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by veridies 13y ago
Well, as you quoted, the author explicitly says that "that inconvenience pales in importance to the actual liberty PRISM strips away from us." Not to mention that it is kind of tragic to lose the ability to use these awesome th
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by veridies 13y ago
Slightly worried. When GrubHub acquired campusfood.com, which had the best coverage in my area, they ended up losing almost all of the restaurants in my city. I called them up a couple times and GrubHub claimed that they would be coming s
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by veridies 13y ago
It has some real advantages, though. The ability to change the content and to let other people upload things to one folder is really cool and not easily done through torrents.
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by veridies 13y ago
It would be great if there were a way to create Sync links; if I could click on "sync:XXXXXXXXXXXX" and have it automatically start syncing to that secret, then Sync would be incredibly easy to use for stuff like this.
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by veridies 13y ago
Except it wasn't an amateur contest, or even a contest; they just chose the best professional musicians they could to back them up.
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by veridies 14y ago
It doesn't help you. But that doesn't mean it's not useful. I subscribe to about fifteen developer blogs that update only two or three times a year. Huge waste of time to visit their websites, but whenever anything important happens, I'll
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by veridies 14y ago
Perhaps, but this letter was focused and, on the whole, loaded with serious and important questions. It looks like his political posturing on this one is going to be aligned with our politics.
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by veridies 14y ago
Always? No. But when news agencies get more money, they have more careful copy-editing and better investigative journalism. When hardware companies get more money, they can afford better R&D, resulting in nicer products down the road
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by veridies 14y ago
My university provides access to top-of-the-line audio and video editing software and computers for students to use. It also has a fantastic internet connection, a large research library, and numerous other small amenities that help studen
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by veridies 14y ago
Good for students in the short term; long term, it's strongly in students' interests for universities to get more money. This is great progress, but it needs to be coupled with better funding for public universities.
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by veridies 14y ago
> I think the attitude that Facebook is addicting actually has more to do with people becoming bored with the service and noticing how much time they actually spend on it. This is still something Facebook should solve. Facebook, despit
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by veridies 14y ago
"We actually do allow you to upload in wav, aiff, flac but you can only download in those formats if the tracks were uploaded in the same." That's perfect, great to know. Again, really cool service. Thanks!
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by veridies 14y ago
It's a really cool idea and I'd love to use it myself. I would prefer lossless tracks (all the examples I see are lossy MP3 or OGG), but that's a pretty small issue. Time-stamped comments, like in SoundCloud, would be pretty cool. And I
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by veridies 14y ago
I did this a while back as a test; it traveled two hours away without postage, despite both recipient names being the same.
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by veridies 14y ago
I've had the opposite experience; while with a fairly small library Songbird is fine, with mine (~700GB, lossless) it's incredibly slow and prone to crashing. Last time I tried it was about six months ago with no improvement.
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by veridies 14y ago
Depends on how you do things. I make sure to always grab album art for my music, and I remember the art. Despite having thousands of albums, I can identify most by the artwork. I also tend to listen to one album at a time. For my needs,
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by veridies 14y ago
Meter control would be useful too. And rhyme highlighting.
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by veridies 14y ago
He has both on his site.
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by veridies 14y ago
For the most part, things aren't as bad as they seem. It's a huge country and any oddities gain a great deal of traction. Most votes go simply and smoothly. That being said, I'm taking a two hour drive later today to vote because my vote-
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by veridies 14y ago
Really cool concept. I'd love to get a couple of these as gifts. Only problem is that I suck at selecting the right features, so facial recognition or Mechanical Turk usage would really help. (Also, a ponytail hairstyle would be nice.)
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by veridies 14y ago
Do we care? I'm personally much happier with open software and formats, but my Ubuntu laptop can easily read a .docx written by MS Office a Windows 8 machine. I can run many programs and games under WINE. And I can still tweak whatever I
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by veridies 14y ago
Which is great, except when I did it, it just... didn't work. Would download the recovery OS, then just shut off. I had to make a two hour drive to get to an Apple store where I could actually get a reinstall after my HDD broke.
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by veridies 14y ago
But this isn't just ads. In fact, I doubt it's even primarily ads. I like this functionality a lot, as long as I can turn it off. I like being able to quickly press a key then search Amazon. It's a great new feature for me and I'm happy
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by veridies 14y ago
Not to mention active, ongoing development, including regularly adding new features and a several hundred thousand strong community. It's not a Facebook-killer, but it's a reasonable social network as-is.
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by veridies 14y ago
Each album is going to be mastered separately, and thus include slightly different tweaks (to volume, compression, whatever). You'll almost never see the exact same audio file stored twice.
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by veridies 14y ago
Which will be great, but this isn't the only project using MS-PL. And if the GPL didn't include its "strong copyleft" text, there wouldn't be an issue. It's coercion which tries to make everything freer, but in this case made things less f
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by veridies 14y ago
GPL is restrictive. It may be unacceptable to put GPLd apps on the App Store because of Apple's regulations, for instance. It makes it impossible to integrate Pixar's new open-sourced code with Blender, because the licenses conflict. Sure
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by veridies 14y ago
There are too many greatest hit collections in this, all of which I already own the component music of. If there were some original albums, this would be great.
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by veridies 14y ago
But that's one (immensely popular) example. It's the very most popular indie game in the world, or close to it.
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by veridies 14y ago
Yeah, I've sideloaded a number of betas or prerelease applications and have never pirated an Android application. This article's making some pretty big assumptions.

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