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by fpp 14y ago
A bit harsh to call a company/inventor who is producing touch panel displays / screens since more than 15 years a "patent troll". Their solutions are in use and new ones created all the years since then (see http://www.bizjournals.com/phil
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by fpp 14y ago
A much simpler explanation ;-) http://images.cryhavok.org/v/Calvin+and+Hobbes+-+Intelligent... (Calvin & Hobbes: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to
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by fpp 14y ago
How times changes - just compare this to Douglas Coupland's short stories in Wired aka "14 days in the life of a microserf" (was later published as a book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microserfs )
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Apple Sued for their Entire Line-up of Touch Related Products(patentlyapple.com)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
and the same discussion on being able to get a patent on APIs also happened - the most famous contestant at that time was Microsoft's .Net API patent application (now US7581231) - by now MS hold a series of patents on other APIs plus has a
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by fpp 14y ago
Also have a look at the discussion reg. server-side vs client-side adaptive images hacks at: http://24ways.org/2011/adaptive-images-for-responsive-design...
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by fpp 14y ago
maybe more along the lines of "what can be done will be done"
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by fpp 14y ago
fully agreed - the problem is exactly that "shoot first ask questions later" attitude and as you rightly mentioned the complete lack of accountability seemingly some of those involved here are assuming to be applied to this like with other
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by fpp 14y ago
Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling might actually be the closest we get to the truth. Now we should all think abou
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by fpp 14y ago
Once you have looked behind the curtain of government wheeling and dealing at such multi-billion situations you tend to believe that what Kim Schmitz is telling might actually be the closest we get to the truth. Now we should all think abou
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by fpp 14y ago
There are ready to go solutions for that identifying specific applications (VoIP would be one of them) down to the provider of the solution (e.g Facebook, Skype). And yes this is done via DPI plus patterns etc. So it would not really matter
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by fpp 14y ago
In some parts of Europe you might already using WiFi when doing data traffic via 3G (and charged at 3G rates) - mobile operators have been going into wholesale agreements with WiFi networks since some time or have started to build their own
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by fpp 14y ago
Given the obscene data rates that mobile operators charge across Europe (specifically when roaming) one can always only hope that there is a WiFi network near. The degrading / delaying of VoIP traffic (and other rt data traffic) does even h
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by fpp 14y ago
You can get it as a kit, fully mounted or just download the blueprints - more info at the developer site: http://thecorpora.com/
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Open source robot Qbo available for order(slashgear.com)
1 points by fpp 14y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
there are more images at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/gallery/2012/apr/17/space-...
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Discovery's final flight (video & images)(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
"... when Napster (1999) launched it became - at the time - the fastest adopted technology in the history of the world and went from 0 to 52 million users in 18 months. It was shutdown by a court in 2001. When it was shutdown it had 52 mill
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by fpp 14y ago
What I meant was that if its only a short URL then it might be quicker to type it in vs scanning the QR code - have a look at the example link then I guess you know why. If you put more info into the code then certainly scanning is the bett
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by fpp 14y ago
Unfortunately this only works if you put very little data into the QR code, e.g. only an URL Then the question is: Does it actually make sense to use an QR code for that alone? (for a visualization of that see: http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/
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by fpp 14y ago
An overused and overstretched term from about 10+ years ago. Guess we need something better to describe these essential tasks to bring meaning to how data items are linked to each other etc. Then how that is expressed in terms of UX. Seen i
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by fpp 15y ago
That's what I though - weekend is coming so don't sample too many different of these newly scientifically proven creativity enhancers to find out when creativity for your weekend project(s) will peak. (otherwise the sample might become non-
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by fpp 15y ago
The support for IP6 is now mandatory vs the previous optional IETF RFC and has now also the status of a best practice. Talk to your ISP if they still don't support it.
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Scientists proof Ballmer Peak - moderate drinking helps creativity(duvet-dayz.com)
7 points by fpp 15y ago|2 comments
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by fpp 15y ago
interesting when you see your comments on hacker news as submissions to hacker news a day later: ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3825132 ) "...My 5cents on that (recently published issues): <? if ('9223372036854775807' == '92233
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Dojo now uses AMD - initial load 3.8k(dojotoolkit.org)
1 points by fpp 15y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 15y ago
My 5cents on that (recently published issues): <? if ('9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808') { echo "I can not count!\n"; } ?> (see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54547 ) or built-in PHP web server dies with a large Conte
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by fpp 15y ago
With regards to PCs / desktop computers he had a similar influence. Still remember when we got our first ST520 to try out that was seemingly rushed from their labs (still had hand-soldered cables on the board) - this small machine was revol
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by fpp 15y ago
start with the documentation on creating a FF debug version e.g. on Windows 64bit - it does not even work with the config files from the trunk - leaving alone the different flavors of documentation you find on Mozilla dev - have a look how
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by fpp 15y ago
You can write NPAPI extensions for Chrome - you might nevertheless not be able to publish them on the Chrome extension directory. I've been working on extensions for FF and Chrome recently - one of the biggest problems I had and tmk this is

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