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by starwed 15y ago
Ah, a person advocating a position I agree with, but using terrible+inconsistent arguments. :( For instance: it was always perfectly clear that the BBC's "outrageous statement" was the result of contacting someone within the BBC who didn't
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by starwed 15y ago
That is almost twice the weight of the smaller Air, with larger dimensions. Since those are pretty much the defining characteristics of the Air, not really an "alternative".
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by starwed 15y ago
It's still the case that if you're sufficiently far away from a nonspherical object, it'll effectively act like a point source. I'd guess this is what the OP was recalling.
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by starwed 15y ago
Err, this was several years ago, and I was relaying what other folk with the same device (ASUS 901) reported, not my personal experience. (And not only was this was before the release of Windows 7, it actually came with some version of Xand
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by starwed 15y ago
I had an old netbook with an SSD. A lot of folk noticed that the performance of the disk got slower over time. Surprisingly, defragging the drive actually improved the performance -- but IIRC it was a side effect of the process, not direc
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by starwed 15y ago
I remember at some point, Counter-Strike changed the name of most of the weapons, making them more generic/fictional. Apparently they were worried about trademark issues?
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by starwed 15y ago
Well, Firefox Mobile does sync bookmarks & history. But I think most mobile devices are still limited enough you can't really run a full-featured browser and get good performance -- thus the current lack of a direct Chrome port on Andr
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by starwed 15y ago
Mozilla does have an explicit mission statement. > Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web. http://www.mozilla.org/about/mission.html http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto
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by starwed 15y ago
Isn't native support the issue at hand?
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by starwed 15y ago
Actually, after reading the entire article that is exactly the impression it gives. -edit- A quick google also leaves the impression that Windows support for USB 3 is new. http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+usb+3+support
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by starwed 15y ago
I don't quite follow -- in Joel's case, it's assumed that you're tracking the position of all sorts of things -- there isn't one variable that's the relative offset, but a whole host of them that you'd want to give particular semantic nam
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by starwed 15y ago
I've found Facebook actually loads pretty snappily on bad connections. (The text, anyway. Interactive stuff might hang for a while.)
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by starwed 15y ago
My favorite (hah!) site that demonstrates this is Twitter.[1] While tethering, it often takes upwards of two minutes to load a page. That seems just a little obscene when the entire useful content of the page is 10 lines of text. (Hmm, may
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by starwed 15y ago
When I first read the xkcd comic, I was amused that the article on philosophy didn't lead to itself. (It got trapped in a 2-cycle.) Then I noticed that this was only because of an edit someone had made earlier in the day...
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by starwed 15y ago
I have to say, after switching from Ubuntu to OSX I was not exactly blown away by the UI. Some things were done better, some things worse -- the mac might have an edge but it's a small one. And while I haven't wasted much time solving arca
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by starwed 15y ago
That's not what OP means... Your point is that google allows famous folk to use their RL pseudonym as their primary ID on google+. What thristian means is that the system itself needs to allow a single account to present multiple nyms, de
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by starwed 15y ago
Sure, and I always use "/" in Firefox. But we're talking about for the benefit of people using Word and other like editors.
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by starwed 15y ago
> In the case of finding something, holding down one key while pressing another has no parallel to real life searching. Ok, so you would recommend what? A single key? But remember, it needs to work in a text editor where you're actua
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by starwed 15y ago
>most major programs will require licenses for dozens of patents, and this will make them infeasible. And everything turned out worse than expected... :(
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by starwed 15y ago
You're missing one of the more interesting parts of groklaw -- they pull together the relevant legal documents so you can look at them yourself, if you like.
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by starwed 15y ago
I didn't take it literally -- I was pointing out that the grandparent poster had.
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by starwed 15y ago
>You're assuming that because you don't have days where you've got to travel several hundred miles an then back that nobody else does...or should. The initial statement in the blog was that everyone has days like that.
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by starwed 15y ago
HP made personal computers before they bought Compaq. The headline is misleading, because it implies they would continue those lines while only spinning off Compaq.
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by starwed 15y ago
Ok, I obviously don't understand how this is an exploit of this particular system. It just sounds like a plan to pay for things with fraudulent checks, which folk have been doing forever.
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by starwed 15y ago
The scam and your idea seem fundamentally different. I'm not sure exactly how this ExchB thing works, but since your exploit involves personally writing a bad check, and then cashing it at a bank... seems like you would end up being liable.
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by starwed 15y ago
So, because a recently dumped list of IPs contains some subset of a publicly posted list of known compromised IPs, that's proof it wasn't faked? Is there something I'm missing, or is that meaningless?
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by starwed 15y ago
I suppose that it could be a serious comment, but I really sturggle to parse it as anything other than a joke.
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by starwed 15y ago
No idea if it's suitable for your particular purpose, but Unity is a 3D game engine that's pretty cross-platform. No doubt the licenses are pricy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29
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by starwed 15y ago
Regarding the platform: I don't know how relevant it is, but Minecraft was written in Java. Android apps are normally written in Java. Maybe this was simply the path of least resistance?
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by starwed 15y ago
There are also people like me -- I switched to Verizon specifically to get the first Droid. (Granted I was on Virgin before...)

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