cydonian_monk

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by cydonian_monk 13y ago
Curious. For me the 30-240 seconds long ads YouTube shows are always 1080p (or at very least high quality) and never choppy, yet streaming YouTube content videos at the same resolution often results in terrible buffering issues. Are the cra
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by cydonian_monk 13y ago
I've had the exact same experience in Houston with Comcast + Netflix at slightly faster speeds. Eventually I dropped Netflix because it was unusable everywhere except my phone. Oddly I don't have the same issues with Amazon Prime,
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by cydonian_monk 13y ago
That was the case in my school. We covered (nearly) every major religion, how it formed, how it spread, impact on the societies involved, etc. Did it upset parents? Undoubtedly. But it was a non-issue, unlike the ban on soft drinks (which w
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by cydonian_monk 13y ago
I've seen similar results in terms of no major loss of alertness and no fogginess, but I definitely get frazzled nerves, mild headaches, etc, when I stop drinking tea/coffee/etc. The problem for me is on the other end. After
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I can't get Chrome to work reliably on OS-X or iOS. The overwhelming majority of "Spinning Beach Balls of Death" I got on my old MacMini and on my new MacBookPro were from Chrome. On iOS it just randomly crashes, and would occasionally mung
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Sure, but this device won't help in those situations either. But point taken.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Well, no. And to be fully pedantic, a watch, even a mechanical one, is a miniature computer.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
People /used to/ wind their watches every day. I remember having one for years as a kid. Then we invented the battery-powered watch because we realized winding a watch and setting the time every day was a royal pain. I'd actually be thrille
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I wore a watch up until my last year of college (2002-2003). Don't remember why I stopped wearing it (didn't have a cellphone until 2 years later), just that I did. Never once did I have to change batteries "every few months." One of the mo
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Really now. I understand there might be some small market for "smart watches," but who, honestly, still wears a watch? And who would want to wear a watch that you will (possibly) have to charge daily? This is a watch in name only. That asid
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Also in Houston here, also had AT&T 3G service. I doubt they were throttling your old phone - their local 3G network is just that bad. Using AT&T's LTE network in the same town is rather like using a different carrier. Even the HSPA
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Which is why I now buy O'Reilly books direct from them. However, while digging around in my older ebooks, I discovered the O'Reilly books I bought through Apple or B&N were also drm-free. Not sure if that's now also the case with Kindle
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I once drank three cups a day, if not five or six. Always very thick, almost enough to strip the paint off of a battleship, occasionally with cream but usually black. That started sometime in college - first or second year. Didn't have much
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Though not an absolute requirement, the "Buy American Act" [1] gives preference to equipment that is made in this country and intended for government/military use. This could be a legal/marketing maneuver on Lenovo's part to get a larger sh
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I see nothing of the sort, and I'm not logged into Live. When I select any of the 'See all products' from the Products hover menu I either get the product suite's landing page, or the Site Map [1]. Is this possibly a regional issue? [1] ht
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Presumeably because calling every six months or so is easier than telling people your new email address.... I honestly don't understand it myself.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
My dad is one of those 3 million dial-up subscribers - but not by choice. He doesn't use dial-up, hasn't had a PC with a modem in it for several years, but every time he calls AOL to cancel they give him six months to a year of free service
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Twine is an interesting looking product, and 'connected everything' is most likely the future, but using tech to tell you to water your houseplants screams of engineering a problem to match a solution. (Which is, of course, the foundation o
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I haven't yet benchmarked any flavour of Linux running natively on my current-gen Ivy Bridge 13" MacBook Pro, but I have compared Windows 7 to both System 10.7 and 10.8. Consistently Win7 out performs OS-X on "raw" math-heavy benchmarks. I'
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I do the same for pretty much the same reason - comfort. And it'll only get worse as smartphones keep growing. But when my phone is on the table, it is always face down, muted, and off to the side somewhere. Mostly to show whoever I'm with
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
That could quite possibly be it, as I don't always unmount my fileservers when I leave home. I'll make sure to do that from now on, and might just write a script to handle it. Thanks. I wonder if this same issue would crop up with the Amazo
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Nope, nothing plugged in. No power nap. WiFi is turned off. I've got some time next week to look at it, and intend to get to the bottom of it. It's annoying to not be able to carry around a sleeping laptop for a day without it dying.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
13" MacBookPro - Power Nap is not supported. Though it is certainly behaving as though it's turned on (power-wise).
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I'm seeing the exact opposite, but for a different reason. On Lion I could put my MBP to sleep and only lose about 5-10% of the battery over 8 hours. Now on ML I lose ~40%, with nothing running. I turned off location services today to see i
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China Launches 1st Female Astronaut and 2 Men to Space Lab(space.com)
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
At last Chase allows us to have rather long passphrases (mine is well over 16 characters). Discover has the same alphanumeric-only rule, but limits you to 10 characters. 10. Then we have the silly little sites that don't retain any importan
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Ah, but what creates a sound? The instrument, or the musician that knows how to play it? An instrument without a musician is merely silence. I would argue that if the C program didn't "create" the sound that it was certainly the musician re
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
I agree. Completely.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Whoops. And entirely too late to go back and edit. Oh, the bad habits we gain from nanny IDEs.... Though most IDEs wouldn't catch it, given the ;), but would likely complain about the out-of-order ]. Thanks, though very meta.
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by cydonian_monk 14y ago
Thank you. When the "DriveForLinux" grumbling and whining started, my response was simple: "Since when do we whine about things and not just do it ourselves?" The response I got back was mostly "because [insert excuse]." I'm not in a positi

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