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by sprout 16y ago
In the case of Verizon it is. Just because I'm singling out Apple doesn't mean it's a singular concern. But my problem is that it seems pretty clear to me that of all the ways AT&T is shafting consumers, this is one way that Apple appre
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by sprout 16y ago
Of couurse they had IT. IT in those days was the army of shipwrights, engineers and sailors that kept messages flowing from port to port and city to city. And there were a lot of fat cat bureaucrats living off government largesse. And I hav
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by sprout 16y ago
If I tried to sync everything over my home DSL connection, software would have limited ability to make it seamless.
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by sprout 16y ago
I would have to see some figures. Maybe I'm wrong about the iPhone's longevity. Of course, I also might be wrong about my Droid's longevity. The primary reason I say forced is the US's carrier subsidy model, in which you are forced to pay 2
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by sprout 16y ago
I think you've misunderstood me. I want hardware that's stable. I don't want to be forced to buy new hardware every 18 months, because I don't need hardware more powerful than my Droid. I'm saying that a smartphone is a commodity item to me
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by sprout 16y ago
Apple's forced upgrade culture is getting increasingly offensive as each generation has less and less to differentiate it from the previous one. I have to say, after having my Droid for six months, it does everything I need it to do adequat
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by sprout 16y ago
What I would really like is some metadata baked into the filesystem layer that allows you to specify backup levels, which vary how often, whether or not, and where things are backed up. So something like: 1 - always back up to primary backu
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by sprout 16y ago
Maybe you should do more than just skim the article: >When the bomb burst, people told of blackouts and strange electrical malfunctions, like garage doors opening and closing on their own. But the big show was in the sky. They're a litt
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by sprout 16y ago
A nuclear blast is never an awesome fireworks show. This detonation created serious electromagnetic interference that would likely fry a lot of consumer electronics if done today. If you want fireworks, use fireworks. And even then, don't.
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by sprout 16y ago
Pandora gives a lot less choice than it really claims... it's very easy to listen to songs I like that Pandora has, but they very quickly get to playing the same ones over and over again. I'm willing to take a more niche selection if it mea
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by sprout 16y ago
There are a variety of accepted definitions of upgrade, and most of them agree with my usage. Only one agrees with your 'correct' usage. Ubuntu is a software platform that provides improved performance in a variety of ways, including 90% so
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by sprout 16y ago
You said it twice, otherwise I wouldn't note it: the phrase is "losing touch," not "loosing touch." To say something directly though, I think that wealth creation is a distinct from money. Even if you yourself can get many of those perks wi
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by sprout 16y ago
What exactly does it mean to be a computer scientist? I'd say if this article is accessible to you, it's reasonable to call you some sort of computer scientist, even if you don't have a degree, or aren't necessarily an authority on the subj
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by sprout 16y ago
It starts off by using the abbreviation DAG, SHA-1 hash, and object. If you know all three of those without looking them up, you're probably some sort of computer scientist. I'd especially draw the line at DAG. At that point, we're talking
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by sprout 16y ago
The only reason I don't recommend desktop Linux to people is that explaining ubuntu-restricted-extras to them is too much work. Other than that it 'just works' out of the box and anyone who is currently using Windows XP should upgrade.
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by sprout 16y ago
Most of the population growth was fed by immigration, and most Americans traded regularly with British merchants even after 1776.
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by sprout 16y ago
>1. Governments shouldn't pick the winners, particularly too early in the process. If we do that, we only end up with things that can reasonably be expected to work. And things that can reasonably be expected to work rarely change the w
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by sprout 16y ago
Frankly I don't think either of them have taken CS, and have no idea what the word subset means. Though I think pwim may have been pointing that out. There are elements of each discipline that overlap, but you don't need to know any of the
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by sprout 16y ago
Why are you so hostile to research that sees production use? The theory, which is increasingly being borne out, is that economies of scale will kick I bun if you subsidize it. But even if not, it's small-scale research, and extremely import
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by sprout 16y ago
The Western notion of "thinner and younger" also papers over a lot of the primate realities. I know quite a few women who when I first met were completely unremarkable if not downright unattractive, who over time became as attractive as any
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by sprout 16y ago
I've been really happy ever since I installed Python on my Droid. It's really fun to show off how you can access text-to-speech with droid.speak(). I'm not sure I buy it will be useful for development without a custom VM, but I have the ful
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by sprout 16y ago
So you think that Wikipedia content gets worse or stagnant over time? Definitely, I think it's more effective than the SO model.
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by sprout 16y ago
I think that's a place where Wikipedia presents a better model in a lot of ways. People love to complain about its cliquey admin groups, but the fact is they're extremely effective at getting quality content out there. Bottom line, I think,
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by sprout 16y ago
R5RS is a pretty light read.
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by sprout 16y ago
It also hasn't seen any use in production, unless I'm mistaken.
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by sprout 16y ago
I do think that this is a somewhat pointless discussion, but it's less a question of preferring another brand to believing that the Apple brand is increasingly harmful to free speech, and not just in a GNU all-software-must-be-free manner,
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by sprout 16y ago
Is it really going to kill them to add -moz-border-radius and -border-radius for every -webkit-border-radius? It seems like that sort of stuff where you know it's already supported begs some action.
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by sprout 16y ago
I can only guess the author is still using twm. I know a professor and a sysadmin that do at my alma mater, or at least they did circa 2008.
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by sprout 16y ago
>GATES: The idea of how you run software development properly is not something you can capture in a few sentences. It's how you hire people, organize people, how you plan the spec, how you let it change, how you do the testing, how you
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by sprout 16y ago
I just bought a netbook with Windows 7 starter, and I did not wipe the Windows partition. That said, the only reason I'm trotting out that installation is to test my sites on IE. Otherwise, It's Ubuntu all the way. Probably Android when Int

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