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by QE2 16y ago
YouTube was an acquisition.
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by QE2 16y ago
Aye. The cast of TSS has remained pretty close. I don't listen to TWiT anymore, but I remember Patrick Norton used to be (may still be) a regular guest.
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by QE2 16y ago
This is Hacker News. The only app environment that makes any money is iOS. Android is just a money pit. Get it straight!
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by QE2 16y ago
Freenet is basically what you describe, and it's free.
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by QE2 16y ago
Can't seize a .onion pseudo-domain.
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by QE2 16y ago
I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".
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by QE2 16y ago
Yes. TechCrunch is not exactly known for tact.
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by QE2 16y ago
> my next phone is more likely to be an iPhone, where I know I'll get timely updates. One significant update per year, on which Apple has disabled half of the features because you don't have the latest model?
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by QE2 16y ago
How about these much-needed additional data sets? How many apps are being purchased per user? Are Android users spending an average of $.50 on one app, while iPhone users are spending an overage of $.50 per app on 10 apps? What percentage o
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by QE2 16y ago
That may be the case in the US, but in most other major markets, the iPhone is no longer exclusive to one carrier. The entire US population makes up at most 10% of the global market. Subtract AT&T itself, and you are left with about 6%.
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by QE2 16y ago
>If/when the iPhone is available on Verizon,T-Mobile and Sprint (besides AT&T), Android's momentum is going to drastically slow down. Good luck with that.
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by QE2 16y ago
There are also a lot of high-end Android phones that have come out in the last two months, and coming out soon. In the end, this discussion doesn't really matter. Obviously, nobody knows the future. I also realize that these numbers only re
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by QE2 16y ago
>His four main points are: openness... Actually, openness is not one of his points. He mentions it in passing only. >Android definitely has momentum but at their current rate it will still take years to match the iPhone's share of t
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by QE2 16y ago
A product that has been actively developed for over 14 years had sure as hell better be able to say something more than "our performance is on par with" an emerging technology that is still being developed and isn't even standardized yet.
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by QE2 17y ago
Many mail daemons will "accept" mail no matter who the recipient is. Internally, unmatched mail may be discarded or forwarded to a "catch-all" account, but all the sender sees is "Recipient ok" I think this started as a response to SPAM bot
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by QE2 17y ago
"this is Techcrunch" There's your answer!
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by QE2 17y ago
I was actually considering an Android phone, the Instinct Q to be precise. I got a Palm Pre two weeks ago, which is also Linux-based, and now I feel that I made the right decision. With Windows Mobile, I was always running custom ROMs and t
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by QE2 17y ago
Honestly I thought the question was rather pointless to begin with. Sprint didn't make the Pre. Sprint doesn't compete with the iPhone. The iPhone is a device, Sprint is a carrier. The iPhone may very well end up on Sprint in the not-too-di
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by QE2 17y ago
If I'm reading the charts correctly, the negative-rated comments have at least as many (and often more) replies than positive-rated comments. I'll remember this next time someone asks how Glenn Beck is still on the air.
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by QE2 17y ago
Yes. In fact, CPU's are still increasing in performance exponentially faster than RAM or disk (hard or solid-state) storage. Fetching something from RAM still takes hundreds of CPU cycles. Even SSD's, which are much faster than hard disks i
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by QE2 17y ago
so hard to find, for example, a file with "accounts" in its name and "automobiles" in the contents ... Consider the UNIX find command which searches based on file metadata and the grep command which searches file contents. Combining the tw
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by QE2 17y ago
Just as an FYI, auto-playing slideshows bug the heck out of me. I'm probably not the only one who feels that way.
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by QE2 17y ago
Thanks for the follow-up. After re-reading the post, I see that this is not /just/ an x264 problem. Thank you also for informing me that hardware encoders aren't very good. I had actually considered purchasing one of the ~$100 ones, but now
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by QE2 17y ago
While I found this an interesting read, I believe someone who works with *264 encoding with any regularity can easily justify using the relatively cheap hardware encoders available to consumers. I'm not sure if x264 is fully compatible with
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by QE2 17y ago
Also known as the "printer-ink" model.
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by QE2 17y ago
To say that Hulu has more viewers than TWC is misleading. The graph is comparing apples to oranges. The "reach" for the cable companies is the number of subscribed households multiplied by the average number of people per house. Hulu's reac