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by GHFigs 16y ago
You might try this: From the Finder, Cmd-Shift-A, which opens the Applications folder, then your first few characters, then Cmd-Down to open. It seems like a lot of keystrokes, I know, and you have to switch to the Finder and it only works
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It is not even a technological invention, it is an application of existing technology. Can you cite an example of an invention which was not an application of existing technology?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
If there's money in it, people will do it. Hence, by allowing inventors to secure a temporary patent monopoly, you greatly magnify the profit potential, encouraging risk and speculation that might not otherwise be worth the time and capit
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by GHFigs 16y ago
"Steven Jobs may be no inventor, but to his credit he recognized elegance when he saw it and understood its significance." -- David Gelernter, in his 1998 book Machine Beauty . About ten pages after the above quote, Gelernter describes pre
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by GHFigs 16y ago
UI - UX = -IX
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I don't know what you mean by "customizable", but the easy solution is to just use Baseline H.264 with a modest bit rate. It plays on everything mobile, plays native in many browsers, and plays in Flash everywhere else. Ogg is unnecessary
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by GHFigs 16y ago
And that remains correct. The difference is that Windows customers are the OEMs.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
For Apple to have caused "Mirror Worlds" any harm, they would have to be competing with each other. Not so. The harm done is in one's granted patent monopoly being infringed upon. In principle this is patents protecting the little guy's i
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious by Gerd Gigerenzer. Ignore the breezy Gladwellesque title, it's much better than that and touches on philosophy, human behavior and economics. He presents an alternative view of the same s
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Spending lots of time thinking about what you want Trouble is, my ultimate goal in life is to do this as little as possible.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It is absolutely imperative that we all formulate our opinions in ignorance of the patents themselves. Pay no attention to the following words and numbers. Common Name Space for Long and Short File Names: 5,579,517 Common Name Space f
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by GHFigs 16y ago
The motives and integrity of those who propagate information are always of interest to the people receiving that information.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
It's kind of like saying "US Intelligence planned to destroy WikiLeaks" ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192677 ) and then blaming the subsequent erosion of your credibility on US intelligence. It doesn't matter if it was ever true or
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by GHFigs 16y ago
Roy Bauermseister’s work on ego depletion is a good place to start. http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/584/baumeis... http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/pubs.html The gist is that self-regulation appears to be a limit
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by GHFigs 16y ago
And if you could sue based on the title of your patent, that might mean something.
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but the only reason the source is available here is that he wrote in client-side JavaScript. There is no link to the source, no download, no indication that the source is meant to be available, and the
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by GHFigs 16y ago
When was the last time something hyped as an "X killer" actually killed X?
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by GHFigs 16y ago
I said nothing about "intermediary translation or compatibility layers", nor did the post I was replying to. Please read the thread for context before posting.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
The key difference is that if the bug is in your own code, you can fix it. This could be trivial or it could not be, but it's within your sphere of control. If the bug were in (say) Adobe's code, you could not, nor could Apple.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
it's a bit bizarre that so many fail to grasp that Have you considered the possibility that it is not so clear and obvious as you think?
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by GHFigs 17y ago
but they don't care about what happens before that point in the pipeline. They most certainly do. The difference is in their point of control. Console makers exercise far more control over who is allowed to develop for their platform, a
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by GHFigs 17y ago
They're not even comparable as e-readers Everything is comparable once you own one or the other. The risk to the Kindle is not that people shopping for e-readers will choose the iPad over it for that purpose, but that people who buy iPads
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by GHFigs 17y ago
From the Ars link: "Conceptually, it's as bad as adding a button for the audio volume control to the title bar of every single window!" Granted, it's different with per-application volume control, but still funny.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Note well that H.264 has nothing to do with the W3C patent policy, as it has never been suggested for inclusion in any W3C spec. If you're looking for evidence of Apple's current stance toward the W3C patent policy, look at Canvas, which is
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by GHFigs 17y ago
But now Apple wants to put a stop to it and enshrine a few decrepit languages with flaws most of us escaped a decade ago. Your opinion of the languages does not trump the reality that the overwhelming majority of iPhone OS applications we
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by GHFigs 17y ago
rather just suing people and companies they don't like This is what the "non-discriminatory" part of the "reasonable and non-discriminatory" licensing terms that ISO/ITU require of their participating members is about.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
No, they don't. The subject is the video content itself. How you play it back is only relevant insofar as it explains why there is so much content.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
What grudge? How are you measuring grudge-ness? How do I know with confidence whether a company is grudging or not? And furthermore, why would I care?
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by GHFigs 17y ago
There is no hypocrisy here. At no point does Jobs say "proprietary software is always bad". Even the very next sentence is "Apple has many proprietary products too." This is not some dirty secret they're trying to cover up at all. The poi
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by GHFigs 17y ago
In W3C terms, a "Recommendation" is the final standard. HTML5 is currently a Working Draft, but that status isn't really important. W3C's patent policy basically says if you participate in the Working Group developing the standard, you agre

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