bjustin

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by bjustin 14y ago
A later comment says it affects versions through JB: Users are reporting this issue up through Jelly Bean / 4.2 - my specific information is against 4.2. I don't believe this issue was solved in gingerbread.
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by bjustin 14y ago
> The tracking done by many ads could be stopped by deleting cookie-headers and using a proxy to serve the ads to hide the real IP from advertisers; but no; they decided that removing the ads completely was a perfectly good idea. If you
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by bjustin 14y ago
When the phone only goes up to 16 GB of non-expandable space, it's hardly top-of-the-line. It doesn't have LTE either. Neither of these matters too much now, but will reduce longevity compared to actual top-of-the-line phones, e.g. the Ga
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by bjustin 14y ago
That's silly. I don't have to manually turn off wi-fi or GPS for my iPhone to last about two days, why should I have to on an Android phone? Automatic management would be fine, but having to think about it is not. Even using cell-towers-
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by bjustin 14y ago
AutoLayout (new in iOS 6 and OS X 10.7) is decidedly OK to use in code or in IB.
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by bjustin 14y ago
Google Buzz[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
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by bjustin 14y ago
Those are not the arguments that people in the real world (tm) use. Pro current or longer copyright terms: I made something, it's mine, I should be able to control it. Forever. Forever minus 1 day, to make it "limited times". Opposing curr
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by bjustin 14y ago
>1/6 is a rather sizable fraction of the world's population (India itself is ~1/6 or 1/7 at over a billion people). Are there any other languages that are official for so many people? The metric system graphic indicates <1/6 of the
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by bjustin 14y ago
Sure you can. People make "lightsabers" and call them replicas. http://trueswords.com/ has anime, game etc. sword replicas.
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by bjustin 14y ago
The title for The Hobbit (the book) is "The Hobbit or There and Back Again"[1]. It is about the journey. [1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Hobbit-There-Back-Again/dp/0618150... or see the end of Return of the King where Frodo adds the "Lord
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by bjustin 14y ago
Sometimes I think like the first half of what you describe. Surely, if you really want something and have a decent head on your shoulders, you can obtain it. The problem is, sometimes you just don't understand . I have no concept of hard
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by bjustin 14y ago
Company: "We hire whoever we want". Company proceeds to only hire men, despite women with similar or better qualifications applying. Company then sued for obvious gender discrimination, illegal in the US.
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by bjustin 14y ago
LibreOffice/OpenOffice doesn't work as well as MS Office. Google Docs doesn't replicate all of the functionality that MS Office offers, and doesn't work as well. The productivity difference[1] would easily be worth over $200/person/month
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by bjustin 14y ago
I can page turn on my Paperwhite by rolling my thumb just a little bit, and rolling it back. I keep it on the edge of the bezel while reading. I used to think that a button would be better, but the buttons on my third gen kindle were terri
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by bjustin 14y ago
It is a natural extension of my use on computers, storing files that I may want to access while away, and passing files between my work and home computers. I use the iOS apps to view (sometimes important) PDFs and the odd plain text file.
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by bjustin 14y ago
I saw it and immediately thought "Bootstrap". The large width top item, followed by three columns with graphics followed by text, is like the Bootstrap site itself[1] and many others which use Bootstrap. I do like the new homepage, wherea
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by bjustin 14y ago
The Daily is (was?) also available in a limited manner for Android tablets, billed through Verizon[1]. Apple's payment mechanism apparently had something going for it that The Daily management did not see in Google's Play Store, to the deg
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by bjustin 14y ago
>This trope comes up every time piracy is discussed. The point is no one is talking about the legal meaning of "stealing" versus "copyright infringement". What people are saying is that it's immoral. It comes up every time because pirac
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by bjustin 14y ago
The cheapest version of a device gets people in the door. Many people will, rightly or wrongly, compare the $499 iPad 4 with the $899 Surface Pro. That one has 16 GB of space and the other has 64 GB (well more like 48 GB since Windows and
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by bjustin 14y ago
I disagree. One of the most popular uses of any kind of artistic work, especially with widespread use of the Internet, is remixes. What you propose does not solve the absurd situation of The Beatles' works being older than the majority of
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by bjustin 14y ago
Off-topic, but I think the Nexus 4 is a good opportunity for Mozilla. It will be sold mostly unlocked, I imagine, and mostly to geeks, so it could be a great platform for Boot2Gecko. Nice looking, fast hardware for a relatively low price w
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by bjustin 14y ago
MPC-HC is a good player on Windows, but VLC 2.0.x has been better in my experience. MPC-HC cannot handle some files that VLC plays fine, and I have not noticed any video quality difference between the two. I have stuck with CCCP for MPC-H
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by bjustin 14y ago
This is the same problem that afflicts online communities, where you end up with a bunch of people standing around agreeing with each other[1]. If you spend too much time with like-minded people, you lose perspective. [1] Euphemism, use yo
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by bjustin 14y ago
I'm using Anki to learn Japanese, but since I started from scratch, I'm learning the words here first[0]. Start with a word from there, use an English-<Language> dictionary[1] and Google Translate together to disambiguate, then sear
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by bjustin 14y ago
>The use-case of an attached keyboard and the fully fledged Office app suite is not what this device is primarly for. It may not be the One True Purpose (tm) but Microsoft is pushing it one of the biggest features. On Microsoft's store
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by bjustin 14y ago
>As an example, you can browse the file system, Yes, unlike the iPad you can access the filesystem OOTB. >run desktop apps, No, you can't. Office and (I think) Notepad and Paint are the only desktop apps you can run on the Surface
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by bjustin 14y ago
>Seriously? I type on the iPad a lot and resort to "pecking" most of the time, and I have fairly average sized hands. I instantly was able to use the touch cover like a normal keyboard. I made a few mistakes, but could easily see myself
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by bjustin 14y ago
He did not pay to have an Instapaper app developed for Android, the company that developed it did so on their own dime and he only gets a cut of the sale price. People keep mentioning a web option, but Marco just has to use Newsstand on iOS
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by bjustin 14y ago
As far as performance goes, the iPhone 5's A6 is only 10% slower than the June 2004-released [1] Pentium 4 540! High end ARM processors (high end for phones at least) should be more powerful than midrange desktop processors from 2003, or 9
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by bjustin 14y ago
You make it sound like HP copied someone here. HP's designs just follow the natural evolution of computers.

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