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by acg 16y ago
Sony I understand encouraged the use of the playstation for acedemic research, hence Folding@home. This move by Sony may affect research as PS3s were being used for cheap supercomputing power. http://www.ps3cluster.umassd.edu/ http://en
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by acg 16y ago
To deride Adobe for not porting applications to Cocoa and for Apple not to have: that is hypocritical. Only one example in the article. I don't see the problem of usage.
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by acg 16y ago
Hypocrisy is not reserved for moral claims. Jobs could be making a virtue out of openness (I'm not sure he is) or saying one thing in public and acting differently in private. Both of which, without moral claims, could cause him to be a hy
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by acg 16y ago
Sorry: the iTunes Store.
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by acg 16y ago
Adobe claims that we are a closed system, and that Flash is open, but in fact the opposite is true. Let me explain. I think he states the major reason, Adobe seeks to characterise Apple as against the freedom of the developer. This campa
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by acg 16y ago
I find it difficult to believe that these agencies operate independently from politics. Borrowing of recent years would seem to confirm some of this. Agencies seem to form part of the political landscape. In this case the agency is used
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by acg 16y ago
Greek bonds are about to mature and there is no money. Without some deal, which wasn't forthcoming because of the fallout in German elections, then Greece would have to default. If this is not reported in the rating then the Agency has no c
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by acg 16y ago
It seemed to me that the market had already begun to move against Greece. If credit agencies don't reflect the lack of political momentum (and a plan to pay creditors) then agencies loose their credibility. I doubt that S&P acts in an
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by acg 16y ago
That could be a little inaccurate. In this case you create a product using and open-source product and an industry player comes along saying Linux infringes on it's patent portfolio heavily. But this infringement was unproven: Microsoft ma
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by acg 16y ago
Perhaps. Many people believe there is a place for ethics in both business and politics. Without ethics and principles everything must be regulated or tested in law. Loose regulation and reliance on just market-forces does not always result
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by acg 16y ago
Perhaps not FUD, but I think not releasing what exactly is infringing is suspicious to many. I've not noticed that Google is particularly litigious: perhaps as the company gets older it will enter the ethos. I can understand software patent
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by acg 16y ago
This article is 15 years old, and reads like an introduction for windows users, when the author says things like: Since then, I have successfully ditched DOS and moved on.
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by acg 16y ago
The real issue is the separation of Arts from Science. The best artists are scientists and the best scientists are artists. Was Da Vinci any more into liberal arts than science. Anyone who specialises in a single viewpoint and is unable to
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by acg 16y ago
There is an extension called "Search Box" that might do what you want in chrome. This is a secondary search gadget.
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by acg 16y ago
I can't believe that you select you browser based on the address bar. What about page loading speed, rendering and security? Some of the awesome bar's functionality can be turned-off. For example: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults cou
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by acg 16y ago
The only thing right about this article is that office applications online are not as mature as the desktop. It would be much fairer to point out that applications in the browser are limited because the browser platform needs further evolut
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by acg 16y ago
http://www.psd2cssonline.com/ attempts to automate the process but you need to lay out the PSD in a certain way.
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by acg 16y ago
I did not see the episode but it could be satire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7119399.stm
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by acg 16y ago
fairly be called the Anti-Google It might be pedantic but Anti sounds like it is opposing or in competition with. This seems to me to be a complementary service for researchers. Not anti anything, in the same way that a hammer is not an
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by acg 16y ago
Gary Reback has recently been involved in the Open Book Alliance, I wonder whether this is part of a larger negotiation that is going on over book rights.
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by acg 16y ago
It seems completely understandable to me that Apple would not want kids using ipads as toys when they are trying to build a premium product. They seem acutely aware that the software that most commonly run will define the purpose of the new
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by acg 16y ago
Seems to me not to be about Right and Wrong, decisions on aesthetics are not so binary. Usefulness does not mean that it is tasteful, Microsoft has chosen this licensing scheme. It's perfectly possible for this information to be hidden and
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by acg 16y ago
It seems terrible to me that users should even need tools like this. Why should they have to care about this stuff? Gone are the days when every computer user is a hobbyist.
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by acg 16y ago
On the radio in the UK recently there was an interview with artists in Manchester about how budget cuts might affect the city. What came out in the interview is there are more music artists than ever in the city and many are making albums
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by acg 16y ago
I'm wondering what happens to ChromeOS long term if the future is Andriod for portable internet devices.
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by acg 16y ago
Operators remain worried that they will offer no more value than an ISP.
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by acg 16y ago
Isn't carriage to low orbit about to be provided commercially? http://www.virgingalactic.com/news/item/virgin-galactic-unve... Seems like a better plan when the private sector is beginning to put men into space to develop the next genera
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by acg 16y ago
Apple can retain its position in the smartphone market by continuing to make the best product. All they'll get from acting like a bully is ill will. I disagree, I think blocking flash is a good strategy for Apple. They stand to gain a lot
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by acg 16y ago
Jobs is a businessman, it would make sense to him to try and avoid or reduce licensing costs. Google turned from a close partner to being a competitor, not an enemy.
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by acg 16y ago
Sorry I thought you were suggesting that ffmpeg means that products developed by Google are not subject to license fees. We were talking about the future landscape of video not what happens now: Google are investing in the future. E264 cont

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