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by danbee 12y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that what you can hear there is dither noise. Quantization noise sounds far worse.
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by danbee 13y ago
Seeing as there have been a couple of SR-71 stories on Hacker News right now I thought I'd share my favourite: http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/favorite-sr-71-story-107912...
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by danbee 13y ago
Users shouldn't have to care about this. If the browser can render the page it should. This does raise the point that perhaps browsers should have a development mode that does raise errors though.
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by danbee 13y ago
What if you have no choice but to rely on those services? The person coding the site isn't always the decision maker.
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by danbee 13y ago
> If the browser misinterprets, you have a hard time finding out what went wrong. This is what HTML validators are for. Browsers should do their best to interpret the page authors intention and actually display a page. The developer do
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by danbee 13y ago
Yeah, I had this page open in Safari and it pegged a few cores.
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by danbee 13y ago
You can get DOOM for iOS. Plays particularly well on an iPad.
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by danbee 13y ago
http://smoothmouse.com
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by danbee 13y ago
I'm afraid you're mistaken. RiscOS certainly had scalable vector fonts (anti-aliased too!), but the icons and interface elements were all bitmaps and the OS was not resolution independent.
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by danbee 13y ago
I expect there will be scaled modes like there are with the Retina MacBook Pro's. So you'll be able to use a desktop that's effectively 2560x1440 pixels like the 27" Cinema display. It's going to be pretty heavy on
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by danbee 13y ago
Vox is nice but completely useless to me until it gets gapless playback.
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by danbee 13y ago
1pt = 1/72 of an inch, therefore a 12pt font is 12 pixels high on a Mac, but 16 pixels high on a PC (12 * 96/72).
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by danbee 13y ago
Just maxing it to 8GB will make a vast difference. You don't have to buy RAM from Apple. http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs.aspx?mtbpoid=5A1D576...
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by danbee 13y ago
How much RAM do you have? OS X is quite memory hungry and is terrible when it has to page. I'd recommend maxing out the RAM if you haven't already. I'm guessing you have a regular hard drive too. An SSD will make it feel like
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by danbee 13y ago
Um, how is it an interoperability fiasco? If I message someone who doesn't have iMessage it just falls back to SMS.
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by danbee 13y ago
I struggle to take anybody seriously when they refer to companies by their stock market codes. Also, it's AAPL.
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by danbee 13y ago
It's working fine for me without Flash. Safari 6 on Mac OS.
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by danbee 13y ago
The sixth is a teapot.
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by danbee 13y ago
Macs generally hold their value very well, plus you get 12+ hour battery life. You should be able to run Linux on it too if you really don't get on with OS X, although you will likely sacrifice some of that battery life.
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by danbee 13y ago
Or just use a decent router and put the Virgin supplied thing in modem mode.
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by danbee 13y ago
I expect this is a compromise to ensure that older, non scaling-aware apps don't break in layout.
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by danbee 13y ago
I browse websites often from my phone even when I've got a laptop 6 feet away from me. Usually when I'm on the sofa flicking through twitter or email etc... It really doesn't take much to at least make sure your website is ac
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by danbee 13y ago
StartSSL ( https://www.startssl.com ) are very good in my experience. Class 1 certificates are free.
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by danbee 14y ago
As somebody that owns (and has upgraded) a 2011 Unibody MBP and has recently upgraded a friends 2006 MBP I have to disagree and say that the unibody design is vastly better.
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by danbee 14y ago
f.lux has a configuration option to transition over an hour instead of 20 seconds. Also, it doesn't look like Redshift is available for Mac OS.
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by danbee 14y ago
16 bit is good enough for human ears.
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by danbee 14y ago
I gave up after three tries.
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by danbee 14y ago
There's also Goldeneye: Source, a recreation of the multiplayer portion using Valve's Source engine. http://goldeneyesource.net/
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by danbee 14y ago
I'd suggest that the one and only HDMI cable you bought was faulty.
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by danbee 14y ago
It's probably battery life. The Retina iPad has a battery that's nearly twice as big as the iPad 2 and iPad mini and it's mostly to drive that screen. I believe that the power requirements are down to the number of pixels more than the size

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