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by metageek 16y ago
Same in the Android Market.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yo mommaboard's so slow, she exhibits 63.7% packet loss on her on-board Kilobit Ethernet NIC.
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by metageek 16y ago
After college, I went to the University of Chicago for math grad school. (I didn't finish the program--the Northwestern math department was too easy in those days, and my study skills were shot.) Three of my classmates had not finished col
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by metageek 16y ago
> These devices will help either Chrome (for Android devices) or Safari (for iOS). Or, possibly, Firefox, which does run on Android. It still needs work--I have it, and it's a little slow, and still keeps burning CPU even after I leav
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by metageek 16y ago
Yo mommaboard.
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by metageek 16y ago
According to the article, baby carrots were invented to reduce waste. Carrots grow into all sorts of shapes and sizes, but supermarkets only buy a narrow range; the rejects get used for animal feed, or factory food. With baby carrots, m
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, personally, I'd rather stick with evince, and have the same PDF viewer whether I open a document from the browser or from the command line.
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by metageek 16y ago
Yeah, the Q/W thing is a longstanding annoyance. It's a dumb decision, going back at least as far as the original Mac.
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by metageek 16y ago
It's a reasonable point, but we don't yet know whether there will be LTE phones that work on both AT&T and Verizon, let alone when roaming abroad.
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by metageek 16y ago
I believe only a few US states elect judges; they're usually appointed.
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by metageek 16y ago
I suppose a cellphone might recognize a 7-digit number and prepend the phone's own area code. A landline can't do that, of course.
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by metageek 16y ago
That's about how it is on Android. Maybe more than 2 seconds, though. 3? 5? Something like that.
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by metageek 16y ago
Was AWS a standard before T-Mobile started using it, or was it standardized retroactively?
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by metageek 16y ago
It's not enabled in the beta, that's all.
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by metageek 16y ago
Mmm, not really the same thing. In the wholesale case, the spectrum holder isn't incurring the costs of delivering service to individuals, such as customer support, individual billing, and advertising. That brings the wholesale price much
196.
by metageek 16y ago
Oh, man. I remember tethering my Zaurus over IR on the train, trying to keep the Zaurus and the phone lined up so it wouldn't drop the connection. I think I did that just once.
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by metageek 16y ago
5. The government requires every mobile carrier to sell access wholesale, at cost. (And, yeah, again, what cost?) Like line sharing.
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by metageek 16y ago
No, ssh tunneling would help, because the IP packets making up the ssh connection would be coming from the phone, not the laptop, so they would have their TTL set by the phone.
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by metageek 16y ago
It's kinda sad; they used to be good, 20 years ago. They really made their mark covering Gulf War I. Although I suppose I'm not sure whether they were good, or just better than other TV coverage of the time.
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by metageek 16y ago
I've been there twice, and only ever used public transport; it worked fine, much better than in the US. And there's plenty of good food.
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by metageek 16y ago
Disappear as in they crash and reboot, or disappear as in they're unpingable?
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by metageek 16y ago
I was skeptical about this, but some years ago my wife got me to do a taste test, and I had to agree that tea from the teakettle tasted marginally better.
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by metageek 16y ago
It doesn't update over the air? I know I've read you can activate it in the store before taking it home. (Edit: I know my mom has an iPad and no Mac.)
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by metageek 16y ago
My vote: microwave metallurgy.
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by metageek 16y ago
Except for the user interface (again, like tablets). Some still lack "add minute" buttons, or require you to press "Timed cook" or some such before you start typing in the time.
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by metageek 16y ago
Most tablets don't have a gatekeeper deciding what apps you can run.
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by metageek 16y ago
> on the scale of evidence scientific studies are not the highest good, Hear, hear. There's a highly effective headache medicine called Midrin which has been pulled from the market because the FDA demanded proof that it was effective,
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by metageek 16y ago
> My wife always did a quick spoon-to-her-lips check on the food temperature as precaution. You still need to stir, because microwaves can heat unevenly.
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by metageek 16y ago
> Did the microwave only cook food that was specially labeled microwaveable No, but it's a bad idea to use dishes that aren't specially labeled microwaveable. And, with older microwaves, metal was right out. (Apparently things are be
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by metageek 16y ago
OK, yeah. I don't know how MyWi works; if it forwards everything by hand, then it can definitely do that. If not, yeah, it's dependent on what the kernel can do.

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