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by brigade 14y ago
Not quite - CALEA legally requires telcos to cooperate with law enforcement and implement infrastructure for wiretapping. As far as I'm aware, no such law applies to Microsoft as they aren't a carrier under said law. So any eavesdropping Mi
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by brigade 14y ago
It's entirely due to Google's client-side redirects. Which are stupid and annoying and Google should fix them. But since Google doesn't care, the Detox extension works nicely. Though it's always somewhat sad when you have to resort to brows
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by brigade 14y ago
Seems to me that a bigger problem, at least for ARM SoCs, is that the SoC vendors are only developing binary drivers for Android's kernel+framebuffer. X11 and Android have a rather different model for GPU drivers, and you can't just port a
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by brigade 14y ago
There's like, one week a year where it's in the 80's. Are you from Britain?
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by brigade 14y ago
OKC actually did a blog post [1] about attractiveness by camera model, and (unsurprisingly?) photos taken by more expensive cameras were rated as more attractive than those taken by cheap camera phones. Obviously there's dozens of confoundi
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by brigade 14y ago
At least use downtown Sunnyvale (the half-finished area surrounding the Caltrain station), not some random place in the center. Sure, the renovation went bust with the housing crunch, but they're trying to restart it and it would be (alread
727.
by brigade 14y ago
Microsoft doesn't consider themselves a C compiler vendor. They only ship a C compiler because they shipped a C compiler. Really, I think we'd be better off if they actually removed it from future toolkit releases. That way no one would be
728.
by brigade 14y ago
However, what I like to see in C are "//" style comments, declaring variables at other places than start of scope, the integer types with bit size specified, etc... All of those are already in C99... And malloc() takes more time t
729.
by brigade 14y ago
Well, 1080p requires theoretically 2.27x more bits than 720p. Though in practice it's a good bit less. HEVC promises to halve bitrates relative to H.264, so 1080p HEVC would need about the same bitrate as current 720p. So it shouldn't be to
730.
by brigade 14y ago
Progressive JPEG needs a minimum of 2 x width x height additional bytes over baseline to decode an image (maybe more, definitely 1.5-3x more than that if you're displaying coarse scans), regardless of how many scans you have or display, as
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by brigade 14y ago
Sabre lite and nitrogen6x. Supports SATA too.
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by brigade 14y ago
The 10 watt power supply is so that the USB ports can have full power. The board alone probably doesn't use much more than 6 watts or so at maximum load (the similar ODROID-X draws about 7 watts maximum on the AC side of the power adapter)
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by brigade 14y ago
This is the fastest computer you can get for $80 (plus shipping from Korea) Also it's smaller than a 2" cube and draws around 6 watts under load. Just six years ago, a computer this fast would probably have cost in excess of $1000 and have
734.
by brigade 14y ago
I'll bet you see rainbow artifacts on every last one-chip DLP/LCoS and yellow flashes on plasma, too. On topic, the second thing I noticed (after the bloody obvious flicker even with no eye movement) was a pattern marking the boundary betwe
735.
by brigade 14y ago
PPC had that (zero one cacheline) and this caused a good amount of complaining when the G5 came out and increased the cacheline size, making dcba/dcbz worthless and dcbzl have different behavour between G4 and G5.
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by brigade 14y ago
You should say "other operating systems" maybe, not "other browsers". On OS X, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all defer to the system as to whether to default to subpixel antialiasing. I wouldn't be surprised if Windows 8's metro version of IE
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by brigade 14y ago
I could have sworn http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smo... was just recently linked here. Read it. Tanooki is wrong.
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by brigade 14y ago
My problem is that for wikipedians, "independent reliable sources" means internet articles. If it's a printed book, it doesn't exist.
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by brigade 14y ago
MCFI is awful, yes. But that's because it's really hard to interpolate frames that aren't there to begin with, not because 24 fps is somehow the ideal framerate for video. As for me, 24 fps is incredibly noticeable, especially during pannin
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by brigade 14y ago
You granted Instagram a license. Under the old ToS, an entity that wasn't Instagram, say a nightclub, couldn't use your pictures on their own promotional materials, advetising, or site without obtaining a separate license from you, perio
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by brigade 14y ago
Are you arguing that the Eternal September effect doesn't exist? Because having been seen the effect first hand in no less than a dozen different online communities over the years, I can confidently say that it very much does exist. But thi
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by brigade 14y ago
I think it being harder is only the second most important thing to most people. Rather, the fact that these 3rd party services are free is the biggest factor; even $30 per year for a domain and hosting is more than most people are willing
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by brigade 14y ago
For certain values of "most" and "highly", and depending on how much compression or latency you're willing to sacrifice for more parallelism. The more data (from earlier in the bitstream/image) you can use for prediction, the higher a compr
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by brigade 14y ago
Basically, no. For audio, there's spectral band replication which works well in a large part because harmonics make audio rather correlated across multiple frequencies. Images have much less correlation, and thus processing in the frequency
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by brigade 14y ago
It does indeed use version information, not just the browser's but also of every installed plugin including Flash. So a single rev is going to give a new fingerprint. Plus, far fewer people are checking it as when it first launched, making
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by brigade 14y ago
If a book is public domain, any transcription is in public domain as well (in the US at least.) See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow#US_copyright_...
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by brigade 14y ago
It seems as though it has fallen into the public domain in Europe, perhaps. [1] [1] http://www.gutenbergnews.org/20101127/public-domain-day-2011...
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by brigade 14y ago
Several = basically all non-IPS panels I believe. But a lot of them apply temporal dithering to kinda make up the lost 2 bits.
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by brigade 14y ago
It's hard to get more optimal than "read a page of text" "press button for next page". Scroll wheels require some combination of * Have to move it more to travel the same distance * Have to fiddle with it to get exactly one page * Have to t
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by brigade 14y ago
The audio is still compressed using AAC or Vorbis at somewhere around 96-128 kbps depending on format... Youtube has really good recommendations, doesn't need flash, and has a huge selection and existing community. Worse is better™

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