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by polshaw 14y ago
Interestingly(?) I haven't seen an add on reddit in a long time. And that is without adblock. There used to be Amazon ads fairly regularly a while back, but now all I see are pictures of burgers, adverts for subreddits, flash games and 't
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by polshaw 14y ago
And for some people a bike is acceptable (friends have a car), but i don't compare it to the price of a car. This is an ivy bridge with a full HD screen, dedicated graphics, SSD option. Chances are it will be faster than the current MBP. It
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by polshaw 14y ago
>$500 iPad3 or $800 for Windows transformer tablet? An ipad does not replace a laptop, the devices aren't equivalent.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Very impressive hardware design from Asus: full-HD display and dockable GPU too, remaining impressively thin and all from 11". Although I can see it seriously struggling with heat (noise?), battery life and price. Will be very interesting t
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by polshaw 14y ago
Along with their apparent restriction of the 'desktop' on arm, this is the reason I lost interest in windows8 on arm. So far a linux + android solution (like ubuntu have demonstrated) seems more powerful and very will also have more apps to
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by polshaw 14y ago
I believe the windows 8 naysayers will be proved very wrong, people will come to love windows 8, at least on the desktop. Take the start screen.. people are struggling to come to terms with it, but conceptionally it is so much better. Ta
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by polshaw 14y ago
That video does almost nothing to show windows 8 is less easy to use. All this takes is to say 'go to the bottom left'. Windows 8 is not littered with things like this.
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by polshaw 14y ago
> flying car... Flying cars have always been bogus. Why spend much more energy on hovering a little above the ground, when we already have a well developed land-road network?? And if you want to get from A to B without the roa
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by polshaw 14y ago
I am no expert, but I thought the weakness of tor was that a goverment could control many of the exit nodes (combied with timing attacks to find the user?), since most users don't want to run them for fear of being arrested for whatever the
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by polshaw 14y ago
>huge problems.. social inequality.. turn up for elections seldom crosses 50% Sorry to be depressing, but that sounds pretty par-for-the-course democracy to me. Particularly the turn out.
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by polshaw 14y ago
So many comments and no-one could manage any praise? It matches the real-life cost of the Rpi, probably will have general availability around the same time, and has double the memory and a little onboard NAND. It may not be perfect, but rem
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by polshaw 14y ago
Sure but it is worth baring in mind the context-- that this is a $50 PC.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Where on earth do you get a beaglebone for £55? Haven't seen it for < £70.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Opera has been ahead of the curve for features virtually forever (currently: tab stacking, right click anywhere to add search, and 'g searchterm' syntax). It is also much more memory-efficient than chrome/FF with many tabs. I think it has
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by polshaw 14y ago
My understanding was it was a 'fake' in that it offered 0 more than vanilla chromium in terms of separation from google/privacy (although chromium is a pain to update- and even somewhat difficult to find downloads for).
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by polshaw 14y ago
Circular logic at its finest.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I had this happen recently with airbnb.. I went to check out prices in a city, and decided youth hostels offered better value for the situation so left. Virtually every single website i visited for a week was shoving airbnb in my face. Yes,
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by polshaw 14y ago
This is, essentially, how language itself has always worked. Common sense labels are applied to things, and they make them things their own and outlive the original reference. A tin (can) is still a tin despite the fact it has nothing to do
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by polshaw 14y ago
and how, generally, is this provable? (at least, to produce 'reasonable doubt' to a layman) (ignoring that the guy seems to have said he copy-pasted here.)
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by polshaw 14y ago
That link goes to: 'The Google Social Graph API is no longer available' Anyway, i'm not keen on that. Infinite scroll and CSS should be options, too. Personally, all i really want is collapsible comments, inline replies, and hidin
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by polshaw 14y ago
*The ticket sale simply can't be a zero-sum game* When there is a high jackpot, it almost is a break even proposition.[1] Of course this is not zero-sum in the medium term because this situation only occurs because it was not won
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by polshaw 14y ago
Slightly OT: Is there any way to get the flv file from the video url on youtube??
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by polshaw 14y ago
Agreed. I'm pretty sure it must have been a legal decision.. (or perhaps a poor strategic one)-- the amount of bandwidth wasted on unnecessary videos must be huge-- i'd wager at least half the video-hours 'watched' on yt are actually audio.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Interesting, but this does not mean a 40% (or better) chance of break-even.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I don't wish to sound 'unappreciative', and it's not that I think all software must be open source, but I struggle to find it interesting/'art' without the source code. And in reality, look at old versions of winamp, they were much better p
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by polshaw 14y ago
To be honest, specs wise, while it doesn't significantly move things forward, it is pretty much the best, in pretty much every department. It has a massive removable battery, microSD, quad core, wireless charging and a killer GPU -- all adv
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by polshaw 14y ago
Finally, collapsible comment threads! awesome. Now, only HN needs to fall in line and all comment-thread-hijacking problems will be gone!
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by polshaw 14y ago
Very nice, great design. I've often considered this an opportunity.. although managing the events to a high standard is a difficult challenge (perhaps consider (carefully) some element of crowd-sourcing?). What I would like to see, is some
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by polshaw 14y ago
This is actually really neat. Another step along the 'phone is the only device you need' road. It would be great for quickly sharing stuff like a youtube video. Kids could use it to watch a movie in their room, or at a friend's, or grandm
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by polshaw 15y ago
Although in no way a competitor to the rPi, this is pretty awesome. It could easily become a main system with surprisingly few compromises-- (given thunderbolt and the reasonable iGPU)... and i really doubt the board alone will be available

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