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I.E. Why is the space vs. space-time distinction important? Why is borrowing BTC important? You give an "i.e." but I still don't understand delta hedged.
I really want to love it. I love Firefox, but Firefox OS is very much "not there" based on my experience. The browser is significantly worse than Firefox for Android. As far as I can tell, Sync is not available at all. Tapping the URL bar just/always puts your cursor where you tapped (does not select the text for easy replacement). Lots of smaller fit/polish things seemed much worse.
And the device experience is really strange. There's the "marketplace" but also the .. I don't know what it's called, two swipes to the left of the app launcher screen. The experience is very poor compared to Android/iOS; using familiar "apps" is really the mobile site for that service, and doesn't work as well as the Android apps I'm used to. (I.E.: Rating a movive in IMDB takes one tap to load another page, one tap to open the select box, another to pick the value, then another to submit that form. Versus one tap on Android.)
Lots of the "real apps" from the marketplace are also immediately greyed out if you lose data. Including simple games that totally should work offline. (Though I was recently surprised by how many games refused to run without an internet connection on my Android tablet recently, also.)
"$0.02 cents"? Do you mean "$0.02", or "2 cents" or two hundredths of one cent, or something else?
Is this Verizon writing? ( http://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2006/12/verizon-doesnt-know-... )
In this case, I feel that it is not. It's just using the right data set for the job. This is exactly the sort of thing that sets are for.
> 15) Flash the frost.img file from our download section to the phone: 'fastboot flash recovery frost.img'. For this command to work, the bootloader must be unlocked.
You must leave your phone in a vulnerable state for this attack to be practical. Otherwise it's a known attack vector.
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfrdns.html
It does. I'm doing this currently, I host primary DNS myself with tinydns, and the makefile sends a notify to the registrar-hosted slave DNS, which gets data via this daemon (with tcp server configured to only allow that IP).
Complete anecdata but: I've seen people curled up on couches in the middle of the day plenty of times. I think the point is that, at Google, you won't be frowned upon for this. (Whereas it may be much more likely at other companies.) Not that you're mandated to nap after lunch or anything.
https://arantius.com/misc/greasemonkey/hacker-news-comment-c...
Also collapses by default threads below depth two.
"Refs #XXX" in the description (PR or any commit) ?
If you accept that a virtual keyboard is direct manipulation, can you accept that swiping the virtual keyboard is analogous to pressing the arrow keys on a physical keyboard? Then it's all the same stuff. Illusion barely broken, if at all.
I've used them in remote controls that sat for months and continued to work fine, and in wii-motes for similar periods. I haven't measured the life/performance much more carefully than that. Except I do have a nice LaCrosse charger that measures things and claims to be putting in an average of 2Ah, which compares favorably to the (2300 or 2600 mAh if memory serves) usually inflated rating that they claim.
The trick, though, is that with rechargeables (and especially long-life like these), you keep a small but sufficient stock of charged batteries ready. When something goes dead, the dead batteries go in the charger, and the stock (immediately) goes in the thing. By the time the next thing dies, the previous set is charged and ready.
Because it's impossible for a safe to have an extra hidden compartment?
Not flash "cookies". You only have one flash plugin that runs in every browser, and has one "cookie" store.
(Not that I know if/whether FB abuses this, I don't even have an FB account. Just sayin'.)
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I rather strongly disagree. You're essentially saying: we should limiting the capabilities of tools (regardless of whether they are electronic or not) to things that already have a direct and obvious parallel to previously existing things that are wholly obvious.
That essentially means: we should stop all progress. Absolutely not. Human beings are tool users, and tool _makers_. We make new tools to serve new problems. We learn how to use them. Via this mechanism, we advance.
Really? I run nagios at home, and right now it says year-to-date I've had 28m 40s of downtime, for 99.988% uptime of my cable internet service (for the host monitoring my first-hop router). This is in Chelsea, Manhattan, with their "wideband" level of service.
find . -name "*.gif" -exec convert "{}" "{}.png" \;
The commonly named alternatives seem (all for .com): Namecheap $10 Name.com $10 Moniker ??? DNSimple $14 Gandi 12,00 € (~ $17) Joker.com $12.80
Name registration is a commodity. I go with the cheapest provider.
It sounds like you're probably misunderstanding the actual use case involved.
If you're a business, paying for traffic, you want to know ROI. If you spend X dollars and get Y visitors which make you Z dollars, you want Z > X, and you want to know what the relationship between the three values are, to know if spending more would be worthwhile. You don't actually care if the human being who clicked the link was currently in their email, rss, or anything else. You wan to know "spending dollars this way resulted in this profit". You want to identify the source, in your dollars, of your income.