mrbill

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   by mrbill 14y ago

   By begging for more donations, just like last time they burned through what was it, $100K, without anything substantial to show for it?
2. 572.▲
   by mrbill 14y ago

   Taking it public like this comes across as really petty and childish.
3. 573.▲
   by mrbill 14y ago

   Forbes is just outdoing themselves with the headline bait lately.
4. 574.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   Bigger size, 3x the price (at least), requires fan.. not in the same league as the RPi at all. I wish tech writers would stop thinking "SMALL COMPUTER = RPI COMPETITOR!". Get down to that same ~$35 price point, and we'll talk.
5. 575.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   Can't use the Drive app on the Mac through a SOCKS proxy. 8-(
6. 576.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   With the rise in popularity of ebooks, "number of pages" hopefully will come to matter less, as you'll care more about "quality of content" than "does this paper book feel thick and hefty and worth the $40+ price".
7. 577.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   So I can either trust my data to a big stack of transistors and hope they don't just randomly die, or to a pile of spinning rusty metal discs and hope that a motor doesn't fail or something scrapes the rust off the platters. :)
8. 578.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   This can also ease a lot of the criticism that Amazon is getting about slave-driving the (human) pickers in their warehouses lately.
9. 579.▲
   by mrbill 15y ago

   "UNIX in a Nutshell" and "Essential System Administration" helped kick-start my career back in '95-96, and I'll always be grateful for that. I was in their "O'Reilly Irregulars" group a few years ago, where folks volunteered to go inventory
10. 580.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    This just reminds me that I really need to get the MacIvory board set that I bought from David Betz up and running... I have the old Mac, the AEK II with template, and so forth, just not the TIME. :(
11. 581.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRiDPad
12. 582.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    Ordered two from Newark (I'm in the US); the order confirmation email has an Expected Ship Date of 5/10/12. I've got a BeagleBoard C2 and a BeagleBone to play with until then...
13. 583.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    $199? No way. At $75-100, I would think about it.
14. 584.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    All I see lately is that Flash is becoming less and less relevant. It's not on iOS; I purposefully didn't install it on my latest Android devices.
15. 585.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    The first thing that came to mind is Manfred Macx in _Accelerando_, and how hopelessly lost he is without his AR goggles.
16. 586.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    Somewhere, Gruber, Lyons, Arrington, and Siegler are sitting back, smoking cigars around a poker table, and laughing at all the income from ads that their little "dispute" and junior-high name calling is earning them.
17. 587.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    ... I threw away two still-new-in-box Peeks a couple weekends ago when I ran across them while cleaning out a closet. Used the service for a few months in 2009, it was pretty neat but finally moved to a real smartphone when I started bumpi
18. 588.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    I've used screen for 15 years, am happy with the functionality, and don't see the need (yet) to switch to tmux. Given that, I would rather that iTerm2 not use more system resources supporting a vterm multiplexer that I don't use. It's not
19. 589.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    This is neat, but I'd rather my terminal emulator be virtual-terminal-multiplexing agnostic. Tried tmux, went back to GNU Screen.
20. 590.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    Can be summed up pretty easily: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butthurt
21. 591.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    This will be great as I don't expect the R.Pi to be able to meet demand at first. 8-( Of course, the BeagleBone is announced the day after I break down and order a $129 EFIKA MX "smarttop"... I just want a self-contained Ubuntu or Debian
22. 592.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    It's sad when a phone that's only 1.5 years old is "too old". I really enjoyed my N1 with Cyanogenmod, but switched back to iPhone when news of T-Mobile's acquisition by AT&T started coming out.
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    by mrbill 15y ago

    I had to completely remove and reinstall the Facebook app from scratch on both my Verizon iPhone 4 (4.2.7) and my wifi-only iPad 1 (iOS 5 GM) to get it to work. The iPhone just sat and "pinwheeled" for 4-5 minutes, and the iPad would dump
24. 594.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    Wow, that was quick. I installed it this AM.
25. 595.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    The "Siri" app on the App Store does a lot of this already (Apple bought the company and integrated the product) for current phones running iOS 4. It's really impressive.
26. 596.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    If you got in on the Kickstarter round. After that, it's $99 according to the link on the front of the kickstarter page.
27. 597.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    If you got in on the Kickstarter round. After that, it's $99 according to the link on the front of the kickstarter page.
28. 598.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    One of the reasons I ditched Mint was because it was 2-3 days laggy due to having to scrape and process the data from my bank. I have yet to find anything that beats simply recording all my expenditures in a spiral notebook and reconciling
29. 599.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    I never signed up for Netflix until they offered the streaming service, and then never used the physical DVD delivery option - and changed to streaming-only as soon as they made it available. Some of us don't want physical discs. Having
30. 600.▲
    by mrbill 15y ago

    I tried out P7 when it was released, and immediately migrated back to Fusion 4 today when it came out.