Samuel_Michon

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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Sorry, but that post left me thinking less of all three parties involved. A supplier who cusses out his customer, a customer who cusses out a supplier, and an ego tripping blogger who not only publishes a private conversation but picks a si
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"a document-oriented system that never requires the user to launch or quit an application, nor to "save" their work, would still represent a leap forward today." Have you looked at iOS or Mac OS X Lion?
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Which is a good thing for those customers who bought an iPhone 3GS back in 2009, they're pretty much guaranteed to receive software updates for their phone for many months to come. That's in stark contrast with buying an Android phone, wher
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
The third generation iPod touch (and the subsequent generation) runs iOS 5. The 3rd gen iPod touch was released on September 9, 2009.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"I don't think it's unreasonable to compare Nexus vs. iPhone and leave many of the other Android phones in a separate class." I agree, but not even all Nexus phones get upgrades to the latest version of Android. The Nexus One was released
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
I doubt the naming is coincidental, cucumbers and zucchinis are both gourds.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
From the website: "Fly Board: Acceleration from a stand-up PWC (aka jet ski), 4900 euros. Optional: Acceleration from the Flyboard directly, 900 euros." If you watch the video again, you'll notice that Flyboard isn't attached to a PWC but
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
I was thinking "Hadrian's Wall 2.0". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
I didn't say that all Samsung products are Apple ripoffs. But some, especially their higher end products, are. Like: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/12/galaxy-player-samsung... http://gizmodo.com/5836128/samsungs-new-notebooks-are-
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"certainly Samsung was making laptops with the same black design theme prior to the iPad's release" As was Apple, hence my earlier comment. Samsung hasn't just ripped off Apple's iPad design, it's been ripping off Apple's designs for year
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"Notice the color, shape and style of the laptops you see, especially their displays. They nearly all have black bezel, are rectangular with rounded corners." Where do you think Samsung got their inspiration for those designs? What did Sa
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"10 cents motivates you to put in your credit card number if you haven't - and then the difference between 10 cents and 99 cents for other apps later is pretty trivial psychologically." If the difference between 10 cents and 99 cents is p
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"A lot could be learned from making such an organization of the world's data (cough) public." Given Google's business model, that seems like a pretty good reason not to make the raw numbers public.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
It may not be available where you live, but there are lively Craigslists for most of the major cities in Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Edinburgh, Florence, London, Munich, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Rome, Stoc
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"I've been working on a personal project - a mobile app to browse Hacker News. [...] I figured other people might like it as well (as there isn't a mobile app yet)." I don't know about the other platforms, but there are several Hacker New
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Hehe, that's exactly what I was thinking of when I read: "Objective: To use all of my skills to change the world for the better. Again." I can only imagine what great things I would've done with my time if /. hadn't been around. Or maybe
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
It "worked" for HP's TouchPad. They lost $500 on every device, but at least they finally sold those tablets. So how about giving those PlayBooks away with a box of Cracker Jack's? There must be some kids who want a tablet that can't send em
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold. That's why I don't use Gmail. When I pay for cloud services (like MobileMe, now iCloud) I feel more confident that my personal information isn't analyzed,
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Wow. That leaves Windows Phone and Bada as the only mobile OSes where no Carrier IQ references have been found so far.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
That's assuming you have a data cap. I have a data plan that's truly unlimited, with no throttling. There isn't even a fair use clause. So understandably, there's no way my telco will allow me to tether with that plan.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"my biggest problem with this is that these sorts of things should be rejected before they get on the store, before people pay money for things." If you bought it, you get to keep it. I actually have a half dozen apps that after I bought
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Yes, Opera for iPhone is crap. That's the idea behind Opera Mini: it loads web sites fast, pretending JavaScript and HTML5 don't exist. It's one rung above Lynx [1]. However, parent was talking about Opera Mobile, which isn't available in t
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
If not, then it should be taken off Wikipedia. "Siri, a common Hindu female name, meaning "Goddess Lakshmi, Wealth, God's gift of love." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri Besides that, I know several Sikh women whose first name is Siri.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Useless factoid of the day: Siri is a spin-out from SRI (Stanford Research Institute), which can be pronounced as "Sirree". Also, "Siri" is Hindi for "head" and comes from the Sanskrit root meaning "radiant". It's a common Hindu female firs
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Alright, I searched the WP Marketplace for the apps I use most often on my iPhone: Reeder, Instapaper, Evernote, Highrise, Dropbox, Nebulous, Bento, Pages, Numbers, Delivery Status, Soundhound, Articles, IMDb, WhatTheFont, Roambi, WolframA
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"Internet civil rights"? That doesn't make any sense. He probably meant 'digital rights' [1], which covers some of the same ground as 'civil rights'. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
Perhaps it's because of the following: "The GreenLeft (GroenLinks) and democrats (D66) have the most pro-internet civil rights stances." G-d only knows what a "pro-internet stance" is, but I suspect HnNoPassMailer was referring to the fig
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
You linked to a TED tech demo. The actual product didn't come out [1] until after the iPhone was in stores, and it cost $100,000. That's not to say there weren't any multi-touch products before the iPhone, just that this wasn't one of them.
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"the fact that the Surface uses cameras instead of a capacitive touchscreen is not an "aside", its the smoking gun." I think you're confusing 'multi-touch' with 'multi-touch on a small capacitive LCD touchscreen'. The fact that other comp
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by Samuel_Michon 15y ago
"The multi-touch interface was developed by Microsoft Research in 2001" It's much older. Multi-touch was invented in 1982, at the University of Toronto [1]. After that, it took quite a bit more research until an actual product was made th

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