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by ansy 15y ago
State sales tax is just one revenue stream a state can employ. There are several criteria for a good tax. One being it is not regressive. Another being it collects more than the burden it places on society to collect it. Sales tax is arguab
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by ansy 15y ago
Original: http://onefps.net/post/6496478249/50-percent-of-iphone-owner... That.. doesn't make total sense unless these people aren't using their phones either. According to one analytics company iOS 3 has been virtually eliminated. http:
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How Apple stole notifications from Android and beat them with iOS 5(bgr.com)
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by ansy 15y ago
The only tedious part is typing it out into a linear solver like this one: http://wims.unice.fr/wims/en_tool~linear~linsolver.en.html Solution: http://wims.unice.fr/wims/wims.cgi?session=QW1E82D03B.1&... Getting the numbers appears
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Is Hewlett-Packard Launching Its Own Cloud Service?(billboard.biz)
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by ansy 15y ago
The point of the Netflix prize was to improve something Netflix already understood well and was getting diminishing returns for its research dollar. The Netflix Prize was able to attract serious interest from legitimate academics and engine
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by ansy 15y ago
> Chromebook was touted as something that doesn't need updates Say what? Everything so far has said it would have automatic updates. That is not the same as saying it requires no updates. In fact it is the opposite.
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by ansy 15y ago
A company the size of HP can afford to give away piles of TouchPads and Pres to developers that might be mildly interested. HP should have somebody hunting down the twitter accounts of prolific app developers and mailing out starter packs o
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by ansy 15y ago
Although Apple wasn't explicit, I believe only the $30 upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion is exclusive to the App Store. The App Store doesn't exist in Leopard and Tiger, so Apple will probably release a full price DVD set for $180 that incl
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by ansy 15y ago
http://www.idc.com/about/viewpressrelease.jsp?containerId=pr... Nokia shipped 100 million 'smart' phones in 2010. Samsung shipped 23 million. That's a big difference. If Samsung bought Nokia it would own over a third of the global smart p
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by ansy 15y ago
I don't think Samsung would stop making Win7 Nokia phones. That would be throwing away money. But depending on the exclusivity clauses in the Microsoft deal Samsung might start making Android flavored Nokia phones as well. Samsung is strong
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by ansy 15y ago
Samsung could be a good buyer for Nokia. It could switch over the supply of Nokia's internal components to Samsung thereby creating synergy. Samsung could swap out Symbian with Bada on lower end phones and (depending on the Microsoft contra
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by ansy 15y ago
I actually subscribe to the theory put forth in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-9.html#... Essentially, "computer science" is a myopic name for
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Does Nintendo’s Wii U only support 1 touchscreen controller?(digitaltrends.com)
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It's an extension of the Nintendo DS formula. Except the top screen is the TV and the bottom screen is embedded in the controller. The controller's cost will be a huge factor. It could be as much as $100 ... or more. Nintendo just needs to
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by ansy 15y ago
First of all, Kin is a rebrand of the Danger Sidekick business Microsoft bought. All those social media features are inherited from the Sidekick, a product that "got it." A founder of Danger, Andy Rubin, went on to start Android which got a
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by ansy 15y ago
It's all about ubiquitous computing versus desktop computing. Microsoft's manifest destiny was having a [Microsoft] computer on every desk. Its whole existence is built around achieving and capitalizing on that vision. We are entering the a
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Relevant: http://jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/good-artis... EDIT: I should clarify it's relevant because of the Kodak case at the bottom. Kodak got away with suing Sun because it was so "small" in the software industry Sun c
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by ansy 15y ago
If your app is useful and you don't have a patent don't be surprised if Apple copies it instead of buying you out. Moral: Get a patent or get out of Apple's way. EDIT: To the guys below that say patents don't matter because you can't beat A
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by ansy 15y ago
Arguably 256 AAC is better than 320 MP3. I doubt FLAC files will even upload to iCloud so you probably have to convert them to something like MP3 or AAC first. That is if you are even seriously considering it.
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Yeah, I realize that. I guess I assumed it would be obvious since CDDB works from track spacing and lengths when there's no such thing with MP3 files. For the same reason, iTunes can't magically tag arbitrary MP3 files.
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The difference is Google Music and Amazon CloudDrive give nothing to the RIAA. But Apple gave over $100 million up front and will give a cut of each iCloud subscription to the RIAA going forward. The RIAA's outrage is just a shake down.
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Apple uses Gracenote for identification and tags. It is the industry standard. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3814 There are free and open implementations of the same thing as well. It hashes the track locations and lengths to create a 'fi
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by ansy 15y ago
This is par for the course with Apple. I remember back in the day there was this super popular shareware app called Aaron that gave System 7 users a System 8 looking theme. Keep in mind this was the dark ages of Apple. Aaron evolved into Ka
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IE9 isn't cross platform so it's a non-starter.
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A single data point isn't statistically significant. Mutations happen all the time for any number of reasons.
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Invisible updating is a reason to convince someone else to use Chrome. The reason I use Chrome is the fact it runs in a protected sandbox. If Firefox did this I would seriously consider switching back.
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Yes and no. Microsoft's right is Nvidia must sell to Microsoft or nobody if Microsoft matches a competing bid for 30% or more of nVidia. A side effect of that is that nVidia has to inform Microsoft of any deals of that size. This doesn't re
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Technically, you restore from your Mac's original restoration media (either DVD or USB stick). If it was Snow Leopard, then go to the App Store and download the Lion update again for free because it remembers you bought it before. I assume
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by ansy 15y ago
I think we're describing different things. You're talking about syncing apps with a computer. Sharing libraries between spouses and stuff like that. I'm talking about this set of steps (on an iPhone/iPad): 1) Go to Settings App 2) Log out o

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