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by devx 13y ago
Can Amazon develop a "21st century" payment system for its associate affiliates that doesn't involve receiving checks 4 months later? It's such a ridiculously obsolete system for one of the biggest web/digital com
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by devx 13y ago
Good TED talk for why that shouldn't happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
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by devx 13y ago
Chrome OS "gets out of the way", and it's very easy for most people to use, since it's just a browser. Steve Jobs would've appreciated it.
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by devx 13y ago
Strange that Samsung hasn't released their new ARM Chromebook yet, but this looks pretty good either way. I would've expected a quad core A15, bigger battery, and 4 GB of RAM at this point, though, for that price. Hopefully next y
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by devx 13y ago
Not until they implement real end to end encryption, like OTR.
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by devx 13y ago
I sure hope so. Whoever does security right has a competitive advantage in my book.
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by devx 13y ago
Wow, I remember seeing this project start up a few years ago, about how they wanted to make a "sun" on Earth. It seems it only took them 5 years to achieve this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news
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by devx 13y ago
> Soon after, the $3.5bn facility shifted focus, cutting the amount of time spent on fusion versus nuclear weapons research - which was part of the lab's original mission. That was so disappointing to read. Don't we have enough
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by devx 13y ago
Couldn't this work on RetroShare's "forums", too? http://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/2013/01/19/retroshare-fo...
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US map of electric car chargers(recargo.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Can we end oil subsidies yet? Or have the oil companies not made enough trillions of dollars in profit since they started receiving subsidies a century ago? I'm all for subsidies to accelerate an emerging market or technology, especi
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by devx 13y ago
Too little too late?
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by devx 13y ago
I would've missed it myself, if I didn't see the video. I never knew Samsung's YOUM display used graphene. It just thought they finally got around to making flexible OLED displays, since everyone was saying early on that one
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by devx 13y ago
The video says Samsung is using it in its YOUM flexible display, that was demoed at CES this year. Rumors are both Samsung and LG will release phones with such displays within the next 6 months or so. EDIT: This one just appeared: http:&#x
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by devx 13y ago
Speaking as someone who receives his income in dollars, I hope US defaults. Maybe then people in US will finally start to give a second thought on the US military expansion all over the world, and the trillions of dollars it's spending
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by devx 13y ago
They are not really the same thing. We'll always need search, and unless Google falls behind, we'll keep using Google if their search results are the best . Or unless everyone decides en mass that they can live with less good res
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by devx 13y ago
I'm sure NSA is working on this as we speak.
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by devx 13y ago
This movie made me think that in the future they should try to make movies as optimized for VR as possible, and let you "be" in the main character's place throughout the whole experience. That's also what will probably
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by devx 13y ago
Just because your neighbor murders someone, doesn't mean you should, too.
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by devx 13y ago
When you've already built the infrastructure for mass spying, it's very easy to find excuses and opportunities for using it. It's too irresistible for the government not to use it.
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by devx 13y ago
This is what you get when you let Google track you with ads - less privacy for all: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57606178-83/nsa-tracks-goog...
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by devx 13y ago
I'm actually surprised this hasn't happened in US more. There has to be more to that story than just retailers not wanting Ubuntu on laptops, when they could save their customers at least $100 on the machines. It's also stran
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Ubuntu pre-installed and in retail worldwide(blog.canonical.com)
131 points by devx 13y ago|102 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I've always thought Google would want to buy some Watsons to help their search engine. I'm surprised they haven't yet. That being said, I wonder if they're more interested in how their D-wave quantum computer will turn o
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder, do the Rust guys have any intention of supporting AMD's HSA or Mantle API in any way? I know Mozilla wants to make Rust take full advantage of multi-core systems, and AMD is doing that, too, so I wonder if there can be some s
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by devx 13y ago
So in this case letting Google analyze the data really is wiretapping [1]. I understand there can be tremendous benefits in letting companies analyze all sorts of data on us, and then letting them spit back useful services for us. However,
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by devx 13y ago
They wouldn't have needed this expensive hardware if they went with the same or similar AMD hardware as in PS4/X1 and take advantage of their Mantle API, which basically makes the system as lean and efficient as a console. Not
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by devx 13y ago
Yeah, with 64-bit ARM chips and 4GB+ RAM devices coming out soon, it's time for Google to prepare an ARMv8-based SDK at least. They wouldn't need to support earlier hardware, since they're not that powerful anyway.
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by devx 13y ago
I really, really hope Google buys the elliptic curve cryptography patents from Blackberry, and makes them public domain. ECC is the future of cryptography on the web, and we need them to be public domain. We may be able to work around the
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by devx 13y ago
I initially thought it would be better to go with Nvidia to provide some kind of "competitive advantage" over the AMD-based consoles, but that's going to be hard to do when PC's tend to be unsubsidized, and when the same

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