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by ajg1977 16y ago
Good for Mozilla, I hope this doesn't get dropped from 4.0 due to deadlines or other reasons. Making it easy and fuss free for users to get security updates for your product may not be a sexy feature but it is a great one. The reason Safari
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What a collapsing empire looks like(salon.com)
43 points by ajg1977 16y ago|32 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Krugman wrote a good article earlier this week addressing why deflation is a bad thing. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/why-is-deflation...
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Jailbreakers provide patch for critical iOS security hole(macstories.net)
3 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
You're mistaken. I never unlocked my 3GS but had tethering enabled for most of the 3.x lifecycle.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Possibly. Until now AT&T have ignored (or been unable to detect) people who had artificially enabled tethering. Now that they have an official tethering plan,if they do have a way to detect unofficial tetherers then they may automatical
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Cost of 3G data in the US among highest in the world.(wired.com)
26 points by ajg1977 16y ago|28 comments
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Map of the Internet IP4 space (2006)(xkcd.com)
1 points by ajg1977 16y ago|0 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
This would be a much better article if everything before "But Seriously" was omitted. Much of the first half is a barely related ramble that could be argued either way depending on context. For example, Angry Birds is an excellent game comp
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Interesting that there's only a $50 premium for the 3G Kindle, whereas the 3G iPad is an additional $130 over the Wifi model. Different licensing agreements? Amazon taking a loss? Typical Apple markup?
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by ajg1977 16y ago
While Windows has (and probably always will be) an OS that requires reboots for certain patches, it seems a bit biased of the article to ignore much of the work that's been done in recent (>= Server 2003) versions of the OS to minimize
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by ajg1977 16y ago
There's a pretty good chance (e.g. about 100%) that anything you would want to run on that high-end visualization system won't run on your laptop, and anything you would want to run on your laptop won't run on your phone. If your definition
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Unfortunately it really doesn't matter what's in an OpenGL spec, nor how it compares to Direct3D. What matters are which features the hardware manufacturers choose to support and how well they do so. If the past is any guide then OGL will c
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune HD, and the upcoming Windows Phone, all run Direct3D. If you've run Vista or Windows 7 lately with an Aero capable card, then much of your desktop experience was rendered by Direct3D. Finally, Firefox 3.7, Offi
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Going off on a bit of a tangent for a second... I didn't realize that Ars had started charging if you wanted to view/print an entire article instead of viewing it one page at a time. It's a good example of one of the worst ways to monetize
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by ajg1977 16y ago
The large profit margins newspapers enjoyed in the past were built on an artificial scarcity: Limited choice for advertisers as well as readers.. Ironically, that sounds rather like the state of online advertising today, where Google's la
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Contacts (and in iOS 4, calendar data) are completely unprotected. Just create an instance of an AddressBook and go to town. Your pictures are only accessible through the camera roll UI... IF the developer is only using public APIs. Since w
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by ajg1977 16y ago
This whole thing is just... bizarre. With Facebook now taking the "we don't know if he signed it, but if he did it's invalid anyway!" argument it looks like Zuckerberg may indeed have put pen to this paper. My guess would be either he assum
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Handy Light: Tethering App Camouflaged as Flashlight(appshopper.com)
70 points by ajg1977 16y ago|64 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
"But it’s hard to argue with brevity." No, it's really not. Brevity != clarity. Clarity is hard to argue with, brevity is not. By his own admission this new code is harder to write and harder to debug. It's interesting to me that in the art
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For $50 you can have a personal portrait via FaceTime(mashable.com)
8 points by ajg1977 16y ago|7 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
If there's one thing it needs right now, it's a one sentence "What is KickPost?" blurb in the top-right somewhere. If I hadn't read the comments here I'd have assumed it was some sort of aggregator and moved on.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Could we please not have anymore "Why Wordpress themes do/don't fall under the GPL" posts from people who aren't lawyers? It's an interesting topic, but it's been done to death over the past week in both the blogosphere and on HN. Pretty mu
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Bit of a silly article IMO. 1) Given a perfect compiler, once compiled any interpreted code would be as fast as a native implementation. 2) How good a job your compiler does is dependent on many things, majorly the complexity of the code be
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RIM on Apple's claims of Blackberry Bold signal loss(crackberry.com)
77 points by ajg1977 16y ago|71 comments
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Writing a link-bait title about getting to page 1 of Google certainly won't hurt either :)
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I would bet: Late 2010: FaceTime support on iPod Touch Early 2011: Support on new iPad revision WWDC 2011: 10.7 announced, support in iChat, API's available Late 2011: Open specification released for 3rd parties.
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by ajg1977 16y ago
I hold my phone lightly, not in a death grip. If part of my skin touches the wrong area on the iPhone 4, signal vanishes. Capeche?
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by ajg1977 16y ago
Those pictures of other phones losing signal were hilarious. Yes, if you hold other smartphones in a clam-like grip then they do lose signal. But not when you place a single finger on one small spot on the outside of the phone. It's good th
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by ajg1977 16y ago
No, this is one example of code that appears to have been copied from the Wordpress source. I wish the author had posted the rest, but this isn't the only one.

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