DrSprout

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by DrSprout 16y ago
I'd be satisfied with an 8-hour battery and a solar panel that can charge it with 4 hours of full sunlight.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
You have a very low opinion of users, but you have a very high confidence in their knowledge of what is installed on their computers. Even the assumption that they intentionally installed the toolbar to begin with is unwarranted. As you say
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Well, you have to factor in changing out of your running clothes and showering if you're in a "professional" environment. Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ev
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it. I suspect there ar
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by DrSprout 16y ago
I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it. I suspect there ar
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Luna
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by DrSprout 16y ago
A cursory inspection of Posterous will show that it uses Google analytics. Google runs Blogger. It's a direct competitor, even though Tumblr has a much more similar feature set. So given that Posterous happily lets Google collect stats abou
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>and most glee clubs probably don't make videos either so it seems fairly moot. Half of them are carrying video recorders in their pockets. Sure, it's very low-fi stuff, but you're remarkably out of touch if you think that teenagers don
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by DrSprout 16y ago
For every person who has gchat set to never document anything, there's another neurotic packrat like my brother who saves all of his chat history so he can go back and show people how prior conversations went whenever there's a disagreement
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>That’s why your game is region-locked. Got friends in Europe? Too bad. You can’t play with them. Blizzard has international Starcraft tournaments to sell. You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2,
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Or six years ago if you're willing to take some artistic liberties: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2004/crash-at...
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Is one thing for a user to add a RSS feed, its another to pre-package it in a commercial app. The only thing they are pre-packaging is a link. Yes, it displays the content, but it's no different from any other piece of client software
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Sourceforge itself is kind of an eyesore for all the projects hosted there, regardless of the design of their primary website.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Yes, it would be horrible if people could send messages longer than 140 characters via Twitter. The Internet as we know it would collapse.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It's a link. It's no different from being in the default set of bookmarks. If that's "pre-packaging," anyone who distributes a link to the NYTimes with paid software is guilty of the same thing.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
This really isn't that big of a shift from Skype et al. until it's available on 3G. And you know what? I haven't used a webcam in years. Not an extraordinarily useful piece of technology, and it's still not the best experience even on wired
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>Apple is moving the goalpost for UI performance seemingly faster than Google can keep up. You can't make statements like that until you have a Nexus One running Froyo side-by-side with the new iPhone. Google just introduced a newly opt
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by DrSprout 16y ago
There is definitely something to be said for taking a bit of time to truly have a negligible effect on anything of importance.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
That's really weird. I use firefox with NoScript for all my browsing, and if I need Flash or something I fire up Chrome. Of course, this is on desktop Ubuntu. On my Droid I guess I just use Chrome...
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Do you care for a family on your own? I'm talking about a specific class of people - primarily unwed single mothers - who do not have time for themselves. Their time is eaten up by making money for their families and caring for them. Simply
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by DrSprout 16y ago
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml Poverty level for a 4-person household (which a single mother with three children would be) is $22,050/year. 3-person is $18,310. 50 hours a week @ $7.25/hr (federal minimum wage) * 52 weeks/yea
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by DrSprout 16y ago
To call it gluttony is insulting to those who work 50+ hours a week, can barely get by, and yet are still overweight. Food is not a significant part of cost of living in the US, especially if you eat poorly. The paradox is that eating poorl
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by DrSprout 16y ago
That's fine for development, but it's simply untrue to show features in development and claim that they represent usable support for standards.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
Theoretically you don't finish the relief well, so you can quickly finish it should the main one blow. The big risk though is that depending on how good your understanding of the geology is, this could increase your risk.
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by DrSprout 16y ago
It doesn't work very well. There have been occasions where I've accidentally left the PandoraService running on my Droid overnight (not playing music mind you, but that doesn't stop it from sapping battery) and woke up in the morning to fin
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>I disagree with this. Software is mostly a product of API flexibility rather than the number of potential users. I'm filling out a job application that is a Word Document that absolutely vomits when read in OpenOffice. If there were fe
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by DrSprout 16y ago
How much have you done there? I found the technological challenges people faced in the Amazon pretty fantastic when I visited Yachana Lodge [ http://www.yachana.com/ ] in Ecuador. This was a few years ago, and their use of water wheels, (so
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by DrSprout 16y ago
>If you want to implement a Google Voice solution, you’re more than welcome to, via the browser. The browser is completely inadequate to the task. I don't even think Webkit has the audio input features implemented yet, and if they exist
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by DrSprout 16y ago
TI and Freescale are both in the same boat when we're talking about mobile Internet devices. They both have a variety of products that currently have a very small set of specialized software that runs on them. In order to gain traction agai
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by DrSprout 16y ago
The original author was looking forward to selling it. He sold it to BitTorrent. BitTorrent is looking forward to selling uTorrent to media companies for swarm-based content distribution.

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