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by wtracy 13y ago
The author mentioned toward the end: Liability. Sooner or later a song owner was going to sue for copyright infringement.
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by wtracy 13y ago
I was surprised that a non-existent company is still listed on the exchange. Obviously people can always sell stuff outside the public markets.
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by wtracy 13y ago
I'm kind of amazed that it's even possible to buy and sell shares in a defunct company like this.
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by wtracy 13y ago
If you're familiar with the what happened between Be Inc. and Microsoft back in the 90s, this is pretty hilarious. (Be wanted OEMs to sell computers that dual-booted Windows 95 and BeOS. Microsoft retaliated by cutting off those manufa
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by wtracy 13y ago
I was expecting to see an article on defeating traffic enforcement cameras to evade tickets. This was still cool.
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by wtracy 13y ago
At the very least they should have some TF2 hats for code contributors!
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by wtracy 13y ago
PHP programmers are psychopaths. Who is surprised? :-)
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by wtracy 13y ago
I wonder what the resolution of the original image was? The inside of her thumb is visible through the glass, so with enough detail it might be possible to record her thumb print. Even if you could do that, though, odds are against her pr
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by wtracy 13y ago
There's the possibility that you may have to provide a code repository without the art assets. The code will be available to browse and adapt, but people won't be able to build and run a working game from it. I recall Id distribut
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by wtracy 13y ago
License plates go right into the middle of the strike zone for inter-vehicle collisions. Current license plates will survive more compression than the cars they're attached to, so this currently isn't a problem. Will these plates
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by wtracy 13y ago
The Dragon CRS has completed two supply runs to the ISS. What exactly is your threshold for "actual space travel"?
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by wtracy 13y ago
Maybe they're condensing it onto fewer pages or spreading it out onto more pages due to changes in page size?
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by wtracy 13y ago
The main issue I've encountered is actually finding documentation for these various architecture-specific oddities.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Well, it's possible that the model of selling an OS to phone manufacturers has been destroyed by Google giving an OS to manufacturers as a loss-leader.
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by wtracy 13y ago
"I think the plan is probably to take everything related to UX into the closed part, that Samsung, HTC and etc. won't then be able to change to create their own UX," I doubt it. The manufacturers would revolt at that point, a
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by wtracy 13y ago
> it's still orders of magnitude more open than any of > the other mobile OS available on the market. Symbian? OpenMoko? The upcoming SailfishOS, Tizen, Firefox OS, and Ubuntu phone? Oh, you meant in the U.S., I guess. (Yes, I kn
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by wtracy 13y ago
It's present in OpenGL ES 1.x, but your point still stands.
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by wtracy 13y ago
What book(s) would you recommend starting with?
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by wtracy 13y ago
He attempted to explain why MBA behaviour is rational using the language of hill climbing algorithms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing He didn't express any big new insights, but there was an honest atte
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by wtracy 13y ago
That's an idea I've actually seen done but executed poorly many times. What they got right this time is adding the shadow around the image making it easy to distinguish from the background, and blurring it so heavily that none of
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by wtracy 13y ago
Maybe it was supposed to be "sex", in reference to the owner's girlfriend who had the abortion?
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by wtracy 13y ago
I assume that means 1000 days total, not 1000 days per incarceration.
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by wtracy 13y ago
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/video-gamer-arrested-...
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by wtracy 13y ago
It carried three satellites.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Is this the sort of technology that P2P systems like BitTorrent use? I've never understood how BT works in setups that block incoming connections.
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Google building Android Game Console(engadget.com)
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by wtracy 13y ago
Now I'm intrigued by the Flash-based phones the author mentioned. How did they get that kind of performance out of Flash on that class of devices?
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by wtracy 13y ago
How well does hardware-accelerated OpenGL work in your VM?
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by wtracy 13y ago
I didn't see "Firewall that thing off from the Internet" mentioned as an option. Not all web apps are public-facing, after all.
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by wtracy 13y ago
Some documentation or even a basic explanation of what this is would be helpful.

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