GHFigs

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by GHFigs 15y ago
Most of them are just clueless. They either have no concept of the work involved or they genuinely believe that their idea is a precious thing on it's own and are doing you a favor by sharing it. They tend to go on remaining clue-deficient
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Another way of visualizing (2) is to look at a hardback book or binder and imagine the top and bottom edges of the spine as two different possible hinges.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
If I could come up with a sarcastic one-liner that summarized my hope and belief that not every thread involving Apple has to turn into a holy war, I would post that here.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Yeah, I sure do hate it when Apple responds positively to feedback.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Think of this as an opportunity to learn how to deal with things you don't particularly want to do. If you walk away because it's draining, when are you ever going to not walk away? How will you know the difference between something you s
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The labels stand to gain more from this than they do trying to sue everybody. If they started suing people based on data from Apple, what would be the lesson to pirates? Don't pay for iTunes Match . D'oh! The aim of suing people is deterre
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I enjoyed Gigerenzer's Gut Feelings quite a bit. I was afraid from the title that it would be Gladwell-ized into mush, but came away quite happy that it wasn't. As a counterpoint to K&T it's very good, less because of any disagreement
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Garbage.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
https://twitter.com/#!/marcoarment/status/77799506602762241 Glad I've invested in social and editorial features. Not dead yet!
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Do your parents use any iOS devices? It sounds like you're explaining iCloud in excessive detail to someone who has no use for it and doesn't understand the concept of syncing at all. Someone used to iTunes is not going to be that confused
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by GHFigs 15y ago
What I don't get is why it isn't just a generic music streaming service? That's easy: iTunes is already the biggest music retailer, and there's ten billion plus tracks out there that don't need iTunes Match at all. If I have to pay... Y
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by GHFigs 15y ago
You are approaching a very broad problem with a very personal set of premises. I don't believe you'll find any answer sufficient. None would have for me at (what I'm guessing is) your age. I dropped out of high school weeks before what woul
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The PDF that seems to be the source of this story doesn't appear to be on Apple's site, nor does it seem to be complete (it references "this Agreement" but bears no such title). I'm not really seeing the story here. It sounds more like some
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by GHFigs 15y ago
In defense of a cheesy classroom poster, a better verb would be observe . You're (reasonably) interpreting "watch" as something like "control" ("Watch this prisoner."), but it can also mean simply to look at ("Watch the tide roll in.") As
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The tricky thing is that not having it at all doesn't suck, either. We've been seeing this same argument come and go for years now and the practical reality is that nobody cares that much either way. Flash has turned out to be neither a cri
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Now just imagine if people went around trying to scare each other with wild speculation based on scarce evidence and no rational arguments. What would that be like?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Jobs promised, in no uncertain words Which were what?
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Their own public description of their patents[1] seems to cover both (and more). However, the example Apple cites in their letter[2] refers to "user feedback": Once again, Apple provides, under the infringement theories set out in your let
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by GHFigs 15y ago
IANAL, but I suspect it would still cost the targeted developers more than $1000 worth of lawyering to fend of Lodsys in the meantime. Expecting to collect on that requires you to believe that either a) Lodsys won't make good on their threa
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I could make a case for all three, but ultimately I think #3 is most likely, given that Lala did it. The key: Lala’s song-identification-and-upload technologies (also discontinued as of today) allowed users to mirror their local music -- i
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The irony is that most students had to be taught to abhor such failure in the first place.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
I think you have this impression that "plundering the public domain" is somehow a bad thing I think using the public domain is a good thing. I think that describing it as "raiding" and "plundering" when someone you don't like does it is b
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by GHFigs 15y ago
See what? You just used the same word in the same context, and it makes just as little sense as it did before. Using the public domain isn't "plundering", nor does it magically become "plundering" when a hypocrite, corporation, or hypocriti
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Disney's hypocritical plundering of the past How do you "plunder" the public domain? Is there not an army of pedants out there eager to tell me that copyright infringement isn't stealing because it doesn't deprive anybody of anything? Is
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by GHFigs 15y ago
Apple did, however, also file a voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit at the same time, suggesting that a settlement has may have been reached, although Apple's request for dismissal without prejudice means that the company reserves the right
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by GHFigs 15y ago
"By John C. Dvorak", staying true to form.
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by GHFigs 15y ago
You're free to commit suicide while making Android devices, however. That's the power of open. Wait, no, that's terrible. Working conditions in Chinese factories are a serious issue. So serious, in fact, that it's disappointing that the pre
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by GHFigs 15y ago
That was completely unclear from the text. It might be clear if I were Edward Tufte, and in that sense it works as an open letter. But for a broader audience (I've read two of his books, if that matters) the supposed contradictions or hypoc
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by GHFigs 15y ago
They can't make country's networks secure by covering them with an `one-size-fits-all' global firewall either. True, but I don't think that's central to what most governments are seeking to do, if it is as all. Even the US "kill switch bi
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by GHFigs 15y ago
The trouble with this kind of thing from the perspective of government is that not everybody who runs important things does it. Those that do may not always do it well, and if they don't, there generally isn't anyone in government with the

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