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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Check out the input method list on whatever OSs you use, and I expect you'll see multiple Chinese input methods. OS X 10.8 has 10, Windows 7 has dozens, a quick Google search shows that Ubuntu 12 around 13. It turns out that, with over a bi
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
First, he had to very explicitly enable that keyboard (not easily done by accident, considering it's about 7 taps deep in Settings). After enabling, it is rather simple to activate that keyboard – hitting the globe icon on the keyboard will
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Interesting perspective and, like I said, one with which I'm not familiar. I've used a few Android devices (basically, I've played with all of the Nexus devices because we have them around for work), but only for a day or so at a time. Pers
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
In order for Apple to maintain its unprecedented brand recognition and profit margins it's not good enough to match the competition. They have to be unambiguously better than the Android alternatives and they just aren't right now. I disa
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes the Galaxy S III more compelling than the iPhone 5? Or, to turn the question around, what is the iPhone 5 missing that makes it so underwhelming? On paper, the S III has a larger screen, NFC, a slightly higher
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Ad clicks is the product, and not users' data. Google's using data they aggregate about me to pick and choose which ads I should see, ideally optimizing for ones that I'll click on. Those clicks are sold to advertisers. Google's selling o
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IOS Postscript font bug(typophile.com)
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How To See The Future(warrenellis.com)
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Are Accelerators Misunderstood?(learntoduck.net)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The user is still not being abused. You may feel Apple is abusing their power, but they're not abusing the user. Were this something happening against users' will the, yes, I might concede it's abuse. It's not; users love the app store and
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I'm pretty sure I remember there being no unix userspace available on iOS. Not exposed to standard users, no. There's no relationship between the existing projects and the Free/OpenBSD open source work. That's simply not true. There's m
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Abuse? I think you may be stretching there… A closer analogy is we do allow private property owners to decide what signs and other publicly visible items may be present on their property. Property owners are allowed to dictate who's allow
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Adobe’s CSS Shaders Now an Official Web Standard(webmonkey.com)
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Mobile 'bots work to increase solar panel efficiency (video)(news.cnet.com)
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Follow That Cab The age of the iChase.(newyorker.com)
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Interview with Tumult (YC W11) Co-Founder Ryan Nielsen(howtowriteabusinessplan.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Many do, yes. For those that don't – the majority – I'm curious if pessimism finds their actions as distasteful as he found Flexibits', the authors of Fantastical. Personally, I find nothing wrong with their actions. pessimism was never pur
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
There is a somewhat justifiable reason for the author to jump to that conclusion – VMware Fusion 4.1 (accidentally?) supports the virtualization of Snow Leopard, which violates Apple's EULA. That feature was very quickly removed in a 4.1.x
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
That's been the case since file quarantining was introduced.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
For what it's worth, this mechanism was actually introduced in and first employed by Lion.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
When buying other items, do you expect to pay less when you pay in cash? After all, the retailer is making more money by avoiding credit card handling fees.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
1) That support article was written in the Tiger, if not the Panther, time frame. It's been around since at least 2005. 2) Mucking with this folder's rather like mucking with a Courier mail store, or a MySQL data directory: If you're gonna
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I can only speak for myself, but I find facts such as these interesting. And perhaps there's something less negative than "consumer culture" at play… humans are generally curious about and interested in extraordinary things. e.g. Olympic at
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
From the Indiegogo page: All the funds raised from this campaign are going directly to a non-profit group. Details about the non-profit behind this project can be found on their website: Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe He's not buil
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Flip side: with accurate and trusted self-driving cars in mass use, speed limits could be raised, car following distances can be reduced. There's no need to keep traffic controls and flow patterns that were designed for humans when instead
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Ah, you're correct on the MacBook case. I didn't have any laptops nearby to confirm. I can't find anywhere on my phone where the serial number's printed, though. The numbers on the back are not the phone's serial number.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
any car company making a robocar is going to get sued into oblivion when they collide with a human driver, regardless of who is at fault I'd actually be somewhat surprised if this were the case. Self-driving cars will gather an enormous a
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Photoshop and other Adobe apps have components written in Java. Without Java, those components will silently fail. Thus, the on-demand Java installation hooks will be present for as long as current versions of CS are supported on OS X. For
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App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility(prog21.dadgum.com)
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
On many Apple devices, the only way to access the serial is to actually log into the device and open Settings or About this Mac. If the attacker's able to do that then – in the majority of cases – they likely already have access to your mai

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