redrobot5050

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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>So in other words it's still slow but because of vendor pressure it's been lumped into "The OS" to hide that cost from the user? I only used it on a Mac, before I discovered plugins that did Facebook integration for iPhoto (and later,
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Privacy exists. Just not on social networks where you share personal informational with the network provider.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
FTA: >> Our culture's relentless treatment of women as objects teaches them that they are defined by the one thing that men around them want from them—men who are usually bigger, stronger, and (like any human) occasionally crazy. T
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
You can already record video with your webcam and upload it directly to Facebook, just like you can with YouTube.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Yes they are talking about Java applets. However, the technology has improved (a large portion of windows users have a java quick launcher set to run on start up) and if it is anything like Facebook's original "Photo Uploader" (back before
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Why do I feel like they're begging everyone to short the stock?
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Um, Remote Desktop and VNC apps are on the App Store aplenty. And there are plenty of Keyboard Docks / Bluetooth Keyboards for the iPad.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Except that Apple stores didn't come about until Apple had lost that war. Of course, now that they lost that war, they have an awesome prize. They are the most profitable computer maker today.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
>1. Phones have a specific purpose, which for most people is the ability to make phone calls, send and receive text messages and use maps. I would guess that these are the three biggest uses of smartphones (but it is only a guess). Peop
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
I stand correct. My friend went to an Apple certified tech to get her laptop HD swapped with her Mac Mini HD, because they wanted more of their music on the laptop because they traveled often, and the Apple tech couldn't do it. Issue with t
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Get a Honda Accord V6. Basically the same weight. About 1 second slower in its 0-60 acceleration. Cheaper, better mileage and safer.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Oh well. The developer will just move it to a web app. If he was smart, he was just using the embedded app version of Safari anyway to access a web site.
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
Current Mac Mini's solder the cable to the drive and it's not swappable. (It's like the new iMac's drives -- which have apple specific firmware and thermal systems, but worse.)
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by redrobot5050 15y ago
This barrier is quickly going away as well. Mac OS 10.7 (Lion) is virtualizable. I'm sure someone will build a rack and offer cloud-based Lion accounts for developers that can be remoted into 24/7 so long as you have internet access.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>Seems its evil for the non-unionized to make money in education College professors are tenured, not unionized. And considering that most schools hire adjunct professors and slash benefits to the bone, it's hard to argue that teachers a
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
No, the metric here is Interface builder vs. the eclipse plugin for Android UI design. It's a lot harder to create an of equal or superior polish for Android.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
There might be more Android phones out there, but you also can't get to them through the Android Market. Not every country that has Android has an App Store that will accept commercial apps. It's getting bigger and growing faster, but Apple
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
>If you live in a nation with rule of law and wide ranging protections of freedom of speech like the US there is no need to be anonymous in the vast majority of cases. Tell that To Glen Greenwald, a journalist, who is finding that Bank
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
FYI: Arizona does not allow the insanity defense in capital crimes. If he's mentally fit to stand trial, he faces the death penalty.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
I would have thought iDevices used BSD, since the whole Mach-kernel architecture is BSD based and all iDevices claim to run a Mach-kernel derived OS. (I am aware there was MkLinux, which was also mach kernel powered, but it had very bloated
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Right, and how many Windows NT apps were there for MIPS and PPC? If Developers still have too much trouble creating "universal" apps, your port is effectively dead. Outside of x86 and Alpha, NT was never used.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
(Off topic anecdote) A friend of mine has a father who had a file on him by the Stasi. In it they had a "scent sample". Someone had broken into his bedroom and stolen a piece of linen that he had slept on while he was in the shower one day.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
How is WP7 better than iOS 1.0? It seems about feature even with iOS 1.0. Nevermind that WP7 isn't competing against iOS 1.0. It's competing against iOS 4.3, and in the fall, iOS 5.0.
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Can you provide a source for the video games fact you quote? I would think that most games license engines/SDKs that already support/license MP3 and its included in their upfront toolchain cost, meaning they pay for it whether or not they u
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Um...you do know that all the non-Alpha/x86 ports were considered failures in-house and dropped, right? Portability was one of the first things Microsoft sacrificed to get things "working right". And the OS engineers who wrote the "portable
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Renounce your citizenship for something other than to avoid taxation. Like, you're suddenly in love with socialized medicine. Or to "protest the war" or "America's imperialism". Just don't mention taxes in your "exit interview" and there yo
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
No, that's incorrect. Yes, the US is one of the few governments that will tax you for income earned outside of the united states or while living aboard as a US citizen, but if you renounce your citizenship, you're off the hook for taxes. Yo
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Hardware engineering can easily be 12 months out of 18. There are a sundry of reasons: a) Moore's law. The technology your school is using for hardware design is easily 5-6 or 10 years out of date. This makes it easier to teach and cheaper
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
That 1% still covers: Access to the device's GPS. Access to the devices Accelerometer. Hardware Accelerated 3d Graphics (Although this is possible with WebGL, I would wager the tools are more focused towards native clients) Access to the d
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by redrobot5050 16y ago
Yes, you are. Fortunately, Wiki backed my understanding of the situation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_Machine#Military_Enigma In short, the Navy, specifically U boats, used a non-standard, stronger crypto (in this, more rotors) En

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