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by polshaw 12y ago
I don't believe the 'threat to capitalism' that the parent referred to requires the hippies to immediately threaten to create a communist/anarchist/etc society, just to not participate in the capitalist rat race, to
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by polshaw 12y ago
"They" are not the same person. Silk road and sites like it are/were marketplaces, not retailers.
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by polshaw 12y ago
No nexus has ever had an SD card slot [ED: since the nexus one!]. It's their thing, to push people into the cloud. >dying breed Rubbish, quite the opposite: every (other) flagship android phone has one this year: S5, One M8, LG G3,
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by polshaw 12y ago
I think you could make it not worth it for spammers fairly easily-- only allow sending to one recipient, captchas, rate limiting by IP etc.
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by polshaw 12y ago
I can't believe we're still having this discussion in 2014. To add to cygx's point, a quick break even sum: A 60W equivalent costs around $1.50, and using ~12W of energy. Even if we use the lowest electricity cost for the US
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by polshaw 12y ago
The new moto G is also 5"
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by polshaw 12y ago
This. His twitter @nerdtalker still lists him as senior smartphone editor, no mention of his disappearance (of many months) from AAT, no comment from anyone, it's surreal. He and Anand really had a passion that IMO surpassed all the ot
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by polshaw 12y ago
But the point is that there isn't a bit coin economy-- your suppliers don't accept it. So you have to pay fees to convert it into local currency, which you have ignored. (And the customer also has to pay to convert from local curr
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by polshaw 12y ago
Bitcoin proponents tend to have a vested interest and can be.. less than objective. @1: A trade alone does not help BTC stabilise. We ARE seeing an increase in BTC trade, but all of this is pegged to local currency, and usually traded out f
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by polshaw 12y ago
It has very limited use as a serious transaction system while there is so much volatility. Prices are therefore pegged to local currencies, and if you want to keep that then it's no longer low cost because conversion to/from local
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by polshaw 12y ago
It is a thing!-- The Dell Venue 11 Pro sounds exactly what you want. There as a keyboard option with an extended battery providing the battery life you're looking for. Also a great 1080P display, replaceable internal battery, digitizer
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by polshaw 12y ago
The benefits-- which would be far greater than the metric system (more difficult too)-- would come from having a universal language, regardless of what it was. And English is surely the best placed; being the world's second language, w
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by polshaw 12y ago
____P is a broadcast specification, and was never meant to become a display measurement. It intentionally only defined the vertical resolution as this was the only specific resolution requirement; for example 1440x1080 is a valid 1080P broa
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by polshaw 12y ago
NB the linked page is currently for the MiTV 1 (1080p, 47"), but the topic is about V2;[1] On the SOC side, it's 4x cortex A9 @ 1.45Ghz with Mali 450 MP4 GPU-- h265 decode at 4K/30fps, 2GB RAM supports miracast, airplay, dlna
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by polshaw 12y ago
The Moto G LTE has an SD card slot! I'm glad to see SD having a 'resurgence' with HTC (m8) and Motorola now adding it back in.
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by polshaw 12y ago
What strikes me about it is how pointless it is. Do we really believe Amazon are going to file a suit against anyone based on this patent?
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by polshaw 12y ago
A 15-man team hardly strikes me as a freelancer seeking work
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by polshaw 13y ago
Adapted from tinycore (tinycorelinux.net)
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by polshaw 13y ago
While probably not 99% reliability, I think google software could often solve this one too: Reverse image search could provide an image description, which combined with number of search queries for eg 'unsafe $image_description' t
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by polshaw 13y ago
I like forums, there. Also, FWIW, I hate mailing lists (although recognise they often hold high value information).
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by polshaw 13y ago
"Available Today", no mention whatsoever of price, or even a place to buy, just a link to find certified professionals to do the install for you. The lowest installation price I could find was £75, some were £100. Experience tel
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by polshaw 13y ago
In my experience, almost certainly not. I even find it kind of offensive that they would say that. There is some old and poorly maintained housing stock here, so there are definitely some homes that don't, but I would bet the majorit
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by polshaw 13y ago
I've had a similar experience with mine. Literally struggles with copy and paste, but has taken to windows 8 (and modern UI/metro) extremely well, and has no problem with the various swipe gestures for working things. Many things-
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by polshaw 13y ago
>a touch overpriced This is what I think of almost every 'hot new thing' on kickstarter, and they invariably smash through their targets without batting an eyelid, as this one has done (over 6.5x goal with 25 days left). Price
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by polshaw 13y ago
If you type "45/3=" into the search bar and it will return the result without having to load the google page.
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by polshaw 13y ago
The watch, like all smart watches, is big because of constraints of electronics and batteries, not some sexist conspiracy.
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by polshaw 13y ago
Yes, the delivery situation is much better here, so much so that I can get free 2-day shipping to a shop a few minutes walk away (which is better in some ways as it doesn't require you to be in) since they have introduced collect+, mak
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by polshaw 13y ago
It strikes me that-- if you accept that touch screens are not going away, and nor is windows-- then the work on providing smooth scrolling is unavoidable, metro or otherwise. Would there be a large amount of work on smooth scrolling for met
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by polshaw 13y ago
Perhaps your correction is valid, but your scoffing at windows (touch) users is very short-sighted. There is no mobile browser that lives up to the promise of a properly optimised full Firefox on windows. Frankly, I would say IE on metro
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by polshaw 13y ago
If you don't care about touch, then frankly you won't care about this announcement. I think this is the perspective of most posters here. But as someone that wanted a better touch-optimised full-fat browser, I am very disappointed

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