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by spiffworks 15y ago
I don't disagree with the article per se, I disagree with this method people seem to have of painting a large and diverse country with a single brush. I am entirely ignorant of Pakistan's inner workings, so I don't have an opinion on the ar
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Good god, bring back Groklaw. If the most respectable commenter on this topic is Florian Mueller, then we're in serious trouble.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I am 4 short of 500 karma, so I can't give you a downvote - instead, I make this comment. I'm an Indian, and I find it very hard to believe that an entire nation unequivocally hates another country. Firstly, there are plenty of educated, cu
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Is there any particular reason that Buzz and Plus need public profiles? I really like Plus, but I have a friend who has voiced a few significant concerns where it defaults to public on some occasions(such as when you change your picture). E
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by spiffworks 15y ago
This is the most braindead review of the service that I have read. Any social network goes through the ghost town - early adopters - your mom stage, When your mom arrives, you can't say "fuck" anymore, and so you feel the need to move to an
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Unfortunately, the cost of the lawsuit will be borne by the handset makers and not by Google. The price of these patents is fairly indeterminable because the chilling effect of the almost certainly imminent lawsuits is hard to estimate. Now
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Yeah, Apple got this one right. No matter what you do with your phone, you can just press the big black button and everything is back to normal. If anything, I think these software buttons will lead to further user frustration.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I don't know about others, but the reason I love desktop Linux is because of it's modularity. I can use Gnome, KDE or whatever other applications with whatever window manager I choose, and it all works. In an era where everything is being d
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by spiffworks 15y ago
It even has an incomplete version of Emacs. Emacs!
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by spiffworks 15y ago
On the face of it, it just seems like clever agreement drafting by Google. Google's agreement with Motorola requires Motorola to allow location data collection by Google, whereas it's agreement with Skyhook explicitly forbids it. At that po
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by spiffworks 15y ago
It's all the other nonsense that comes along with managing a typical PC that's the problem. System update every so often, upgrade the system every six months, driver problem with graphics, an endless stream of support requests. On the Windo
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I think those rates only apply to the CR-48, not to the new devices announced today, because the new ones are also going to Europe, where CDMA is pretty much non-existent.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Alternatively, pirate everything and laugh all the way to the bank
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Fat chance. It launches as "an invite-only beta", so I wouldn't get my hopes up.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
And now for a bit of perspective, here in India I am working with a 512kbps connection, which is the only one I can get without any 'fair use' caps. The latency for the fastest DNS is about 350ms, and on weekends, my bandwidth can be as low
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I've found this link to be the best guide for Emacs users http://gregorygrubbs.com/development/tips-on-android-develop...
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Exactly. I've been using Ubuntu for the past 2 years without ever logging into a Gnome session. The package management, the drivers, the sane defaults are all worth it even if you disagree with all their design decisions. What doesn't work
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Heh. Close to six months in Gnome and I never realised that those shortcuts existed. Apparently, I have severely underestimated the Gnome desktop for a long time.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
The built-in search and launcher are killer features for me, and the multitasking with super+num is great. It also has the 'run-or-raise' capability that I've failed to get to work in Awesome. As such, the window management capabilities of
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I last tried gnome-shell when it was buggy as hell, so it's probably not a good comparison- but Unity is fast, really fast. Having used a minimalist wm for a long time, I'm generally intolerant of lag and other nonsense that gets in the way
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by spiffworks 15y ago
On the contrary, I find that Unity is much more keyboard friendly than Gnome. Multitasking with the keyboard is very easy, just hold super and press the relevant number. I find that it is much more conducive to multitasking once I got used
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by spiffworks 15y ago
I have to say, as an Awesome WM user, I was sceptical of Unity. But after a day of using it, I think I might never go back to Awesome. It is just ridiculously well thought out, in a way that I have never experienced on Linux before. It real
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Google needs to seriously start cleaning house in the Market. Given that most Android phones out there can sideload, there won't even be that much of a backlash. I suspect the only reason they aren't already doing this is because they have
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by spiffworks 15y ago
It's a wildly varying experience that depends on your hardware and the distro. What I've noticed with Ubuntu, though is that hardware support keeps getting better with each new version. Before I buy any new piece of hardware, I check for Ub
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by spiffworks 15y ago
Its three. Crows can count that much.
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by spiffworks 15y ago
As an Android user who suffers from lag every time a background service starts up, I concur. This whole article was nonsense. How could he talk about Android development without mentioning the woeful mess that is the emulator?
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Its time to start working on Ubuntu Tablet Edition, isn't it? What with the Xoom having an unlockable bootloader, and the whole rash of honeycomb tablets expected this year, maybe its time for the traditional Linux stack to arrive at the ne
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by spiffworks 16y ago
This is actually an extremely interesting technical problem though, isn't it? Given all the computational power Google has, I'm sure they could dedicate one emulator per new submission, and run continuous checks on the app without ever reso
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by spiffworks 16y ago
I vote for making the flag button more powerful. Most often, the worst discussions are about flamebait from TC about something Apple or Google has done(I am as guilty of this as anyone). If, with enough flags, those stories could be moved o
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by spiffworks 16y ago
Well, when you bought your iPad, weren't you fully aware of Apple's whimsical and capricious nature in dealing with the App Store? Even though Apple are just being assholes here, I have no sympathy for computer-literate people who would wil

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