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by darren_ 16y ago
> all their music, movies, apps, etc are in Apple's DRM format and won't transfer to other devices. Music on iOS devices isn't DRMed and hasn't been for some time. If your new device can't play m4a files this is a separate issue and you
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by darren_ 16y ago
Mervyn Peake writes very nice English prose that I think you might enjoy. See his Gormenghast series (Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Titus Alone). It's sort-of-fantasy but not really (no magic, no non-humans).
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by darren_ 16y ago
I've been doing this (with my whole OS X system) for a while, and I do recommend it. As a multiple-language-learner, though, what I really want is some app or something to let me assign certain languages to certain apps, and also perhaps ra
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by darren_ 16y ago
> We were upset because it demonstrates that Apple can effectively make up reasons to block your app when none previously exist. "We have over 250,000 apps in the App Store. We don't need any more Fart apps. If your app doesn't
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by darren_ 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful It's a very common way of titling any essay about anything related to computers that you don't like, as a way of signaling to the audience that you have in fact heard of a 'computer'.
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by darren_ 16y ago
Not just game forums, but forums for isometric 2D non-realtime indie RPGs. It's cliché but probably fair to assume that his customer base is likely selected from the rather more socially awkward end of the spectrum.
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by darren_ 16y ago
Thumb and Thumb2 really aren't any more 'CISC'-y then ARM; about the most cisc aspect would be that thumb2 supports two different instruction lengths (2 and 4 byte) whereas ARM supports only 4 byte instructions. That said i've heard/read th
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by darren_ 16y ago
Yes, this is the only reason I'd ever consider this (though it does look okay, the idea of an iPod on your wrist is _unbelievably_ dorky). On the other hand with an SDK for it I'd consider buying one, never using headphones with it and just
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by darren_ 16y ago
As a language learner I'd love the ability to capture and export (in some fashion) the pre-translated text, as text not an image, to import into SRS learning software. This especially applies to the Japanese/Mandarin support that I hope you
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by darren_ 16y ago
Depending on how their OCR works, Mandarin/Japanese->English(/spanish/&c) could be a _lot_ more difficult (thousands of characters to distinguish) and in the case of Japanese the translation a lot trickier (completely different gram
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by darren_ 16y ago
> but since email addresses have to be roman characters, it's actually a pain for non-english speakers. Er, no, not at all (well, possibly for the very old?). Roman characters are everywhere in Japan, no-one has any problem dealing with
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by darren_ 16y ago
It's not possible in Snow Leopard but in Tiger/Leopard you can open up the nib files for various system applications and mess with them. Things like adding CoreImage filters to views usually worked ok; I recommend the bloom filter combined
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by darren_ 16y ago
It is a nice jab, but it's a WP7 phone, so they _can't_ add a fancy animated UI anyway. Sense is relegated to being a Hub in WP7.
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by darren_ 16y ago
It seems the hypothesis is that the benchmark originally goes very fast due to dead-code analysis (the function 'cordicsincos' has been marked as dead code, and is therefore not executed). That the test goes much slower when more dead code
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by darren_ 16y ago
I've literally never heard of this (live in Japan, know lots of Japanese people, see a _lot_ of iPhones out and about), and I basically don't buy it whatsoever. Maybe it's something from a couple of years ago?
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by darren_ 16y ago
For the wallet and metro pass they just use a separate RFID card (pasmo or suica). Which is actually pretty normal, you don't really see that many people using their phones for the gates at the metro.
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by darren_ 16y ago
Security-wise I'd be very surprised if Chrome updates weren't signed; MITMing of auto-updates isn't exactly new (see EvilGrade). So I doubt it's an issue there. That said, I agree that there should be an option (not a prominent one) to swit
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by darren_ 16y ago
Oh, nowhere near as bad, it's readily comprehensible. I think it's machine translated itself though, I was able to get the same phrases out by typing in what I thought the English originals were likely to be (e.g. "私はあなたを助けるつもりです" comes fro
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by darren_ 16y ago
It is. If you set the 'photos and videos of you' privacy option to just yourself, when you're tagged in a photo it appears on your Wall but only for you. Your friends looking at your wall don't see it. That said, I don't think you can block