sorbus

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by sorbus 16y ago
"They actually refused to acknowledge the sales on the chart because the sales were all coming from the same city. This really leads me and others to believe that while any song can be purchased buy the same user 20 times, only certain son
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by sorbus 16y ago
It gets the point across. Looking good is a secondary concern.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I assume that that's the CPU temperature, not the ambient temperature. If so, the number would be illustrating that the machine appear to be damaged by excessive CPU temperature.
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by sorbus 16y ago
True; that was what I was thinking, in fact. What I was trying to get at is that it's easier for the human mind to deal with lower costs which continue over a long time than a high cost up front, even if the same thing with all the same fea
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by sorbus 16y ago
I recall hearing about something similar to this being done (using Facebook, as I recall), but didn't even think of applying it to google ads, to convey messages to specific people. Simply brilliant.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ads, until the introduction of iAds, would not have gone through apple, and therefor would not count towards total revenue. You do have a point with in app purchases, but I doubt that they would significantly skew the numbers - they would m
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by sorbus 16y ago
Ah ... I was wondering how much the contract was monthly, mostly so I could figure out how much it actually costs over two years. At $55, the total cost is $1520. Somehow, I don't think that quite as many people would pay that much for it i
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by sorbus 16y ago
However, paid apps do get all of the purchases. The number of downloads doesn't matter, only income does.
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by sorbus 16y ago
Well, look at Socrates. Read Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. It's pretty clear that he believed his philosophy, and both lived and died by it. Although, if you insist on being doubtful, we only know about him through the dialogs whic
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The Symphony of Science(symphonyofscience.com)
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by sorbus 16y ago
From the second page of the article: "Other studies have shown that these differences in extreme test scores correlate with later achievements in science and academia. Even when you consider only members of an elite group like the top perce
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by sorbus 16y ago
The idea, it seems, is to get half of the spending, by providing more value per view, as well as mandating both a minimum level of quality of advertisements (I recall hearing that Apple's design team was doing the ads for the first batch of
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by sorbus 16y ago
It runs extremely smoothly on chrome 5.0 and a 1.6GHz atom, using about 90% of the CPU. No noticeable jerkiness, smooth motion, and so forth.
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by sorbus 16y ago
I find myself wondering how one would have time to drive a car with all of the things to do on their phone. Doubtless, accidents would increase greatly in this environment - unless, perhaps, the cars are also smart enough to drive themselve
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by sorbus 16y ago
Well, given that those stats add up to a lot less than 100%, one assumes that they cannot in most cases.
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by sorbus 16y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking; it would be more interesting to know how many people kept that pledge. Still, it does put it into perspective; the vast majority of people simply don't care, or don't know, about Facebook's privacy issues
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by sorbus 16y ago
Well, that's the problem with having friends. Whenever you let someone get near to you, they could be carrying a hidden microphone and a video camera. And, even if you explicitly tell them that you don't want to be friends with them any mor
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by sorbus 16y ago
If they're using Linux, they can find and patch the vulnerability immediately. They could even have a team hunting through the source code looking for vulnerabilities to patch. On Windows, they would have to report the vulnerability to Micr
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by sorbus 16y ago
So why would Twitter censor the word?
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by sorbus 16y ago
Huh. I have the same model, and I generally get around eight hours, albeit on Arch, not the included Windows 7. Are you using Windows 7? If so, it might be a good idea to reinstall it ...
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by sorbus 16y ago
> ... for anything other than a _netbook or a laptop_ that you don't 'sleep' is a case of premature optimization. From the article: "Take a standard issue 7200 rpm, 500 GB _notebook SATA drive_. Add 4 GB of fast and reliable single-lev
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by sorbus 16y ago
So set those daemons up on Windows. (Linux, sadly, isn't necessarily the intended market for things like this.)
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by sorbus 16y ago
Main memory doesn't persist across reboots; this does. Hence, potential increase in boot speed for the main OS, as well as a decrease in start-up time for an application the first time you run it after starting the OS. And yep, no increase
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by sorbus 16y ago
Could you provide a link to the initial complaint, then, by any chance? Unless I'm completely missing it, it doesn't appear to be in the article. Unless what you mean by this not being "a one-off" is that he showed it to several other peopl
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by sorbus 16y ago
Alternatively: "We happen to create a product that we think makes the web better. Some people disagree with this; they can decide not to install it. Apple is taking away their choice, and we feel that that's a bad thing." That's what choice
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by sorbus 16y ago
It's probably best to keep that sentiment in the comments, though, and let the article stand on its own merits, instead of being dragged down by editorializing (or at least confusing people who see nothing about that in the article).
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by sorbus 16y ago
Perhaps combined with another operating system which performs the tasks mentioned in the article? [Taking a picture, and sending it, the ip address, and anything else interesting/identifying about the network (nmap dumps, nearby access poin
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by sorbus 17y ago
"During her deposition to Robbins’s lawyers, she invoked her Fifth Amendment rights and refused to answer questions as not to self-incriminate. One of the questions asked of her was whether she had downloaded “…pictures to her own computer,
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by sorbus 17y ago
Like a tour guide, only with a duty to constant watch visitors and keep them away from anything deemed unsuitable, including unsupervised talks with normal citizens. (Disclaimer: I haven't been to North Korea, this is just the definition I'
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by sorbus 17y ago
If you notice it when you're still on the page, it's easy. However, as I understand it one would have to go to their facebook page to see this, and it seems unlikely that most users would be doing that (constantly watching their facebook pa

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