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by archgrove 14y ago
You can run anything you want in OS X. This block for Java is part of a (easily deactivated) security system to prevent malware or critically vulnerable software from compromising your system.
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by archgrove 14y ago
Because it's inflammatory, and patently nonsense. By any non-mad definition, Sweden is not a banana republic. Saying so prejudices the points made (though frankly, the entire "article" is 1 sided hyperbole).
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by archgrove 14y ago
Because Google and you are not setting out explicitly to build a set of links to copyrighted material against the wishes of the copyright holder. It's all about intent. If I go to a high-street store called "Kitchen Goods" and buy a knife
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by archgrove 14y ago
Or, someone just prefers the iPhone. One can "hack" without all the "requirements" posted by you. Do you drive a car you didn't build yourself? Then you're no hacker! Read books you didn't bind in the cover your prefer? Not a hacker! Write
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by archgrove 14y ago
No university in the UK has a "paper requirement" that I'm aware of. You're encouraged to publish, but it's not mandatory. Published work does increase the odds of successfully completing the process, because it pre-vets the work, but I've
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by archgrove 14y ago
They work just fine. The signing check is performed exactly once for new software. Once allowed, it's never checked again. As nothing on an upgraded system is "new", it works without ever showing a Gatekeeper prompt. It's basically identica
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by archgrove 14y ago
I didn't expect them to, but then I assumed that Google would stay clear of the hardware market. Now that they're essentially shipping phones at very low margins, they're a direct competitor to Samsung. Why buy an S3 when you can get a NX
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by archgrove 14y ago
I think any answer to this will have to hinge on why, given the sales disparity, app revenue and "usage" metrics (i.e. mobile browsing) is still either in favour of iOS or tied. My personal reasoning is that carriers are pushing low end And
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by archgrove 14y ago
This only seems to occur on apple.com. The resizing behaviour happens on all country specific sites I've tried.
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by archgrove 14y ago
So anything, any time, that alters the vertical spacing of the Apple homepage around the world , even if it's only 2 days before a major product roll-out is related to an 15pt font paragraph at the bottom of their UK homepage that no-one e
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by archgrove 14y ago
This behaviour is the same on apple.de or apple.jp, so it's not just the UK site. Moreover, it was added only 2 days after the judgement was upheld: HEAD /v/home/n/scripts/hero_resize.js HTTP/1.1 Host: www.apple.com HTTP/
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by archgrove 14y ago
Anyone who A) likes Apple and B) has ever been in a Dixons store in the UK will be overjoyed with the other departure, Browett (head of retail and previous Dixons CEO) who is leaving immediately (compared to Forstall's year long "transiti
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by archgrove 14y ago
You'd think that, but I've notice precisely 0 more non-Valve games being released for Mac since Steam came to OS X. The only releases seem to be from companies who already did Mac ports, and indies (who are generally multi-platform).
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by archgrove 14y ago
I really can't see the value for Twitter in limiting 3rd party clients to slivers of the user base. I'm guessing it's because they're going to (shortly) stuff ads and other unwanted junk into peoples feeds, and 3rd party clients could easil
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by archgrove 14y ago
I think the point of copyright is that this is the system that came into effect from the chaos that previously existed. Patronage, trade guilds, etc have all been tried. The world eventually settled on government enforced temporary monopo
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by archgrove 14y ago
Fair point, they did rather neuter spaces (I guess to get more people using it, but at the expense of power users). All other options still work. I'm not at my machine to lookup settings, but ML added a "Don't group windows" to Mission Cont
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by archgrove 14y ago
That's true of every computational device in the world. Windows, Ubuntu, Android, etc. Everyone could flip that switch, and lockout non-jailbreakers (or Kernel recompilers). It's not an argument for it happening.
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by archgrove 14y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with the conclusions, but "Next up is the OS. Have you noticed that OSX releases of late, well, to be blunt, suck? It’s not that they suck as a stand alone OS, but they take away a lot of the freedoms and flexib
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by archgrove 14y ago
It's just about not allowing 3rd party code to have writable code pages. In principle, this is good - most programs don't write code to memory, unless they're suffering a security problem. It's just unfortunate that the few legitimate uses
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by archgrove 14y ago
I'm not certain if a single handset has outsold the flagship iPhone previously (certainly Android as a whole has). However, I believe this is the first time a flagship quality handset from a competitor that is basically eating the Android m
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by archgrove 14y ago
"The overwhelming success of Apple’s iPhone 4S has finally hit a lull" - about 2 weeks before it's due to be replaced as the flagship iPhone. The iPhone purchasing cycle is very cyclical - huge sales after the new model is introduced, gradu
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by archgrove 14y ago
"I am happy to describe to you something I own so that you can make a copy of it" Fantastic - your comment history indicates you're a programmer of some kind, running a company. I'm sure you've got some interesting insights into this field.
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by archgrove 14y ago
Twitter are gambling that they are now powerful enough to say "No more 3rd party clients", and thus start streaming ads down peoples throats (oh, sorry - "Richer stories" is apparently the nuspeak). I'm not sure they're yet in a position to
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by archgrove 14y ago
The worst thing here is the inconsistency. If the App Store had no "training video" type apps, then one might disagree with the policy, but at least it wouldn't feel so arbitrary. Allowing some, but not others - plus changing their mind h
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by archgrove 14y ago
OS 9 -> OS X was supported by the Classic runtime for years. PPC to Intel was supported by Rosetta for years. I suppose if the announced that this was the plan, and gave people years to migrate across, it might be something they'd do.
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by archgrove 14y ago
Which would instantly kill the Mac as a development platform, and render all previously purchased software irrelevant. This just won't happen, though I can see a version of OS X that does this by default (perhaps on all "non-pro" models).
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by archgrove 14y ago
Because they're not a monopoly on smartphones/tablets. Android is doing pretty well, by most accounts. Blackberry still isn't dead (though not for lack of RIM's trying). The IE antitrust case against Microsoft was because they held a mono
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by archgrove 14y ago
It's worthwhile looking at a couple of infographics in this case: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i... http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/mobile-patent-suits... Basically, you can't purchase a smartphone
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by archgrove 14y ago
The argument doesn't really hold up, as we're only given two choices: Upgradable, or amazing screen. If there was a third, "Upgradable and amazing screen" with the applicable price/weight tradeoffs, then the "we can choose" view would be
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by archgrove 14y ago
Whilst I'm not qualified to comment on the science, I can certainly agree with the conclusion. In Diablo 2, the hunt for loot was part of feeling the "hero" - keep digging for treasure, keep dismembering those skeletons; somewhere, there's

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