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by starwed 15y ago
The chain of events, as originally laid out[1], was: * OP has paypal payment issue with This. * Friend asks them via twitter "That's not cool. Suspending a friends account because of a minor PayPal dispute? When did you get into doing that?
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by starwed 15y ago
I guess it depends on the granularity of the algorithm? Imagine a transformation mapping one set of points onto another. If each individual transformation can be calculated with pen&paper, I'd hope the process is not patentable, even i
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by starwed 15y ago
You would probably fair better doing some research for yourself. Here is wikipedia's entry on the first U.S. lawsuit that established that color could be trademarked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitex_Co._v._Jacobson_Produc... .
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by starwed 15y ago
Oh FFS, did you even spend a second figuring out what a trademark on a color actually means?
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by starwed 15y ago
It could be the Milestone simply doesn't have enough RAM.
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by starwed 15y ago
Nah, because a single number defines your position in the world. There is no movement or freedom along the axis you're talking about.
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by starwed 15y ago
This seems to be one of those stories which has mutated. In the original account, the poster says they inquired about a problem, had their account terminated, and then flipped out. Almost every commenter on HN seems to assume that the acc
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by starwed 15y ago
> Of course not. Then you got carried away with your rhetoric earlier: > Each successive generation ends up just a little more screwed than the last, as pregnancies roll into the mid-teen years, and generations start stacking. Wome
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by starwed 15y ago
God, man, do you really think teenage pregnancy amongst the poor is a new problem?
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by starwed 15y ago
"Troubleshooting" takes you to about:support , while "About" is the standard about menu item that pops up version info, credits, and the like. So clearly! your point about it being too confusing is wrong... =P
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by starwed 15y ago
The CIA hardly need exert itself to create crazy, unfounded rumors on the internet.
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by starwed 15y ago
Really? I've heard mostly good things about motorola build quality. Personally, I've had the OG droid for a year and half now, and it is rock solid -- I've taken terrible care of it, drop it on concrete all the time, and yet it still works
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by starwed 15y ago
The menu item I'm talking about is "Help->Troubleshooting". The change being considered in the bug is regarding the "About" item.
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by starwed 15y ago
They would have preferred to go this route in the beginning. I think the main reason at the time for avoiding DOM was actually performance -- probably all the various improvements in browsers since then have changed the situation.
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by starwed 15y ago
I've never once read a register article and felt enlightened -- I've mentally compartmentalized them as a place to ignore. Did I get the wrong impression, and they can in fact be a useful source of new & commentary?
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by starwed 15y ago
No? This is exactly the sort of "pedantry" the average user won't care about -- they just click on a menu item to get there.
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by starwed 15y ago
> despite Google's insistence that Android is open, I don't think we've seen the Honeycomb source code yet The word "yet" is mildly disingenuous. No one is waiting for them to do that -- google said a while ago that it wouldn't happen
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by starwed 15y ago
I don't really see where that contradicts what he wrote... could you explain what you mean?
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by starwed 15y ago
Apparently Steve Brust writes using emacs. http://dreamcafe.com/words/2009/04/11/help-us-dr-internet-em...
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by starwed 15y ago
I guess whatever line of argument you thought you were laying out, it got lost in the attempt at snark? Because I don't follow this even a little.
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by starwed 15y ago
I'd really be kinda surprised if there wasn't a substantial difference between $10 and $100 headphones. That's not very controversial -- it's the ultra-high end products that have no connection to reality. (Also, they mention Bose is dis
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by starwed 15y ago
My understanding is that they kind of do -- any game which allows in-game purchases must do so using facebook credits. You can set up a different "instance" of a game, but to allow interaction with the FB players, you have to tie it in to
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by starwed 15y ago
Really? It's been ages since I saw anyone on facebook asking for an invite. (Of which I currently have 150...) It was super hard to get in for the first couple of weeks, and then it suddenly became a non-problem.
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by starwed 15y ago
I think you misunderstood -- it's not a goal but a measurement. The actual statement, if you read the original source[1], is > Firefox 7 uses less memory than Firefox 6 (and 5 and 4): often 20% to 30% less, and sometimes as much as 50%
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by starwed 15y ago
See my other post: reddit, quite some time, had a blog post about how such analytics seemed to be completely detached from the reality of their internal numbers.
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by starwed 15y ago
A while ago, reddit had a blog post[1] about how such rankings seemed to have no connection to their internal numbers. [1] http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
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by starwed 15y ago
At one point this article asks where everyone who used to use Digg has gone, and yet never once mentions reddit . Even ignoring that, the article is just junk. It says very little, and says it poorly. :(
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by starwed 15y ago
Man, I was looking for something like that just a few weeks ago, and somehow completely failed to find it. The exact phrase I sued was "install GCC without XCode", which turns up, not the project, but a bunch of stackoverflow questions aski
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by starwed 15y ago
The 4GB download when all you actually want is GCC is also pretty painful.
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by starwed 15y ago
> The rest of the Web long ago did away with auto-playing music, Flash buttons and menus, and elaborate intro pages, but restaurant sites seem stuck in 1999. I noticed medium sized bands tended to have the same godawful outdated websit

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