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by bloaf 14y ago
You don't have to guess about scanner support: http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html I gave multi-monitor support as an example, as it has been one of the areas I've had the worst luck with in linux. I've had a version of Fedora t
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by bloaf 14y ago
I thought it was somewhat eye opening to see linux try to bill itself as "having more drivers." I thought that A. linux was originally intended to not contain large libraries of drivers and B. the drivers that it does have are often not
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by bloaf 14y ago
The page is broken in by browser, none of the shortcuts work and I can't scroll with the mousewheel either. In short, it is impossible for me to read beyond the first page. Firefox 18, Win 8 x64
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by bloaf 14y ago
Right, but if we find that we do have a file which is impossible to compress, we could just switch to a system where it does work. There may even be operating system variables you could change which would change the output of the program.
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by bloaf 14y ago
You can't compress indefinitely because presumably your algorithm does not shrink in size. If your algorithm was 200 bytes, you could never successfully use it to compress a 199 byte file. If this were possible, there would be a minimum fi
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by bloaf 14y ago
I feel like the reason this might be possible is that there is information contained in a program that is not contained in that language's files. Specifically, in how the operating system treats those bits. In other words, the same decomp
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by bloaf 14y ago
I have actually recently found two differences that made me consider switching back to windows 7: In windows 8 the only way to create an ad-hoc network is via the command line. In windows 8, you cannot configure a VPN to redial a dropped co
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by bloaf 14y ago
I would argue that if there is an advantage to having more than one monitor, then there is an advantage to having at least that many software windows. A sufficiently large monitor could then emulate a multiple-monitor setup.
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by bloaf 14y ago
Why not try to intercept the data as it comes through the USB port instead?
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by bloaf 14y ago
I think there is a fascinating split personality to the internet these days. On the one hand, there is a big drive to move traditional desktop application functionality into the web browser (e.g. google and microsoft's office web apps, pho
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by bloaf 14y ago
I think the biggest insight here is "Clearly, such a technology would remove all limits on per capita GDP, as long as you don’t count robots among the capitas." You could make the same point about slaves. I'm not opposed to the idea of ro
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by bloaf 14y ago
I'm not familiar with how hotels inform 3rd party websites about room reservations. Could it just be that smaller independent hotels simply don't have the technical chops to correctly set up or manage such notifications?
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by bloaf 14y ago
I'm not sure that the software/hardware break is as clear cut as that: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/software-progress-b...
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by bloaf 14y ago
I think the biggest test of these sorts of processing predictions will come with our transition away from traditional transistor tech. Whether we switch to circuits on graphene, replace transistors with memristors, or adopt quantum computi
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by bloaf 14y ago
There are no unbreakable locks, but we use them anyway.
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by bloaf 14y ago
The other possibility is that their Steam Box fits with their "games as a service" model. Imagine if they charged a monthly/yearly fee and occasionally shipped out hardware upgrades to all Steam Box owners.
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by bloaf 14y ago
Well if you put the right thing in the box, and the recipient says that he got the wrong thing, couldn't you therefore argue that the package was tampered with?
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by bloaf 14y ago
But his claim, as stated by his title, was that the "The future will not be cool." If the author is allowed to reach this conclusion by saying "all present and future gadgets are just boring solutions to ancient problems" then his claim is
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by bloaf 14y ago
I find the most interesting thing about WW2 museums are the displays of everyday items. Why? Because there are never (or almost never) any plastic items. There is lots of metal, wood, and some ivory, but no plastic. It wasn't that long
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by bloaf 14y ago
I think Mathematica could make a killer excel add-in.
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by bloaf 14y ago
Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number tre
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by bloaf 14y ago
Its interesting and all, but compare it to a human baby. It takes them several months of data processing to learn things like object permanence. While 16 thousand processor cores may seem like a lot, I seriously doubt it even approached 1
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by bloaf 14y ago
HostsMan says that it works on windows 8, just use that: http://www.abelhadigital.com/hostsman
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by bloaf 14y ago
Indeed, true democratic representation would avoid that problem. I think that it would also make NDT's point even clearer. If the citizens were directly making the country's decisions then we certainly should be making serious efforts to
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by bloaf 14y ago
Good point, I also wonder about the potential to exploit the algorithms used by the "professionals." In other words, if you can come up with a reasonable approximation of what the pros will do, can you use that information to beat them?
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by bloaf 14y ago
I see, I wasn't completely clear. I meant that if our system makes it so that everyone is suitable for government, why bother having elections? We could just draw names from a hat. There is no point in voting for a candidate if that cand
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by bloaf 14y ago
Certainly there are no perfect leaders, but if our government's structure is so perfect, then why does it matter which people are involved at all? The point is that who we elect matters, because if it didn't, there would be no point in ele
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by bloaf 14y ago
But I'd say that 6GB is probably more than adequate for casual users for the next few years. (4GB might be enough, but if we allow for crapware...) 6GB isn't top of the line, though; 8GB laptops are fairly common, and even higher capacities
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by bloaf 14y ago
I disagree. I believe there is a threshold level of performance beyond which casual users cannot discern any improvement. I believe that threshold for CPU performance is currently around a low/mid-range i5. Getting a faster processor than
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by bloaf 14y ago
It will truly be a brave new world when people are expected to not stand up for their own values. “Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference which is an elegant name for ignorance.” ― G.K. Chesterton

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