m_eiman

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by m_eiman 17y ago
They risk next to nothing by keeping tight control while there is little or no competition. If it turns out that people prefer e.g. Android because of this, they can easily change their policy and turn it into a positive PR event. If people
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Making a better product is no guarantee in the slightest of it becoming a standard. You have the wrong definition of "better". The definition that matters isn't what an engineer thinks is superior based on whatever an engineer thinks is i
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by m_eiman 17y ago
It might very well be authentic, but for some reason I'm a cynic when it comes to big business and advertisements.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
... which might just as well be part of the PR :P
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by m_eiman 17y ago
So what country has been more evil in the last decade? That probably depends on who you're asking.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
They do have an adapter for connecting directly to cameras, or readins SD cards. Don't if it'll let you import the photos or not, but I suppose it'll at least show them.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Same here. Anyone know if and how they handle that? Seems like a major problem that'd prevent this sort of thing from working well.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
What I see is a button with a grayed out text next to it that says "Off" (or even worse, just "O"). Maybe I'm just damaged from having tried to understand more or less broken GUIs the last twenty years and overthink it :P Another thing that
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Am I the only one who has to think twice every time I see one of those controls; "does the text mean that it's currently off, or does it mean that sliding it over there will turn it off"?
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Well, they did construct a computerized version of the method the slime uses to construct the network. Also they say that it's suitable for use in a dynamic network where traffic flows change and nodes are added and removed.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
From the latest Dreamhost newsletter: In fact, Ceph is practically what you'd call "stable" at this point (which is not to say it's "production-ready"!), and we've actually begun testing it as a backup/replacement for our poor backup.dream
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by m_eiman 17y ago
I just saw something related in the news, apparently corruption in Afghanistan is on the scale of 23% of GDP. I can imagine that changing an economic system with that much corruption to something better is hard, since everyone depends on ho
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Works on OSX, at least.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Neat, but the value axis in the plots should be zero based, or at least have that as an option.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Well, VLC et al seem to be able to decode and play videos without a problem, and one would think that the remaining 85% of CPU would be enough to copy the decoded image data into a buffer for the browser... But I haven't tried to do it myse
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by m_eiman 17y ago
If Apple allowed browser plugins to move video-decompression out of the CPU too, then that would be great. What prevents the plugins from using hardware? They're binaries that can run anything they want, aren't they?
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Could it be that it's a PPC emulation thing? If an Intel binary can load a PPC lib, then the calls between them would have to follow the same rules (and perhaps PPC wants things 16 byte alinged?).
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by m_eiman 17y ago
I'd say that that war is a lot worse in Middle East than it is in the US. Not speaking from personal experience, but having a $5000 dollar bomb dropped on you and/or your relatives seems like it'd be worse than paying for it.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Python GUI scripting -> PythonGoose -> PyGoose -> Goose?
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Not to mention that little thing called "war".
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by m_eiman 17y ago
I am essentially purporting a new protocol that replaces rmtp (the flash media streaming protocol) and other media streaming/distribution protocols. Ah. So you just need to either convince Adobe to add that to Flash, or have the users run
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by m_eiman 17y ago
The article is a bit hazy on some rather important details, such as "are you going to use P2P for downloads" and "how will you route traffic to the nodes". Using P2P means custom client software, which means that it can only be used to very
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by m_eiman 17y ago
That is, if you even knew there was an update. Unlike Windows, your router isn't going to keep popping up little bubbles to tell you to update. Perhaps the router maker(s) should give you an app that'll do that, seems like a very useful t
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Youtube: has a native app Online ads: I don't think the majority of users find that to be a problem Uploaders: What are you going to upload that can't be done just as well with a normal file picker? I'd guess the thing is a big iPhone, not
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Bullet points, should ideally be in the page margin. Not indented. Really? To me that's "ugly", as in "that's not how it looks anywhere, so it jumps out at me". The reason given in the linked text seems to be a design one ("it looks ugly"
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Ah, I see. That's apparently something that should have been detected by sniffers. Also of interest while on the subject of airborne terrorists: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/flying_toilet_terror...
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by m_eiman 17y ago
... which was supposed to sniff for explosives. Obviously that mustn't have worked in this case, ... You're assuming that he had actual explosives. From what little I've read so far they've said that it was some kind of "chemical", which
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Nitpick: it's not increasing capacity, it's utilizing the existing capacity better.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Which is it - according to your speculative theories, was salt abundant or not? I revised it to abundant, but not as abundant as say air or water. Your speculation on sweet being difficult to find is also nothing more than (poor) specula
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Why would the fact that we like things that taste sweet indicate that they were hard to find? Assuming that nothing in how the body works happens for no good reason: The fact that we enjoy it means that our body rewards us for eating it,

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