jasomill

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by jasomill 15y ago
Sure, but I can download and run PuTTY directly from its download page faster than I can log in to my Google account on any machine where the credentials aren't already saved. The Chrome extension could be nice for preconfigured "many-to-ma
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by jasomill 15y ago
Only in multiple-monitor setups, and for applications that don't support it well, or at all. It's clearly designed for a single display and trackpad gestures, where it works nicely in most cases. This doesn't excuse applications (e.g., VMwa
1293.
by jasomill 15y ago
Pay cash and use it on T-Mobile? That's what I did. AT&T or any other GSM prepaid should also work.
1294.
by jasomill 15y ago
Well, having made no special effort, the site claims my User-Agent is as unique as my set of 5,150 installed fonts. To be fair, I suppose WebKit nightly version numbers don't satisfy most definitions of "random". As for mechanisms, to what
1295.
by jasomill 15y ago
Lehmer (1951), by way of Knuth Vol. 2, "A random sequence is a vague notion embodying the idea of a sequence in which each term is unpredictable to the uninitiated and whose digits pass a certain number of tests, traditional with statistici
1296.
by jasomill 15y ago
How does this not trivially exclude everything (the first definition, not the circular restatement)? Considering that, say, a sequence of coin flips either has the property of "beginning with heads" or "beginning with tails," it certainly a
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by jasomill 15y ago
You're probably thinking about George Carlin, see, e.g., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNLOXJw0aUU
1298.
by jasomill 15y ago
Nah — that'd be too easy. It's more interesting to see how people learn to communicate solely through the keyboard. Besides, actually attempting to perform "for real" over the Internet would quickly lead to latency-induced frustration — WL
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by jasomill 15y ago
No, but there's a switchable "bars"/dBm display built in to recent versions of iOS: 1. Dial #3001#12345#* and hit send to start the Field Test app. 2. Hold down the power/lock button until the "slide to power off" screen displays. 3.
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by jasomill 15y ago
So you want your music clipped or limited by the DAC? Or do you envision amps and speakers capable of generating shockwaves powerful enough to level entire cities? Hotblack Desiato, is that you?
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by jasomill 15y ago
I ran into similar issues several years ago in setting up "sftp-only" ssh logins to a server. As I recall, the most robust solution involved disabling port forwarding and running the "sftp" ssh daemons in a nearly empty chroot environment.
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by jasomill 15y ago
It's only "all about the contract" if you sign one. I, for one, am perfectly happy to pay $649 for an iPod, a GPS, a portable video game console, a PDA, and a phone, but wouldn't pay a $5 premium for what passes for "unlimited high-speed da
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by jasomill 15y ago
One obvious, if nontrivial to implement, idea: simple, low-cost, distributed authoring tools to enable collaboration of geographically distributed production teams in creating YouTube-like content, including "one-click publishing" to YouTub
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Joint statement from SAG, AFM, AFTRA, DGA, IATSE and IBT regarding PIPA and SOPA(aftra.org)
2 points by jasomill 15y ago|1 comments
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by jasomill 15y ago
Agreed: nothing to see here, especially as MPAA represents the major Hollywood studios, not "workers in the entertainment industry." Here's a study I'd personally like to see: spending on "legitimate" copies of entertainment products easily
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by jasomill 15y ago
What's clear is that, under current laws, you can generate 18000M+ before current laws can stop you. Again, not saying revamping the SEC is the answer, but let's not ignore that Bernie Madoff operated for years like this. If he had been pro
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by jasomill 15y ago
Presumably when Microsoft starts giving away Word and makes Visual Studio a compelling platform for cross-platform development? In all honesty, given the iPad's share of the tablet market, making unrestricted, high-quality, cross-platform i
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by jasomill 15y ago
IANAL either, but Apple's lawyers _are_ lawyers, so rest assured that they've thought about this, as well. I suspect the answer is this: you're free to sell the e-book version for a fee and give away the iBooks version: this just makes the
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by jasomill 15y ago
It's hardly buried: it's mentioned in the description of the app, it's mentioned inside the app when you "publish", it's mentioned in the help file for the app, and it appears, in boldface letters, as an "IMPORTANT NOTE", at the _beginning_
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by jasomill 15y ago
Actually, given that the overwhelming majority of people _won't_ be running custom Android builds, it's also quite possible that Indian carriers are simply required to install whatever spyware the government requires, preferably without the
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by jasomill 15y ago
This seems to depend on the nature of the command --- "move to the word I'm looking at" is often faster with a pointing device (though I haven't regularly used a _mouse_ in years, I use a trackpad on the left and a digitizer tablet on the r
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by jasomill 15y ago
Hopefully they'll buck current trends and offer episodic content for $1 or so per episode to non-subscribers. Content available "exclusively" to subscribers is a customer-hostile model, as, e.g., Apple and Amazon seem to realize.