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by bathat 14y ago
Not necessarily: If an advertizing slot was unsold and filled with self-advertizing, then the opportunity cost was zero.
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by bathat 14y ago
I think the point is not that music software enables you specifically would be able to produce worthwhile music, but that it enables many people who are musically talented to create and distribute their work. There is, of course, an impl
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by bathat 14y ago
Not being familiar with the DDR4 spec, I wonder how much performance benefit DDR4 brings without increasing the size of the processor's cache line? As others have mentioned, the latency for random access is quite high, and DDR effectively
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by bathat 14y ago
I don't think anyone minds that Apple is competing. I've been fiercely critical of the new iOS 6 maps, and I welcome competition. I can't speak for others, but what bothers me is not that Apple released a different mapping solution, but t
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by bathat 14y ago
The problem is that batteries are expensive. High-end cars have high margins (it doesn't cost 2x as much to build a $50k car as it does to build a $25k car). When Toyota introduced the Prius, they added all sorts of (what were then) $30k
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by bathat 14y ago
Feist v. Rural ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_v._Rural ) seems to indicate the the arrangement of the facts is copyrightable, (if there is even a minimal degree of creativity) even though the facts themselves are not. The court hel
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by bathat 14y ago
Well... maybe I'm being too hyperbolic. But, I am under the impression that Safari is still the default handler for http things. So, links from the mail app or maps will open in Safari. I don't think it's that outrageous to suggest tha
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by bathat 14y ago
> ... it's hard to believe Apple don't have automated tests to check for performance regressions like that. Well, I mean, this is the same company that has received "some press" recently regarding the latest version of its mapping appli
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by bathat 14y ago
Wonderful. So, now owners of the iPhone 4 and 4s will have two options: 1) Upgrade to a newer version of iOS to patch the exploit, and suffer a major functionality regression with regard to maps. 2) Not upgrade and risk having all the pers
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by bathat 14y ago
Is it possible that someone at Apple was a little stupid one day and said to themselves, "Oh, an iPad is just like an iPhone, so I'll just use the same routing config script for both. And since I'm such an efficient employee, I'll go ahead
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by bathat 14y ago
Ok, yes, I was a little cavalier in my phrasing, and didn't communicate what I meant (which was roughly "iOS devices with a cellular radio"). iPhones and iPads with cellular radios are typically multi-homed. Edit: And "typically" does n
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by bathat 14y ago
Unfortunately, Embark's applications don't do inter-city transit, and they only exist for a few large cities. Even with a 3rd party app installed, and completely ignoring the regression in UX, iOS 6 has a major regression in functionality.
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by bathat 14y ago
An iOS device is typically multi-homed. Think about what routing options the typical iPhone has and how it likely picks a default route.
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by bathat 14y ago
The point anovikov was making is that AC is not intrinsically more efficient. In fact, it is less efficient over very long distances dues to radiative losses. We don't use AC because it lets us use more efficient voltages today. We use
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by bathat 14y ago
Yup, and on top of everything you said, Google maps integrates directions from different transit agencies really well. In Los Angeles, for example, there are often routes on three different systems. All the agencies already have trip plan
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by bathat 14y ago
Think of it like VHS vs. Betamax. "Everyone" says Betamax was technically superior, but often forget that it debuted with only a ~1 hour recording time, making it completely unsuitable for movie watching. However most users wanted to be a
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by bathat 14y ago
As an interesting side-note, FedEx was buying adds a while ago complaining about the "Brown Bailout." Apparently there was some to-do about how UPS's pilots were part of the teamster's union (or its drivers were part of the pilot's union--
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by bathat 14y ago
This is a very important point. Not just that, but the "offload person" won't be a member of the teamster's union (seeing as how they aren't actually driving the truck) and will have a more reasonable wage. As chollida1 points out, UPS/Fed
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by bathat 14y ago
It depends on how good their marketing is. Trucks will initially probably still need a human in the cab. Truckers often drive in pairs so that the rig can be rolling for 20-22 hours per day. The way you get drivers to embrace the technol
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by bathat 14y ago
Here's what I would suggest: Part with $400-500 to join your airline's airport lounge/club for a year. The saved time and stress vastly outweighs the cost if you fly more than five or six times a year--if you fly that much it's usually wor
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by bathat 14y ago
I agree, but banana plugs can be added to regular speaker wire pretty easily. Most just have a simple flat-head screw which holds the wire in place, so you don't even need to warm up the soldering iron.
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by bathat 14y ago
I don't know if it justifies the "billion" that the other commenter threw out there, but there are a ton of Airport Express wifi devices, which support Airtunes. That's obviously not exactly the same thing, but saying that there are only 0.
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by bathat 14y ago
It looks like another commenter possibly answered this question, but I would also point out something possibly more important: You don't need to. That's because Apple includes a cheap little 7-button remote with the Apple TV. The iPod/iPa
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by bathat 14y ago
Hmm... some of your other comments read like they were written by a PR firm, (take that as you will) and in this one it seems that you are being deliberately obtuse. At best it seems like you are arguing a technicality. I'm not in any way
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by bathat 14y ago
Well... but it isn't really the first draft of the technology, is it? Steve Mann was doing basically the same thing 15 years ago with equipment that wasn't really a whole lot more clunky. In fact, that's really the reason I can't get behi