional Jane Austin, she dominates the list.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Unfortunately, I couldn't find most of the types of pieces I use (2"x 4" square tubing, 2" square tubing, 2 3/4" round tubing--all steel.) For a hobbyist, this could be a god send if they would carry the pieces I need. I have plenty of lo
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by abruzzi 15y ago
To me the key sentence is: >You should also resolve to expose your children to all sorts of opinions and information, in order that they will be better equipped to make decisions and to survive. A great way of saying that if you don't l
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Something similar that the Mac App store is killing is the competitive crossgrade. It used to be a boon to buy Logic at full price, then be able to buy its competitors like Digital Performer or Cubase for half price. Currently the App Sto
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Never been hit like a cost like this, but I figured why take the chance? I just called AT&T customer service and enabled "purchase blocker" on my line (which is only for family and emergencies anyway.) Thanks for posting that the bloc
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Depends on what you're doing, but favorite implies I enjoy it, which would have to be something that isn't used for work, which would be something Pd/Max for me.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
If by test you mean "try out". Nothing formal.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
What it boils down to is the scale that these organizations operate and the limited investment in customer service means that CS operations can't spend the time to understand problems. They build a decision tree that doesn't capture the su
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by abruzzi 15y ago
I'm glad they didn't call it "iPad HD". Call me pedantic, but HD should be limited to ITU 'HDTV' broadcast spec, and the iPad 3's resolution doesn't fit. Instead it just confuses things with imprecise language.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
This article reads like a pre-napster time machine that knows nothing of the last 10-15 years of digital copying/copyright. I'm sure the Pinterest terms of use were simply holding the user and not the company responsible for any copyright v
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by abruzzi 15y ago
wow...Mercator Projection!
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by abruzzi 15y ago
In need of more emphasis is the fact that while many have received these cookie settings unaware and may prefer wide open settings, Google and others have no way to discern the difference between those users and those that legitimately want
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Their survey doesn't let me select Yamaha as a brand. For years I've mixed with Yamaha RH5Ma headphones, so I've grown a soft spot for them. Most consider them a bit harsh like NS10s, but I find most professional recordings to be to warm
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Park usually does two things--it slips a fixed tooth (pawl) into a gear on the output shaft of the transmission, effectively locking the driven wheels (i.e. front wheels on a front wheel drive car.) It will also unload the gears of the tran
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by abruzzi 15y ago
It need not be risky or warranty voiding. Bricking has been applied to software updated pushed out by vendors in the past, so I don't think it implies anything more than something that causes something to lose all function and become inert
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by abruzzi 15y ago
This is a textbook example of a non-denial denial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-denial_denial
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Fuel injected vehicles have a much higher pressure fuel pump than carbed vehicles. Some designs might have trouble with priming, but most these days are submerged pumps that are installed in the tank. This solves the priming problem, and
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Even so, bleed the brakes, look for leaks, check fluids, and at worst, you are out a couple of hundred. My current truck is a 1972, and had been sitting for 10 years when I bought it. It needed the above, plus new tires.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Where I drive, I am frequently 100 miles from the nearest gas station. Plus in small remote areas, gas stations can be out of gas, out of business, or just closed for unknown reasons.
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by abruzzi 15y ago
This man's documentaries are amazing. It is a shame that one of the techniques he pioneered--the reenactments in 'Thin Blue Line' have become part of the ruin of documentaries. When 'Thin Blue Line' showed reenactments, it was to reinforc
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by abruzzi 15y ago
If you run your ICE without oil, yes, you will kill it. And maybe these should be thought of in the same way, but people worry about this because draining a battery to zero seems like running out of gas, and most of us have run out of gas
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by abruzzi 15y ago
Agreed 100%. This post was kind of a non-denial denial by focusing on "normal driving conditions" and not some of the scenarios the previous author brought up like leaving your car at the airport with 5% charge while you go on a trip. Also
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by abruzzi 15y ago
> then they made it again in rewriting Quattro Pro from scratch and astonishing people with how few features it had. This reminds me of Final Cut Pro X. From an abstract code-base standpoint, it was much improved. Many people on the n
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by abruzzi 15y ago
I agree with almost everything in the article, but for me, webOS's achilles heel is speed. Even with my touchpad overclocked to 1.7ghz, it still feels sluggish. But after a day of using it over my iPad 2, when I return to the iPad, I find

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