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by tuacker 16y ago
By 2011 or 2012, can't remember the exact deadline, their mobile phones must have Micro-USB. At least if they want to continue selling them here in Europe. The ruling for it passed a while ago that all mobile phones must be chargeable with
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by tuacker 16y ago
I'm sometimes amazed how both Irony and Sarcasm can completely go over some people's heads. Now, I know that I didn't always understand those two but no matter what I try I'm unable to explain it to a few of my friends. On another note. I a
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by tuacker 16y ago
BBC Life documentary always had an "On Location" at the end. Here are two examples. One involves a lot of fake, they searched for a spot outside to observe and then rebuild the whole set indoor in order to be able to film growing of the pla
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by tuacker 16y ago
Can't talk for sewerhorse, but I think the HN design is quite good. Following is my opinion I'm by no means a designer. Right now there is no distraction anywhere. It's straight to the point: Here are your headlines. Read first post title,
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by tuacker 16y ago
How exactly do they plan to get all that energy back to Russia?
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by tuacker 16y ago
This only eats 17% of my CPU on Windows7/Chrome but the animation still jerks. If I go to page 2 (navigation on top) it scrolls smoothly at first but starts jerking later on. If I reload (page 2) it works fine again. What is going on here?
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by tuacker 16y ago
All in one page here: http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophys...
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by tuacker 16y ago
If you're not in a country where Spotify is available check out Grooveshark instead.
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by tuacker 16y ago
Likewise, I only check Facbeook on my phone. There are some exceptions but I always use Incognito mode for those.
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by tuacker 16y ago
That's less a redesign than a cry for help against the input overload social networks provide. I'm glad my social surrounding is relative quiet and for Twitter I only follow a handful of people that don't tell me what they just ate. Or eve
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by tuacker 16y ago
Video calling, over 3G, has been available for a long time now. One of the providers I know here in Austria introduced it sometime around 2003. Nobody uses it, it's going to be interesting if Apple is able to change this but I highly doubt
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by tuacker 16y ago
I wonder what happened to the agreement everyone here in Europe had in 2009. Even Apple agreed with the USB-Charger. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10274953-94.html EDIT: Ah they (all) got time until 2012.
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by tuacker 16y ago
Starting with iOS4 developers have access to a set of APIs. Audio, GPS + 'Location', Push, Phone (think Skype), Worker and probably a few other APIs. Until now, when the user pressed the home button you were able to write your state to flas
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by tuacker 16y ago
Didn't work on Chrome/Win7 without installing Quicktime for me.
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by tuacker 16y ago
The 3GS does the same thing if the page is big (long?) enough and actually releases content so if you scroll back up it has to be rendered again.
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by tuacker 16y ago
To spare someone else the confusion I just had for a moment: Aaron talks about the WWDC Keynote that kicks off in a few hours
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by tuacker 16y ago
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/html5 Vimeo: Right below the description, see: http://imgur.com/yuf4R Obviously not an automatic fallback but I guess that's because it is still in 'beta'. Youtube videos with ads won't work, or embedded
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by tuacker 16y ago
Visit http://www.youtube.com/html5 and join the beta. It won't work for all videos though and not at all for embedded videos.
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by tuacker 16y ago
Once again linking to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM Lustig argues that fructose/HFC/everything-not-glucose messes with our internal sensors to determine whether we've got enough or if we still need a tad more power. As a res
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by tuacker 16y ago
Everything is sold with the same price but a different currency sign. Just replace $ with € and you're done. Games, consoles, hardware... Example: http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc=US http://store.steampowered.com/app/47700/?cc
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by tuacker 16y ago
Readable: http://whenwillapple.com/thoughts-on-horses/
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by tuacker 16y ago
I think patents are just the "mine's bigger" for corporations. In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass * , Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’
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by tuacker 16y ago
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/732/ (alt text)
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by tuacker 16y ago
MovieForumz.com sounds shady (and was http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://MovieForumz.com ). I wonder why you'd link to this. Everyone here tries to figure out if you're a hoax or not, linking to a (illegal) sharing site doesn't really hel
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by tuacker 16y ago
> You can use a Macbook in closed-lid mode to use only an external display. Yes, but this requires an external keyboard, a connected power outlet and putting the system to sleep. Thanks about the 'detect displays' button, though still t
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by tuacker 16y ago
Sometimes I think Apple just jumps out of a moving train. For example it isn't possible to turn off the notebook display and only keep the connected monitor/projector active. Or, if you wake it with the lid closed to turn on the (notebook)
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by tuacker 16y ago
If, by space terrorism, you mean that some crazy group tries to shoot down a power grid in space, no. I don't think so. There won't be a 'terror' aspect to it. It's unlikely that 100% of the power will come from this or there to be a major
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by tuacker 16y ago
From who does the power grid in space need protection from? Aliens who like to bully lesser races around? I don't see anyone attacking such a power grid. Those capable of doing so could just sent some collectors up themselves and call it a
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by tuacker 16y ago
I almost exclusively use FB on my iPhone (with Location turned off). It's the only way I can parse the stream while staying sane.
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by tuacker 16y ago
Also check out http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ for free fonts for commercial use.

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