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by eco 14y ago
The Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Note, and Xoom do too. It's used to speed up GPS fixing (knowing your altitude helps resolve your location more quickly). A Google employee said that he didn't believe the barometer in the Galaxy Nexus was weather
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by eco 14y ago
Signed-in reddit is one of the slowest sites I use. It is, however, very fast for what it is doing. I have no complaints about the speed, only wishful thinking.
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by eco 14y ago
For an unreasonable amount ($30-$40 per device). Looks good when they can say, "But we offered to license to them!" before they file the lawsuit.
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by eco 14y ago
Shouldn't Microsoft be getting the props in this case? Samsung makes great displays (they make the MBPr display too) but the OS is the limiting factor in actually running them at the native resolution.
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by eco 14y ago
Seems like it matches the situation of wanting to release your additions to a GPL codebase into the public domain. Doing that is perfectly fine[1]. It feels like a hole in the GPL for some reason though. [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/g
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by eco 14y ago
Surely they mean Burning Man 2013. Burning Man starts 6 days after this fundraiser ends and I don't seem much here to show they have anything even close to a working version.
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by eco 14y ago
During one of the press conferences Ravine mentioned they had hundreds of images of a single spot on the ground taken by MARDI, the descent camera, after it had landed and that a member of his team was working on using those to build a supe
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by eco 14y ago
People here are fixating too much on how he could have avoided receiving this overly harsh sentence. The article is trying to draw attention to the fact that the sentence itself is overly harsh, not that he could have gotten out of it had
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by eco 14y ago
The 1%? He was a graduate student and broker. I doubt he was even making a significant amount of money.
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by eco 14y ago
Interesting but you aren't really answering his tablet specific question. Looking at the screenshots of this app it appears to just been blown up on the iPad. That's the very thing that people criticize Android apps for doing.
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by eco 14y ago
Appointed by whom?
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by eco 14y ago
But there is an old greek proverb (Aristotle actually) that says "One swallow does not a summer make". What am I to make of this? I don't know who to trust anymore.
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by eco 14y ago
I was under the impression that the current iOS map app was created by Apple but used Google's API for data. I could be mistaken.
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by eco 14y ago
I'm starting to feel this is what is driving the Android fragmentation argument with some iOS users. iOS's design is much more dependent on Apple implementing core features and interactions (I suspect this is partly by design). The benefit
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by eco 14y ago
You'll have ICS before iPhone users have iOS6.
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by eco 14y ago
All three of those are confirmed to be getting Ice Cream Sandwich.
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by eco 14y ago
Something is definitely wrong with his particular phone. I don't have any of those problems either. If he's running a custom ROM he should find a better one or return to stock. If that's not the case, a warranty replacement is in order be
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by eco 14y ago
Flyby I can see limiting to the devices with the nicer GPU but the lack of turn-by-turn on older devices seems odd. My Droid had 3D turn-by-turn navigation when it was released and that was in October of 2009. I suspect Apple just didn't w
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by eco 14y ago
Good Calories, Bad Calories has over a hundred pages of citations in the back so it's at least well referenced. I have yet to read it though so I can't comment on the quality.
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by eco 14y ago
Works fairly well on Android in Ice Cream Sandwich I feel. You click the dedicated button and just tap your app's thumbnail from the list. Two taps with maybe some sliding if you have a lot of apps open and want to go to one you weren't us
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by eco 14y ago
CNN Auto writer, actually. The article is just reprinted on KTVZ's website.
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by eco 14y ago
My brother was actually on the Microsoft-Novell trial jury. Sounded both interesting and terrible. He really resented that the whole thing just ended up being a waste of time for him.
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by eco 14y ago
They can ask me. I'd do it.
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by eco 14y ago
Does a pentile layout matter on a "retina display"? The pixels shouldn't be discernible at these resolutions. When the Galaxy Nexus came out there was a lot of confusion and argument about whether it was pentile or not. If you can't tell
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by eco 14y ago
You'd have to have some pretty tiny pockets to not have this phone fit. My Galaxy Nexus fits fine in my Levis or suit pants and even feels a lot smaller in my pocket than my Motorola Droid did due to being a lot thinner. Hell, my Galaxy Tab
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by eco 15y ago
Step 1: Become a robot.
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by eco 15y ago
I lived right next to one of the bridges they replaced on I-80 in Utah. They were replacing a big stretch of the freeway so they set up a "bridge farm" where they built seven bridges on stacked cargo containers and got them ready to go. T
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by eco 15y ago
Yes, and it only takes 8 seconds to make a complete baby (by this logic).
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by eco 15y ago
Interestingly, the original C++ compilers were like CoffeeScript in that they'd compile to C source code. Walter Bright (now of D fame) wrote the first C++ compiler that compiled to machine code. I don't really see this as the approach goi
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by eco 15y ago
MythBusters covered this one in one of the earlier seasons. They couldn't produce any sort of effect even with unlikely high metal concentrations in the ink.

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