tomflack

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by tomflack 14y ago
Logarithmic scale for each item taken down incorrectly.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I'm in China and nobody gives a shit about home-grown Chinese brands. I mentioned to a friend I wanted to check out a Meizu MX and her boyfriend asked "what's that?" To which she replied "Oh, just a shanzai iPhone". The first meizu store I
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by tomflack 14y ago
This is true, but organisational wise the Asian Yahoo! divisions are not wholly owned by Yahoo! as we know it. Yahoo! Japan for instance is a separately listed company part owned by Softbank. A friend of mine went for an interview at yahoo
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by tomflack 14y ago
I cannot think of a single good thing that would happen to gaming if every single game had creative commons assets from day one. You'd end up with endless identical looking games. Now, releasing the assets under CC after 5 years or so I cou
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by tomflack 14y ago
There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns. For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Well you saw how long it took to get OSX full-screen support. I wouldn't hold your breath about retina.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Bitcoin probably has less users in your area than people with NFC capable phones. I think for an art project this is a non-issue. I also think if you consider my solution so "complicated tech" then this probably isn't the project for you.
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by tomflack 14y ago
There are NFC bitcoin wallet apps for android aren't there? And "POS" NFC apps? Just cram an android board and an NFC reader in it set to accept taps, look up the exchange rate and spit out cash.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Ah I didn't realize! This would also explain a lot of other things. Thanks!
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by tomflack 14y ago
I sent you an email and this is just me being impatient but.. unavailable in the android market for Chinese users?
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by tomflack 14y ago
For a company run by Sarah Lacey (who takes pride in having a Chinese presence) Pando Daily is a shockingly north American centric publication. I also get the sense they want to be the first to say something is happening rather than coul
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by tomflack 14y ago
A side note, how do you go through a reference and lift all the information from it while avoiding simply paraphrasing it? Or are you using it as a starting point then finding more sources on these mayors?
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by tomflack 14y ago
How would it make it crummy?
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by tomflack 14y ago
The equivalent of the red LED on a camcorder indicating it is recording.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I don't think that Google Voice is any kind of competitor to Skype because of its incredibly limited global availability.
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by tomflack 14y ago
You're underestimating the worth of having literally all my friends using the same feature-rich messaging platform. I'm in China and using the opportunity to spend a little time away from western social platforms (not using a VPN) and the o
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by tomflack 14y ago
> And the reason I hate calling is that I imagine I'm one of a string of no-chance hopefuls just being a nuisance. And the staff are on the other end thinking "Doesn't this guy know who we are?! You're two months late, bozo." Speaking f
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by tomflack 14y ago
> CPUs could be socket instead of soldered, adding what? 1mm at most? Never been done. My Toshiba Satellite in 1999 had a socketed AMD K6-II 380Mhz cpu, which I upgraded 10 years later as a "I wonder if...?" exercise before junking the
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by tomflack 14y ago
Once you max out you're the same as every other character of that class. In D2 I'll admit the skill tree had some severe flaws, but it allowed unique customization to an extent.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I feel it has fundamentally changed with the removal of the skill tree. Instead of making choices and ending up with a semi-unique character, I can change my skills at any time. My character isn't "mine" any more. The only real way to progr
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by tomflack 14y ago
Mozilla take in millions a year from Google. If nobody is contributing to a major platform - pay someone to. I don't even own a mac, but simply can't understand how Mozilla are failing so badly at it.
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by tomflack 14y ago
I don't get Mozilla. The first OSX Lion developer preview came out in March of 2011. This kind of (very) slow adoption of platform improvements is the worst way to win users, and by extension power, to fulfil their mission of a free and ope
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by tomflack 14y ago
Yes. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=macbook+air+star...
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by tomflack 14y ago
Accusing someone of cultural bias always feels to me like a shorthand for "I want the last word no matter what". As such, after this post I won't be engaging with you any further. Your two posts have different meanings, the first gave no cu
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by tomflack 14y ago
While we're playing the speculation game... The ability to arrange home screens in shapes other than grids The Windows 8 Consumer Preview has shown me that the merits of arranging app icons in shapes are numerous. It's easier to find things
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by tomflack 14y ago
This flies in the face of the extremely believable leaked photographs of the last week. http://www.theverge.com/2012/5/29/3049874/new-iphone-backpla...
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by tomflack 14y ago
That wasn't what you said.
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by tomflack 14y ago
The quote I was referencing is of course talking about the new hardware, not the old hardware you are referring to. It just strikes me that 'never' is a long time.
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by tomflack 14y ago
Being slow because it is underpowered is different to what I'm referring to - becoming slower over time because web technologies move past the capabilities of the hardware.
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by tomflack 14y ago
"...and don’t slow down over time." ( https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/features-key.h... ) That is a huge claim and one that will be false as web technologies continue to need more power.

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