Samuel_Michon

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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
From the article: "There are various emotion category sets, the shortest one being Paul Ekman’s, containing six basic emotions having facial expressions: anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and surprised." Tags are fine ofcourse, bu
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Funniest headline I've read all week. I doubt there's meat to it, though. Has the customer in question tried to, you know, call Apple (1-800-MY-APPLE)? It's entirely possible that there's something wrong with Apple's online ordering syste
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Switzerland is the same size of The Netherlands (16,000 sq miles), but the two differ in some important ways: Switzerland is very mountainous while The Netherlands are completely flat, and there's only 8 million people living in Switzerland
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Also, he stated that every startup will go through such a phase, where it seems that there's really no point in continuing. Even with startups that are bound to be really successful, the founders first have to find some way to get through t
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
I would think that regions that have the most mobile phone users per square mile and that are the closest to major Internet hubs would have the best rates. So to me, it would make sense for 3G data to be more expensive in rural Alaska than
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Also, the HN title is somewhat misleading, as the report is not just about 3G data, but about 3G data plans for notebooks and tablet computers. In many European countries, the 3G data plan one has in combination with a mobile voice subscrip
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
"Job one" is singular, "Steve Jobs" is plural :)
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
There are actually dozens of apps for that. Here's a few: ActivePrint http://prmac.com/release-id-13473.htm iPrintApp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351954,00.asp Air Sharing Pro http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2351933,00.a
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
When Adobe InDesign was released (1999), it was soon called the Quark XPress killer. http://www.macworld.com/article/21336/2001/02/indesign.html A couple of years later, most print shops had switched to InDesign. (EDIT: The print shops I
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Where's the risk in that? ;)
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
In Germany and The Netherlands, T-Mobile has been the official carrier for the iPhone for years. The T-Mobile brand is being used in a lot of countries. T-Mobile USA is the odd one out, though. It was a preexisting network (VoiceStream) whi
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works: http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
That would depend on its business model. If Google Voice exists solely for the purpose of being a killer app, to differentiate Android phones from the rest of the pack, then there would be no reason to create a client for iOS. If however, t
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
The iPhone has an UMTS radio that supports the following bands: 850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz. For GSM/EDGE it supports the 850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz bands. http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html In the US, AT&T uses the 850 and 1900 Mh
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
As of Mac OS X Snow Leopard, installation and updating of printer drivers get handled by Apple's Software Update. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/02/09/apples_snow_le... Ofcourse, those drivers are still curated by Apple. Back in
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Agreed. It's not like Microsoft ships its retail versions of Windows with trial AV-software, crapware and browser toolbars. OEMs like Dell do. Come to think of it, the retail version of Windows has sobered down quite a bit, what with Movie
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Ofcourse, Apple's smartphone OS market share was already higher than Microsoft smartphone OS market share, far before AAPL was valued higher than MSFT.
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Today, Xcode 4 developer preview 2 has been made available for download. No official release date for the final release is known, but judging from Apple's history with developer previews you can expect it to be out within 6 weeks.
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Up until halfway into the third sentence I thought you were still talking about Mike Lee. My bad.
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by Samuel_Michon 16y ago
Let's review: - 90 million iDevices sold in the last 3 years - in the last 2 years, there's been $1.43 billion in App Store sales - 70% of that = $1 billion, was paid out to developers - there are currently 225,000 apps available in the App