Tloewald

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2521.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Anyone tested iPhone navigation in a gps blackout area (e.g. Near an air force base?). I used to live in Lompoc and GPS wouldn't work in most of the town owing to the proximity of Vandenberg AFB.
2522.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Good point – some kind of near light speed travel is as magic as FTL for most intents and purposes. So, no star trek.
2523.
by Tloewald 15y ago
I forget, didn't people demo Android running much quicker on touchpad hardware? If so, it's the decision to depend too much on the JavaScript stack and not the hardware that's the ultimate problem.
2524.
by Tloewald 15y ago
If there's some neat trick we are going to figure out in 9000 years to get around the speed of light then the galaxy / universe would have been overrun by advanced alien civilizations already. Who knows, we may have "sublimed" or been uploa
2525.
by Tloewald 15y ago
This definition of marketable is Circular. If I can sell you a license it's marketable.
2526.
by Tloewald 15y ago
The linked article alleges pollution not worker abuse. I'm not saying that (a) hazardous waste is ok or (b) that all of Apple's subcontractors behave perfectly, but this seems like a case of shifting ground to score points. In general, Appl
2527.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Dealt with in the comments on the site — they'd have had to buy more servers than Google.
2528.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Yes, and the person you're quoting is talking about the 3GS and no-one else reports the same problem.
2529.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Not the Apple II or the original Mac really (which was all Pascal and 68k ASM). (Lisa definitely took cues from Unix.) Not detracting from Ritchie's contributions, but be fair. Even Ritche was building on B and Algol.
2530.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Today yes. In 1995 it would get 95% market share.
2531.
by Tloewald 15y ago
"well-designed" is actually the point of contention, is it not? You're blithely asserting facts not in evidence. Smart, experienced people "taking a dump" on things that "don't feel right" to them are in fact valuable and worth paying atten
2532.
by Tloewald 15y ago
It makes me think that dart would be a perfect language in which to re-implement OpenDoc.
2533.
by Tloewald 15y ago
I think better still would be to say nothing. By completely failing to acknowledge what Jobs did that was positive (even within his own value system) Stallman shows just how clueless he is. To put it another way, Stallman is fine with peopl
2534.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Not just AMEX. I had an account drained (and indeed sent quite negative) after I explicitly cancelled a Msstercard to stop two such entities who would not cancel my accounts from continuing to charge me for services I wasn't using.
2535.
by Tloewald 15y ago
This whole "not confusing people" thing seems like a nifty idea, but I think we're talking about a different company. Is there any reason to believe that Microsoft doesn't want to confuse consumers or that not confusing consumers is in any
2536.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Agreed. In the end this is all about Netflix and not about its customers. If any of this had anything positive to offer customers it could have been spun better, but it doesn't. I think netflix is actually in deep trouble. It's lost Starz,
2537.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Some iOS restrictions are obviously simply business driven, but fewer than you might think. E.g. The "give us 30% and don't undercut" rule means that the user can buy from the app store without needing to price compare. The "no execution of
2538.
by Tloewald 15y ago
It's kind of nutty to equate technological simplification and totalitarianism. Some people don't want to solder their own computers together or inspect their own meat. We need, occasionally, to draw a line of abstraction over complicated st
2539.
by Tloewald 15y ago
The lenses can be passive and thin, which is all you need to make camera or spectacle lenses.
2540.
by Tloewald 15y ago
This actually sounds both revolutionary and immediately practical for lens design. Covering lens with gold nano antennae sounds expensive, and I assume the surface is delicate, but thin spectacle lenses and super lightweight camera lenses a
2541.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Good post, and worth reading if you're stuck with vim and don't like it. But, reading this reminds me of how much I like GUIs. Yup these movements are great. I get the appeal of turning selecting text into a dumb programming trick, I'm sure
2542.
by Tloewald 15y ago
Surely the article ought to simply be one word: "yes". Apple made its decision in 2007 . If and when flash really stops sucking (performance, UX, and security wise) and users demand it, perhaps Apple will reconsider. Since the likelihood
2543.
by Tloewald 16y ago
It ccurs to me that there's one possible motive for Google doing what it's doing that isn't purely cynical -- it may want the MPEG-LA to sue it now and reach some kind of settlement than wait a few years and ambush it.
2544.
by Tloewald 16y ago
All the arguments against h264 apply equally to proprietary fonts only more so (since they're not even free as in beer for the next few years). If font-family can designate a non-free/open font then video can designate a non-free/open codec
2545.
by Tloewald 16y ago
Complaining that Apple's docs say it's easy is unreasonable. I'm sure microsoft's docs say so too. The problem isn't that Apple says it's easy, the problem is tha it's not easy. It's not even hard. It's stupid. I speak as an iOS developer a