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by GHFigs 17y ago
So by that argument, why do any software companies exist? I didn't say anything about software companies, but if you insist: just replace "patented technology" with "copyrighted software" and you'll explain most software companies. I can'
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Why not have the best of both worlds and open up another market? Ask Fingerworks. They could have licensed their technology to other companies if they had wanted to and found other companies willing to agree to their terms. Evidently they
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by GHFigs 17y ago
What if I want to do something else with my photo, that iPhoto doesn't yet have a button for? How does a universal interface look like, that allows arbitrary other apps to get photos from iPhoto? The email export function is implemented w
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Unfortunately Apple bought it I suspect the founders of the company would disagree with you on the "unfortunate" part. How is that innovative? Technology once sold as an expensive niche keyboard is now in the hands of tens of millions o
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by GHFigs 17y ago
It is pragmatic from Apple's perspective. They don't need it to support the most popular video content. They don't need it to sell their product. They don't want to depend on third-parties for anything they don't have to. So they omit it. G
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by GHFigs 17y ago
As mentioned elsewhere, Apple's technology here comes from buying up FingerWorks (and hiring the founders). If FingerWorks had not been able to secure a patent on the technology they developed, Apple (or any other company) could have simply
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Apple was sued by Elan a year ago. The news is that Elan has filed a complaint with the US International Trade Commission asking to bar imports of the allegedly infringing products. It's a sharper set of teeth, and more pressure on Apple
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by GHFigs 17y ago
HTML5 is not superior to Flash from a development standpoint. daeken was saying if it is superior, then developers still have that option. They aren't choosing one or the other, as (say) Apple has with not supporting Flash at all on the
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Ah, I see. I highly recommend reading the document in full. You may find, as I did, that Wikileaks' description of the contents was inaccurate.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
PS3 machine owners could ask who owns the machine in their front room. They own the machine. They do not own Sony's firmware.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
In my opinion it's completely scary to think that there might be a campaign to discredit wikileaks, but it's a huge relief to see that that document was itself leaked, suggesting that at least some government employees are aware of possibl
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Society underestimates the executive's powers. This is not helped by your use of misinformation. Again, you were factually wrong in your prior assessment, and made at least one glaring oversight in your last comment. Only now have you cha
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by GHFigs 17y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say with all of this. You were still wrong in almost everything you said before, and everything you just linked to is in regards to things done by the previous administration. This is highly relevant when
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Iceland or any other country is not under US jurisdiction! The article claims that US State Department was investigating a leak from the US embassy in Iceland. If the government of Iceland (an ally and NATO member) is cooperating with s
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Reality is not so clear cut. There is a huge span of information which is useful to potential enemies without directly being a risk to people's lives. For instance, in the Army counterintelligence report that Wikileaks recently published on
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by GHFigs 17y ago
the government makes the laws Elected representatives make the laws. and can declare virtually everything top secret Only according to exemptions from the FOIA and other legislation (i.e. laws made by elected representatives). The relev
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by GHFigs 17y ago
According to the organizers, the latest versions of all browsers are used. http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2010/02/15/pwn2own-2010
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by GHFigs 17y ago
The US Army has admitted to planning attacks on WikiLeaks in the past Not true. The article you link to only contains quotes from the document Wikileaks published. That is not an admission of anything. Nor does the document actually descr
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Yeah, I cut and repasted that last bit a couple times before posting, but ultimately decided the point would be too easily missed without it. In the process I didn't catch the now-obvious implication that I should have found a better way to
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Uh oh. If running a closed platform is grounds for anti-trust action, then Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo all had better watch out. Even One Laptop Per Child is in on this--Oh my! I thought they were good guys but it turns out they are evil
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Control does not necessarily mean total control. For the record, there are other iPhone browsers. Here are some examples: http://www.macworld.com/appguide/article.html?article=138409
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by GHFigs 17y ago
However, if Apple is going to sell me a phone, then I own the phone. You do own the phone. You do not own the software that runs on the phone.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
You're probably confusing it with Theora, which was actually part of the spec for a while but was removed around last June for the reasons you mention. That's when the public shitstorms started. I was an avid reader of what WHAT-WG list aro
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by GHFigs 17y ago
I'm not sure why it should be better this time around. Because today instead of WMV/QuickTime/etc. we have H.264/H.264/Flash (which streams H.264).
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Also, leaving your business at the mercy of someone else's future patent licensing whims is not a very good business decision. This is an hard pill to swallow for companies who have profited greatly from the interoperability that such lic
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Why not just adopt multiple formats or no format at all? HTML5's video tag supports multiple formats (it always has) and the spec does not mandate any specific codec. Nobody is proposing to adopt h.264 as part of the standard.
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by GHFigs 17y ago
I'm wondering if most of that is attributable to conscious/rational factors, though, and not the ego depletion phenomenon examined in the study. How much of it is learning to recognize patterns that presage tests of will and dealing with th
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by GHFigs 17y ago
We don't gain a greater capacity for self-control, though, do we? It appears to me that what happens is that at some point, a thing that once required an exercise of self-control to resist no longer does. It is as though the weight has been
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by GHFigs 17y ago
People read "Dear Steve Ballmer (mozilla.com)" and expected something more other than what they got. Even though people are smart enough to understand the context after they clicked the link and started reading, that single line is all yo
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by GHFigs 17y ago
Those who just use computers as they come out of box. These users will have Windows 7/Windows Vista Most netbooks sold in the last few years have run Windows XP Home, and some continue to ship with it. Granted, many of the buyers probably

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