Hari_Seldon

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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
It's pretty much the same here in the UK, carriers tend to dictate conditions which the manufacturers must adhere to, except for Apple of course.
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
The link in TFA takes you to a torrent freak article that explains it all with links http://torrentfreak.com/and-when-even-the-death-penalty-does... From the article: "The King responded by introducing penalties for pirating these fabrics
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
I'm confused, what is wrong with talking about a first world problem? and what do you mean by "Are we biased against Marco.org"?
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"empirical evidence and the scientific knowing of reality" Not sure what you mean by this, do you really believe that science validates a specific view on what constitutes reality?
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
I'm not a dev, but doesn't Apple's Open CL come into play here? is there silicon in iDevices in addition to the GPU which can be used for HW acceleration, whereas Android can only make use of the GPU for this?
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
With all due respect, I disagree. This book was widely anticipated and given the unprecedented access that Isaacson had to Jobs' family and Apple execs past and present, this book was mediocre at best. Personally I was really looking forwar
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
AFAIK. Michael Jackson owned the publishing rights to the Beatles songs, not the Beatles recordings. Basically the sheet music rights, royalties when Beatles songs are played on a jukebox or the radio or someone does a cover version of a Be
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"In that context Gates is right" I disagree because Jobs/Apple looked at the xerox stuff and improved on it, drop down menus, overlapping windows etc. Whereas Microsoft just copied what Apple had done, bringing no new ideas to the table.
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad" With all due respect, the courier was not a shipping product, the video mockups were cool, but to compare a successful shipping product with a vapourware concept vid
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
I aslo had experiences which made me a much more open and eclectic person. I was about 23 years old and found the experiences to be overwhelmingly positive. At the time (70's) the counter culture was well underway and there were many fellow
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
Steve Jobs is a Buddhist. Buddhists believe that charitable giving should be done anonymously. For all we know SJ could be giving a lot to charities and other worthy causes, but as a Buddhist he will keep this to himself.
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
I would class myself as an advanced user, not a developer but someone with interest and enthusiasm for technology. The main reason that I visit HN is that for me, the level of debate is higher. Far less fanboyism and trolling than most tech
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"The sad part is that even with all this, I still prefer Android" Why is that?, not trolling, just interested
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"a Nokian abyss" I like this, think I'll use it
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
Not sure if you're being ironic here, but I'll assume you're not - iPhone DOES run OSX, but with those parts removed that are not required for the device, it's not Mac OSX, but it is OSX
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by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
Don't feed the trolls
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
It's a peripheral, it should be compared to something like an eyetoy or a wii fit board, not a mobile phone
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
What's interesting to me is that 48% are using a webkit browser
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
I disagree that Apple have a low-risk strategy, remember the iPod mini? this thing was wildly successful and yet Apple killed it and replaced it with the nano. I can't think of another company that would take that kind of risk. And although
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
Bill Gates is not exactly known for his prophetic powers :-)
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
Personally, I can't stand Dragons Den, a bunch of smug and often rude people sitting there with piles of cash, pontificating and judging other people's ideas. Capitalism at its worst
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
The same argument could be made for music made with a sequencer or recording to hard disk (pro tools), endless undos. The "print out" equivalent is bounce to disk (render). Do you think great art can't be made this way? if so. you've got to
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
But he's right, can you name another tech firm that cares as much about these things? I remember reading something a while back about how much time Apple spent on getting the angle (directon) of the mouse pointer right on the original Mac.
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by Hari_Seldon 16y ago
So do I, it's hard to find good, impassioned writing on the web.