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by javanix 16y ago
Made this jaded bastard smile.
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by javanix 16y ago
It means pretty much exactly what you say, only its the set top box that's doing the streaming, and the video outputs are only disabled for movies that are still in theaters. I also find it hard to get overly worked up about it - it seems l
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by javanix 16y ago
Well, no, they don't 'owe' anyone anything but it seems like an uncharacteristic move for Google, which seemed to be the author's point.
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by javanix 16y ago
It's one line that adds that functionality. One line that shouldn't really have any additional overhead. Hardly seems like a giant glob of obfuscating junk to me.
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by javanix 16y ago
Apparently the game will be available traditionally for the same price as in North America, or for a smaller amount up front and a recurring subscription fee. Can any economists here speculate as to the relative profitability for Blizzard w
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Starcraft 2 offering subscription plans in Latin America, Asia and Russia(joystiq.com)
3 points by javanix 16y ago|1 comments
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by javanix 16y ago
You can't just drop a memristor chip or RAM module into an existing system and have it work. It will take a system redesign. If these truly are a viable storage system, building an interface that's reasonably easily adaptable to the curre
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by javanix 16y ago
It's also somewhat cruel to whoever has to read your "clever" message.
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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD)(vimeo.com)
4 points by javanix 16y ago|0 comments
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by javanix 16y ago
Look at this graph and be afraid. It does not come from Earth First. It does not come from the Sierra Club. It was not drawn by Socialists or Nazis or Osama Bin Laden or anyone from Goldman-Sachs. If you are a Republican Tea-Partier, rest
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by javanix 16y ago
Well, I stand corrected then. I thought the article seemed to imply that it wasn't a non-standard extension, just a standard extension that had only been implemented correctly in Mozilla. Looking back, it seems like you are correct though.
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by javanix 16y ago
awww, I thought we were done with Techcrunch articles rehashing old topics on the front page all the time ...
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by javanix 16y ago
Well, that Quake 2 port uses WebGL - as far as I can tell this should work out of the box in any browser with the right implementations.
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by javanix 16y ago
Thanks for taking the time to respond. You've managed to come up with suggestions that would result in the first iteration of the software I came up with. The results of the focus testing we did (mostly with a group of autistic adults) ende
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Ask HN: Please review my webapp (and help with autism research)
2 points by javanix 16y ago|3 comments
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by javanix 16y ago
Curly-quotes (or at least the ones that do left-quote, right-quote anyway) play hell with UTF-8 encoding in HTML - for simplicity's sake I'd rather not deal with them, especially for documents that might (and should be) placed online for ev
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by javanix 16y ago
Convert straight quotes to curly quotes I agree with everything but the above.
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by javanix 16y ago
Probably because it's far easier to scale up production on a smaller, 4th generation screen than it would be to scale up production on a larger, less established device.
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by javanix 17y ago
Want to be truly computing literate, where you write as well as read? There’s no app for that. On some level, the iPad isn't really a Turing Machine.
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How The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading(io9.com)
43 points by javanix 17y ago|10 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
Why on earth is he blocking links from Reddit and HN?
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by javanix 17y ago
Was the Korean War not widely remembered in the 1960s? The author talks as if he'd never heard of the place before, and apparently needed to research the war. Says something interesting about the current news cycle if true.
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by javanix 17y ago
The first one's always free?
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by javanix 17y ago
Except games can't and will never be run off-site as a service - the technical capabilities for OnLIVE are not and will never be available in the US. More and more games will be moved to models that require a persistent internet connection
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New Blade Design Reduces Helicopter Noise(wired.com)
1 points by javanix 17y ago|0 comments
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by javanix 17y ago
The article paints this situation at the fault of the consumer. I'm not entirely convinced that's true. I would love to drop my cable TV and just pay for my internet connection - problem is, I call up my cable provider and they claim that i
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by javanix 17y ago
Well, the content of that particular blog has something to do with that. You need a certain level of sophistication to come up with something coherent to post, and most of the trolls out there know they'd be instantaneously obvious to every
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by javanix 17y ago
I bet you could do it without "scanning it" per se. Taking a set of pictures and then using stitching software, followed by some Photoshop touch-ups would probably give you a pretty good start.
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by javanix 17y ago
Selling more ads would probably increase revenue for the metro systems. Making them bigger and selling them for more would help as well. Google doesn't apply here because they can't use this technique for fear of backlash. I can't imagine a
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by javanix 17y ago
I agree with the sentiment - anyone expecting to make a ton of money off of a career in Native American studies is naive at best. That said, the author did manage to be hired in multiple tenure-track positions, and made it to an Ivy League

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