bjustin

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by bjustin 14y ago
It would be great if it people made the kind of changes you mention, but would it be worth the time and effort? It may be better for people to work on other kinds of programs than to spend a lot of time improving the LibreOffice code base.
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It could be that the fonts you saw render better on one platform or another. Windows and OS X render text differently enough that it happens sometimes.
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How fast does it load on a cellular connection in the country it is hosted? It would be great if it loaded in <200ms on fast cell networks.
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I can see uses for a touchscreen, for example I think some of Apple's trackpad gestures would be better. Think three finger swipe to switch virtual desktops on a 15" screen instead of a 4" trackpad. I do hope they work out a good solution
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by bjustin 14y ago
You need margin breathing room for a major component cost increase, which most hardware companies don't have. Plus you want to start small, so you can minimize panel area lost to defects. When you have big margins like Apple has on iOS de
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by bjustin 14y ago
Given that lawmakers are people, we will never have a perfect legislative system. Were we to somehow get a perfect, loophole free tax code, it will suffer death from a thousand papercuts. Lawmakers will get provisions that benefit their s
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by bjustin 14y ago
Why is it unfair? Are you suggesting that services should be taxed at a greater rate than goods?
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Equating a lesser crime (copyright infringement) with a greater crime (theft) diminishes the weight of the greater crime[1]. To use a ridiculous example, if you say that taking a picture of a statue is the same as stealing the statue, any
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by bjustin 14y ago
A potential competitor, yes, but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? I certainly did not. Do you think that offering any compute-based service using Amazon's infrastructure is a bad business decision?
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Sounds like the UNIX time epoch but in a timezone in America, e.g. EST (UTC-5), making it the day before.
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Some of them do. Some people (still) can't afford as much nutritious food as they should be eating. Any cuts to food stamps, reduced and free school lunches, etc., will make the situation worse. Some "conservatives" are seriously talking
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by bjustin 14y ago
>Well, there is an idea that they should stay in jail until we are reasonably sure they don't pose a danger to society / won't re-offend. Sounds quite a bit slowly than actively trying to reform them.
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> Crimes do not, as a rule, become "better" or "worse" based on why someone does them. Yes they do. Intent is usually taken into account during sentencing, for example.
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No. The response was so disproportionate to his actions that no reasonable person would have expected it.
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They should charge whatever makes them the most money per flight. Unless a competitor to GoGo comes along, or using cellular devices is allowed on planes, it is likely a good decision short term and long term. jonafato mentioned in another
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You do so shortly before nanomachines for eternal life are invented, and your second in command turns out to be a tyrant ruling over humanity for hundreds of years.
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by bjustin 14y ago
> Do you know how much effort goes into the process? Even when things are completely automated (which is expensive) there's a lot of manual labor in operating the machine, editing, and cleaning stuff up. What do you do with figures? How
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by bjustin 14y ago
So true, the real one is almost always an ordinary looking link rather than a button.
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If you can get used to Unity in a week or two, I recommend Ubuntu. Fedora has always worked fine for me, but Ubuntu tends to have fewer rough edges.
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OS X applications are usually distributed as disk images (.dmg) containing the app itself, a symlink to /Applications for easily copying the app there, and maybe supporting files. Installers are unusual, except for huge software packages l
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They have said that Match is for getting high quality versions of songs that you ripped from CDs, so no reason to feel bad here.
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by bjustin 14y ago
Takedowns on YouTube are, for corporations such as the record labels and movie studios, largely done under their ContentID system, not under the DMCA notice system. Google has a reputedly poor process for disputes that can lead to DMCA not
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by bjustin 14y ago
Honda made a road that plays part of the William Tell Overture[1]. It doesn't sound right, but the effect was still fun when I tried it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_road#Civic_Musical_Road
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by bjustin 14y ago
By mid 2014, I expect Apple to sell retina versions of all of their laptops. It is still some ways off, but then when will you adapt your site for retina? When 20% of your market has retina laptops? By then, you have established to that 20
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by bjustin 14y ago
Get the retina MBP. You won't have to think about setting up, backing up, connecting to, updating, or securing a remote server if you do. Unless you enjoy doing those things, you are better off saving that time and especially effort for o
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by bjustin 14y ago
While it can drive two external displays, it only has one Thunderbolt port. The only easy way to attach multiple monitors is chaining Apple's Thunderbolt Displays. Other setups may require Thunderbolt docks or the like.
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Windows 7's success throws people off. I would guess that XP's age (and Vista's perceived flaws) lead to an unusually large number of tech-savvy people quickly upgrading to 7. The same people would encourage others to upgrade as well, if
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We know how Google's algorithm works in no small part because Larry and Sergey came up with it as part of their graduate studies at Stanford. Stanford owns the patent(s?) on it and made hundreds of millions licensing it to Google.
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> What that means is that you really can't add an instruction if you're an Apple or a Cisco or what not to your CPU to make your particular use of the part more efficient. But with ARM you can. If you are an instruction set licensee you
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by bjustin 14y ago
As the site says, OS X is mostly safe by default. DMA is disabled when a machine is locked or the user is not logged in[1], in OS X 10.7.2+. [1] https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 (missed the note about this on the page the first time t

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