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by nathanb 15y ago
The article doesn't really describe how they came to choose those two formats. What about gzip, bzip2, tar, 7z, etc.? (I tried uploading a tgz file and it doesn't appear to work). The comment at the end ("We're always adding more file types
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by nathanb 15y ago
Two points of confusion (for me, at least) which the article doesn't satisfactorily alleviate: first, how can something dissipate heat effectively when there is an air cushion between the base plate and the cooling vanes? And second, how is
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by nathanb 15y ago
Thanks, I needed a good laugh.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Do you think that Android in its current incarnation as quasi-open-source, free to adopt, would survive? Or do you think it would be death by a thousand forks, where Samsung, HTC, Motorola, etc. all grabbed their own copy of the repository
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by nathanb 15y ago
This still doesn't really address your concern about the government, however. And even though at some point in our future it will likely become important (assuming it isn't so already) for the individual to be able to have some sort of reco
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Is the solution then to legalize such intrusions? It seems like it would be far too difficult to differentiate between beneficial and malevolent operations. It would also be extremely difficult for a company to dispute falsified evidence pr
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by nathanb 15y ago
Private citizens, at least in the US, are protected from government intrusion without the executive branch proving probable cause to the judicial branch. This is a part of the checks and balances which keep our government from becoming a to
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by nathanb 15y ago
The article is insightful and informative. However, I think the title should be written in the active voice: "Nokia set up the new MeeGo-based N9 for failure". If their platform is burning, it's because they lit the fires themselves.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Sounds like a great way to fill up your disk to me.
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I believe the main problem wasn't the damage to the plants so much as the loss of power and unreliability of backup power, a known and critical flaw in an earthquake-prone area.
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by nathanb 15y ago
The -I flag is a bit more friendly; one may safely alias rm to rm -I and not even notice on the common case (deleting a single file).
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by nathanb 15y ago
This is why autoconf annoys me. Sometimes it will actually check functionality, but most people just write rules to compare against version numbers. And of course they get it wrong and think that 1.8.12rc2 is somehow less recent than 1.8.9.
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by nathanb 15y ago
Wouldn't this then require us to "fart around" with the climate of the planets we colonize to make them more like Earth's?
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by nathanb 15y ago
> I can guarantee you that everything we do will not work I suspect he means "not everything we do will work". Either that or he's hinting that it's time to sell AMZN.
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Any idea if it's backward-compatible with the Wii?
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by nathanb 15y ago
I agree completely; you can't have it both ways. However, the point in the OP about Camera+ seems a bit more legit. Rejecting an app for doing X and then doing X yourself in the next release seems like a huge double-standard, and where ther
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by nathanb 15y ago
Sorry; by alternative I didn't mean HTML5 or Silverlight or whatever but whether to use gnash + Lightspark or an old, buggy 64-bit flash or 32-bit flash.
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by nathanb 15y ago
I have a feeling that this will work like broadband to small towns. The major carriers are only marginally interested in making it work well right up until someone makes a move toward municipal broadband, and then suddenly everyone takes a
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by nathanb 15y ago
> Don’t try to one-up Apple by doing slightly better versions of what they do, or offering apps they’ll inevitably need to add themselves. Not sure I can get behind this statement. Are developers shortsighted for filling in those gaps u
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by nathanb 15y ago
I have no great love for Apple, but the rhetoric around this is simply ridiculous. When a great app comes out, tech sites will say things like "why isn't this a feature of the OS?", but then when they become a feature then the OS vendor get
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by nathanb 15y ago
So if we posit that the money shouldn't go to the police or the government in general, where should it go?
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by nathanb 15y ago
It will take several years for his patent to make its way through the system. In the meantime, software patents will be abolished.</wishful thinking> He could reasonably claim infringement if he can produce documentation saying that
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by nathanb 15y ago
I agree. Not all of our customers live up to your standard, however.
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Sure, but then he has to decide which updates to apply. Kernel update 2.6.40? Sure, why not. Kernel update 3.0? Not a chance.
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by nathanb 15y ago
My two cents are that switching to a date-based version system would be the wrong move. Linux has not been extraordinarily successful at penetrating the desktop market. Where a lot of Linux lives is in the datacenter or the server farm. And
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PuTTY seems to be the most common. [edit] Oh, wait, I guess you mean for a local terminal? I'm far too ignorant about Windows to know why a Windows user would even want a local terminal. All the Windows users I polled just log into Linux ma
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by nathanb 15y ago
At my workplace, it's about 40% Windows, 40% MacOS, and 20% Linux. Those who use Windows generally use it to ssh and/or VNC into our general-purpose Linux compute servers. I personally have a Linux desktop as my main machine and a Linux net
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by nathanb 15y ago
It would be interesting to see statistics on how much the negative press actually affected LastPass. It seems likely that the sort of people who would use LastPass is also the sort of people capable of deciding for themselves how safe their
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by nathanb 15y ago
Title seems a bit disingenuous; a professional pen tester getting a live feed from a camera on a police car does not constitute a "hacker pwning a police cruiser", and whether he would live to tell the tale doesn't appear to have been in do
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by nathanb 15y ago
I've had the same drive for almost 2 years, and I have no problems. I have a separate spinning rust drive which I use for my swapfile and for downloads, and of course all my large files are on my fileserver. I also have had an OCZ Agility 2

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