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by fjorder 14y ago
Google (and others) probably have enough patents to give Apple some real headaches here, but I sincerely hope their response is to innovate quicker in order to stay ahead instead. That being said, it's going to take time as well as money fo
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by fjorder 14y ago
Normal people are willing to trade a bit of security away for convenience. Your system might be easier to learn, but using it doesn't appear much more convenient than using GPG, so it is necessarily going to have to live up to the standard
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by fjorder 14y ago
After some experience with MMO's I came to the following conclusion: You can either be a "winner" online or offline. You can only choose one. If she can do a stellar job while devoting a large portion of her time to a video-game, more powe
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by fjorder 14y ago
Sorry to play the paranoiac, but that is the demographic you're trying to appeal to! There seems to be a key element of trust required for using this site. How do we know the code cycret.com runs is the same as what's on Github? i.e. How
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by fjorder 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration Dilution refrigerators have their limits, especially when you're trying to cool a complex experiment with a lot of wires and fibers going into it (they all bring in heat). I've seen mag
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by fjorder 14y ago
You can go a bit lower than the temperature of liquid helium just as you can cool something to lower than the temperature of liquid water just by using evaporating water. However, 4 Kelvin is probably correct. The image they show appears
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by fjorder 14y ago
This is the first I've heard of NTRU. Has it been proven immune to quantum computational attacks, or has an efficient attack algorithm just not been found yet? The former would be world-shaking, so that's probably not the case unless I've
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by fjorder 14y ago
For a classical analogy, compare an asynchronous analogue circuit designed to evaluate a specific equation to a clocked digital circuit that evaluates that same equation. The analogue circuit will orders of magnitude simpler, but it will b
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by fjorder 14y ago
I think a popular misconception is that small-towns are safer than big cities. Calgary ------- 2011 Population: 1,096,833 2011 homicides: 10 Rate: 0.91 per 100,000 people Kalamazoo --------- 2011 Population: 74,262 20
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by fjorder 14y ago
User interfaces are necessarily shaped by the input devices we use to interact with them. I'd be interested in seeing some reviews of Metro from people who are using the MS Touch mouse rather than a standard mouse. Perhaps Metro is desig
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by fjorder 14y ago
Try playing with a 2-year-old girl sometime. If you build her a tower made out of blocks, is she going to patiently nurture and protect it like a good mother-figure, or hit it to watch the blocks go flying? Little girls love destruction e
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by fjorder 14y ago
Pay attention. What's implemented in the U.S. will be pushed heavily by U.S. lobbyists in Ottawa next. e.g. After the DMCA and associated acts in the U.S. were passed, U.S. lobbyists went to work in Canada. The result was a series of bill
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by fjorder 14y ago
This is actually a pretty bad idea because it would discourage people from commenting on anything but the top posts on the first page. Commenting on something interesting that's 3 pages deep would basically mean throwing away karma unless
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by fjorder 14y ago
This is a really well written paper. I especially like their review of Heisenberg's original uncertainty relation, which had already been shown to be incorrect in theory under certain conditions, and the modern uncertainty principle that s
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by fjorder 14y ago
Why I don't wear the same shirt everyday: I'm not married yet.
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by fjorder 14y ago
Synopsis: A fanboy, disappointed by the lack of exciting rumors about the iPhone5, laments his inability to get a life outside of the Apple cosmos and suggests that Apple should release nothing in place of the iPhone5 so that he can have s
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by fjorder 14y ago
This March "The Nature of Things" aired a good episode, "The Perfect Runner", on human adaptations to distance running, evolution, etc.. They cover everything in the article in more depth plus more, such as some possible reasons for the su
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by fjorder 14y ago
Unless you are currently very old or very ill I seriously doubt that even you yourself will be able to access your iTunes library by the time you're on your deathbed. The funny thing is that you probably won't care either. As successful as
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by fjorder 14y ago
I would totally have paid them $5 just to support the fascinating blog posts on blog.okcupid.com, even though I don't use okcupid itself. Match.com let that blog die after the buyout, so there's no reason for me to support match.com.
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by fjorder 14y ago
Going from Bruce Lee to "The Dude", all while under 25 struck me as fairly implausible too. I suspect this tale is rather well embellished throughout.
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by fjorder 14y ago
The relentless evolution of the PC was driven largely by PC gaming. In the 90's and early 2000's you could rely on the fact that a PC bought one year would struggle with games made the following year and be incapable of playing at least so
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by fjorder 14y ago
He seems like a reasonable fellow who is open to alternatives and willing to evaluate them based on merit. i.e. He doesn't really fit the profile of a "fanboy".
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by fjorder 14y ago
Apple isn't suing Google directly over Android. Why? Mutually assured litigation hell. Apple likely isn't suing a lot of companies because those companies have a strong enough set of patents to cause real damage to Apple if they fought b
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by fjorder 14y ago
One problem with this article is that it attempts to exonerate some American districts (that happen to be some of the most affluent urban regions in the country) by pointing out they can compete favorably with the world's top nations. That
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by fjorder 14y ago
Where do you think your iPhone is made? China has been at the forefront of quality manufacturing for quite some time now. It was only a matter of time before some of their design companies started to make proper use of them.
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by fjorder 14y ago
One of the big things I noticed in the first link there was that a SVG icon scaled to different sizes didn't look as good as a hand-optimised set of raster icons, largely due to issues that could conceivable be addressed. e.g. When the SVG
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by fjorder 14y ago
At the end of the article it mentions that Apple recently stated that in the near future they will be "working with EPEAT as their rating system and the underlying IEEE 1680.1 standard evolve." Translation: Whatever exists in the EPEAT gui
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by fjorder 14y ago
QUESTION: What makes vector graphics based UI's so hard? I am not a UI designer, so I am ignorant. Please educate me. Several other posters have mentioned the option of moving away from raster graphics, and indeed this was my own first th
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by fjorder 14y ago
Hi Paul, I'm a researcher who uses arxiv daily and I love it. I love it to the point that I sometimes wonder if it could become more than it is. Did anyone involved with arxiv ever toy with the idea of attaching message boards to pa
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by fjorder 14y ago
I said what I meant by "obscurity" and I did not say anything about Windows being open, but I'll restate things in other words in case it clears things up. OSX and iOS are used predominantly to run personal computing devices. In addition t

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