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Re: The Best Drones Under $100

George — Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:18:59 -0000

I bought the DJI Tello for my wife for Christmas; for once I wish I had read the comments. My wife has an Android phone and the app does not work with Android 10. I'm very surprised, I thought that DJI was a good brand in the drone space but so far we are not having a good experience.

The Wirecutter should add a caveat to their recommendation for Android users to avoid the DJI Tello until the app is updated to work with Android 10.

Re: Random Travel Hacks

George — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 10:49:10 -0000

Packing cubes are a game changer for one bag travel. The Wirecutter reviews them, but I've been happy with my eBags ones.

Re: The Best Packable Daypack for Travel

George — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:36:40 -0000

I was able to (just barely) fit my 13" MacBook Pro into the sleeve in the Eddie Bauer Stowaway 20L.

Re: Bob Clagett, Maker

George — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 10:39:02 -0000

I agree, I'm skeptical of cloud-based door cameras.

It _should_ be possible to replicate this feature with open source software and non-cloud hardware. The only non-cloud doorbell camera I'm aware of is the DoorBird, which is more expensive than any of the cloud-based ones. It's then possible to use Home Assistant to do face recognition on the video stream and send alerts.

All of this would take significant effort to make it work, and it still wouldn't be as slick as one of the cloud-based options. But, at the same time, your data stays on your network and your system continues to work even if a company decides to discontinue their cloud services.

Re: Gaming from the Orchard House couch

George — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:05:01 -0000

Are you following the NVIDIA Shield? It's basically providing a wireless controller+display (like the Wii U) for PCs.

When I went through a gaming rig build 6 months ago I started with the Tom's Hardware $500 PC guide and then put it into PCPartPicker to upgrade (here's my build). PCPartPicker is amazing for finding cheap prices on hardware, and it caught that my processor wasn't compatible with my motherboard (a closer read of Tom's showed that I needed a donor CPU to upgrade the motherboard).

/r/BuildAPCSales is also really helpful for finding cheap components.

Re: Running 2 EPOC • Best workplace, ever. Yes, we have a keg that...

George — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:06:31 -0000

It even has it at a good temperature, none of this 30º crap.

Re: Autumn Apple Cocktail

George — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:11:03 -0000

This sounds amazing. I like the touch of using maple syrup instead of simple syrup!

Re: Autumn Apple Cocktail

George — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:10:22 -0000

Looks amazing, I l

Re: 3 Ways Social Media Can Wreck Your Career

George — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:49:51 -0000

I dunno, if it weren't for (what we now call) "social media" I wouldn't have any of the jobs I've had for the past decade. And I wouldn't have met my wife. As for wrecking careers, I know a guy who was one of the bigger "fired for blogging" cases. Looking at his LinkedIn resume he's doing pretty well.

I think office politics are more dangerous than social media.

Re: http://fugglehorn.tumblr.com/post/3090672955

George — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:44:50 -0000

It seems to have run its course. I may pick it up again, I'd rather announce turning it off for a while than to just let it rot like every blog I've ever started.

Plus @DalaiLama tweeted something about impermanence and that seemed kind of cool.

Re: http://fugglehorn.tumblr.com/post/2135188789

George — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:02:42 -0000

Several people in my organization, none of which I'm naming by name :)

Re: brian cors

George — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:01:42 -0000

Wow, the sound quality is pretty good, what app did you use to record it?

Re: Final Boss Form

George — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:05:22 -0000

Keanulogue is my new favorite word.

Re: Blog posting delegation and third-party auth

George — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:51:55 -0000

At first I had this great idea to build a blog posting proxy service that could grant access to your blog to different services by giving them different usernames and passwords and you could revoke them at any time and it would be great and everyone would be posting to everyone's blog all the time.

Then I realized I had put on complicator gloves and that it would be way easier to just add new users to my blog without a proxy service.

Re: Microsummaries and Content-Type Mysteries

George — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 17:26:04 -0000

What's the advantage of sticking it into the markup instead of just using the HTTP headers for the microsummary?

Re: optimized for thumbnailing

George — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:11:19 -0000

I thought big fonts were the hallmark of 2.0 design. Web 3.0 will be optimized for vector graphics drawn with lasers. It is the future, after all.

Re: xml-stylesheet and the World of Warcraft home page

George — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:38:53 -0000

I suspect that WoW's audience consists of earlier-than-average adopters, so they can expect the latest browser versions. The only way to know whether or not you can pull it off (from a business perspective) is by looking at your user agent headers in your logs.

That said, I am in love with the idea of replacing most of my DOM scripting with XSL.

Re: Instant Messaging and Trashing Google

George — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:23:09 -0000

That 44,000 doesn't count non-Google Talk users of the Jabber network. Because Google went with the open XMPP IM standard, there are many more than 44,000 users for GTalk users to IM with. Google directly benefits from the network effect of using an open standard, and it seems like only a matter of time before the rest of the IM services have to get on the XMPP ship.

Re: Fast Forward: April 25th, 2006

George — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:36:09 -0000

Authors being aware of being found out for plagiarism through Google only works if the authors themselves are aware of the plagiarism. Read up on cryptomnesia, where people believe they are having an original idea but are actually remembering something.

Re: Bookmarking-styles of the rich and famous

George — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:46:43 -0000

George noticed the same thing as Brett with Alton Brown's bookmarks, as well as the fact that they're all self links.

Re: How's my (link) driving?

George — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:11:08 -0000

I prefer granularity in my feeds and social-esque aggregation over convenience of subscription, but I think both sides have pretty good arguments. I had to pull you from my del.icio.us inbox when you started, let me know if you do stop the daily posts so I can re-add you.

Re: A Possible Solution to Our DRM Conundrum

George — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:28:57 -0000

That sounds like a good way to prevent piracy on virtually any platform.

There are several possible reasons why this hasn't happened yet: that you are the first person to think of this (unlikely for most ideas), that DRM businesses don't see the value in this (possible, but unlikely if they understand Network Effects), that there is an unsolvable technical flaw (unlikely, since there are already pluggable DRM systems) or that DRM's main purpose isn't to prevent piracy on virtually any platform.

Whenever I wonder why some part of DRM is hard to use or even encouraging piracy, I ask myself "Would this make sense if DRM were meant to lock me in to this platform?" The answer is usually yes.

Re: EFF Mirroring ACLU Tactics Against EMI Group

George — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:08:07 -0000

Electronics companies regularly submit their products to Underwriters Labs to certify that the item in questions isn't dangerous and works properly. Since DRM software makes computers less functional (with the trade-off being promise of having more content) I would hope someone would be checking to make sure that it doesn't go too far.

If Sony had someone like the EFF check their DRM software before it went out there would be a lot less egg on their face.

Re: Got your music store butting into my library

George — Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:19:30 -0000

I think your reaction might have been similar to mine, which was "WTF? Get your ads off my computer! Crap, how do I turn this off? No, not there... not there... ah, that works."

I didn't turn off the music store though, because it removes the drilldown arrows that take you to a particular artist or album. I use those all the time, although with the help of this tip to make it so I don't have to option-click on them.

No idea why they turn off a useful library feature when you get rid of the music store though.

Re: Raise your Aerials

George — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:14:26 -0000

Adam Kempa tried and failed to get anything useful. He does offer an MP3 though.