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Yes, it's entirely my fault that the account has lapsed: I took a bit of a sabbatical for full-time grad school, and it was a very busy few years. But how crazy is it that an email…

Ugh. Say "no" to spec work: http://www.no-spec.com/about/

That is false. RAM and HDDs in MacBook Pro machines are user-replaceable parts. No warranty is voided provided you install the proper stuff, and don't break your system in the proc…

I've always wanted to try Numpy for this purpose, but I get exposed to so much MATLAB code in research papers for DSP that it hardly seems worthwhile. Furthermore, I've built an en…

Boy do I love me some Octave. I do all my DSP algorithm research in Octave, because the price of MATLAB is just too high. I think I'm looking at somewhere on the order of $4k for a…

You mean 10.5, right? I've got a fairly large install base, and I'd like to keep them happy if at all possible. In the future, when I have to get them to buy a v2 release on the Ap…

I think there's not much benefit of staying on Leopard if you run an Intel Mac these days. The upgrade cost is pretty cheap, and the benefits do developers are quite heavenly. I've…

If they email you the .app, it will be locked down to the purchaser's machine. In terms of Snow Leopard-only, that's not necessarily true. However, it will be Intel-only. The versi…

I've yet to have one of the "bad" problems with PayPal, but I'm always trying to stay a step ahead of them when I can. For instance, if you're expecting a higher-than-normal sales …

Poor battery life? My Magic Mouse would last 3 weeks of constant use with NiMH batteries on average. However, this was only the case after I applied the software update for my alum…

Are all the features accessible in non-contract plans? I've got a few contract-only perks here in Canada on Rogers, such as the 6GB data plan add-on for $30/mo, and an "Employee Pu…

It's hard for any company to try and work against the carrier-subsidized pricing of handsets. As long as carriers are supplying the access, this will continue to be the case. To pa…

I think that the kind of folks who are _capable_ of building significant iOS based apps simply choose not to, instead of simply producing fart apps. I avoided the platform for as l…

I can't speak for mmastrac, but in general Rogers devices roam onto AT&T as their first choice. I've noticed similar lameness in AT&T's network while traveling...

It's probably the algorithm in question that's to blame, in conjunction with the slow OpenCL implementation for the 8800GT, as you found. On my machine (I'm the article's author), …

From the brief description on the site, it sounds possible. Kernel support is not mandatory, as it only provides optimizations. So you're good there. You will have to supply a buil…

Not always the case. For example: Watson ( http://www.karelia.com/watson/ ), was killed by Apple's Sherlock. Later, SandVox ( http://www.karelia.com/sandvox/ ) was later followed u…

To me, I'd question the 'full suite' of Office that was supposedly included. Even when building through Dell, and packing in the OEM version, I'm pretty sure that alone adds $3-400…

I couldn't agree with you more. So many well-known sites are publishing terrible native apps for the iPhone which could have been much more effectively implemented by some CSS/js t…

If I was worried about harsh comments, I wouldn't have started a thread, on the internet, looking for feedback. Anyway... You bring up some interesting features—a few of which I ha…

You really should download and use the free trial to decide for yourself. In fact, all the slow-downers on the market have free trials. In Capo, you have all the functionality you …

Capo is selling to a market that includes folks who (and I'm included) would easily throw an extra $100 into a guitar because it has a nice rosewood back & sides versus mahogany. T…