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by chrisoverzero 12y ago
Are you on the 5th floor of an apartment surrounded by skyscrapers? Or maybe at the bottom of a valley just outside a major city's limits? Many people are unable to receive digital broadcasts over the air. This is a solution for them
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by chrisoverzero 12y ago
You have to be physically located in the market whose content you wish to receive. Sending NYC broadcast television to anywhere but NYC is not in Aereo's business model, and they actively attempt to prevent doing so. If they were caugh
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Given C# Dictionary access as Dict["key"], the equivalent using dollar syntax is Dict.$key. C# Dictionary initialization is currently something like this: var d = new Dictionary<string, string> { { "key&
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
No government is restricting Mr. Eich's freedom of speech. In fact, no one is, at all. People are using their free speech to counter his. This is the system working as intended. (Also, people desiring or acting to remove him from a
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Mixing "people are afraid" and "proof" doesn't exactly work. This isn't a criminal court; there's no need to prove something beyond a reasonable doubt. It's not even a civil court, so there's n
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Not to appear to be piling on, but no one[0] has yet mentioned that this is the case in the United States, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia#Decision [0]: OK, someone did while I was getting that
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
I think that poster means machine-readable. An XML parser will choke on almost any HTML document.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
There are two choices. If everyone guessed, the expected value is 50% correct and 50% incorrect. This is why it's 25/75 for the question with four choices.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
You're blocking an ad.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
He said that it works seamlessly. You're putting a window on a seam, so it doesn't work, duh.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
What will you do when your cellular provider finds out?
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
As "ß" vs. "ss" changes pronunciation of preceding vowels, I can't see how it could be anything other than its own letter. * "Fuß" ("foot") roughly rhymes with "loose." * "Fluss&qu
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
And if only a few people die, then no big deal, right?
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
How? Simple is a bank. This is a magnetic-stripe card consolidator.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
They're going to use it to build city-destroying lasers, and hold world capitals for ransom. Wielding such destructive power from its new "spaceship" campus, Apple will make the entire Earth into a walled garden. They're
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Vaccinations have indeed been the topic of much craziness in the US as of late. More on-topic, I once mentioned to a European colleague my company's policy of giving employees four weeks of vacation once they've been here for five
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Siri's not a hardware feature. In the iOS 7 announcement, they covered improvements to Siri.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
To give my post some much-needed useful content , and not look as though I was simply sniping someone's spelling, I may as well share my mnemonic for spelling "onomatopoeia." It's 12 letters, and there's a sort-of
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
I think you have misspelled the word "onomatopoeia". (Which would normally be fine – it's just such an important word in your post that I thought you should know.)
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
HTML has strict implementation requirements and loose authoring requirements. I recall that it is a goal of HTML that a significant percentage of "anyone" can create useable documents with it, but the closest I can come to a citat
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
The "2x" describes the image, not a property of the device that image is being viewed on. If I have an image meant to be displayed in a 250x250 area of layout, a 500x500 "retina-ready" image will not fit. The browser mu
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
The UA can do whatever it wants; the information given in srcset is for giving the UA the clues it needs to make the right decision. [0] > From the available options, the user agent then picks the most appropriate image. So if you are zo
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
The multipliers refer to the ratio of device pixels to software pixels ("CSS pixels"). Content can be negotiated via viewport size, it's just that Webkit doesn't support that part yet. [0] The pixel ratio is better infor
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Unfortunately, we can't change the parsing of <img> now. It must remain a void element.
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Experience with the <video> and <audio> tags has shown that their pattern isn't a great pattern to continue using. [0]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20... [1]: h
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by chrisoverzero 13y ago
Kickstarter's page is probably very unclear on the policies of Indiegogo. Indiegogo only accepts PayPal for "fixed funding" campaigns. [0]: http://support.indiegogo.com/entries/20492953-Fees-Pricing-
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by chrisoverzero 14y ago
This award is for customer satisfaction. It doesn't make them a monolith; it makes them a creator of a thing that people are happy to own and use. It is the very worst kind of behavior that people pejoratively describe as "hipster" to look