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by gcb 15y ago
I'd be more impressed getting linux to run on all of the above. Touchpad, android phones, toasters, etc. why have a dumbed down version where you must either a) have no control to menial tasks like editing /etc/hosts or gasp opening an ss
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by gcb 15y ago
care to elaborate "The top 250,000 people basically run the government"?
723.
by gcb 15y ago
...and slightly off topic.
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by gcb 15y ago
but they will not let you pickup on stores (not even with the usual 3-5 ship-to-store). you have to pay a minimum of $10 shipping on them *edit: link for free shipping: http://slickdeals.net/?&u2=http://www.bestbuy.com/site/M... (keep
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by gcb 15y ago
Why is everyone treating this as something new?!?! you run code on your machine, you have to trust it. Heck, i don't trust even stuff i download from the app store! and I still limit the talk of my wii with nintendo servers on my router. th
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by gcb 15y ago
not ironic. and actually proves a point
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by gcb 15y ago
playing devils advocate here. But when companies fight over patents, does't that mean that they are putting money on R&D that will eventually drive all the field forward in the middle term? even if at some cost on the short term... Appl
728.
by gcb 15y ago
Good point! I never did something like preordering, so it didn't even crossed my mind. but well, that's goes to show why they don't have to offer free DS version along with it :)
729.
by gcb 15y ago
when you buy a game for the wii is it incomplete?
730.
by gcb 15y ago
call it "rain"
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by gcb 15y ago
i bet this one was on the lines "be my tech cofounder" kind of things. no one would be fooled by payment for 200 side-job hours. i think.
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by gcb 15y ago
yep. word. and ctrl+n sets bold. it's all aligned. and that drives me crazy when i use somebody else's computer in portuguese... the worst offender is that ctrl+A does not select all... don't even remember what it does... but you need ctrl+
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by gcb 15y ago
> Bold: 100% well, they didn't asked anyone outside of the english speaking world. Where I came from, everyone knows "N" is for bold text. Also, having studied cognitive sciences in my free time, the author should learn soon that icons
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by gcb 15y ago
that's true. BeOS never got to the point of being a product. After they noticed they had no money for the bebox they just pampered the OS for a sale. that's the main reason it looks so much like os7... or 8. it was being tweaked for an appl
735.
by gcb 15y ago
This is like saying carl icahn is genius for making motorola mobile a success and making him a billionaire. apple was a success because of woz. Jobs was good at milking it, that i will give him. jobs wasted all his apple-money on next. Pixa
736.
by gcb 15y ago
I find file permissions just an annoyance on my debian desktop that I share only with my wife. And I deal with unix security since the early 90's. OSX has file permissions and about 30% of them are setuid. Great improvement! Also, BeOS had
737.
by gcb 15y ago
it had an amazing multimedia framework. it had even patents for hardware stuff that put the later firewire to shame. and it had the best os api I've ever had to deal with. it had everything that os8 lacked, and that later was added on osx o
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by gcb 15y ago
why did he return to apple? everyone forget this, because he couldn't have the same luck at his second company. also apple would have forwarded the osx success a couple years if the acquired beos instead of next. so that was steves luck act
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by gcb 15y ago
exactly my point. the guy makes a living writing, and never bothered to look for better text editors. he is chanting about the progress of default text editors when all that was available from day one of his career. it's like a developer wi
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by gcb 15y ago
I could get naked dsl from ATT only after i found this phone number in an old blog comment! spread it 1-800-288-2020
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by gcb 15y ago
When choosing internet service 4 months ago for my new place, i made a decision that my next job hunt will be around areas were walking distance from the office are covered by sonic. Startups think about mentioning this as a benefit. seriou
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by gcb 15y ago
So, people are writing adverts* for discovering full screen editors? c'mon, i remember my editors of choice doing that since the late 80s. even under windows. under linux it's not even fair play to mention this. Those people will have their
743.
by gcb 15y ago
not very related, but once i submited a post script resume (renamed as .pdf) for a webdev position, instead of the spify HTML that i usually send. (call it bucket testing:) The hiring manager, who appeared to be clueless to any web technolo
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by gcb 15y ago
exchanging word for libreOffice is like saying <insert analogy for lesser of two evils here> Both give incentives to the user to highlight every title and select Times new roman, 24pt, click the B button for bold etc. Files generate
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by gcb 15y ago
openGLES is fine, i was asking more about hardware acceleration for video. if you play a full HD video, does it skip frames like crazy? is the CPU on 100%?
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by gcb 15y ago
wow. this logged me off my X session on ubuntu 10.10 stable and chrome 13.0.782.112
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by gcb 15y ago
yeah, for the price of a dreamplug you can get a netbook. dreamplug are useless. btw, did you get video acceleration on yours?
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by gcb 15y ago
techcrunch one year late as usual. my android phone didn't work for crap w/out connection for exactly one year i have it. no single map or gmail action. no offline anything.
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by gcb 15y ago
what's next? click on links directly from your browser?
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by gcb 15y ago
n9 was ok. and even then, years late.

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