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by glhaynes 13y ago
Only if increaseInOriginalCost - increaseInResaleValue <= valueDerivedFromBetterSpecs.
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Is the new Apple iOS 7 look an improvement?(quora.com)
2 points by glhaynes 13y ago|0 comments
873.
by glhaynes 13y ago
Sparsebundles aren't diffed in Time Machine (what would they diff against?); and backups are only done in whole-file increments, not at a block level.
874.
by glhaynes 13y ago
On iOS, as you run native code, you could theoretically do direct device access in assembly and the OS has far less control over that. But the hardware access protection ensures user code doesn't access anything it's not suppose
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by glhaynes 13y ago
Unless OS X implements a different cp and mv than the standard FreeBSD ones, … It does (though it didn't before 10.4). There's still lots of code out there that doesn't respect them, no doubt, but to my knowledge you can us
876.
by glhaynes 13y ago
Actually, the fact that Android uses a virtual machine for it's code has pretty good security benefits over running native code as on iOS. Howso? I'm trying to think of what a VM could guard against aside from illegal memory acc
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by glhaynes 13y ago
He's got a personal assistant that follows him around everywhere — and perhaps more who don't. Must be nice!
878.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I'm not a compiler guy, but wouldn't this be true for any compiler?
879.
by glhaynes 13y ago
How does it hurt, though? You say you're not running 2012 yet, so obviously you're not feeling forced to upgrade before you're ready. So why shouldn't they put out the latest bits when they've got them ready and we users can start using the
880.
by glhaynes 13y ago
But that's not what studying population shows us: when people have economic opportunities, education, and choices, they choose to have fewer children. So much so that we end up with the "problem" of the birth rate dropping below what's need
881.
by glhaynes 13y ago
The whole thing is complicated ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers_suicides_in_India ) and the Daily Mail has a history of being an awful source.
882.
by glhaynes 13y ago
‘Liking’ your content costs me nothing, so what’s to stop me from ‘Liking’ everything I see without considering how it affects the popularity of that content? Is there evidence that a significant # of users are doing this?
883.
by glhaynes 13y ago
Huh. OK, then it surprises me that they charge so much. I guess they're selling their ad space, though? (Hence it being sensible for them to charge such a high CPM rate.)
884.
by glhaynes 13y ago
sitting through the same 4 advertisements over-and-over-and-over again for What is it I don't understand about the online video business that causes this to happen? They can't get enough advertisements from their partners to allow them to
885.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they can legally say "The Asus tablet has a 10.1" screen and the iPad has a 9.7" screen", but I'd strongly expect they need a "* based on diagonal measurement" footnote to get away with calling that display "bigge
886.
by glhaynes 13y ago
A person can't claim a world record on height by being morbidly obese. Yeah, but a person could claim a world record on size by being morbidly obese. If they said "I'm the biggest person in the world", they'd be making a statement tha
887.
by glhaynes 13y ago
And I've got no problem with them saying their diagonal is bigger. But, to me at least, they can't say the screen is bigger and be on the "OK" side of even technical truthfulness.
888.
by glhaynes 13y ago
But the way we measure the size of things is ... by their size. We could just as well say their statement is true if we agree to define "bigger" as "smaller" and vice-versa.
889.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I clicked the title expecting it to be hyperbolic outrage at an advertising half-truth, but — yeah, that really is flat-out wrong. I can see how it could perhaps happen unintentionally, but Microsoft should definitely change the ad after th
890.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I think that your point about learning being easier when you've got a problem is probably true. But as someone without such a problem immediately at hand, I could really use a list of interesting problems to give me a starting point. And, e
891.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I don't trust the general legal intuitions of ourselves and our peers, since we seem to be so rubbish at creating a useful legal and political climate for our industry (based on ~30 years of case law). The DWTFYWT license is better in thi
892.
by glhaynes 13y ago
Have you played on one? Everybody I know that's actually used one likes it a lot, and it allows gameplay possibilities that have never really been possible before. (That said, it badly needs more games.)
893.
by glhaynes 13y ago
That doesn't mean it's equally easy for the user to be careless on all of those systems, and I think that's important.
894.
by glhaynes 13y ago
This is basically sandboxing by hand.
895.
by glhaynes 13y ago
I don't know if there's a way around it but my first thought is that if you're hardcore enough to be needing to run code that's signed with a blacklisted ID, you're way more than hardcore enough to be able to easily make an unsigned (so can
896.
by glhaynes 13y ago
The purpose of requiring code signing certificates for default trusted execution on OS X was to make Apple able to blacklist IDs used for malicious purpose (and perhaps to create at least some financial/identification trail). What more woul
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by glhaynes 13y ago
Or… it could just be spam.
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by glhaynes 13y ago
The idea that a girl is a tomboy if she's not wearing a sparkly girdle and makeup is the problem .
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by glhaynes 13y ago
In the examples you list, the people who actually interact with the software aren't likely to be the ones who are making the purchasing decisions, though. My guess is that this is one of the main reasons why "enterprise" software UI is so b
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by glhaynes 13y ago
As someone else posted in this same thread: is modern Windows substantially slower than the OSes it competes with (in anything other than a few uncommon niches)? If it's more than a few percentage points slower for anything but rare scena

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