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by ben1040 16y ago
I could definitely see a use for this. While digital distribution is rapidly making record stores obsolete, there still certainly is a need for the guys behind the counter who knows way, way more about music than you ever will (think Jack B
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by ben1040 16y ago
This is always a great option, and actually I'm looking to go the other way. I studied a whole lot of computer science during undergrad and feel I missed out on other disciplines. I'm taking a course in creative writing on my employer's di
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by ben1040 16y ago
Regarding student loans, my understanding is that once you're a full-time student again, payment is again deferred. This might even be true if you're a part time student This is correct, at least for Federal student loans in the US (Staff
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'm 100% sure that these kids have absolutely no issues at home, where their parents operate cordless phones and microwave ovens in the same unlicensed spectra, and their house is bombarded by WiFi signals from their neighbors (in my previo
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by ben1040 16y ago
inability to control access easily Facebook seems to offer this, at least in a very limited manner. But there's one big issue with their implementation, which is that if someone has decided to share content with a more limited group, ther
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by ben1040 16y ago
SA is pretty brilliant in how they charge $5 for changing your avatar image, something which 99% of other popular forums let you do for free. For $10, you can change another user's title. If you get in a flame war with a guy with ten b
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by ben1040 16y ago
Check the account's Advanced settings, and make sure that the account's Deleted Mailbox points at the "On the Server" trash. You may also want to confirm that the Sent and Drafts mailboxes point to their Gmail equivalents. If you're using
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'm not sure if it's equivalent, but setting up the iPhone to treat your Gmail account as an Exchange Active Sync account gives the iPhone most of the cloud push features (Mail/Calendar/Contacts). I can add a contact on my iPhone that sync
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by ben1040 16y ago
I'll agree with this under the condition that we're talking about the most recent release of Office. Having had to wait 2 years for an Intel version of Office was disappointing. Office 2004 ran perfectly smoothly on my old iBook G4. But o
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by ben1040 16y ago
A coffee shop I use gives you an hour of internet access with any purchase. They have a router with an attached thermal printer. The clerk hits a button, and prints a receipt with a password that lets you on for exactly one hour from then
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by ben1040 16y ago
Another huge thing is Google Voice I don't use Google Voice for outbound calls, but I absolutely love the voicemail features from Google Voice. I thought that visual voicemail on the iPhone was nice, but after switching to Android I real
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by ben1040 16y ago
Under what circumstances does Apple even issue refunds? The app store terms of service is pretty clear within the first few paragraphs that all sales are final. http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html
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by ben1040 16y ago
I believe the block was actually only on Market apps that had the copy-protect flag enabled. Google has (as of last week with the release of the licensing service) changed their stance on the copy protection flag, advising developers to use
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by ben1040 16y ago
My thought as well. People talk a lot about how social networking services tend to leak information and violate privacy. Scraping those services for your own business purposes just seems shady, especially when done through a third party.
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by ben1040 16y ago
I think this is a good thing so long as developers are also generous enough with the grace periods that legitimate users aren't affected. If you travel to a foreign country for a week and don't have international data roaming turned on, wil
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by ben1040 16y ago
Wow, I filmed that video! I cannot speak officially for the Genome Center, but I'll throw out there that the ORM that powers much of the GC's analysis platform is out on Github and CPAN. It's actually more than an ORM in that it also suppor
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by ben1040 16y ago
One thing that may address your first two points is that Google demoed at I/O a web presence for the Android Market that would work in conjunction with the push service on the phone. Buy an app on the web and it's pushed to the phone. I im
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by ben1040 16y ago
I first read this 15 years ago in high school, when a teacher of mine saw the web first take hold and felt it important enough to photocopy this piece and spend several days in class discussing it. However, we had really only discussed the
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by ben1040 16y ago
Venter also wanted to patent the whole human genome once he'd sequenced it. It was only by a huge and expensive effort by the Wellcome charity that the genome was sequenced and made freely available Not only Wellcome (although their Sange
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by ben1040 16y ago
I never really used the Google contacts feature until getting an Android phone. At that point I had to spend an hour getting my contacts into a usable state; most of that time was spent clearing out nearly six years' worth of contacts that
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by ben1040 16y ago
When one with a cryonics membership dies, is his life insurance benefit still paid out? Yes, as many people pay for their suspension by taking out a life insurance policy that names the cryonics organization as a beneficiary.
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by ben1040 16y ago
Apple has proven willing to brick jailbroken phones in the past. Have they? The famous case of "bricking" back in 2007 was not related to a jailbreak, but was a botched unlock tool[1] that corrupted data in the baseband firmware. The cor
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by ben1040 16y ago
Reading this took me back to the intro photography course I took back in college a decade ago. I'm told a couple years later they had switched to digital for their courses because they lost their source for reagents for their paper process
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by ben1040 16y ago
Installing iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G made me think back to when I upgraded to Windows XP in 2001. The computer was top of the line when I bought it just 2 years prior, but XP was a total dog on it. However, a 2 year old PC would run Windows 7
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by ben1040 16y ago
I love my N1 because it has none of the carrier-enforced sponsorware and I can use the data plan I pay for however I choose (using the built-in tethering functionality, for example). I appreciate that Google recognizes that Android is an o
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A Viral Wonderland in the Human Gut(news.sciencemag.org)
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by ben1040 16y ago
"Facebook is using some seriously magical secret sauce to figure out who your friends might be, then what you might like based on your shared demographics, before asking you anything more than your email, name and age. That's pretty amazin
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by ben1040 16y ago
My take is the N1 wasn't disruptive to the carrier controlled/subsidized model because in the US, you had two separate N1 models that effectively only worked on one carrier (unless you found EDGE data service to be acceptable). An unlocked
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by ben1040 16y ago
I wonder if non-subsidized phones would cause the manufacturers to think harder about quality, as well. In the US, with Sprint, AT&T, & Verizon you pay the same price for service whether or not you bring your own phone, so you may a
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by ben1040 16y ago
Corporate travel agents make up the majority of the other half, I bet.

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