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by elblanco 16y ago
And then... "Changed to flash audio to reduce bandwidth consumption."
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by elblanco 16y ago
Something similar is also common in very rural places. Where walking miles through the woods, or along a dirt road are the normative ways local kids find each other.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I live in boring suburbia. The elementary, middle and high schools are a 10, 15 and 20 minute walk from house respectively. Somehow, I still have to contend with kids all over the neighborhood dutifully lining up so that the bus can come pi
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by elblanco 16y ago
I really wonder if all these parents today were so tremendously traumatized by their freer range that they have to coop their kids up all day to avoid that kind of catastrophe? Are there really millions of child rearing adults suffering fro
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by elblanco 16y ago
But HTML 5 is being touted as a drop-in Flash replacement today . And it's clearly not.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Well, the demo is an amazing demonstration of HTML 5, and the limitations of HTML 5...if your browser can swing it. It runs pretty great in Chrome, not so great in FF and sucks everywhere else. What if this were a Flash demo? Only be mildy
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by elblanco 16y ago
Here ya go. Give this a try and let us know how it runs. http://xplsv.com/prods/demos/xplsv_orsotheysay/
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Ask HN: Would it be possible to change how the HN RSS feed works?
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by elblanco 16y ago
You forgot to compare to Actionscript which is the language that matters in this comparison. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actionscript Adobe's had a JIT Actionscript compiler for years and it's really quite fast.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wasn't aware that the sole reason for flash was to playback high-def video. It's just a runtime. Make stuff that runs on the platform for that runtime. JavaME will choke on most Desktop Java apps as well. The moral of the story is, do mob
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Feds: No charges in Pa. school laptop-spying case(google.com)
2 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments
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by elblanco 16y ago
> download large files overnight Yeah, they draw really little power, especially with the screens turned off. If you need to transfer files, or have a system up sending keep-alive pings or something that doesn't require a bunch of compu
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by elblanco 16y ago
They actually make pretty decent MS-Office machines and super portable dev boxes. Or if you want to put together a cheapo NAS, a netbook, a couple USB hubs and a half dozen 1TB external HD's will serve as a pretty decent NAS for a fraction
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's just a sales channel, like steam.
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by elblanco 16y ago
That sounds more like a "in the zone" experience than a "slow-mo" experience. Where you body and mind are some kind of hyper rhythm and things just... happen without your conscious input.
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by elblanco 16y ago
When it happened to me, afterwards, I remember my mind uncontrollably playing back the event over and over again from different points, all in slow motion for a day or two. It was exhausting and I couldn't get anything else done that requir
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by elblanco 16y ago
For years I'd heard this and thought it was similar to being "in the zone". I've done various martial arts since I was a kid and found "the zone" to be an absolutely awesome state of mind to be in, it's like your brain is running in super f
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by elblanco 16y ago
I just spent the entire evening chilling out to ambient stretches of some of my favorite tunes. Thanks for the link!
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by elblanco 16y ago
Shutting down MFS was the best thing that ever could have happened to X-Plane. If I remember correctly, until MFS went away, X-Plane was pretty much free.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I have a feeling that must have been some kind of product placement. I've rarely seen anybody in Korea not on Daum or Naver.
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's also a good example why an isolationist foreign policy is a bad idea on a macro economic scale. A single country, no matter how big, simply cannot make all the stuff we take for granted in the modern world.
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by elblanco 16y ago
Wow, I had no idea Daum was the owner. Daum is huge in S. Korea.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I wonder how long it'll be before the decision to go that direction is made?
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by elblanco 16y ago
Dubai was trying to buy and monopolize the luxury market. Yachts, planes, real estate, jewelry, fashion, etc. They were simply trying to divert all of the world's luxury consumers to one place (Dubai) instead of other places (Paris, Monaco,
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by elblanco 16y ago
You can definitely see why 3g service is so much better in Europe, Japan and Korea than in the U.S.
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by elblanco 16y ago
I've been hearing this one quite a bit as well. It could just come out in the form of a non-monetary settlement, a cross-licensing deal for $0.
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by elblanco 16y ago
You're right, I'm being a bit unfair. But most of what I've seen in terms of system plans in Western Europe and the U.S. are very minor extensions to the systems...perhaps 3 or 4 stations over the next 5-7 years. And places like L.A. I thin
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by elblanco 16y ago
It's amazing how quickly the systems are being built in East Asia. The 2015 plan map for Beijing is staggering. It's taken D.C. something like 30 years to build one new line (Silver). In that time, any major city in China, Korea or Japan ha
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by elblanco 16y ago
> public transport isn't good enough > London has over 600 railway stations. But if London can't do public transport properly with over 600 stations, what would it take? The tube system is simply massive. Just some system comparison
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2010 UIST Student Innovation Contest Announcement(youtube.com)
1 points by elblanco 16y ago|0 comments

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