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Bezier functions are great, and produce beautiful lines. I don't know why Ive has to pretend they don't exist, or why he has such allegiance to building his fonts out of perfect circles and lines. It's elegant in the way Schoenberg is -- some theo…
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This is why I changed the admin password on my laptop to something random that I don't even know. That way nothing can ever be installed on my machine apart from what the App Store allows. I feel so much safer.
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Quote: Originally Posted by sog35 giving away free streaming music was stupid in the first place. its a business model that won't lead to long term success no matter how many ads you dump in the users face. And by "in the first place," I p…
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Quote: Not true. Jailbreaking is illegal if you jailbreak for purposes that are themselves illegal. This is not how the law works.
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Pausing the music when you mute the phone is not a feature, it's a tool to prevent you from avoiding the ads. But kudos to them for the bold "lemonade" strategy, which seems to work with the more credulous news sources.
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So by this argument, if 90% of phones run the open Android platform, but the remaining 10% of phones running closed software account for 100% of the income, that will be a failure of Open. If 99% of web content, mobile or otherwise, is free, but th…
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So if the new Apple TV can only do High Profile 4.0, does that mean that even if it is hacked to run, say, XBMC, it will never be able to play my Blu-ray rips because 4.0 only can do 25Mbps, whereas Blu-rays can go up to 40Mbps?
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross No, it's the same thing. Apple version: we reserve the right to view your files for these eight reasons. Amazon version: we reserve the right to view your files for these eight reasons, or if we want t…
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Quote: Amazon: or as we determine is necessary to provide the Service or comply with applicable law. Apple: (a) comply with legal process or request; d) protect the rights, property or safety of Apple, its users or the public as required or p…
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A number of polls asking respondents about factual issues (not matters of opinion) have found that Fox News viewers are more misinformed than other news consumers. - A 2010 poll found that Fox viewers were more likely to be mistaken about factual…
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So I'm a righty, but whenever I'm doing anything besides calling with the phone, I hold it in my left hand (and operate with the right), in portrait mode, in the "death grip." Honest question: how else am I supposed to hold it? What righty doesn't…
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Lots of argument via the authority of typeface here today. This request is motivated by the fact that he is a journalist, but the grounds for it have nothing to do with that -- nor with whether he is guilty or not. The request reads in part…
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"Closed and proprietary"! Hilarious.
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Ah, tagging and meta-data. I had this awesome idea for a filesystem using only tagging. But you would want a GUI to allow you to easily tag files: say, a set of icons where, when you dragged the file over that icon, it was instantly tagged with th…
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Quicktime X is so far the only application on the Mac that I have found that can play 1080p h.264 files with bitrates (occasionally) above 30mbps.* That's because it uses the GPU, although only for mp4/m4v wrappers around h.264 with AAC audio. It …
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Quote: Originally Posted by myapplelove this might sound as a cheap shot but how can you have a company represantative going by the name of Ho? They are usually picked up from the streets with this name they don't represent companies. And why on …
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Is "politically correct" still an active insult? It seems so 90s. Now it just sounds like a term the right uses for any politics of the left. WSJ: not just wrong, but wrong in an obsolete way.
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Quote: Originally Posted by bigmc6000 EDIT: On a side note does anyone think an independent programmer could make a Google Maps based turn by turn and release it on the app store for. idk, $10? xGPS for jailbroken iPhones does exactly this, an…
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Still, multiple destinations that you can change on the fly, and a clean list of all the turns you need to make, are both features that I have desperately wished for in Google Maps over the last year. The former is especially necessary when your li…
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Though amusing, the lede sentence is misleading: "Careless iPhone owners who've submerged their handsets in some form of liquid can now take Apple up on an unadvertised policy that offers replacements for a flat fee of $199." It doesn't take su…