Lazlo_Nibble

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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
There are definite UX "costs" to following a Youtube link rather than watching an embedded video: it breaks the reading flow, it distances you from the context that the embedding site often provides, it opens a separate tab or window that y
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
I doubt In-N-Out focus-tests, as they never really change anything, but there are a number of other parallels to Apple. They have a near-religious focus on the customer experience, to the point where they pass up significant growth opportu
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
In the mainframe world you're often paying by the processing unit consumed -- if you're not using the cycles you're not paying for them, and if you're using cycles you don't actually need to use you're just burning money.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
What amazes me is the number of otherwise-apparently-intelligent people who appear to honestly believe that Apple users are just vapid trendoids who are fooled by all the pretty colors. Strangely, none of them seem to have figured out how t
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Wrong -- it adds the list of people you exchange email with to the list of people you follow, which is publicly visible by default. There was no way for anyone to see who you exchange email with until this happened. The fact that you can go
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
The iPad is perfect for these people. They'll just download "Facebook", "Google" and "Amazon" from the App Store and never even open Safari.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
I think he's saying that when we use Visual SourceSafe, we got to pray // just to make it today.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
If I recall correctly the GameCube, DS and GBA were all profitable from day one as well. It's possible this goes back as far as the NES.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
"Management Consultant".
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Google Groundloop?
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
The first-gen iPod had Firewire (instead of pre-2.0 USB), the scroll wheel (vs. button-only interfaces), and it actually fit in a shirt pocket (vs. the Jukebox which was the size of a portable CD player).
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
In financial services there are excellent regulatory and operational reasons for blocking a wide variety of web sites.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
What's stopping Apple is the cost-benefit analysis -- implementing and policing a filtering system to replace the current approval process (especially policing it) costs Apple more in time, money and complexity than it benefits them. The Ap
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Yes, except "ship" to most people in most contexts means "make available", not "cut a point release". Say there was an egregious typo in an O'Reilly manual—if their spokesman said "we don't ship books with typos," would that imply to you "w
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
I'm not advocating a position either way. I'm explaining why people make the distinction.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
In many engineering disciplines you're legally forbidden from self-applying the title of "engineer" -- you have to be licensed and take formal legal responsibility for the quality of your work. That level of discipline and rigor is what mos
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
But do the publishers really not make a penny off of printing? In the music business, the labels often own the manufacturing plants as well...is that not the case in print publishing?
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
As far as I can tell the iPhone/iPod Touch don't use subpixel rendering, just antialiasing. The display is dense enough that (to my eyes at least) it really doesn't matter. Likely this will carry forward to the iPad, which has a slightly le
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
One important use of flash video is in ads. Many users feel these ads are too intrusive, but the industry demands them and they have near universal adoption. Near-universal adoption on the supply side is irrelevant if there's no demand on
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Yes. It'll be interesting to see how the "duplicate functionality" rules of the App Store play out once Apple's ebook reader is available. They'll have to pry Eucalyptus from my cold, dead hands .
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
It's irrelevant. Apple has already decided they can move forward without Flash. If they won Flash in the lottery they still wouldn't incorporate it in their mobile platforms regardless of how clean the source is...why would they bother? Yes
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
Again, there were more iPhones and iPod Touches sold in 2009 than there were netbooks . It looks to me like their position in the market has been pretty well cemented without opening the platform up for "ruinination".
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
For me (and I don't claim this calculus works for anyone else) an ebook is overpriced if I can get a discounted or used copy of a print version for the same amount or less. The print copy has intrinsic value; I can resell it, lend it out,
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
But even if some resellers are getting titles for 70% off list price, that doesn't translate to them retaining 70% of the revenue from the sale unless they're selling the title at list price. No reseller with the market muscle to demand a
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
That hardcover which I paid $16 for likely has a list price of between $25 and $30. If the publisher was only paid 30% of that $16 sale ($4.80), that means they sold it to the distributor at a wholesale discount of over 80% off list . Are
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
"DRM-free" implies to me that I can use the download on any hardware that can play the format. IIRC, Amazon's "DRM-free" titles still carry a license that prohibits their use on any platform other than Kindle.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
I disagree that pricing is irrelevant to this battle. Pricing is the only reason they're having this battle. Amazon is trying to drive the prices down to $10 or less because they believe that the eBook market will stagnate if titles are p
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
This can't be it, because Amazon already has their OWN mobile app in the App Store. They're only preventing third parties from using API data on mobile devices.
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
z/OS doesn't ship with Flash because Adobe's runtime burns MIPs like nobody's business. Data Center Operations does NOT like having to bring additional capacity online because the Southeastern Division discovered Farmville in the middle of
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by Lazlo_Nibble 17y ago
The Youtube feature was Apple laying the groundwork for H.264 displacing FLV on the web as a whole.

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