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by illumin8 15y ago
Please correct me if I am wrong, but that is not the main benefit of WebOS. I believe the main benefit of WebOS is that it supports HTML5/JS applications natively in the OS, and they are not bound by a browser frame. Nobody wants to have t
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by illumin8 15y ago
How exactly is the President, who is head of the executive branch, going to fix the shenanigans going on in the legislative branch? Remember, the President doesn't make laws, he just enforces them (indirectly, through the Executive branch)
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by illumin8 15y ago
There is also a very good argument to make that gifted students don't need any special programs, because they are able to learn on their own at a pace that no instructor or regular course could keep up with.
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by illumin8 15y ago
The iOS decision was more correct because it has proven itself in the marketplace. Consumers overwhelmingly demand touch interfaces on their smartphones and tablets, as opposed to stylus, trackball, or any other that has come before it. An
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by illumin8 15y ago
Why should it? The iPhone uses a home double-click to pull up the task manager/switcher interface. Yet single clicking the home button still instantly gives you the response you expect.
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by illumin8 15y ago
+1 I think this Saurik guy knows what he's talking about... Now where have I heard that name before? (hint his software runs on over 2 million devices)
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by illumin8 15y ago
Right, you can still get around this with the good old "use freon to freeze the DIMMs then search RAM for the encryption key" trick. Realistically, however, you need to look at the value of the data as opposed to the cost to retrieve it.
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by illumin8 15y ago
They can and already have solved the security issues by full hard disk encryption of the servers. Any attempt to open the server rack or tamper with the hardware triggers a dead man switch that powers off the servers. After losing power,
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by illumin8 15y ago
The optimist inside me hopes that what you say is true. The pessimist inside of me thinks that perhaps an app would never have been released in this sorry state under Steve's watch...
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by illumin8 15y ago
I truly feel sorry for the poor guy that owns asdf@asdf.com. I must have registered for over a hundred different accounts on various Interweb forums using his email address...
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by illumin8 15y ago
They said it also runs Ubuntu, and will run the Windows 8 ARM version. Android is good for a low power CPU like ARM since it doesn't require as much horsepower. I would imagine that running a Firefox browser on Ubuntu under ARM would be a
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by illumin8 15y ago
If you use an Obihai device, I highly recommend that you setup a new Google voice account for it, separate from your main Gmail account, for just this reason. You still get an extra phone line that you can make and receive calls on, and yo
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by illumin8 15y ago
The navigation system in my car has a 20GB hard drive, runs Linux, and arguably has more power than an iPhone. I'm still not regretting the fact that I can't load software on it. When I'm trying to get somewhere, I just want the GPS to wo
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by illumin8 15y ago
I thought when I walked into the Toyota dealership and bought a car, I owned it too, however, I guess I really don't because I can't load custom software onto my in car navigation system. This is a ridiculous logical fallacy. People want a
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by illumin8 15y ago
We could pay off the debt if we wanted to; it definitely is possible. The question in my mind is - if a country like the US has the ability to print the world's reserve currency, isn't it beneficial to run a small deficit to increase GDP?
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by illumin8 15y ago
Not sure where you're getting your numbers at, but $100K is entry level for a sysadmin in NYC, and $120K is normal for a sysadmin with a few years of experience. I'm sure northern California is similar.
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by illumin8 15y ago
+1 - you can automate deployment all you want, but when something goes wrong with your production site (and it inevitably will), do you want to pull your top developers off of whatever new features they are working on and ask them to troubl
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by illumin8 15y ago
He is absolutely correct. A senior Linux admin is going to charge $75 an hour, and the contracting company that finds them will charge $25 an hour for handling the paperwork. You could hire someone full time for about $120K a year but then
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by illumin8 15y ago
He lives in a trailer at an RV park also... that right there cuts your rent significantly. Hey, if you want to live in a trailer at an RV park for $400 a month, barbecue with charcoal because it costs less than propane, and grow a few vege
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by illumin8 15y ago
They have a pretty good catalog of TV shows - Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Office, etc. Their movie content is pretty poor, but that is mostly the fault of Hollywood executives and their golf buddies at HBO/Time/Warner.
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by illumin8 15y ago
I thought Obama's words about Steve's death were quite touching. I'll just quote the last paragraph: "The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of hi
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by illumin8 15y ago
False, they're doing on device speech recognition. Servers are only used if you request information from the Internet. Look at the demos and read the hands on reports. On device recognition makes it much more usable than Google Voice Act
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by illumin8 15y ago
3d is a fad that will most likely never be a differentiating feature in a cell phone. How many people at the Sprint store are seriously going to pick up the HTC Evo 3D and say "screw the iPhone 4S, I'm buying this thing because it's 3D!"
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by illumin8 15y ago
I believe the voice recognition accuracy of Siri is far superior to Google Voice Actions and requires the dual core CPU. Google has taken a different approach, where your voice sample is uploaded to a Google server, processed, and downloade
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by illumin8 15y ago
You truly underestimate the zealotry and kool-aid drinking capacity of the average Oracle DBA. When your entire career is based on the training and certifications you've received from a single company, every database solution magically bec
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by illumin8 15y ago
You should read the article. Apparently any app that you give permission to use the Internet can leak all your data. Are you absolutely positive that every single free app you download is safe?
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by illumin8 15y ago
Right, they are still making money off of every transaction. It seems ridiculous to discourage debit card use. They are just greedy and want to charge both customers and merchants for essentially being a middle man and adding little value
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by illumin8 15y ago
There is a lot of room in this market for competition from open source projects. Really, the concept is so simple that it could be done with a shell script for simple failover: (pseudo code) if (curl http://ip of main site) fails then
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by illumin8 15y ago
Look at F5 networks Global Traffic Manager. It's really just a fancy DNS server. You set your TTL (time to live) down to just a few seconds and it monitors your main and standby sites. If one of the sites goes down it changes your A reco
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by illumin8 15y ago
What is truly ridiculous is that banks get a 3% merchant fee for every credit or debit transaction charged to their card. So, essentially, they are charging their customers for the very privilege of making money... And we wonder why the ba

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