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by sid0 15y ago
Let's say I have an iOS device and wish to install a non-App Store app using it. Setting aside jailbreaking for the moment, what is the barrier to doing so? $500 or so for a new Android phone + all the time spent looking for replacements et
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by sid0 15y ago
My point is that this can be abstracted away to something more user friendly than a tree containing hundreds or thousands of folders and files. It's apparently hard enough that no one's been able to provide a better solution to the genera
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by sid0 15y ago
But the iOS model of syncing everything to the cloud or whatever is simply incompatible with the current realities of those countries. Microsoft's taking that into account rather than just shrugging it off.
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by sid0 15y ago
Lion 10.7.1 was a whopping 79.3MB. Well, they might have fixed it then. All I know is that I balked at the 1GB OS X update waiting for me. And judging by the popular success of the iPad I have to disagree with the suggestion that Apple i
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by sid0 15y ago
I would say you're out of luck then. What good are those mkv files if you don't have an app to read them? I have a really nice app to read them called Media Player Classic -- I just don't have an app to manage them. Writing apps to manage
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by sid0 15y ago
I'm not sure what type of "documents" you're referring to Aha, therein lies the rub. These documents could be essentially arbitrary files, and there's no substitute to a general purpose file manager for them. Writing an app for every sing
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by sid0 15y ago
And what happens if there's a file type the OS doesn't support? In my case that often happens with mkv files. How do I tell iTunes (or any other music player) to import some of the music on my USB drive? iTunes doesn't even allow you to do
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by sid0 15y ago
Well, yes, Apple designs products for rich people in the first world who have always-on fast internet (have you seen the sheer size of Apple point updates?!). Microsoft designs far more inclusive products.
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by sid0 15y ago
You still haven't answered my question. I have a set of documents, a subset of which I'd like to copy onto my USB drive. I also have a set of pictures, a subset of which I'd like to copy onto my USB drive. My USB drive already has a set of
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by sid0 15y ago
How do you copy a bunch of documents and pictures from and to a USB drive without a filesystem?
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by sid0 15y ago
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19789...
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by sid0 15y ago
http://www.napera.com/product-design/pie-charts-considered-h...
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by sid0 15y ago
How do you copy a bunch of documents and pictures to a USB drive if you don't have a full filesystem? "USB drives are outdated, use the cloud" is not a valid answer so don't even bother saying it.
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by sid0 15y ago
What a ridiculous question. There are lots of reasons I might want to do that. Storing file paths in a text file for later bookkeeping and copying file paths to a Google search box while trying to debug something are two I can immediately t
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by sid0 15y ago
AFAIK a very restricted version of Minecraft is coming to the 360.
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by sid0 15y ago
The best and most unique TF2 hats sell for over a thousand dollars on the market.
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by sid0 15y ago
Shouldn't actually take more than 5 minutes of you writing a few scripts. open: firefox --no-remote -P <profile> create: firefox -CreateProfile <new name> delete: rm -rf <location of profile>, e.g. %APPDATA%\
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by sid0 15y ago
I've been using an Intel 320. It's a dream. No more hitches at all .
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by sid0 15y ago
Firefox profiles do exactly what you want.
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by sid0 15y ago
As long as there isn't a moral or ethical issue at hand (and here there clearly isn't), software should adapt to the user, not the other way round.
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by sid0 15y ago
It means they're commodity hardware. They're made of plastic. They're poorly designed, cheaply made And yet they're much better to run anything that isn't Mac OS X. They allow you to boot Linux or Windows from USB. They don't disable AHCI
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by sid0 15y ago
Too windowsey? What does that even mean? Does it mean you don't actually have to choose between working AHCI and working sleep in Windows?
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by sid0 15y ago
Indeed. Searches are normally safe operations as defined by HTTP, so they really should be HTTP GET.
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by sid0 15y ago
What licensing restrictions exactly does Visual Studio Express have?
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by sid0 15y ago
Mail clients (at least Outlook and Thunderbird) mark attachments as untrusted, and then it's up to the application to open them safely.
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by sid0 15y ago
Year n+1 is the year of Linux on the desktop!
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by sid0 15y ago
And how the #$ ! is Apple dominating the laptop computer segment?* Marketing obviously. The 2011 MacBook Pro I'm using right now is by far the most terrible laptop I've ever owned. It doesn't boot from USB, it doesn't sleep properly, bri
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by sid0 15y ago
I don't think Bill Gates ever tried to sell toys. Calling an iPad a computer is an insult to Alan Turing.
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by sid0 15y ago
To your main point: are irrational numbers, say, "out there"? If so, where? On the sheet of paper in front of me, as the hypotenuse of the isosceles right-angled triangle with unit length I drew a moment ago. Irrational numbers are probab
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by sid0 15y ago
Yes, people copy pictures over USB drives in the era of facebook and dropbox. Get out of the Silicon Valley bubble and realize that most of the world still doesn't have good enough internet.

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