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by porsupah 12y ago
Indeed. I was once engaged on a project to develop a new personal media player. QA had quite a selection of other vendors' PMPs, so we could learn from their mistakes: and ye gods and little fishes, poor UIs were abundant, not to menti
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by porsupah 12y ago
On a related note: back in a previous, embedded incarnation, I was once tasked with writing a USB driver. Not the kind that might first come to mind - this was for the /device/, for which documentation is rather less easily found.
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by porsupah 12y ago
The problem isn't that it's impossible - the article demonstrates otherwise - but that it's very difficult to pull off aesthetically well. Consider that what you'd want to add, to be comparable to a conventional DSLR, wo
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by porsupah 12y ago
Perhaps also germane to the discussion is the University of Bristol's "Quantum in the Cloud" project, which similarly offers access to a simulator - but, once you've refined your project, you can then submit it to a real
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by porsupah 13y ago
Which, sadly, also reduces the chances of finding who actually produced a given photograph. TinEye and Google Images can help, but, it can be surprisingly difficult to locate the actual origin of a given photo. (Let alone Tumblr and their i
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by porsupah 13y ago
I have no answers. However, with the EU Parliament elections coming on May 22, I hope that someone with a less goldfish-like memory than mine may try to collate what the various electoral options may be. Evidently, none of the big three UK
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Future of Photography..? (1990)(groups.google.com)
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by porsupah 13y ago
While I believe the full manifest has not been published, we do know that there were a few tons of mangosteens present in the cargo. http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/03/17/missing-mh3...
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by porsupah 13y ago
Perhaps you're thinking of EasyDNS? http://domainincite.com/15538-cops-cant-block-domain-transfe... From the arbitration decision: "Although there are compelling reasons why the request from a recognized law enfor
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by porsupah 13y ago
Depends, but it doesn't seem hopeful - looking at their T&Cs at: https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/terms-conditions/ Section 9.1 includes, amongst other excluded categories, "Sales of erotic articles&quo
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by porsupah 13y ago
The puzzlement may stem from the fact that if your default browser preferences deny a site the use of Javascript, the region in question (to the left of the large, wide green buttons toward the top of the front page) that displays that anno
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by porsupah 13y ago
Tested with OS X 10.8.5 and Safari 6.0.5, gotofail.com declared the bug wasn't present. (At first, it declined to run the test, having concluded it didn't need to; following the link to explicitly run the test gave the "safe&
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by porsupah 13y ago
As above; ARM grew from a very low-power beginning (some 250mW total for the original ARM-2 chipset of CPU, IOC, MEMC, and VIDC, running at 8MHz on 2 micron tech, in 1989), and has remained low-power since. Whilst the CPU’s obviously only a
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by porsupah 13y ago
My initial concern was that the adhesive might be prone to wearing off after a few reapplications. Their FAQ addressed that point, though not in the way I'd hoped: "Like normal stickers, they are designed to be stuck exactly once.
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by porsupah 13y ago
I'd agree. Back when I was working on campus (now, mercifully, purely remotely), I'd sometimes head off to the main coffee joint instead of the completely open-plan office. Whilst it was hardly any quieter, it somehow worked much
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by porsupah 13y ago
The VLC team undertook a license conversion, turning "libVLC and most modules" LGPL. Consequently, VLC for iOS returned on Sep 9 2013. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/2.1.0.html
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by porsupah 13y ago
I expect it'll focus on a single product line, possibly with some updates on how the company's faring, particularly the iPhone 5s & 5c's launches. I'd guess it'll be the iPad's turn in the spotlight, though
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by porsupah 13y ago
And then there was the wonderfully.. "hand crafted" touch, shall we say. Order your keys to develop for them, and: == Your BlackBerry JDE Signature key order has been received and will be processed shortly. It could take up to 10
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by porsupah 13y ago
Indeed so. I once worked on a digital delivery system for broadcast radio, able to perform as anything from virtual cart heads through to (sadly) completely automating it, switching between local playlists and sat feeds as required. It ran
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by porsupah 13y ago
Reading the original quote, and assuming good faith, they're wishing for some system that would permit them to establish an image's owner. If you don't take steps to strip out typical metadata, such is indeed already present,
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by porsupah 13y ago
One thought that comes to mind is in the line "So all those 4 million plus views who may click through, will they count as “Views” on my Flickr page? No." Bear that in mind - if this is accurate (and the guy once worked on Flickr)
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by porsupah 13y ago
It doesn't have to be this way, does it? Yes, if BuffPo were to agree some payment for photo or writing reuse, they'd have much greater outgoings. However, they'd also then become legitimate channels for syndication, rather t
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by porsupah 13y ago
Not necessarily. With UK carrier rate structures as they are, it can often be cheaper to call internationally than within the UK. Consider, for example, GiffGaff (part of O2): within the UK, 10p/min. Meanwhile, calling internationally
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by porsupah 13y ago
I can only agree. Specifically, their job recommendations repeatedly insisted (until I finally got around to muting them) that because I'd had a job in a particular city some years ago, clearly that made me an ideal match for positions
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by porsupah 13y ago
As a parallel, consider Alan Turing. At the time, he was convicted of an offense. Whether or not this led to his premature demise, we must leave for another thread. Now, that offense no longer exists. There have been attempts to pardon Alan
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by porsupah 13y ago
OS X for the main development, on a relatively venerable 17" 2009 MBP, so that's the single upvote I offered. But, the code's deliberately platform agnostic, and I do secondarily maintain a Windows version, under Parallels, f
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by porsupah 13y ago
Is its 1080p performance perfect? It'd be an interesting option here, if so. The Pi isn't up to the job, which seems to leave something of a toss-up between this and an Apple TV, suitably jailbroken for Matroska support.
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by porsupah 13y ago
That's very good to hear! Thank you. Certainly, the current OS X offering does look beautifully refined - as simple as it ought to be, for the user, despite all the magic underneath.
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by porsupah 13y ago
Might you have some idea of whenabouts Windows support will be arriving? I spend almost all my time with OS X, but some of the project partners are more Windows-based.
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by porsupah 13y ago
I'd agree with the commenter above - there's surely no need to be quite so coy about what you're offering. A casual visitor to the site isn't exactly going to be reeled in by an immediate requirement to hand over details

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