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by fjorder 13y ago
I've hated iTunes for over a decade now, and that's not just because it's horrible, bloated software with a terrible interface. Almost any other method of buying an album will send more money to the artist than iTunes does. If you like a
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by fjorder 13y ago
It is a nice shortcut, but I think they added it mostly because they belatedly realized how much metro sucks for accessing settings from the desktop.
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by fjorder 13y ago
If you're a keyboard and mouse user working primarily in the desktop, it is very jarring to jump into the full-screen metro interface every single time you want to do something start-menu related. Metro isn't well optimized for keyboard &#
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by fjorder 14y ago
Here's an interesting line of reasoning: Had Adria posted the photo of the two men and made her claims about their conversation anonymously, would they have been taken as seriously? Probably not. How many people are fired over a harmless p
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by fjorder 14y ago
Interesting article. Allow me to add a few fun details... Early agriculturalists actually had it much rougher than this article implies for a real kicker of a reason: Wild plants suck as crop plants. Maize was domesticated from a bushy g
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by fjorder 14y ago
Contrary to the claims of the extremetech article, they have not closed all loopholes in this experiment. Specifically, the detection loophole has not been closed. This loophole is caused by not being able to detect a high enough portion
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by fjorder 14y ago
They test a CHSH Bell inequality in this paper. This rules out local hidden variable theories. Non-local hidden variable (NLHV) theories are another matter entirely. Indeed, some NLHV theories may reproduce the predictions of quantum th
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by fjorder 14y ago
Hollywood is famous for playing so fast and loose with tax-loopholes that I just can't trust any of the numbers quoted. Practically every Hollywood blockbuster loses money on paper when it comes time to pay taxes, so you have to wonder if
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by fjorder 14y ago
That article is not good. Biased reporting based on a biased study. Yes, all writing is biased, but sometimes evidence suggests it's worse than usual, and this is one of those cases. From the cradle of the study to the grave of your mind
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by fjorder 14y ago
Let me rephrase the question in way that is probably more likely to be thought about by a second-term president: "Given that you obviously feel you can kill foreign citizens in their own countries along with an "acceptable" number of innoce
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by fjorder 14y ago
I sincerely hope Google keeps the cap where it is. That just might motivate copyright holders to reduce the number of erroneous take-down notices they issue.
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by fjorder 14y ago
It's a way to point out how wasteful spending on the TSA has become. People lack intuition for numbers on the scale we are talking about. Does $8.71 billion seem huge compared to $8.70 billion? (I'd sure like to be making $0.01 Billion a y
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by fjorder 14y ago
The TSA's budget is just a tad short of half that of NASA's. Cutting back on the little-old-lady-molesting budget and giving the cash to space-explorers seems like a no-brainer to me. However, I'm not an American.
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by fjorder 14y ago
Re: Pricing Fairness The article claims that if the Cable industry offered pricing based on what is fair, it would offer very cheap plans for little old ladies who barely use their connections. This definition of "fair" assumes that what yo
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by fjorder 14y ago
Others have said it, and they're right. Skeuomorphism has become dated and Apple is now playing catch-up with Android and Windows. Apple has been playing catch-up with Android in terms of features for quite some time now, so this is not ne
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by fjorder 14y ago
It bothers me when people say that science conflicts with religion. It certainly conflicts with specific religious dogmas, such as young-earth creationism, but the frontiers of science fall well short of proving or disproving the existence
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by fjorder 14y ago
It is being used in commercial systems (e.g. idquantique). Practical implementations are prone to vulnerabilities, but none have been found that cannot be remedied. Some techniques such as device independent or measurement device independ
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by fjorder 14y ago
I think it was Margaret Atwood who described civilization as the intelligent trading of "freedoms to" for "freedoms from". For example, you can trade the right for everyone, regardless of criminal background, to buy automatic assault weapo
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by fjorder 14y ago
The last I checked the MTBF on SSD's was substantially longer than for hard-drives. Barring firmware bugs you should probably strike that off your list of reasons for not using a SSD. Even if you do think SSD's are horribly unreliable, the
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by fjorder 14y ago
The author of this article seems to be very concerned about something, but I'm not entirely sure I understood. He implies that, under Obamacare, doctors will be compelled to provide services to patients at rates far lower than is currently
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by fjorder 14y ago
The truth probably lies somewhere in between what the flaming fanboy and Mr.Disgruntled are saying. Apple seems to make the most money when they open up a new market and lock out the competition for a long period of time, as they did with t
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by fjorder 14y ago
As Neil Young put it, "Piracy is the new radio". A pirate torrent site providing promotion for artists at the artists' request is not something new. Private music torrent trackers have been doing this for several years now. For example, ta
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by fjorder 14y ago
I was rather encouraged by the headline, only to discover that instead of ripping out unnecessary security theater they're actually just wasting more money on new machines. Man do the companies making those things ever have good lobbyists!
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by fjorder 14y ago
This article critiques the theatricality of MS's release process quite thoroughly and concludes that it is not the same as Apple's. This is true, but nobody should give a crap. What's important is that Windows 8, the surface, etc. are actua
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by fjorder 14y ago
Myhrvold is thinking about printer "piracy" in exactly the same way that RIAA thinks about music "piracy", and we all know how productive that's been! Placing artificial legal limits on distribution technology simply doesn't work. Makers
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by fjorder 14y ago
I meant for "little" to refer to practical results. I wasn't trying to bring up corruption or inefficiencies in procurement. I was trying to highlight the U.S. military's obsession with tech to the point of neglecting low-tech solutions
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by fjorder 14y ago
The problem with focusing on all people is that KDE will never be used by such a broad group until how Linux is distributed is fundamentally changed. Maybe it's good to be ready for the unlikely scenario in which KDE one day comes instal
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by fjorder 14y ago
In order to be useful, hand gestures are not something that should be tied to a specific input device as they have been up until now. The goal should be for a vocabulary of gestures to work consistently across all devices. e.g. You should
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by fjorder 14y ago
I'd like to see some kind of vision, focus, or specific goals for the future on that page. Being nice to each other and concentrating on the end-user are certainly good things, but where is KDE going next? Broad strokes here. Is it going
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by fjorder 14y ago
One thing that always amazes me about the U.S.'s defense spending is how little they seem to be able to buy with it. Yes, they have all sorts of cool gadgets, but the U.S. military can't even establish order in a primitive backwater like Af

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