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by macrael 16y ago
So many times! With really great movies, they get better every time I watch them. It's A Wonderful Life, The Third Man, Casablanca, and The Godfather, to name a few. Of course I want to see them again. They may not change, but I see new thi
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by macrael 16y ago
Ah, you are right. I read a 2002 advisory that allowed them. http://www.tsa.gov/press/releases/2002/press_release_0104.sh... Alas.
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by macrael 16y ago
Not so. I'm pretty sure the TSA allows safety razors in carryon luggage. I looked it up on their site a couple months ago. Straight razors are not allowed, naturally.
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by macrael 16y ago
Is it really fair to compare the amount of code in windows server to the total amount of code that google maintains? Google has many different software projects, what is the biggest? Search? Android? Gmail? Compare one project to a server
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by macrael 16y ago
I feel like a lot of the comments here are missing the point in discussing alternative app stores and the importance of side loading. The lawsuit was not filed by Motorola, arguing that they have a right to Google's app store. The allegatio
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Skyhook Sues Google(gigaom.com)
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by macrael 16y ago
The title of this post is "Bill Gates, Hero".
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by macrael 16y ago
Regardless of whether Dvorak is better on physical keyboards, it is definitely worse when it comes to soft keyboards, which are on the rise. I wrote about it here: http://macrael.com/blog/qwerty_rides_again.html but the gist is that since
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by macrael 16y ago
Nashville, TN has a full scale replica of Athens' Parthenon, complete with four story Athena. She was originally unpainted, but recently was updated to match what she looked like in ancient days. Lots of gilt and garish paint. Before: http
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by macrael 16y ago
Joel argues that the simplicity we strive for in software should be expressed in a lack of options, not a lack of features. I think this dovetails nicely with Brent Simmons' piece "Flexibility and power" http://inessential.com/2010/08/09/f
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by macrael 16y ago
But it doesn't, really. I think that that sort of service could be allowed even for wired traffic with the language they are using. And, at the moment, they are putting no restrictions on wireless. As it is, if any of the telco's started se
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by macrael 16y ago
Yes. It's not like Google is going to go ahead and say "well let's squash the competition by paying for prioritized traffic for all of our properties." It will be more like something along the lines of "hey let's get android OS updates onto
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by macrael 16y ago
The idea is that a non-neutral net favors people with deep pockets. Google has deep pockets, therefore a non-neutral net benefits Google. Google can pay big money to prioritize their traffic to their devices over other traffic that cannot p
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by macrael 16y ago
I'm still not entirely clear about the implications of this. Does this mean that Verizon can prioritize V-Cast over "Internet" when sending data to their phones? That seems like a big win for Verizon. They've always promoted their psudo-int
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by macrael 16y ago
But I think you are confusing things. There is no question anywhere as to whether people who use more data can be charged more for that use. The fact that most home plans are all you can eat has nothing to do with net neutrality. So in your
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by macrael 16y ago
Well, assuming this proof holds up (and there are already links in the comments to other proofs that P != NP) they have proven what most people already assume, that the two are not equivalent. The consequences of P != NP are mostly just tha
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by macrael 16y ago
I saw Neil DeGrasse Tyson talk once and he said something along the lines of "assemble your role model from pieces of lots of different people". You can still admire the admirable things about this man even if he has failed in other ways.
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by macrael 16y ago
Penny Arcade covered this wonderfully regarding Little Big Planet: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/10/22/
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by macrael 16y ago
Why do you think that is? Why is it so hard to discuss these things in a meaningful way. We all like to think we are reasonable people, that we are open to having our minds changed, and yet it does seem to be impossible to talk about big id
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by macrael 16y ago
How did AT&T go "all in" on the iPhone? I guess they probably marketed it in their stores, I never visited one, but they weren't allowed to sell the phone in their own commercials at all. By contrast, Verizon is the force entire behind
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by macrael 16y ago
I guess the tech they are not blocking (texts, phone, email) they feel confident they can snoop.
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by macrael 16y ago
Do you really think it isn't a problem that Google is building and brining to market two different competing operating systems? Google is pretty great at most things they do, but I think that they are straying from "It's best to do one thin
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by macrael 16y ago
Doesn't firefox autofill forms? I didn't realize that was a safari only feature.
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by macrael 16y ago
What do other browsers do differently to prevent this from being a problem?
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by macrael 16y ago
Played? They are great!
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by macrael 16y ago
The man who is in the video (and who made the video (videos, actually)) is Adam Lisagor a.k.a. @lonelysandwich. He is part of You Look Nice Today and does the videos for Put This On.
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by macrael 16y ago
Hurray for Adam Lisagor. His videos are great. He also did work for square, I wonder if this is going to become a trend.
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by macrael 16y ago
Actually, they sell the 3GS which is a year old and is running iOS4. So there is a difference in the way that the two operating systems are being adopted.
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by macrael 16y ago
Is there any evidence that there will be a Nexus Two? Is it safe to infer that part of the reason for the end of the Nexus strategy is due to carriers and hardware makers objecting to there being a "google blessed" phone?
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by macrael 16y ago
Ok, that's not at all what I mean by being designed for an expert user, though. The example I gave shows windows phone 7 taking the speed side of the speed vs obviousness tradeoff. Are there other examples if it doing that?

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