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by petecox 8y ago
Mozilla's effort was Firefox OS (or Boot To Gecko), now forked as KaiOS.
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by petecox 8y ago
Steady on, it's mentioned in the article. "the Waorani aren’t alarmed by the notion that a tree might scream when cut"
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by petecox 8y ago
Wrong decade. They had the eMate 300 back in 1997. But Jobs wasn't interested in stylus-based laptops.
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by petecox 8y ago
Wasn't that the idea behind Transmeta - to JIT x86 operations in response to runtime feedback?
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by petecox 8y ago
According to a youtube video on the subject, Latin-ecks.
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by petecox 8y ago
Yes, I noticed the sounds in hat and hand still weren't identical but perhaps she's exaggerating an 'RP-like' sound to emphasize the distinction with general nasalized American English.
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by petecox 8y ago
It can hardly be an Americanism when it's used in other countries. As a Melburnian I take a passing interest every 4 years in the 'Socceroos' but we have our own code that dates back to the 1850s, with influences from the i
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by petecox 8y ago
Some years ago there was a product recall and class action here in Australia concerning one of the soy milk brands, with unusually high concentration of iodine.
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by petecox 8y ago
> But it is ugly Isn't that just the case? Intel sell the NUC in a couple of variants, the "kit", with an 'ugly' case or the "board". With the latter they could design a beautiful Apple-looking case ar
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by petecox 8y ago
Call me a conspiracist but Intel strategically are roadmapping an exit of the IGP market? Perhaps a new focus on high performance OpenCL computing, if the returns on low-power IGP are diminished, viz: (1) The Vega partnership with AMD (2) t
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by petecox 8y ago
Education is actually a good way. Get 20 people in a room doing a 10 week Wednesday night Swedish class and discover over a beer afterwards that one or more of your classmates has a common interest.
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by petecox 8y ago
This could be useful for app development. A 1080 landscape device on the keyboard, mirrored at 4X on screen. (Although the digits used are different. When in landscape, my fingers cradle a phone at a 45-60 degree angle with both thumbs used
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by petecox 8y ago
Thanks for the memories, Tony. No Reservations was great TV - travelling to exotic destinations, hanging out with chefs and sampling all kinds of street food good and bad. He made the cooking/travel genre fun.
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by petecox 8y ago
Both senses of 'to know' from Latin's cognoscere and sapere similarly flow through to other Romance languages including Portuguese (conhecer/saber) Italian (conoscere/sapere) and Spanish (conocer/saber).
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by petecox 8y ago
It's the same Qualcomm chip as in smartwatches. Unlike a watch, calls will drain the battery.
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by petecox 8y ago
> you can leave behind your smartphone more often... or for good If I were spending $US300 on a phone, it ought to be my daily driver. So I would assume this is for people who, if they do want to access social media on iOS/Android
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by petecox 8y ago
Longevity. I live in a country where they have shut off the 2G network. 3G may well suffer the same fate within a few years, as carriers migrate to 5G.
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by petecox 8y ago
Areas of Australia are affected by high salt levels in the soil [0]. Growing the strains of rice near the shores of saline lakes could perhaps be part of rehabilitation, in which rice crops reduce the saltiness of the land over time. [0] h
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by petecox 8y ago
NB: LineageOS has similar sentiments and did not accept patches to enable microG. Thus microG maintains its own fork of LineageOS; the microG team would need to fork Copperhead.
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by petecox 8y ago
Ben notes in the (second) extended video that perhaps 80% of Elizabethans were illiterate and that plays are to be performed, not read. He'd prefer that Shakespeare be introduced first by the drama department in early secondary school
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by petecox 8y ago
Potentially there's power savings on a mobile device by restricting the color palette to grayscale? If so this could be incorporated into one's phone's battery saver mode.
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by petecox 8y ago
Empanadas are said to originate from the region of Galicia, Spain. Thus Celtiberian navigators sharing recipes with the Cornish isn't beyond the realms of pseudo-history.
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by petecox 8y ago
Melbourne, with trams, trains and buses. That was before they went $AU1billion over budget designing Myki, a smart ticket system. Tickets are more expensive than most international cities I've visited and even then they still run at a
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by petecox 8y ago
Well we all pay taxes, so why not? A study a number of years ago for my city suggested that the costs of a ticketing system from maintenance of machines to employing station staff and ticket inspectors was higher than the revenue that was c
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by petecox 8y ago
Strange, it works on desktop Firefox and Android Chrome.
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Color Game – the science of communication(colorgame.net)
2 points by petecox 8y ago|2 comments
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by petecox 8y ago
It's interesting that a number of Romance languages, but notably not Spanish or French, prefix the subject pronoun (my) with a definite article. The-my-hovercraft
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by petecox 8y ago
In terms of front-ends, there's always packagekit. The following will work on both rpm and dpkg derivatives: sudo pkcon install <package>
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by petecox 8y ago
One device to rule them all? The promise of Ubuntu Convergence and Windows Continuum on a single piece of hardware, solving the "app gap" with Android support - the best of the web, Android and one's choice of Linux desktop.
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by petecox 8y ago
In perhaps a decade, lawmakers will mandate real time telemetry and remote emergency autopilot.

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