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by SamAtt 17y ago
Was there a point to this? With that Title I was expecting results of some kind but the whole post is a bunch of "Maybe it did, Maybe it didn't. I don't know"
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I suspect the problem Google has with a lot of things is scale. To take this for example it might not seem like a big deal to pre-cache images but when you look at the millions of people who probably use Google maps and assume that a lot o
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by SamAtt 17y ago
As with bdotdub's response to my comment your logic only works if Apple runs the show indefinately. Because every other major SmartPhone OS has announced Flash support. Meaning Apple will have to justify why they're keeping Flash off the
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Your logic only works if (a) Flash begins to fade and (b) Apple remains far ahead of all its competitors indefinately. Because in the end every other phone is going to support Flash and Apple is going to have to explain to iPhone users why
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think people over-dramatize this issue. I think everyone, at Apple and Adobe, knows Flash/Air will eventually be on the iPhone. I don't think there's any doubt. What Apple's doing now is trying to drag their feet as long as possible. B
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I don't know if this has anything to do with Apple Marketing. A lot of this has to do with a very slow news cycle in the tech industry. As proof I offer up the CrunchPad. TechCrunch is just the opposite of Apple, they've never released a
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by SamAtt 17y ago
What's really interesting is that they're counting all Internet traffic in this study. They quote Web Traffic as making up 52% of Internet Traffic meaning Google actually accounts for more than double that 6%. More interesting to me was th
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by SamAtt 17y ago
"Every person who has ever held a check -- ANY CHECK -- from you in their hands, regardless of what is written on it, can debit your account at will. Every waiter, every grocery store clerk, every person involved in the processing chain."
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think he's saying it's irresponsible to claim you have a first look at the Chrome OS and then only show the Chrome Browser working in Ubuntu. I don't really agree since sensationalist headlines are par for the course for any media outlet
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The secrets of Google's design team(techradar.com)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Is "Because I'd never seen it and I found it interesting" an answer you'd accept? (I'm not the one who posted it btw)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'd agree but as the article points out people in memphis are very sensitive about their town. If a decent sized boycott starts I'd bet this guy's job is toast (especially in this economy) The issue is whether the irrational people can mak
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by SamAtt 17y ago
You can talk to friends and family without making it public. You can also live your life without twitter (though some might find that hard to believe) The point I'm making is that there is a risk involved. You can't just say "if they get
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I had a blog up until a couple years ago. But I eventually decided the risk/reward equation was way out of whack. Especially given how easy it is to offend some people. That’s what it came down to for me. Every blog post became "is this w
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I wouldn't plan on saying Goodbye anytime soon. Right now about 20% of users still use a browser that's 8 years old. So if we add that to the roughly 2 or so years it will take for the HTML 5 standard to be finalized and implemented in br
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by SamAtt 17y ago
"7. Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium." What?!?!?!? I don't know what kind of freaky terminator like future he's planning to live in 40 years from now but he can count me out!
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by SamAtt 17y ago
+1 and Thank You. I mean really, who uses Google Trends for traffic analysis anyway? Measuring first time users I could see. But why would regular users of the service search for FriendFeed on Google? Or here's one. Is it possible that
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I think it's fine as long as you don't go overboard. Anyone who has ever maintained a blog knows there are average posts and there are times when you really hit a homerun. As long as you limit it to the homerun posts I think it benefits th
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by SamAtt 17y ago
1. I'm sorry but any admin who trusts their data solely to the cloud is foolish. It's just that simple. You really think an admin in a company is going to keep their job if they trust all their data to the cloud and then the cloud compan
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by SamAtt 17y ago
If my comments disappear tomorrow it's not going to have a huge negative impact on me. Not like losing my entire address book would.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
I'm sorry but if you are content to leave the only copy of priceless things such as contacts, treasured photos, etc... in the hands of companies with no contractual obligation to you than yes, you're a fool. The bank legally owes me my mone
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by SamAtt 17y ago
But what you're missing is they had no guarantee that the data would be backed up. No one told them the data would be backed up. If you hand priceless data over to someone who openly tells you they won't back it up they might be the idiot
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by SamAtt 17y ago
This probably (definitely?) makes me a jerk but I have to say it: They deserved it. I'm sorry but in this day and age anyone trusting their data to a device that stores it exclusively on the server deserves what they get. Some will say "the
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Of Github customers, a lot more of them use pbhb. That was the gist.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Yes, because nothing says "I expect results from you" like getting the most prestigous awards in the world for doing absolutely nothing. "Please, Please stop adoring me. I can not take the pressure of your constant unconditional praise"
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Honestly, I think that's true with all programming languages.
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by SamAtt 17y ago
For being the driving force behind ending a war that killed almost 200,000 people (just felt someone should make that point)
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by SamAtt 17y ago
Link for the above Vista quotes... http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070118/vista-worthy-unexciting...
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by SamAtt 17y ago
The 10 years line is kind of BS anyway. Yes XP has been around for 2 years but there have been 2 massive overhauls of security (2 services packs). Tons of Microsoft enhancements (Desktop Search for example) and even more tons of 3rd party
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by SamAtt 17y ago
As someone who works for a company that did a transition like this (at least a few of our departments) part of the problem is this: While people love the web they still see web apps as inferior to desktop apps. So it seems like a deal that

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