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by personZ 12y ago
It goes the other way as well: using a drone to commit arson or even an assassination (mounting a weapon is well within the weight profiles of many current devices), is something that is inevitable. Drones have range deniability for things
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by personZ 12y ago
EMVCo tokenization generates a token that can only be used with one-time cryptograms generated with a secret key that never leaves the device You mean exactly like the EMV that is on every Canadian credit card since about 2007? NFC &#x2
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by personZ 12y ago
Apple Pay is literally the safest way to use a credit card today. Credit (and debit) cards in Canada and elsewhere have had NFC functionality for several years now. You never hand your card or numbers to anyone, but instead through chip i
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by personZ 12y ago
Nuclear energy is hugely susceptible to black swan events, with very serious environmental and monetary consequences. Even the best, safest run facility, in an instance of sabotage, terrorism, conflict, or simple unexpected event (seismic,
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by personZ 12y ago
And I was obviously trying to address your question, speculating what jpswade was talking about. If you fail to get the basic context of a thread, maybe the internet isn't for you.
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by personZ 12y ago
It's a close to certainty that Cyclone significantly borrows from A57, if only from a time to market perspective. http://mobilesemi.blogspot.ca/2014/09/apples-64-bit-processo... By Oct. 2012, Samsung had lic
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by personZ 12y ago
Also, if they'd wanted A57, they could have just implemented it; it was available in the right timeframe. No it wasn't. A57 wasn't actually done when Apple outed Cyclone. Apple clearly ran with early aspects of A57 (your di
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by personZ 12y ago
Apple cherry picks specs that they want to talk about, just like all of her competitors.
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by personZ 12y ago
I assume that they're referring to the great browser wars, where Web SQL was abandoned in favor of IndexedDB because the former was essentially a call out to use SQLite as it is. Many argued against a single implementation because it d
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by personZ 12y ago
I've heard Apple talk about their 64-bit processor magnitudes more than I've heard Samsung or HTC talk about Ghz or core counts. I've heard Apple talk about GPUs more than every other vendor combined, but somehow we all need
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by personZ 12y ago
I see comments like yours fairly frequently, and it really is bizarro world. It's buying into an obviously untrue narrative that hasn't been true...well..ever. Apple makes a really big deal about their cores and GPU, as they hav
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by personZ 12y ago
"It remains to be seen if other SoC manufacturers will catch up in their CPU architecture at one point or another" This is surprisingly ignorant from Anandtech. Surely they know better. While Apple raced to win the spec war (I say
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by personZ 12y ago
Nothing in this discussion indicates that anyone knows what streaming technology they're using. However of course there are better and worse technology. Streaming RDP from a Windows box a thousand miles away, for instance, is a world m
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by personZ 12y ago
FWIW, that is the argument that people living in bubbles of ignorance use to justify their positions. Everyone else is just wrong. Be sure to log into your alt now. I have a feeling you go through accounts to evade hellbannings.
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by personZ 12y ago
Unsurprisingly, you and frowaway both average less than 2 on your comments.
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by personZ 12y ago
Go is mostly used PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby etc, developers today. Go is absolutely preferred by people building real solutions to real problems. Pure, idealized languages like Haskell seem to be preferred by people who don't act
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by personZ 12y ago
The entire narrative behind MongoDB in the first chapters of its evangelism was performance, partly due to its document-oriented approach (things are quicker in some scenarios when you get rid of relations, and it was contrast against the m
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by personZ 12y ago
The Go community are out building solutions productively and fruitfully, often finding the lack of generics an edge nuisance, but something that is by no means a showstopper. The people who have no knowledge or skill in Go, on the other han
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by personZ 12y ago
https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0/ Google makes no bones about continually recording your location history, and they certainly don't need Ingress for that. They use the location history for pre
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by personZ 12y ago
Air miles (along with many loyalty type programs that primarily benefit corporate travelers) exists as a form of kickback, encouraging employees to spend their employer's money prolifically, and to short circuit normal best-value evalu
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by personZ 12y ago
That -- the quest for the next level of status -- is exactly what the article focuses on, so they didn't really miss it. And it explicitly mentions that the status levels now require a minimum spend in addition to a minimum of miles.
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by personZ 12y ago
Note that a number of available smartwatches already have heartbeat sensors (Gear 2, Moto 360, LG G Watch R, etc). You didn't exclude this possibility, but just wanted to clarify for any who wondered.
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by personZ 12y ago
Ah...a moment to reminisce about so many silly arguments. FWIW, quite a few apps realized that they could actually change the 16 color palette multiple times during each line scan. Spectrum 512 famously used this to allow for, as the name s
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by personZ 12y ago
There are countless recipes in cookbooks throughout my house that I've never tried because they require somewhat unique or rare ingredients that households are very unlikely to have available day to day. It can be a very specific cut o
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by personZ 12y ago
Fantastic read. Thank you.
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by personZ 12y ago
Reviewers talk about whatever the manufacturer holds up as a feature. That has nothing to do with consumer demand. Further of course they "matter" in that you want a device to be comfortable, but your notion that customers of Appl
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by personZ 12y ago
The trend is towards thinner and lighter. The trend is towards a comfortable size, beyond which thinness stopped being a big selling point. The Galaxy S5, for example, is thicker than the Galaxy S4. The Note 4 is thicker than the Note 3.
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by personZ 12y ago
Who asked for a thinner, lighter phone? This is a serious question, because I keep seeing this being held as a response to customer demand, when actually few asked for a thinner, lighter phone. They wanted a larger phone, for sure, but I th
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by personZ 12y ago
The mild level of hysteria over this has been interesting It is a brand new, $1000 consumer device. As haughty and rich as we all present ourselves, it really supremely sucks if you're the person whose brand new device got bent -- re
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by personZ 12y ago
The galaxy note is made out of plastic, it wouldn't bend, it would break, if subjected to the same forces. Based upon, apparently, your opinion? they are built to be durable in a way that very few of their competitors are. Material

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