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by blihp 5y ago
There was a fair amount of software written for DOS that never made the jump to Windows (or any other OS) and some combination of hasn't been economically viable to redevelop and/or people just really liked the way the DOS app wor
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by blihp 5y ago
You are correct that in the 19th and early 20th century, we used to 'pirate' just about everything. Thomas Edison made a fair amount of money doing this with movies, for example. However, you are incorrect about this particular i
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by blihp 5y ago
In Microsoft's day they were looking to 'knife the baby' and 'cut off air supply'. That was about a decade earlier and nothing too terrible happened to them.
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by blihp 5y ago
A bigger concern was that by the time of the acquisition it was clear that Google was buying a legal mess in the form of lawsuits that were spinning up from various Hollywood media companies. What wasn't clear (to many of us on the o
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by blihp 5y ago
It was trivial for authors to upload a variety of popular video formats/codecs and it 'just worked' in pretty much all web browsers for users.
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by blihp 5y ago
See the comment re: copyright issues. Here in the U.S. the First Amendment severely limits what one can and can't do regarding font licensing. Restricting what one can and can't do with a (rasterized, at least) font has historic
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by blihp 5y ago
It's the bait-and-switch aspect I suspect most are reacting negatively to. Given how many of these 'pivots' we've seen, let's be honest is observing that generally the plan for a sustainable model all along most li
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by blihp 5y ago
This is probably a persistent enough problem that Pine64 probably does need to put a bit more effort into communicating who they cater to. They should be making it clear that nothing they sell is appropriate for a typical consumer lookin
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by blihp 5y ago
Don't worry about Pine getting spread so thin that they can't support these devices. The reason being that they don't support them (from a software standpoint) currently! The brilliance of their business model is they are v
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by blihp 5y ago
I thought Lenat was pretty up front about what Eurisko did and why it was nearly a one-trick pony. What I gathered from his writings was that he essentially used a Genetic Algorithm (which was novel at the time as it would have been a very
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by blihp 5y ago
Fantastic video. Most of the previous talks I've seen Dan give started with Smalltalk-78 or maybe briefly touched on Smalltalk-76 before spending the bulk of their time on the later versions. So I very much appreciated the time he sp
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by blihp 5y ago
I guess it depended on which part of the open source crowd you were/are involved with. Pretty much every project I cared about back then, as far back as the mid- to late-90's, had propped up a self-hosted vcs server. I used to r
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by blihp 5y ago
What the parent is saying is that even though you can still login, the functionality of the other gapps has been hobbled for a long time. I can confirm a variety of problems with old Android 4-6 devices. This includes a no longer function
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by blihp 5y ago
Sure, pre-Android devices dropped support shortly after you bought them, but they were often still functional. Disabling Google login on an Android (non-AOSP) device effectively bricks it for most users.
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by blihp 5y ago
IIRC, exclusively tablets. I seem to recall Google saying while they wouldn't prohibit phone use, they we're going to help manufacturers with it and that they'd have to wait for Android 4.
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by blihp 5y ago
It's probably at least partly a 'you had to be there' situation to remember how popular, globally, that band was back in the 70's. The fact that they weren't from the US or UK made them stand out even more.
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by blihp 5y ago
Sure but quantity doesn't tell the whole story. Most of them are relatively tiny, in terms of die size. (obviously not so in the case of the more advanced end of the market such as Tesla, but rather the more common vehicles most are c
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by blihp 5y ago
There isn't any evidence at this point and it could go either way. Though if I had to place a bet, I wouldn't bet against Intel as they will likely have an influx of business/R&D funding from the U.S. govt as well as fav
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by blihp 5y ago
I'd be surprised if the autos are much beyond low single digits (if that) in terms of share as global consumers of semiconductors. The global auto market produces a combined ~70 million vehicles annually vs >250 million PCs, >1.
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by blihp 5y ago
Yes, but that's not what the poster is talking about. The Pinephone is a comparatively conventional/mundane handset design. It sounds like they were longing for more 'out there'/experimental designs that apparentl
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by blihp 5y ago
Debian moves far too slowly for that to have been a viable approach. Had that been attempted, we'd be sitting here a year plus later asking why Debian still doesn't support the Pinephone. (notice that it still doesn't!) Thi
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by blihp 5y ago
While technically correct in that it is not the 'official' Debian project, the Mobian project fills the gaps to actually make Debian usable on mobile. It's a minimal set of packages to make the Pinephone usable and work is b
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by blihp 5y ago
tl;dr version: think like a monopolist. Intel has been successfully doing that for decades. While semiconductor fabs don't have the useful life of say a railroad, they are valuable for far longer than the 2-3 years they are in the spo
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by blihp 5y ago
The purchase would both increase Intel's manufacturing capacity and pricing power. There used to be half a dozen x86 manufacturers and I'm sure they've enjoyed having it down to two (especially when one of them was weak) muc
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by blihp 5y ago
Nothing rare about most of these features as they came from Squeak. What's really rare is how slimy they're being in at least implying most of these features are unique to Pharo in their marketing of it. There is not a single me
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by blihp 5y ago
Many people may not know/remember how common it was for people to use Word to spell/grammar check everything, thanks to Microsoft's strategic decision to only include the functionality in Office. Those little squiggles indic
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by blihp 5y ago
I believe IE was bundled starting with OS 8 or 9. (definitely 9, but might have started with 8) The document explains a lot of the 'gushing' Steve Jobs was doing about IE around that time. Sounds like there was at least a handsh
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by blihp 5y ago
If they don't directly contribute to the bottom line, that's how they should be classified from an accounting perspective. There are at least a couple of ways IT departments could avoid that fate: having internal customers pay fo
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by blihp 5y ago
Computers first came into many companies via the Finance department way back when because they recognized what computers could do as glorified calculators, spreadsheets and accounting systems.[1] IT departments were often an outgrowth of t
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by blihp 5y ago
The trick is in handling the failures which will be high. So it's a question of whether the application/customer would tolerate something significantly less than 100% (and presumably fix it themselves) and/or your solution w

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