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by deveac 13y ago
>and at the same time justifying their complacency about the issue. A good theory, as I have an extremely difficult time imagining anyone in an activist (non-complacent) stance on this issue ever reacting like that to these revelatio
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by deveac 13y ago
While I feel that the programs the NSA employs are profound existential threats to our liberty and rights, I do agree with you on the balance that the human parts that make up the whole of these organizations fundamentally see themselves as
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by deveac 13y ago
I agree completely. We need more education on the subject as opposed to back patting, and we definitely don't need to attack the very people that need to hear and understand the reporting most, as the person you are replying to is do
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by deveac 13y ago
>Second: realizing that "we should have known" and "none of this is new" isn't so much about reading news articles and being "plugged in", but rather having an understanding of how the Internet works.
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by deveac 13y ago
Thanks for the context Happer.
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by deveac 13y ago
>Greenwald has timed this well. He put out enough information early on to give Snowden opponents enough rope with which to hang themselves. I have to wonder if the staggered deployment of the leak has anything to do with savvy, or more
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by deveac 13y ago
Thank you davej, fixed. That mistake is hard-coded in me. It won't be the last time I make it.
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by deveac 13y ago
>This is overwhelming. Even when you always hear the claims about we knew this was going on, somehow it is still shocking when you see it all laid out infront of you with screenshots and the capabilities described. It has become a bit
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by deveac 13y ago
A high-performant mode would be a feature that would be marketed and lauded by the OEM, not something hidden from view and hardcoded only to benchmark testers. Also, benchmarks are designed to compare apples to apples, so if, as you sugge
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by deveac 13y ago
>The fact that they found a code path that ensures particular programs get the full hardware speed does not mean that no other code path enables that performance level. When those particular programs are benchmarks and the path is code
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by deveac 13y ago
I was momentarily taken aback and impressed by "I" until I noticed "J" right beneath it...
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by deveac 13y ago
I was actually just thinking today how I hope they don't switch to opaque folder icons. While it would look less cluttered and adittedly nice, I find the visual cues as to what apps are contained in the folder far too useful.
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by deveac 13y ago
>Indeed, the mentioning of last year's suggestion of Sword of Shannara has been rendered less painful between us by the recent success. This made me smile. I had forgotten about that book and how much my young self enjoyed escaping in
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by deveac 14y ago
>The App Store is a huge mess - there is effectively no web frontend for it, it's tied deeply into a desktop application, and it's obtuse. I was a little shocked when the switched to the 'card UI.' On a mobile device where there is ve
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by deveac 14y ago
> If the car's climate control is controlled entirely by a thermostat, then setting the temperature up to 90 will warm it faster when it's cold, but once it's warmed up the cabin, you set the temperature to something comfortable(say, 7
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by deveac 14y ago
>next time you write a post like this, I suggest explaining what is socialism in your post I believe linking to the wiki and clearly directing him to the exact place in the wiki (the first line) communicates the information very effec
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by deveac 14y ago
I'm sort of embarrassed that I even replied to it. Edit: The comment I mean. OP's article isn't overtly political in any way. It was incredibly interesting. Even just for the insight regarding the mechanisms of QA on a purely physical level
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by deveac 14y ago
I do better focusing on one thing at a time. Instead of multitasking, I choose one task, but allow myself to be interrupted only by small tasks that can be resolved on the spot or within a minute or so. Anything larger goes in the queue. Th
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by deveac 14y ago
>"The problem of socialism is that at one point you run out of other people's money". And that's where we're arriving now. Ugh. I try my best not to be snarky on here, but here is the wiki explaining what socialism is: http://en.wiki
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by deveac 14y ago
>Saying "no" to tablet support was, in light of Microsoft's experience with tablets, the right thing to do. The point is that the failure of MS to bring a viable tablet to market cannot be painted as any single exec's fault over Ballmer
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by deveac 14y ago
>Ballmer had been frustrated by Sinofsky before. Microsoft partners apparently had a reference design for tablet hardware ready in time for Windows 7. Sources tell us that Sinofsky refused to add support for it in Windows 7. Whether it
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by deveac 14y ago
No.22 That's the one that got me. Now pardon me while I write a post about duplicating comic timing graphically, as a constraint.
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by deveac 14y ago
It really isn't. In fact, it is less so, just based on the UI. Yet it's completely awesome at the same time.
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by deveac 14y ago
I was trying to distill some good advice for OP, but you said something that struck a chord, and so I'm just going to reiterate it: >"tell 'em what you're going to be telling them, tell them, and then tell 'em what you told 'em". Tel
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by deveac 14y ago
>I'd say the big plus is that you can safely target only the newer releases without a problem, because power users just rush out and buy the newest iPhone when it comes out. Even more than that, the adoption rate for users on existing
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A History Of Music Made With Computers(techno.org)
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by deveac 14y ago
>I was only pointing out that there's a massively wide variety of electronic music these days... On that note, if you have not seen this site yet, be prepared to have the rest of your afternoon's productivity destroyed: http://techno
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by deveac 14y ago
>Personally, I don't care about an ecosystem because I don't use third party apps at all. Then you are a feature phone customer, not a smartphone customer, for the most part. Nothing wrong with that at all, but if they want to survive
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by deveac 14y ago
> This is the real challenge RIM faces -- in an ecosystem-based market It is no longer a smartphone market. It is, as you said, and ecosystem market. Incidentally, a phone's ecosystem goes beyond even the entire platform of the OS, an
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by deveac 14y ago
>I was hoping for the nitty gritty details of their dirty scammy business. For me, it never seemed like you had too look past their basic business model to find dirty and scammy practices. Their customers are small businesses, and the

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