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3181.
by cheald 17y ago
Yeah, certainly. I'd just feel really nervous about taking something with that large of an exposed screen anywhere. I'm already nervous enough as is about my phone. Seems like a recipe for scratches/cracks/destroyed screens. You could get a
3182.
by cheald 17y ago
My counterargument to this has been that the iPhone succeeded so wildly because it was so many devices or references that you'd otherwise carry. Phone, camera, GPS, MP3 player, map, contact book, and who knows what else. It consolidated a l
3183.
by cheald 17y ago
Honestly, my biggest concern is that its form factor means I won't really able to take it places. Large clamshell devices transport easily and you don't have to worry about damage to them. The iPad seems like it's going to be a strictly bat
3184.
by cheald 17y ago
It shows off some of the high-interest use cases, but it doesn't quite have that appeal that Apple's advertising usually does. Seems rather generic and unmemorable to me.
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by cheald 17y ago
If you're Ubisoft, you've got expected sales numbers, which makes projecting load levels trivial and easy to plan for. So, the options are: a) Ubisoft MASSIVELY underestimated the number of sales they'd get (not likely, given AC1's success
3186.
by cheald 17y ago
Google Ad Manager is pretty dead simple to use. OpenX if you want a native solution.
3187.
by cheald 17y ago
World of Warcraft. MMORPGs were very squarely the domain of the archtypical basement-dwelling nerd - they were intensely mathematical (which is natural, given its D&D lineage), brutally punishing in the case of mistakes (corpse runs, XP
3188.
by cheald 17y ago
I think the nerd equivalent of this is "Well, actually...". Whenever I hear that, I kind of just mentally sigh and roll my eyes, and I say that as someone who identifies as a nerd with verbal communication issues.
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by cheald 17y ago
The iPhone has market share. Developers go where the market share is. Microsoft's desktop developer community is so strong because they own such a dominant slice of the desktop market. The iPhone is no different. The Android market is makin
3190.
by cheald 17y ago
The short answer is that Android-based phones like the Nexus One and Desire are a far bigger threat to Apple's stranglehold on the NA smartphone market than anything else to date. This isn't about "protecting their inventions", it's about t
3191.
by cheald 17y ago
You do realize that an OS is basically a kernel with a bunch of supporting applications that your vendor decides to ship with the kernel, right? If you're going to be uppity about "picking your own apps" you're going to need to be properly
3192.
by cheald 17y ago
It's a tribute to Android that this is possible.
3193.
by cheald 17y ago
If you're storing/reconstituting JSON, check out mongodb. It's basically a cracked-out high-performance JSON store.
3194.
by cheald 17y ago
It's clasically MITM. MITM is just a "man in the middle" intercepting data and changing it before it gets reported to either side, then using the original data to their own benefit. There isn't a defined "middle" point, other than "in betwe
3195.
by cheald 17y ago
The vast majority of infections are due to Flash-based ads targeting older Flash installs, which are then targeted to be run on gaming sites. The days of opening emails with attached .SCR files are long behind us. Blizzard does require that
3196.
by cheald 17y ago
WoW authenticator tokens are single-use with a 30-second lifetime. On one hand, it's a testament to Blizzard's effectiveness in pushing them on the playerbase - the fact that enough accounts are protected by them now that the bad guys have
3197.
by cheald 17y ago
http://bit.ly/7mQgyt ?
3198.
by cheald 17y ago
I suspect that a lot of that is performance-oriented. By compiling modules into the binary, I suspect you can get far superior performance out of it than you could with hot-loaded modules.
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by cheald 17y ago
I use nginx+passenger and love the heck out of it. Trivial to set up, blazing fast, rock solid, and easy to administrate. I've switched away from Apache for everything except my dev server, and haven't looked back.
3200.
by cheald 17y ago
I tried to read the article, but... that bright cyan background. Ugh. I can handle most color schemes. Not that one.
3201.
by cheald 17y ago
Presumably, doing something like that could be considered grounds for punishment, based on the school's track record.
3202.
by cheald 17y ago
The MMO model works because there is a significant amount of value in the product that never exists on the client. To use WoW as an example, all of the enemy spawns, loot generation, AI, spell scripting, etc all exists on the server. In the
3203.
by cheald 17y ago
I'm almost positive you could use jQuery's data functionality to modify that out.
3204.
by cheald 17y ago
While I'm obviously not every Linode user ever, I've had 100% uptime on my ~9-month old slice. It's been an absolute dream.
3205.
by cheald 17y ago
With all due respect, they were hosted with git, which is by nature distributed. If it's broadly-used, no single person can destroy a repository. Copies of the hpricot repo are all over the internets. I don't disagree that it's inconvenient