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by GavinB 17y ago
This would be great. I love my Droid, but multi-touch zooming is the one iPhone feature that I still envy.
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Piracy can be "trivally prevented" by not publishing content. The similarity is that once it's out there in any form, you lose control over it. The two are most definitely related. The whole point of the article was that it's not you givi
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We're moving from an information-poor world to an information-rich one. There is really no way to stop the loss of privacy. The draconian legislation required would, themselves, create a tremendous loss of privacy. We've moved from file sha
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I didn't realize there was no sound. That's a disappointment.
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by GavinB 17y ago
Anyone interested in doing some development work for this platform? I don't have a specific project yet but would love to make contact with some J2ME hackers. Please e-mail me: gavinobrown at gmail.
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I think the idea is that the deformation isn't permanent--after compressing, it will spring back.
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Additionally, the effort required to produce a song is much less. I could write, record, mix, and master a song in a week. A book would take several months just to get a first draft. An album of songs is much closer in terms of production c
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by GavinB 17y ago
http://www.bash.org/?152037 It's not a named law, but this quote pops up on reddit from time to time.
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by GavinB 17y ago
There's no need for it to be a random string. For instance, #ptgavinb gets 0 google hits.
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It depends entire on what the universe programmers are interested in. If they programmed the universe to study black holes and high energy physics, then we are most certainly unnoticeable noise. On the other hand, if they were interested in
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The best thing for me is that you don't have to worry about getting directions or knowing where you're going to go. There's also the ability to instantly pull up info--you never need to forget who that actor was, and discussions don't get d
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by GavinB 17y ago
I don't think you can go wrong with any of these three, but I went with the Droid. Reasons: - Better screen than iPhone - Physical keyboard - Verizon service (I guess this doesn't apply as you aren't in the US) There's no question that the
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"Other bad things are happening" has never been a convincing argument in any arena, regardless of the statistics. The source of the terror is not that there are deaths, but that the murderous intent is emotionally directed at them. The rall
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If you randomly shuffle them every few months, that should do it. Each dish will get roughly equal time as the "frequent use" dish.
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If I decide I really need a keyboard (I think I do), I'm pretty confident that some handset manufacturer will build the ideal hardware configuration for me soon. It's called the Verizon Droid and it's quite a nice phone. The high pixel de
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I suspect that at this point, a somewhat dynamically crushed sound just comes across as "right" for listeners. I'm surprised that no one has launched a study to see how listeners actually react to the crushed sound, once the apparent loud
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not everybody remembers to leave contact information This is really a usability issue. It might be more effective to make it clear what is and isn't private than to build an internal messaging system.
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DRM and SaaS are two different things, because the former restricts what you can do on machines that you possess. Okay, i think this is our only serious point of disagreement. I guess I just care how I am restricted, not where the speci
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by GavinB 17y ago
What DRMed files is the DMCA forcing you to download? You make the decision to engage with companies that use DRM. No one is forcing you. (I don't mean to defend the entire DMCA, just the idea that you're being forced to download DRM) "Po
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by GavinB 17y ago
This is very cool. TheMargarine.com is available--startup millions, here I come! Edit: Seriously, great work. Have bookmarked and will be back for my next domain search.
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HN has civility standards in part to limit the attention advantage that can come from inflammatory rhetoric. Scientific Journals operate the same way, and for the same reason. If you even out the language, the arguments have to speak for th
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by GavinB 17y ago
You can always do it your way on your machine. No one is forcing you to download DRMed content. DRM protects content by keeping key components encrypted. SaaS protects content by keeping key components server side. They're two technical app
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We're talking about audio files, ebooks, and software--it's all bits. The difference is just on whose drive the bits reside. "Digital rights management (DRM) is a generic term for access control technologies that can be used by hardware man
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DRM isn't the main issue. Most book readers don't know or care about it particularly. Yes, eventually ownership products should be DRM-free, but raging about it from a moralistic standpoint isn't helping with the key issues. We need afforda
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So then the trendsetters still get to set trends. They are the people who recognize what will be persuasive, and adopt or create it. They are also the people who try new things and are out "persuading." Trendsetters are necessary but not su
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Take it, and throw yourself into it for a year. Your business was a year away anyway, so it's worth discovering if it's your dream job. If it is your dream job, and the partnership materializes, go for it. On the other hand, you may discove
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Why hasn't Nintendo licensed or coded one of these and put up all of their games for 99 cents each?
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Swagger.
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Given enough information, rational thinkers should come to the conclusions about matters of fact. Bayes says nothing about goals, however. Rational Bayesians can have completely divergent goals, so becoming increasingly rational does not im
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You cross the brilliance threshold when you can get others to buy into your crazy version of reality.

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