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by m0nastic 16y ago
The thing I don't understand is...why change the recommendation now? I don't honestly believe that tablets (which is presently a euphemism for iPad) effect PC sales all that much. If every single person who buys an iPad was otherwise going
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'll third a vote for Xmonad. To be honest though, I consider it a failure if I find myself interacting with X Windows at all.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Correct. I had originally written a paragraph about the switch of rendering engines, then figured it wasn't germane to the conversation. I found the reasons they list for the switch still relevant as reasons for the existence of the browser
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I would argue that there is just as valid a reason for Epiphany as there was for Gnome. Epiphany was created after Galeon (another Gnome web browser that nobody used). Gnome worked to create Human Interface Guidelines, and wanted a web brow
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Yeah, the problems the author has with Gnome are only problems as part of the "regular people wanting to use Linux/Gnome" argument. Basically, a form of NIH syndrome. Why stop at the browser or IM client though? Technically, Gnome itself on
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm also moving to NYC in about a month. My girlfriend and I went up a little bit ago to check out neighborhoods. It really depends on what you are looking for. We stayed in Williamsburg for the duration of our trip (about 5 days) to get a
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Everywhere I've ever worked, people's performance isn't that wishy-washy. There has always been a "normalization" of performance that becomes apparent based on people's fit within the organization and abilities. Now, I agree that quantifyin
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Jack Welch always got a lot of flack from people about "differentiation" (GE's program of cutting the bottom-performing 10%). I think the key (and I don't have a lot of experience with folks who work at GE, so I can't speak to it's validity
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I realize you're being clever by substituting the original poster's argument, but RIM did indeed create a new category. When the Blackberry shipped, it wasn't a smartphone. It wasn't a phone at all. It was a dedicated email device. And it w
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by m0nastic 16y ago
They mentioned that it would pair with your blackberry, and therefore share your data connection. I'd be willing to bet that it won't pair with non-blackberry's (although maybe they'll surprise me), but if you have a BB (like a large number
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I was happy to see the RIM acquisition of QNX bear fruit so early (I've always been a big fan of QNX). I get the impression from the keynote that as the plan is to tune a JVM for performance working on top of QNX, that the longterm plan for
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I feel a little silly replying to this comment in every story about Android, but hopefully I won't always have to (as it will become a non-issue); but you can't download non-market store apps from numerous Android devices (all of the ones s
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Yeah, I don't know how it works. She's actually also allergic to Canola oil, so she's basically a walking litmus test for packaged foods. She's not allergic to any fruit, but is allergic to potatoes and onions (which made bringing her home
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by m0nastic 16y ago
We avoid it because my girlfriend is allergic to it; which seriously limits what foods we can buy from the store.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean for my comment to make it sound like I'm supporting the content industry. Rereading it makes it sound like I think this is a bad thing. It was meant more as rubbing salt in the wound.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
To be fair, the release of DeCSS may very well have moved up the timetable for releasing BD+ and AACS (which isn't an argument against it, but these things don't exist in a vaccum).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
My point was that it represents a headache for the content industry, not consumers. I'm a consumer; I'm thrilled that maybe now I won't have to go through such a clusterfuck to watch a Blu-ray that I've paid for on my monitor. If I were a c
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by m0nastic 16y ago
For those curious as to what this entails, the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdcp#Cryptanalysis Does a pretty good job explaining. For those not quite that curious, if you've ever tried to watch a Blu-Ray movie on your c
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HDCP master key allegedly posted(pastebin.com)
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by m0nastic 16y ago
To concur with Thomas' statement above, I've been doing application testing for about 11 years now (predominantly in the Financial sector), and with the exception of when XSS was initially discovered (and over-hyped) I don't regularly encou
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think the "android vision" is the mythical belief that certain consumers have that Google wanted to release an open phone platform for the benefit of the users. I disagree about Google having much choice about how they set up the licensin
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm not so sure that the comparison with the bargain PC market is apt. I bought a Samsung Vibrant (not a low-end market phone) and returned it after a week. All of the crapware installed on it was absolutely one of the reasons I returned it
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm running vanilla Safari, and it loaded fine.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Recently I was onsite with a client doing a pet test when I came across a production server running NT 4. It was a PBX, supplied by a vendor, and therefore unable to be administered or upgraded by the client without voiding the warranty. Am
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I doubt that's why they didn't put a Windows key on their keyboards. Maybe it was a licensing issue (as Microsoft required keyboard manufacturers to license the key), or maybe it was something else, but I'd be surprised if they held out tha
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I am kind of excited in seeing node.js used in a mobile platform. There are a lot of things about WebOS that I really like.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Larger companies seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach. I suspect after the HP acquisition announcement, things probably look a little more up. The community itself is definitely still growing (One of the few brightspots in the way Palm
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I can't comment as freely on this as I'd like, but here goes my best shot: The conventional wisdom that "insiders" make up the majority of threats has been challenged for a few years now. I know our sales people used to love touting about i
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by m0nastic 16y ago
To be fair to Joe, while in the middle of presumably working on an Android application, he has been posting tweets about his frustrations with that process. This isn't quite the same thing as a blog post or article lambasting the Android pl
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Just wanted to point out that while "Android" does in fact let you install apps from any source, many Android phones (for example virtually all of the ones offered by ATT) do not actually allow installing non-market apps. And as this is som

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