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by jcl 16y ago
Of course, there's nothing stopping the developer from releasing an update that makes the free app less functional/desirable. As far as I know, the only way to tell what an update will be like without installing it is to look for App Market
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by jcl 16y ago
I've heard it's also been tested to work inside the shell of an iPhone 3GS.
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You might want to reread the article you linked to. That is Helvetica in the screenshot -- note in particular the horizontal end on the "e" and the vertical end on the "r". The beauty and superiority are more apparent if you click on th
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by jcl 16y ago
If I'm reading the article correctly, though, iBooks is making content less consistent. If the author puts custom fonts on all their tags, iBooks is going to honor all of them except <p>, <div>, and <span>. So yo
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...$4,000 he raised on a website that connects artists and inventors with private investors. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1992078142/building-the-... The guy also has a blog: http://prometheusfusionperfection.com/ And a GitHub
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I have fond memories of "Japan, Inc." -- a manga introduction to 1980's economics. It was one of the few manga stocked by our local library in the time before English-language manga really became popular. http://www.amazon.com/Japan-Inc-I
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by jcl 16y ago
Granted, drugs can hurt kids, but I'd be surprised to find that nudity has ever been shown to cause permanent psychological damage; otherwise we'd never have made it out of the trees. Do you have any references supporting that view?
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by jcl 16y ago
As a side note, I was really disappointed that Rockstar omitted the ambulance and firefighter missions in GTA IV. The ambulance missions were one of my favorite parts of the pre-GTA4 games -- challenging and well-rewarded. (Edit: ...and, a
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by jcl 16y ago
One way around this is to have a label for the current floor, but no button next to it, just metal plating. Then it's obvious that there is no way to select the current floor.
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This doesn't cover sound or video editing, but there are programs to do that as well. ...like emacs. :) http://1010.co.uk/gneve.html
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by jcl 16y ago
The consensus in the support forums seems to be that it's about 3-5 hours: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334489 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1514754 There are forum posts with people reporting two hours or less,
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I know it didn't originate in GNOME, but GNOME was perhaps the most popular environment using virtual desktops at the time that Apple introduced Spaces: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_%28software%29#Compariso...
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by jcl 16y ago
Less iffy than you'd think. Fonts are not copyrightable (within the US, at least, and for fonts that do not contain executable code). http://nwalsh.com/comp.fonts/FAQ/cf_13.htm
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by jcl 16y ago
One ad in particular that later struck me as prescient was the ~1999 Quest ad of the guy asking what movies a hotel had: "All rooms have every movie in every language, anytime, day or night." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ9qcp6Lcno
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by jcl 16y ago
Posted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1439676
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If you are planning to look for a job rather than start a company, you really should get your degree. If your classes are not stimulating you enough, perhaps you could try training for programming competitions (TopCoder, Google Code Jam,
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Coincidentally, I ran across Scott Shaw!'s homepage today: http://www.shawcartoons.com/bio.php (...although there are plenty of other names with exclamation points, due to languages like Xhosa.)
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As albertni suggests, they have a series of heuristics, some of which do word matching and others which are specialized to common Jeopardy idioms -- such as the before-and-after clue. Each heuristic gives a list of candidate answers and pr
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by jcl 16y ago
Watson reminds me greatly of Proverb, a crossword-solving program. It works in a similar way: a number of different heuristics come up with possible clue solutions, then a ranking algorithm prunes them by probability. Like Watson, some he
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Proverb: a probabilistic crossword solver(oneacross.com)
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by jcl 16y ago
Maybe a bigger issue: What will it mean for file sharers? A private, anonymous server that can't be shut down by foreign powers sounds like a file sharer's dream come true.
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I expect that this is akin to wondering why anyone would want to go to a concert and lay on their camera's flash for two hours to create that annoying "continuous strobe" effect. :)
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I'm pretty sure it counts... Ars is arguing that Objective-C will be left behind by a higher-level, managed language, which is precisely what is happening with Unity, regardless of whether Microsoft implemented it or what platform it runs o
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by jcl 16y ago
That's a good question. Lots of corporate intranet apps are written in C#, but it's hard to tell what consumer apps are, since it's not something that companies advertise. For what it's worth, we do know, however, that .NET technology is a
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by jcl 16y ago
Heh... I was rather hoping to see "Nokia -- cellphones" in the list, but it cuts off just a few years before Nokia's 1865 founding date. Same for Nintendo (1889).
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So those two hex screws they show in the circular access panel are the only things preventing the guts of the mini from being removed through the back? That sounds pretty slick, actually.
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by jcl 16y ago
"The Berkeley-Iowa Naked People Finder" describes one approach, which seems to first classify pixels as skin/not skin by color, then identifying "limbs" from the pixel regions. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~fleck/naked.html Some other people hav
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Hmm... Looks like they made the memory easier to upgrade, but the hard drive more difficult.
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by jcl 16y ago
if I did my math ("maths" in the UK) correctly, is equivalent to eating around 10,000 bananas. I think the number of bananas is actually higher: 100 rems * (1000 millirems / rem) * (365 bananas / 3.6 millirems) = about 10,000,000 bananas
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More to the point: Bananas are radioactive precisely because of the large amount of potassium they contain -- naturally occurring potassium contains a radioactive potassium isotope. You must consume some amount of radioactive material as p

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