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541.
by trotsky 14y ago
Confusing that he shops in Shenzen every "four to five months" but had only "heard" that tablets had gotten cheap, what he's reporting on has been going on for at least 18 months.
542.
by trotsky 14y ago
No, a patent troll is a non-practicing entity (NPE). The specific reason they're dangerous is because they aren't subject to counter claims. You can't come along and redefine a word simply because you don't understand it.
543.
by trotsky 14y ago
when did it become so trendy to hate semicolons?
544.
by trotsky 14y ago
In case anyone else was interested, proteus: http://www.visitproteus.com/
545.
Shuttleworth Invests $1 Million in Ceph Storage Startup Inktank(inktank.com)
3 points by trotsky 14y ago|1 comments
546.
by trotsky 14y ago
looks like wired got socialed themselves
547.
by trotsky 14y ago
probably due to wanting to recover as much information as possible in the event of data loss such as cropping, competing watermarks, compression, etc.
548.
by trotsky 14y ago
nand wear balancing
549.
by trotsky 14y ago
90% of the 2nd/3rd tier arm market is like that, they certainly have their problems but they're almost all legitimate companies that deliver a product.
550.
Ubuntu's Unity/Compiz Gets Even Slower(phoronix.com)
1 points by trotsky 14y ago|0 comments
551.
by trotsky 14y ago
the idea that it's a skype replacement while simultaneously warning the reader about avoiding NAT is funny, 50% of the skype secret sauce is the NAT traversal.
552.
by trotsky 14y ago
I didn't mean it as a criticism, just trying to add to the conversation.
553.
by trotsky 14y ago
This article from a fedora developer seemed a bit more hacker newsish to me: Playing with Thunderbolt under Linux on Apple hardware http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/15948.html
554.
by trotsky 14y ago
The details make it sound more like a PE rescue to me, but I agree that it's unlikely that there is some kind of windfall being withheld - the likely other option probably would have been bounced paychecks.
555.
by trotsky 14y ago
http://projects.gnome.org/evince/
556.
by trotsky 14y ago
I'm not sure which model you looked at, but I believe the 13"/4g/128gb is priced at $1100 msrp vs. similarly configured air at $1200. Microcenter had it for $1000 a few weeks ago.
557.
by trotsky 14y ago
To lure in would-be developers, Microsoft is establishing an attractive revenue-split model that trumps what Apple delivers to its App Store and Mac App Store software partners. The Microsoft split starts at 70-30, between developers and M
558.
by trotsky 14y ago
The difference being only one of them owns the platform steam gets practically all of their revenue from.
559.
by trotsky 14y ago
I'm all for linux support, but clearly he's more worried about a future with microsoft taking their digital delivery business, not usability.
560.
by trotsky 14y ago
Is it a symptom of the fact that he believes himself to be an expert on the subject that he enjoys using the term "file system" over and over in a way that goes against 50 years or more of common usage? Or was it just link bait for those of
561.
by trotsky 14y ago
The Asus zenbook prime 11" and 13" are shipping with full hd ips screens.
562.
by trotsky 14y ago
Is the board changing? Not that I've heard. New CEO's are still beholden to their boards, and from what I can see the yahoo board is out to lunch.
563.
by trotsky 14y ago
looks like it was a good thing i hedged ;)
564.
by trotsky 14y ago
Ubuntu's the only major distribution (that I know of) that has an integrated and supported process for installing the closed video drivers you'll need to run their games on ati/nvidia.
565.
by trotsky 14y ago
Hint: However much the venture investors in my blog want me to tell you it is
566.
by trotsky 14y ago
we could use a term like green washing these days, for this kind of thing and the dual license hucksters
567.
by trotsky 14y ago
we didn't invent the word vaporware without real lessons having been learned
568.
by trotsky 14y ago
It looks a bit like you're matching location to both traits: country/republican to rural/lower density and pop/hiphop/democrat to urban/coastal
569.
by trotsky 14y ago
While that mali gpu is very nice the extra cores, codecs and ram with the tegra makes it much more of an all around solution. While the cheap single core + mali socs that are doing such high volume are damn impressive performers don't overl
570.
by trotsky 14y ago
For a variety of reasons it doesn't really matter if you authenticate the hotspot if the rest of the traffic goes in the clear as unless you also do key exchange as part of the authentication and then use it for protecting your traffic some

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