glymor

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by glymor 17y ago
I wonder if this means they are dropping plans to move Maemo to QT? Moblin is Gnome/GTK based (as is Maemo currently) and Intel doesn't have Nokia's crossplatform reasons to be committed to QT.
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MeeGo: Nokia and Intel merge Maemo and Moblin(engadget.com)
31 points by glymor 17y ago|7 comments
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by glymor 17y ago
This has a Pixel Qi screen not a e-ink screen. (The OLPC screen has the same technology.) It has the same reaction speed as a LCD. I'm not sure how good the colour mode is (probably TN level). The monochrome mode has 3 times the DPI (becaus
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by glymor 17y ago
Windows Mobile is another target: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Build
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by glymor 17y ago
Everyone focused on Microsoft at the time but Yahoo and others also dissented. I think for good reason; ES4 is nearly completely different from normal Javascript (static types, class-based inheritance). Also Adobe was getting a standard tha
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by glymor 17y ago
It's easy to be so strident. I agree freedom of information requests should always be respected (if nothing else it's the law). That doesn't mean it's useful on it's own. Unintelligible source code isn't much more useful than none. See CRU'
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by glymor 17y ago
I agree he's too broad (and in other places as well). I had assumed it was just the heat of the argument. I also wonder about him invoking his professional capacity. It implicitly makes him a representative of scientists; in acting so he re
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by glymor 17y ago
Amateurs scientists are still scientists, using similar methods and acting in a constructive way. If nothing else many eyes effect makes them useful - particularly in astronomy. Journalists attempt to generate controversy to increase page v
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by glymor 17y ago
If it increases the chance of a technology or people acquisition it would be creating value.
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by glymor 17y ago
Google streetview also works on the iphone. Drop a pin and touch the little man.
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by glymor 17y ago
National security usurps the companies right to otherwise sell stuff that doesn't provably work. If only we could get UK forces to use homeopathy. In other news the director of the company has been arrested for fraud so they are doing somet
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by glymor 17y ago
The man behind the fraud was arrested yesterday: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8476381.stm
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by glymor 17y ago
"The servers used in both attacks employ the HomeLinux DynamicDNS provider, and both are currently pointing to IP addresses owned by Linode, a US-based company that offers Virtual Private Server hosting. The IP addresses in question are wi
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by glymor 17y ago
To view on a unix system: weave tex.web tex tex.tex dvips tex.dvi -o tex.ps
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by glymor 17y ago
What little I've read on obesity research seems to require that both excess sugar and fat are consumed to overcome homeostasis. Sugars can ignore homeostatic regulation for hedonistic reasons and fats don't have the same day to day correcti
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by glymor 17y ago
Here's a review of Taubes' book by George Bray: http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/wp-content/uploads/2008/0... in case you do want someone dissing it for you. Also I don't think we should "make up [our] own mind" the biology on this is w
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by glymor 17y ago
The literary devices used in this are grating. The repetition that the beginning is trite. Fake conversations, pretend thoughts, conversations with the reader, overly hip tone. It might be normal in a business book but in the end it just ge
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by glymor 17y ago
Sociality seems to have negative feedback at the edges. The height of the potential barrier is easy exceeded if you're self-sustaining and near impossible if you're not. The only part of this I've personally experienced is similar chicken a
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by glymor 17y ago
He's just trolling: his account's been open for 15 minutes and he's already at -7.
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by glymor 17y ago
High interest rates normally occur with high inflation making it cheaper to borrow. The "real" rate your paying back is interest-inflation. Prodigals and projectors borrow at a premium above the interest rate whatever the prevailing rate. D
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by glymor 17y ago
Cutting up a goldfish or breeding in transparency are amoral. Whether you find it disgusting or not is a personal matter. Unless of course I wanted to sell you something. At which point it would take prime importance, as it clearly did to t
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by glymor 17y ago
Chrome OS might be a better example of a project created to commodify. No-one sells a browser but Microsoft still makes a lot of money selling desktop OS's. Unlike Android they don't seem to have any market goals for themselves. Ironically
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by glymor 17y ago
[Apple] realized that keeping WebKit closed and exclusively pumping money into it was pointless. So they opened it out... Webkit started as a fork of KHTML (part of KDE and LGPL licenced) their mishandling of it is a good example of how n
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Leaked climate docs: the schools involved investigate(arstechnica.com)
2 points by glymor 17y ago|0 comments
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The complicated truth behind scientific findings(arstechnica.com)
1 points by glymor 17y ago|0 comments
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by glymor 17y ago
All the "OS"s in the article run GNU userland, X windows, webkit or gecko browsers. So yes they are the same operating system. They just have different applications in different configurations. Android is it's own operating system. It has o
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by glymor 17y ago
I assume he means creating their own user experience. As all the examples he gives of companies creating their own OS are actually using Linux.
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IBM makes supercomputer significantly smarter than cat(arstechnica.com)
3 points by glymor 17y ago|0 comments
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by glymor 17y ago
I know that's just supposed to be a piece of folky wisdom but it doesn't represent a very good understanding of how different AI is from our normal expectations. It's not Data on Startrek. There's no reason for them to be walking around tal
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by glymor 17y ago
a dearth of innovative features I assume you don't mean dearth here as that would mean a lack of innovative features. Personally I found Opera to be too much of a walled garden, they never really had a cohesive extensions story. Sure you

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