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by jawee 16y ago
First off, although apparently a recent thread on HN showed others have more problems than me, I don´t pay for texting; I use a combination of IM and Google Voice with my smartphone to get the job done on one bill. However, I was travelling
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by jawee 16y ago
I don´t know if that´s fair, as the Nokia smartphones I´ve used are really quite nice. Their high-end options like the N8 and N900 are phones I would rather have than my Droid 2.
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by jawee 16y ago
I think there are far too many happen chances in evolutionary biology to say that an advanced civilization is inevitable; my rational mind has a LOT of trouble accepting that our current development is a long history of happen-stances begin
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by jawee 16y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke Seems apt for non-working technology, as well.
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by jawee 16y ago
For those complaining about the details: I think this represents the code and general work on a new interface that is coming out. The applications that it is working with are the utilities that have been included in Gnome for quite a while
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by jawee 16y ago
When I first got my iPod Touch and was looking for applications, I started asking around to friends who had Touches and iPhones to find applications. I found the people who could recommend me the best selection of applications were those wh
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by jawee 16y ago
Since a software download isn´t tangible, it seems to make the library illustration make more sense.
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by jawee 16y ago
However, the expectation of easiness with computers does make one less-welling to work through and figure out things when it is necessary, I've found.
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by jawee 16y ago
With iOS, you get one choice of hardware and (for US markets, at least since it´s come out) one choice of carrier. The hardware and software are controlled by the same company and you can get updates. With Android, this option is also avail
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by jawee 16y ago
Interesting. I´ve found better, free ¨physics¨ games in the past with simple exercises in kinematics. The engine seems slightly off from my limited playing after seeing this article, and the graphics almost detract from the game. It´s just
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by jawee 16y ago
>these unquoted/unspecified typographers There are quotes from several specified typographers and style manuals. I do not understand why they are unquoted and unspecified. See especially paragraphs five, six, and eight.
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by jawee 16y ago
The MLA handbook has some interesting information about spacing after the period. Here is section 3.2.12 "Spacing after Concluding Punctuation marks" in my physical copy of the sixth edition. Publications in the United States today usually
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by jawee 16y ago
My problem is with teachers who insist on using double spaces after a period. I have had a few teachers in recent years demand double space and will not accept papers that do not use the convention. Because it feels entirely unnatural for m
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by jawee 16y ago
The caption on the image of the iPad is misleading. If I´m not mistaken, virtualisation is not permitted on iPads even if they were capable; the picture seems to be illustrating remote desktop.
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by jawee 16y ago
> But it would become another closed de facto standard, just like IE6. Huh? IE6 is a browser not a standard. Well, neither can H.264 be a standard, it is a non-free codec for video. The key was de facto.. Internet Explorer 6, at the pea
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by jawee 16y ago
Couldn't the same argument be made, even more so, with other areas of the technology market? When is the last time there has been a must have entry level digital camera? Or that one laptop that everyone has to have (although certain model
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by jawee 16y ago
I certainly did misread; thanks for that!
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by jawee 16y ago
Not to mention that it´s free on Verizon´s webOS phones. Virtually all of the smartphones that had a wifi card in the Verizon store when I last went had Wifi-tethering, although it usually cost extra. Not to mention that bluetooth and USB t
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by jawee 16y ago
It can´t be all about freedom if they´re dropping Theora too. (related: how can Theora be so bad is Vorbis is so good?)
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by jawee 16y ago
I usually just pull it up on my phone a few times a day and bookmark relevant links to read later (Opera Mobile syncs with my desktop). It depends on how many times I am in a position to randomly check on my phone more than anything and it´
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by jawee 16y ago
for a citation, the preface to the second edition includes this: [A. Square] has himself modified his own personal views, both as regards to Women and as regards the Isosceles or Lower Classes...But, writing as a Historian, he has identifie
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by jawee 16y ago
It said the site would load but the video would not in the original article, which was part of where I was coming from. Plus, features like Opera Turbo inside of Opera Mobile, for instance, would make such proxies transparent to the user.
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by jawee 16y ago
I´m pretty sure that´s part of the point of the book; in addition to the obvious, it is also social commentary on views on women at the time of its writing.
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by jawee 16y ago
They restrict in different ways. GPL restricts in order to give more freedom to people who wish to use software in certain ways; apple is protecting developer rights, in a blanket way that not all developers want.
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by jawee 16y ago
Well, considering most of the cloud integration goodness on iPhone is only possible with Google products, I don't think you can complain too much. iPhone is just as Google-dependent for the full experience as is Android. I will say that Goo
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by jawee 16y ago
This is certainly going to increase some iPhone marketshare in my area where AT&T has essentially no service. I know some people already that have iPhones and an additional cheap phone from Verizon or somebody to be able to reliably com
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by jawee 16y ago
This is one reason why I have no desire to use Apple products and have essentially retired my iOS device. This restricts a great library of possible software from ever making it to my device and restricts the possibility of a decent freed
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by jawee 16y ago
Have you ever tried running Office with a little network latency? The 10x slowdown is barely usable and unavoidably annoying, especially if you're used to a faster computer.
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by jawee 16y ago
I am in a suburb a good ways south of Atlanta, Georgia. Apple seems to have a relatively low market in general in my immediate vicinity except for iPods.
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by jawee 16y ago
On the Internet, reading speed becomes less important than the level of skimming. Even a very fast reader, if they really read an article, are going to be "slower" than most who approach the article, I think.

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