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by blocke 16y ago
"Most Android devices are locked down so that users cannot install apps outside the Android Market (aka "sideloading")." This is new to me. Got any proof? As far as I know in the US it's just AT&T.
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by blocke 16y ago
The FSF provides what is expected of it: Dogmatic consistency and a warning that without a certain set of freedoms you are a sharecropper. The reason you don't see a more practical suggestion from them is the suggestion involves "none of th
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by blocke 16y ago
Linus wouldn't be Linus without the tantrums and smiting.
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by blocke 16y ago
Xen was a standalone hypervisor that run under the Linux kernel. It was developed independently of Linux. Linux was a guest along for the ride. With KVM the hypervisor is over the Linux kernel and gets to use the facilities of the host ke
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by blocke 16y ago
Blocking Facebook in Adblock is the gift that keeps on giving. No need to resort to an additional mod when all you need to do is toss the following in Adblock: ||facebook.com/ ||facebook.net/ ||fbcdn.com/ ||fbcdn.net/
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by blocke 16y ago
I view this development very positively. Flash is being positioned as being the cutting edge in browser gaming. With Linux support too! It will take years for browsers to catch up and in the meanwhile we have the capability of hosting game
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by blocke 16y ago
Or they could have just done what Android did. Allow browser plugins and make it Adobe's problem to put the plugin in the market. Google isn't holding back on major OS updates because Adobe isn't ready.
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by blocke 16y ago
I'm going to assume the parent post wasn't edited. I swore there was a dollar sign there.
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by blocke 16y ago
You're ignoring that DropBox has access to your original copy on your computer and can just delete that one when it goes bezerk and deletes the cloud copy too. ;) With that said once a month I copy my DropBox directory to an external hard d
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by blocke 16y ago
$15 million impresses you? Chump change.
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by blocke 16y ago
Firefox's minor updates were not really feature updates. On the chart Chrome whole number releases are new feature releases. Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 are seperate because they are similar feature releases. 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 are not.
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by blocke 16y ago
All the nitpicking people are doing on this and ignoring the point behind that graphic... The Point: "Modern Browsers" are the browsers that actually get around to actually @#$@ing SHIPPING new features and NOT TAKING FOREVER TO DO IT. It
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by blocke 16y ago
Nice. Very nice. Big fan of this feature of gmail. If only Zimbra could do Doc files this well... :(
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by blocke 16y ago
Didn't Google pay for a student to the naclssh port as part of the code of summer project? Something tells me such limitations will be temporary... "This allowed us to remove the expiration date and localhost security restrictions we had ad
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by blocke 16y ago
This piece is essential to Chrome OS. It is the container for legacy code and things where it'll be unrealistic for javascript to handle for years to come. Countdown to SSH client functionality in 5... 4... 3...
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by blocke 16y ago
Because it's not like they haven't had an official client on that platform for many months now...
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by blocke 16y ago
As a Posterous user this makes me cringe. This, the GoDaddy bar in the admin panel that can't be made to go away and the spammer "subscriber" I can't delete even though he's not an admin definately have cheapened the experience. And the wo
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by blocke 16y ago
"the browser interface is planned to be more responsive" So when does Mozilla get around to ripping Firefox wide open on an operating table and not letting the surgeons leave until each tab has it's own process? Not switching back until I s
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by blocke 16y ago
iStockPhoto background and Facebook account required? Bawhaha. Smells like a phishing attack. Edit: Stock Photo was removed and you no longer need a Facebook account to play.
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by blocke 16y ago
So basically AT&T is matching what Sprint already does. Meanwhile Sprint is busy raising its effective rates to match AT&T and Verizon. I love competition. Here is to hoping as tech marches on some decent Android phones trickle do
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by blocke 16y ago
Do shallow boring people think of themselves as being shallow and boring?
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by blocke 16y ago
I'm a huge Android fan and while I would buy a laptop from Apple I wouldn't touch an iOS device due to disagreement over how the Market is handled. However it doesn't take an Apple fanboi to know this pricing is horrid. This isn't a laptop.
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by blocke 16y ago
If their goal was to portray their company as something only used by shallow boring people they succeeded.
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by blocke 16y ago
Amazon current streaming works great on Roku but I've been surprised with how few platforms they are on. Netflix totally owns them as far as availability on devices goes and it's something Amazon will have to fix if they are serious.
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by blocke 16y ago
"safari 5 or chrome 9 on a mac" How did you manage to make something that only works on a Mac in Chrome? Looks messed up under Windows... Bravo!
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by blocke 16y ago
As someone who was suckered in Blackboard backend administration and still haven't managed to get free I decided to give this a spin. This is my impression after 30 minutes of fumbling with it: The look for end-users is clean and feels grea
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by blocke 16y ago
They can both be winners and losers depending on what game they choose to play. Being disruptive is about pissing on the rules for the original game. Actually the more I think about it the more non-sensical your original statement and this
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by blocke 16y ago
Really? "Disruptive Technology" don't happen? Google drove the cost of smartphone OSes down to as near to zero as patent law will allow. I'd say that is a game changer. How much does WebM cost?
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by blocke 16y ago
It'll be one of those things where time will tell. I have sympathy for those involved in encoding but one has to remember that disruptive technologies are called disruptive for a reason. If WebM takes off its going to cause someone pain du
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by blocke 16y ago
So only iOS counts? Because that is the only platform <video> matters on right now. I'm glad to see Apple calls the shots and Google is in the wrong for making a move in its own interest. And in the interest is places that don't w

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