GHFigs

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by GHFigs 16y ago
It's unreasonable to expect reasonable behavior in a HN thread about Android or iOS.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I'm going to take a wild guess and say Apple's Smart Cover is 33% as thick as the previous iPad.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It's extremely refreshing to read something regarding one of Apple's unpopular moves that isn't laced with fanboyism of one stripe or another.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I don't know what Apple is thinking with these iMovie and GarageBand apps. Everybody knows the iPad is only for consumption. Did they not get the memo?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Fat chance of discouraging people from abusing anything routinely described with a straight face as a "cognitive enhancer".
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Likewise for GoDaddy, hhgregg, and scores of startup names. It's like my brain is looking for a meaningful word and halts briefly when it can't find one. Textual basilisks? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Langford#Basilisks
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Thunderbolt has two 10Gbps channels. It's still capable of driving two 2560x1600 displays just like the DisplayPort it replaces could.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
One problem this (partially) solves is the performance gap between internal PCIe-based peripherals and external devices. USB3 and ExpressCard both top out at half the bandwidth of even a single lane PCIe 3.0 slot. If you look at the list of
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by GHFigs 16y ago
2x10Gbps is still enough to drive two 2560x1600 displays at 60Hz, which is all the prior DisplayPort implementation could do.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You don't have to use TDM. You can also use Firewire as a network interface.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Thus hacktivists learn the downside of co-opting a name. I'm torn between seeing the letter as someone honestly deluded by the Anonymous myth who really thought people would unite behind it or someone cynically parodying the hacktivist-Anon
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by GHFigs 16y ago
However, they've artificially retained control of the channel via DRM, software that doesn't allow you to install whatever you want on your own hardware. Why don't you just remove Apple's software and install your own?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
You mean like Zune, Windows Phone, and Xbox?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Awfully ranty. I'll attempt to summarize: - JavaScript now optional but discouraged. Author surmises this will be abused, decries feature creep. - No required Unicode glyph coverage. Thus even though content is UTF-8 or UTF-16,
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I think Lanier's point (better articulated in the book) is not that there are no examples but that what examples there are don't scale up to match what is (arguably) being lost. How many opportunities are there to replicate those examples,
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Hacker News and submission-driven news sites in general are a way of bringing a constant stream of exceptional things to your attention. They are not a good cross-section of what's going on the world because almost everything that's going o
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by GHFigs 16y ago
This is just an alternative explanation for an observed phenomenon. Actual human beings are entirely capable of reduction to repeatable talking points and strangely fanatical persistence given the right framing and environment.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I see what happened here. My original post was meant as something like "That quote is from someone who is not part of the film industry, thus attributing it to the film industry is wrong." You seem to have mistaken that for something more l
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The leak that blows the sockpuppets/trolls wide open! Could you elaborate on this? The article only talks about ideas contained in Word documents.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
USSOCOM (Special Operations Command) which includes most Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations groups is also headquartered at MacDill.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If a person's novel is adapted into a film that does not mean that every subsequent thing they say can be sensibly attributed to "the film industry". What on earth is your stake in this bizarre interpretation?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
On what basis do you make that claim? I don't see any made in your or the previous post. I don't think that stretching the truth to make it seem like the Valenti quote is relevant is at all justified. For comparison, here is the introductio
623.
by GHFigs 16y ago
The bolt-cutter quote comes from the president of the Author's Guild, not part of the film industry. That is in the first sentence of the article.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
From the horse's mouth: User revenue will be split 70% to the developer and 30% to Amazon net of delivery fees of $0.15 / MB. -- http://kdk.amazon.com/ That page also indicates the bandwidth threshold under which Amazon pays is 100kb/u
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I’m sure this post will invite a throng of Apple advocates to poke holes in my logic ...as if that were not transparently the intent of an article entitled "Why are you people defending Apple?"
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Even in the absence of an official title a bill will be given an equally glittering nickname by the opposition.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
a camera access API in Mobile Safari, it probably would have found its way into a spec and been implemented by other browsers To give the curious an idea of what that might look like: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/com
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Go ahead and scream and/or laugh in disbelief. Consider it done.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
My point is that Subscriptions can happen without Apple. Where they do, Apple takes no cut whatsoever. If you have a subscription-based web application, for example. The only way Apple can take a cut is if you're using what they provide
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The name of the company is not a circumstance I find especially relevant to whether I am "ok with it".

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