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by ROFISH 16y ago
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=6064978 IANAL, but it appears that simply having a "question and answer" site doesn't apply to this patent. If you read the patent, it's mostly related to the idea of asking a question costs points and gi
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by ROFISH 16y ago
What about incumbent subscription services? For example, Hulu requires you to be paying $8/mo to view their shows on an iPhone or iPad. Since a subscription is required, MUST they be required to Apple's subscription service, or can they jus
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by ROFISH 16y ago
The fact that "the Coke formula is secret" is a marketing tool itself. I've seen a few ads along the line of "only two guys know the Coke formula and they each only know half." (Which I'm betting isn't true, since that makes Coke a bus fact
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by ROFISH 16y ago
When you want to use 1.9. You should really only be using the 1.8 branch if time or money prevent you from doing the upgrade.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
I've actually had worse customer support with GC (who froze our account with 30k with no support phone line to call) than Paypal (their phone lines are up until 11pm PT).
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Not to white knight Paypal, but selling tickets is a highly fraud risky payment event (opposed to just selling stuff). It has a high number of chargebacks due to possible event cancellation, people not showing up, or people just not liking
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by ROFISH 16y ago
The bitstream converted to their ASCII value is ".zncf anug erggro fv abpno". When reversed and ROT-13ed, it is: "Bacon is better than spam."
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Actually, they have been making quite a bit of money in the sale of public tweets. Wholesale data with their "Firehose", 50% and 5% of all tweets stream is not cheap if that's what you want.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the iPad got a slight bump to 1280x960 just to fill out the "720p HD" spec though.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
To be fair, you can easily carry around 2 TB in a single large-form external. Coupled with a general car to wall AC adaptor, you can travel around town with it. Not to mention the fact that since it's just a simple look-up table with lots o
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by ROFISH 16y ago
I like HN has the heavily tech articles float up. General news should really belong to Reddit.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Wouldn't SOX also come into play?
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Maybe it's our own experience, but the "nifty stuff" is quite limiting. We've been trying to get combo pack support (ala Amazon's buy this + that together and get $5 off), and it's been a total NIGHTMARE. For a basic general cart, it's grea
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by ROFISH 16y ago
I saw the "$795/" part and was like no way for $800/month. It seems I skipped over the "year" part.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
We use Dropbox here at work and it's great. Future looking, are there going to be tiers above 100GB?
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by ROFISH 16y ago
And Apple devices use "Live HTTP Streaming" as their alternative for real-time video.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
> Has there been a better example than Digg of how detrimental it is to alienate your users on the social web? Facebook. It changed the day anybody (ie. parents) was allowed on. Now most people I know either refuse to use the service du
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Not to be a buzz kill, but I think that's the first thing that will be carrier disabled. The downside to Android's openness is that carriers are open to disable features that they don't like. And they certainly have been pushing against "du
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Not that extra security is bad for your gems, but I was more or less insinuating iPhone support since that's what I really want. ;)
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by ROFISH 16y ago
What I really want to see are upgraders or switchers. Who is switching from what to what? New smartphones may be Android simply because it's not available on any other carrier except AT&T and it has the lowest barrier to entry (ie. chea
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Why would "Sandbox" functionality need to be first-class implemented in any Ruby? Perhaps a version of Ruby that will run on the iPhone where some carrier's rules could include "No free apps can use cellular internet access". Let AT&T d
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by ROFISH 16y ago
For programs that sit in the background (ie. Dropbox), the menuling is better. However I prefer the black "Leopard" style menulings. I disable it if it has color because it's distracting.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
There is a non-zero possibility that Jobs simply doesn't want to publicly admit he was wrong.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
It's /usr/bin/ruby for the default preinstalled 1.8.7 on OS X.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
It's because in the USA, there's no benefit to buying a phone without a contract; you're still going to pay the same monthly rate. There may be deals for employee plans, discounts, or bargaining with the clerk, but for 90%, we just might as
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Apple is constantly repeating it's position that the iPhone 4 is just the same as other phones, only better. What makes some people consider to be "desperate move" is that Apple is taking to just about every channel, including the rare Stev
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by ROFISH 16y ago
You just need to give a new mobileprovision file every three months, no need to update the app unless necessary. I've always found it to be quite weird that the App Store is so closed, but a person with a developer certificate and MobilePro
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by ROFISH 16y ago
I imagine that Portal 2 and Alien Swarm are based on the same version of the Source Engine that hasn't been ported yet. All the Mac releases so far are older games on older engine versions. Both Left 4 Dead games haven't been ported to Mac
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by ROFISH 16y ago
It's probably not too far from the truth. Free tethering is probably causing a hamper on their system.
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by ROFISH 16y ago
Except that there's plenty of discussion about this on Apple's boards. This looks to be a case of deleting a bunch of "me too" topics. As a board admin myself, I like to make sure things are on topic and free of trolls. This Apple antenna t

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