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by av500 14y ago
Does it import Microsoft document formats 100% better? That' the biggest issue that Open/LibreOffice has and until that one is solved for good, the rest does not matter much... EDIT: not wanting to contribute further to the fall of HN, I
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by av500 14y ago
From what I read, it partly is a google wave clone...
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by av500 14y ago
but that does not help if the customer buys a 2nd 5$ charger and uses that e.g. at work. Then the touchscreen will behave less good and the customer will blame Apple...
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by av500 14y ago
Long term, Comcast wants to convert the average 100$/month HD package into a 100$/month data usage bill...
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by av500 14y ago
If you are an ARM shareholder
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by av500 14y ago
Minor nit: The Archos mp3 players required no desktop software at all, they appeared as a USB mass storage device and you could just copy your files over - for me still the preferred way over any other "music sync" solution...
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Linux in 2015(pastebin.com)
2 points by av500 14y ago|0 comments
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by av500 14y ago
All negative effects on media industry revenues are always due to piracy!
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by av500 15y ago
I am aware that it would be more complicated, but not impossible. I guess for the time being the percentage of blocked ads is still small, but once it gets significant websites and ad providers will take the next step in the arms race
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by av500 15y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but what would prevent ad-serving websites from totally "inlining" the ads inside their own website html/css/js/? They could even render ads as fonts and vectors graphics, how would an ad-blocker tell that apart from th
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by av500 15y ago
Are there seriously people that used Megaupload as their sole and only place to store their data? What if there was a fire in the server room? Or some MU intern typed rm -rf /?
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by av500 15y ago
yes, I tried to pick my title accordingly
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The H264 time bomb will kill us all in 2015, run(freesoftwaremagazine.com)
19 points by av500 15y ago|10 comments
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by av500 15y ago
my biggest gripe with QR codes is that the built-in camera apps on smartphones dot not scan for them by default. Instead I have to hunt through my installed apps to find the "barcode scanner" or whatever. Why can't the default camera recogn
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by av500 15y ago
now we should wait to see the Indian media industry quadruple their revenues because suddenly all the pirated content is being bought now....
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by av500 15y ago
but the problem is that you do not know what is signal and what is noise. If you have two pixels with correlated noise, you have in the extreme case s_1 + n and s_2 + n, so averaging that gives you (s_1 + s_2) / 2 + n. If the noise is uncor
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by av500 15y ago
"...And in good light, visual noise is virtually non-existent...." - well of course, but it's not about good light, it's about bad light.
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by av500 15y ago
yes, but binning pixels is inferior to averaging because the noise in adjacent pixels is correlated. (I had a nice paper about that, still looking for it)
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by av500 15y ago
so, while Nikon and Canon are still not there at 41MP with full frame sensors, Nokia did it with a tiny phone sensor? if true, they should drop making phones immediately. I still remember the hype around the (5MP?) camera on the N95 back th
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by av500 15y ago
with so much noise per pixel that they are forced to bin 7 pixels together to produce a final 5MP image....
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by av500 15y ago
So Mozilla's fully open "Boot to Gecko" will power the carriers walled garden "fully closed" wet dreams?
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by av500 15y ago
it might still have e.g. a binary wifi driver, not many of these are fully open either...
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by av500 15y ago
I have only anecdotal evidence from people that are masochistic enough to compile their stuff natively, I prefer to cross-build.
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by av500 15y ago
It takes "ages", but that is mainly due to the very slow mass storage speed that current ARM SoCs feature. Mobile phones and development boards like the Pandaboard use SD cards as mass storage and SD cards can be very slow when not used for
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by av500 15y ago
There are very few hardfp benchmarks that really compare just this feature and leave the rest of the system identical. E.g. comparing Debian armv5 with floating point emulation vs Ubuntu armv7hf of course yields a huge gain, but that mainly
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by av500 15y ago
there is no need to compensate end users for lost data as the MU terms of service explicitly ruled out any such compensation...
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by av500 15y ago
Agreed, nobody did, but everybody is screaming bloody murder now it seems...
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by av500 15y ago
most likely the data hosting companies were not part of the whole DoJ takedown operation, so for them it's basically like any other client who stops payments....
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by av500 15y ago
Only legitimate users who did not keep a local copy of their files will lose their data... Unfortunately Google cache has stopped serving the MU terms of service, but this link still has them: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78876728/Megauploa
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by av500 15y ago
I have HTML5 enabled in Youtube, yet I still cannot watch most of the videos because they are served as Flash only. So why is Google pushing Webm when their top video site does not make use of it?

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