winthrowe

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by winthrowe 15y ago
The point regarding IMEIs was that if carriers get antagonistic enough, it would be possible to change the blacklist that (some) carriers use for stolen phones into a whitelist that disallows any third party phones.
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by winthrowe 15y ago
They're just being rolled out in Canada. So far, just the 100 and the 50 have been released into general circulation. I'll be glad when the 20, 10 and 5 are released; with the popularity of debit, I don't tend to have reason to carry larg
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by winthrowe 15y ago
Combat flight sims aren't popular, but recent ones do exist; DCS currently has nice A-10 and Ka-50 sims.
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by winthrowe 15y ago
The quality is poor, but these appear to be from that presentation. http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7183/Sim-City-5-Inside-th... http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7186/Sim-City-5-Inside-th... http://www.hardwareclips.com/video/7187
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by winthrowe 15y ago
Isn't $VPO equivalent to the situations where the author stated that you might have -$I, that is the value of proud ownership is a credit to your integrity?
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by winthrowe 15y ago
Grooveshark's desktop app used it. Only place I've personally seen it in the wild.
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by winthrowe 15y ago
Ubuntu releases regularly every 6 months like clockwork, while on the otherhand, suse releases relatively frequently, but there is anywhere between a few months and a year or so between releases, so it can't exactly be described as 'regular
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by winthrowe 15y ago
WebGL is not a replacement for DirectX, it's just a replacement for Direct3D. What's the rest of the stack?
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by winthrowe 15y ago
In addition to the block reward (currently 50 and approaching zero) the miner gets any transaction fees for transactions included in the block. At the present, the block reward massively exceeds the transaction fees, but that will eventual
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I think the charitable interpretation is: Groupon employs over 3000 sales reps; you don't pay 3000+ sales reps to dial manually, you use an autodialer: therefore, each rep is making 250-300 raw calls per day, and 50 or so live contacts. I
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by winthrowe 16y ago
See Also http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
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FreedomBox 144% funded on Kickstarter(kickstarter.com)
2 points by winthrowe 16y ago|1 comments
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by winthrowe 16y ago
You could work on the Freedom Box. http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/721744279/push-the-freed...
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by winthrowe 16y ago
IMO, Laptops. Supporting XP on recent laptops is an exercise in frustration due to drivers, and in my situation is compounded by the lack of standardization on a small number of models.
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by winthrowe 16y ago
Of the munitions? I hear JSOWs and especially JDAMs are popular recently. As far as BIS info, it's not something I've followed closely, but we're talking things like every plane, tank, and infantryman now (soon?) has gps and information on
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I'm not actually air force, but am a bit of an aviation buff with a private license. There would be backup nav systems in manned aircraft, but several popular modern munitions are GPS guided, and I would tend to think that modern battlespa
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I suppose it may be possible to host the video on youtube and just embed it, rather than hosting myself. The huge drop in bandwidth and storage costs may very well be worth the loss of control. What do you see as the major downsides to tha
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Ask HN: Online video monetization
2 points by winthrowe 16y ago|2 comments
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by winthrowe 16y ago
It is for me. The round trip lag between moving my mouse and my viewport moving made it impossible for me to reasonably play Borderlands when I tried out the OnLive system. It may be ok for casual games, but lag between input and display
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by winthrowe 16y ago
It is a fairly common economic term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I have created an updated version using SVG. Still not beautiful, but at least a little better.
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SVG IPv4 /8 allocation map using Hilbert curve(node-alpha.com)
1 points by winthrowe 16y ago|0 comments
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I know it's not up to the pretty web2.0 standards that are common here, and certainly not as nice looking as the original XKCD, but I was interested in an updated version of the same data. The quick and dirty code used to build it is linked
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I updated the XKCD Internet map(node-alpha.com)
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by winthrowe 16y ago
As I Canadian, I can accept that as a MVP stepping stone: planned, but not ready now.
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by winthrowe 16y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but what's in in a .vimrc that will make it that large?
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by winthrowe 16y ago
Being a private pilot with a lapsed license, I can't possibly see that emergency landing area selection is a problem worse than navigating a street vehicle in an urban environment. Taking all the GIS databases around, I can't imagine emer
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by winthrowe 16y ago
In Canada, Netflix is streaming only, no mailed dvds.
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by winthrowe 16y ago
I look up odd 'words' all the time. However the vast majority are not verbs, adjectives, or simple nouns, but proper nouns, and in effect 'proper verbs' (scientific/technical, actual code). How are you going to beat selecting in Chrome, a
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by winthrowe 16y ago
Well, to my mind, it's about the distinction between prohibited, permissible, and mandatory. To my mind 'pro-abortion' implies mandatory, forced abortion; 'pro-life' and 'anti-abortion' both seem reasonable terms for making carrying to ter

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