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by porsupah 11y ago
Having been using Adblock for Safari for some time now, I'm a little apprehensive about this development. Thankfully, Adblock Plus (see above - distinct from Adblock) exists for Safari: https://adblockplus.org/en/s
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by porsupah 11y ago
Ad tracking has certainly evolved - Google, Facebook, et al have built successful enterprises out of tracking every detail of people's web browsing. But targeting? AdWords still only coughs up ads that coincidentally include a random
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by porsupah 11y ago
Not even limited to such items, I'd say - when I was looking to buy a (then new) Nikon D7100 in 2013, Amazon's price was quite in the middle of the pack, with some tiny stores offering the best prices. These days, for anything non
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by porsupah 11y ago
> Or in the case of Apple they didn't want to give Apple their 30% cut? As a data point, when Amazon bought ComiXology, the in-app store was immediately removed, and replaced with syncing purchased made on the ComiXology website.
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by porsupah 11y ago
The puzzling part, for me, is that iPlayer already happily serves plain H.264/AAC within MPEG-4 to mobile devices. Having removed Flash from my MBP a few months ago, the simplest means of accessing iPlayer for me, when not on the iPad,
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by porsupah 11y ago
Well, it depends how you use the available space. With a simple stack of sensor and lens pointing out of the phone, there's very little height available. But if you were to arrange the optics down the length/width of the phone, yo
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by porsupah 11y ago
Another vote here. I've been using Safari Blocker for a couple weeks, and it's transformed sites into being actually enjoyable again. I did have to whitelist one groceries site to be able to log into my account, but that slight hi
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by porsupah 11y ago
By way of historical comparison, consider that in 1992, the ULCC's transatlantic "fat pipe" was a 1.5Mbps circuit: http://jam.ja.net/marketing/janet30years/images/gallery/grap... Or that t
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by porsupah 11y ago
Case in point, regarding /good/ advertising: Project Wonderful. I'm happy to whitelist their ads, as I've discovered quite a number of good webcomics through them. Yet, such genuine targeting (not blindly matching keywor
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by porsupah 11y ago
I admit, I was a little disappointed to find no mention of Skylon, even if it's at an earlier stage of development than some of these other contenders. The SABRE engine appears to be coming along well, with one of the largest challenge
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by porsupah 11y ago
My WAG is that won't be a huge issue, given airlines seem to have little difficulty filling existing first class and other premium tiers - but if anyone knows of actual figures, I'd be grateful. The payoff would be the substantial
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by porsupah 11y ago
Whilst there's always a hypothetical risk, the installer should simply overlay the GM on top - you'll keep all your settings, documents, and other data, with only the OS being updated, just as with any other update. The installer
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by porsupah 11y ago
It would indeed appear, by metallurgical analysis, that it does qualify as a 7000 series alloy, but one of Apple's own devising. http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/08/aluminum-and-strength/
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by porsupah 11y ago
It's never really managed to gain much traction, but I've long been fond of Flattr's model: you allocate a monthly budget, and that's then split across all the sites you've flattr'd that month. (If you really l
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by porsupah 11y ago
Your installation would appear to be anomalous, as such reversion of that (or indeed, any) preference isn't the norm.
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by porsupah 11y ago
The Thai finance minister, apparently: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/13/1052591776195.html "Suchart said he was on his way to give a speech to central bank officials from 17 countries when
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by porsupah 11y ago
> filtering using the hosts file on older Intel OS X which works for other browsers does not seem to be effective for Safari Could you clarify this point? I may well simply be misunderstanding, but a quick check of a hosts-blocked site u
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by porsupah 11y ago
It would seem this publication in Science pertains to the original science suite performed on Philae's landing: http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/30/science-on-the-surfa... Which is not to detrac
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by porsupah 11y ago
My video decoder ran at 40-90fps (admittedly, at a contemporary console resolution of 288x320) on an 8MHz ARM6 core. Are you certain a 400MHz device lacks utility?
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by porsupah 11y ago
Obligatory SMBC on "chemical free": http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3324
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by porsupah 11y ago
Sadly so. A little while back (maybe 2013 or 2014?), I recall reading of a conference where one of the Google co-founders touched on that very point - that there were something like 90 factors they record, to help identify you uniquely for
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Startup aggregates many cellphone sensors and focal lengths for DSLR quality(recode.net)
1 points by porsupah 11y ago|0 comments
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by porsupah 11y ago
There are some informative threads here: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56191 http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51542 "The GS4510 is compatible with the 4502, which i
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by porsupah 12y ago
Indeed! When my first computer, a Nascom I (4MHz Z80A, 16K RAM on an expansion card, and an integer BASIC on eight 2708 EPROMs), died, I was able to have a stab at working out what might have gone wrong by going through the schematics. It p
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by porsupah 12y ago
Given the population and size of the United Kingdom (64,100,000 in 2013, over 94,060 sq mi, for an average density of 661.9/sq mi), or California (38,802,500 in 2014, over 163,696 sq mi, av. density 246/sq mi), I'm not sure I
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by porsupah 12y ago
But, they did try: http://www.steves-digicams.com/camera-reviews/kodak/ My understanding is, however, that they simply weren't all that noteworthy. Also, bear in mind the degree of pivot required - it'
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by porsupah 12y ago
One key point: "During the joint press conference with DeNA, Iwata clarified that Nintendo will not port videogames created for dedicated consoles to smart devices." http://www.siliconera.com/2015/03/17&#
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by porsupah 12y ago
Rather beautifully appropriate. I'd be delighted to see this adopted, and would myself, if I ran my own webserver these days.
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by porsupah 12y ago
Doesn't happen now, because the sole craft was eventually retired. (Rather spitefully, too, with BA refusing to cede any to Virgin) There is, nonetheless, Skylon under development, though dreadfully underfunded. If it actually works as
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Perfect colors, captured with one ultra-thin lens(seas.harvard.edu)
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