ben1040

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by ben1040 14y ago
>the typical fan of The Weather Channel is probably wondering why everyone is talking about weather happening underground all of a sudden. Or radical leftists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground
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by ben1040 14y ago
Same here. It occurred to me at some point that while I had a fairly large group of "friends" on Facebook, there were only 10-15 people that I really actually cared about. And those are people that I communicate with on a regular basis o
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by ben1040 14y ago
>"asking to leave" leans too much on the rosy side. Usually "asking" implies they have a choice, right? Maybe more of a Hobson's choice. "I'm going to have to ask you to leave" seems to be the sort of thing said by bartenders/bouncers w
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by ben1040 14y ago
It would be just as easy for a hypothetical Ford to do what GM did with the EV-1 -- don't sell the car and only offer it for lease.
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by ben1040 14y ago
>A new version does not change how well it works. When you're talking about a Honeycomb-based tablet, it does. Android 3, as was released on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, was for all intents and purposes a "public beta." It is far behind the la
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by ben1040 14y ago
He doesn't even yet get to experience what will happen when Google releases a new version of Android and you expect to see it on your tablet in a reasonable time frame. I gave up on my Galaxy Tab 10.1 when Android 4 came out and Samsung cho
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by ben1040 14y ago
This seems like it would be an actual good use of a QR code, if it was specifically labeled as "Scan this to see how to install this product." On the other hand, I just got a bill from my exterminator service. And lo and behold right there
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by ben1040 14y ago
You can change the name, but to do so requires you to change the app metadata in XCode, rebuild a new binary, and upload it back to iTunes Connect like you would any other update. That would trigger another round of reviewing, so in theory
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by ben1040 14y ago
This tool is great. I have an NFC sticker on my nightstand lamp now so when I trigger it, my ringer/notification volume goes to zero, alarm volume goes way up, and I set an alarm to wake up the following morning. I used to be really sloppy
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by ben1040 14y ago
Including a copy of the source with a missile reminds me of the "McDonnell-Douglas Warranty Card" joke that is probably nearly as old as the Internet itself: http://www.cartalk.com/content/mcdonnell-douglas-warranty-ca...
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by ben1040 14y ago
Free developer accounts get to download the SDK when the iOS software is released to the public. And since major iOS releases are tied to new iPhone releases, you're looking at sometime this fall.
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by ben1040 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect Osborne Computer announced a future product that would outperform the current line. People waited, rather than buying what was currently being offered. In the meantime, with the drop in sales
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by ben1040 14y ago
Nice. Would be extra useful to see reserved instance pricing on here too.
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by ben1040 14y ago
I sold my Galaxy Tab 10.1 to buy an iPad 3 when they came out, mainly because of the lack of tablet-optimized apps. 9 months into owning it the app situation wasn't any better than on day one, and I gave up. At least as of mid-March, Googl
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by ben1040 14y ago
Google Maps didn't even launch publicly until 2005.
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by ben1040 14y ago
Yeah. I'm trying to cut meat out for health reasons but I have 30 years' meat-eating inertia behind me. And I like the taste/texture of meat. I will happily buy something that gets me 80-85% of the way there without the health hit or energ
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by ben1040 14y ago
An interesting article from two years ago about the product development (the names in the "About" page here match up to the Mizzou team in the article): http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1993883,00....
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by ben1040 14y ago
Nope. After spending the morning digging (turns out no other web fonts would show up either) I discovered it was a corrupted OS X font cache.
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by ben1040 14y ago
Update: there was actually a web font rendering issue on my machine. No web fonts would render at all. Clearing the font cache as instructed here solved the problem. http://surgeworks.com/blog/general/how-to-fix-chrome-for-mac...
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by ben1040 14y ago
Missing all the characters altogether: http://imgur.com/ByrB9 (Chrome 20.0.1132.21 on Mac OS X 10.7.3)
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by ben1040 14y ago
I can't imagine they wouldn't SIM-lock it. Otherwise it would just open up the possibility for people to buy a $500 iPhone from Cricket without any service commitment, and sell it for overseas use for $600 or $650. Aren't the unofficial u
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by ben1040 14y ago
Of those, Visual Display of Quantitative Information and Beautiful Evidence are my favorites.
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by ben1040 14y ago
>or press the depth of field preview button, but those are becoming rare on consumer grade hardware I bought a Nikon D5100 last summer, my first SLR since a Pentax K1000 I had for decades. The lack of a DoF preview button was a little
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by ben1040 14y ago
Same thing happened to me a few years ago when I purchased CS4 via download. I guess Adobe still hasn't cleaned up their fulfillment system. I chose the download option just because I thought it would've been really simple: I assumed I wou
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by ben1040 14y ago
See gmvault as mentioned in the comments here, it just saves an oauth token. Still can be used to access your mail but at least it can be easily revoked and isn't your clear text password.
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by ben1040 14y ago
Imports, too - they launched an import tool about a year and a half ago, but it too only supports Windows.
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by ben1040 14y ago
After one of my Apple cables started fraying, I preemptively wrapped the ends of the rest with Sugru in hopes that it will help. Worked well so far, sucks that I had to do it at all.
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by ben1040 14y ago
I wonder if it's this Verizon Remote Diagnostics tool that started getting loaded onto a few phone models a couple months ago. http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/20/verizon-updates-revolutio...
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by ben1040 14y ago
A number of early investors sold some of their shares in this IPO. Of note from this SEC filing (look at the "Principal and Selling Stockholders" heading), Zuckerberg himself put 30 million shares into the IPO, shares from some early angels
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by ben1040 14y ago
Amazon Instant Video doesn't work on an Xbox 360, which is what I use for streaming Netflix. The rentals work on my Tivo, but not the free streaming included with Amazon Prime. And it doesn't work on my iPad at all. Netflix works in all t

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