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by ajg1977 17y ago
Am I the only one with a smartphone who comes nowhere near 5GB a month? According to the iPhone my usage since 5/5/09 is 3.4GB, and I'd consider myself a frequent data user. I actually do wish that telecos would introduce metered plans, p
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Another sign Apple need to rethink their approach to QA(support.apple.com)
1 points by ajg1977 17y ago|1 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
This is not just exposing a flaw, it's committing fraud. Frankly the author's lucky it's lawyers who are contacting him and not the police. If I someone started posting info on how to create valid but fake mail-in rebate vouchers how long d
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by ajg1977 17y ago
By running Instruments and profiling them. Even if I didn't it's pretty easy to spot games that are maxing out the iPhone - dropped frames, slowdown, animation glitches,
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I call bullshit. Some of the most intensive games out there are using about 100% of the iPhones power and still get several hours of battery life. Even if the app used some pathological combination of CPU/GPU/Disk/Network resources you woul
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Agreed 100%. I get the feeling that many of the people who tout the iPhone/Tablet as an eBook reader have never tried a Kindle or something with e-ink. The experience just doesn't compare, and you don't have to worry about an hour of readin
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by ajg1977 17y ago
A 32" 1080p HDTV is about $500-$700 at the moment depending on the brand. Nobody looking for a TV is going to spend 3x as much on an iMac that has a smaller screen and a single input that can't even be used with most consoles/dvd/bluray pla
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by ajg1977 17y ago
This approach seems really dumb to me. 1) Testing rectangles against paths is an easy thing to solve on the CPU. 2) On the first iPhone models if you're doing anything graphics related the bottleneck is likely to be the GPU, so why give it
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Kitchen Nightmare's is a pretty good show, but not on par with the UK originals (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares). The original UK shows are far more "real" - no sensationalized voice overs, editing, or dramas. There's also no show-provided inf
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Cost is and always will be relative.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Are you kidding? It's a terrible article that consists of nothing but speculation and conflicting segments that attribute the data loss to "dogfooding", and/or sabotage, and/or aggressive non-beneficial firmware updates, and/or incompetenc
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by ajg1977 17y ago
$99... and a $75 a month bill for two years. Sure, you could pick up an iPod Touch for $199 but that's twice as much, has worse battery life, looks like it'd be far more fragile, and no way to prevent kids for accessing the more adult Wikip
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by ajg1977 17y ago
It's like a slightly-less-but-still-awesome Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy :)
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Apple need to move away from their current approach of seeding betas/RC to select developers and towards the open beta testing that Microsoft have successfully embraced in recent years. As the number of users and potential hardware/software
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Impressive - list of sites already running on Stack Exchange(meta.stackexchange.com)
35 points by ajg1977 17y ago|15 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Yes. If you do not defend a trademark you run the risk of having it deemed abandoned, after which people can use it freely or even re-register it for themselves.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Frankly I thought the tone of "hey, we need to ask you to stop" was a refreshing and reasonable change from the usual threats and bluster to be found in most C&D letters. Whether they have a valid claim or not would be for a lawyer to d
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I haven't been following the Wave hype, but by the end of the rather verbose first page I still had no real idea what Wave is supposed to be or why I'd want to use it. Best I can tell it's some mish-mash of email/IM/docs - which frankly sou
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I hope you remembered to use referral links! 8x250mb = 2GB of extra space :)
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by ajg1977 17y ago
I'm not a subscriber so haven't read the whole thing, but I suspect startups were responsible for very little of that 14% of new business hiring.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
As with most things in life bank fees like this are more often then not are negotiable. Make an appointment with the branch manager or business specialist at your BoA branch and voice your concerns about fees like these, and how they would
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by ajg1977 17y ago
It saddens me that "new media" appears to be singularly focused on who gets to break a story first and not who provides the most insight or value with their reporting.
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Courier: Microsoft's secret dual screen tablet device(gizmodo.com)
8 points by ajg1977 17y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Well so far I'd have to give them 10/10 for their handling of this issue. Palm's response (below) is incredibly refreshing. http://forums.precentral.net/palm-pre/202285-palm-rejects-na... NaNPlayer is using APIs that are currently privat
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Batman: Arkham Asylum features secret glitch to foil pirates.(kotaku.com)
3 points by ajg1977 17y ago|2 comments
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by ajg1977 17y ago
This guy's about four months too late, and despite what he infers all the known tethering workarounds have been patched in 3.1.
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Exactly. Time machine is for those "oh shit, my disk is toast/I really didn't mean to delete those files/I'm switching to a new mac" moments. It's not intended to be used to retain a complete history of your machine and as such if used for
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by ajg1977 17y ago
It doesn't even need to be that complicated. A Wordpress install is already capable of checking for new versions and updating itself. All that's needed is for this to be checked and performed at various intervals using a wp-cron style sched
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by ajg1977 17y ago
In many ways the extremely high frequency of Wordpress security updates completely works against them. Whenever a security update is released it is utterly trivial to do a diff against the previous package and get a vector to exploitable vu
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by ajg1977 17y ago
Shrug. All I know is that 3G = calls dropped, 2G = calls solid (irrespective of displayed signal strength). Repeatable on pretty much any Saturday afternoon in downtown SF.

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