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by blihp 8y ago
While it's been a long time since I played in Apple's sandbox, I can tell you from experience in Google's that this is most certainly not how things work for your average app store developer.[1] The transaction is between
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by blihp 8y ago
Historically, most 'for hire' inventions (i.e. invented by employees of a corporation) have been relatively anonymous. This also often extends to suppliers to major corporations. Every now and then you'll hear the story abo
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by blihp 8y ago
It's not, and never was, a solution for copyright law. Remember that the whole content id / revenue redirection scheme was only created so that the major media companies (mainly 'Hollywood') didn't obliterate YouTu
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by blihp 8y ago
I think that's referring to newer designs which fail-safe by using things like gravity so that the reaction automatically terminates in the event of failure.
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by blihp 8y ago
Thanks for the info... I wasn't aware that there was no means of propulsion on those. Oh well, it's not like that option would have been seriously considered if there was.
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by blihp 8y ago
I don't think you understood the joke.
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by blihp 8y ago
If the goal was truly to discourage the action, the obvious thing to do would have been to require the company to de-orbit, or otherwise forfeit the use of, the satellites. If the company had sufficient funding the message received would h
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by blihp 8y ago
It doesn't. The same type of solution could be provided today with a low cost PC/embedded system with a trivial amount of specialized hardware. The cost for a modern version of what they had (solving any major issues the old sys
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by blihp 8y ago
There's a world of difference between designing a chip for a range of customers (i.e. pre-Amazon acquisition) and designing a chip for one customer. So provided Amazon does a reasonably good job of managing the acquisition, this reall
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by blihp 8y ago
Because this is just their first generation of chips. Should Amazon stick with it, they will get better at it and costs will come down while performance goes up. This should scare Intel because they have been banking on the data center fo
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by blihp 8y ago
The problem is, as a debtor nation our currency is only good as long as we can make our debt payments. If we don't actually produce much of value, that won't be for much longer. We (the U.S.) are currently running an experiment
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by blihp 8y ago
No, it's not on multiple fronts. Copland failed internally before it ever hit the market (i.e. it was never generally released.) Sure, the NeXT acquisition was the final nail in the coffin for it, but it had failed long before that.
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by blihp 8y ago
There has been some good advice on how you can work on your social skills but that's only part of your problem. The other part of your problem is the type of customer you're dealing with. Sales/marketing folks are often hig
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by blihp 8y ago
Of course. But you can see three switches on the side of dev boards which would seem to indicate that this part of the plan hasn't changed. (yet)
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by blihp 8y ago
Sadly, I think you're right. Hopefully they manage to go with some sort of standardized (cheap and easy to replace) battery for the final product.
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by blihp 8y ago
Yes. You can see the switch on the side render here: https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/
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by blihp 8y ago
It always starts that way. In time, the legacy baggage that gets added will turn the noSQL databases into the same bloated monsters that the SQL databases have become. There was a time when many of the SQL database options were the (relat
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by blihp 8y ago
They are viewed as a 'safe' choice for enterprise customers in that they've been around forever, run on pretty much everything, and have product offerings that can tick off pretty much every vendor selection checkbox. They&#
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by blihp 8y ago
This always happens and the noSQL market will eventually consolidate / settle down to a handful of players just as the SQL market did.
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by blihp 8y ago
Even 10 years ago parts of it were more exclusive than today: you used to need to pay for the Executive membership to get the monthly coupons and other offers that all members can get now. I'm sure they crunched the numbers and realiz
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by blihp 8y ago
I think that's usually due to laws / regulations on alcohol sales.
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by blihp 8y ago
Another thing to remember about the 'old days' (80's and earlier) is that in addition to there being no public Internet for (most) people to hook into[1], was the expense of actually using the phone. Except for local calls (
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by blihp 8y ago
Presumably, that's why you still have at least level 1 support: make sure they are able to filter out the noise and get 'real' issues sent to level 2. (aggregation can be part of the filter for complaints/feature request
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by blihp 8y ago
You can't patent a dumb physical switch. That and the fact that the tech industry has moved so far away from even caring about users problems that it's now busy devising cool new solutions to the problems it created for them. Ser
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by blihp 8y ago
I suspect there was a little rope-a-dope going on on his part. Microsoft was less than a year in to turning their ship around ( https://www.wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/ ) to ride the Interne
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by blihp 8y ago
It's not about ensuring safety, it's about ensuring jurisdiction.
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by blihp 8y ago
Virtually all (esp. consumer) devices assume 'normal' atmospheric conditions with 'normal' temperature ranges and 'normal' humidity ranges. As you start to go outside those ranges, strange things can happen.
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by blihp 8y ago
You state that with an unwarranted degree of certainty. You're making the same argument, and mistake, that proponents of 'X is going to kill hard drives' have made for decades. There have been many 'this will be the dea
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by blihp 8y ago
In the same way that hard drives didn't kill off tape, SSD won't kill off hard drives. The price differential is too great for many applications and they have different operational strengths and weaknesses.
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by blihp 8y ago
Odd, it worked for me yesterday. I wonder if someone noticed a traffic spike on that URL and said 'hmm, that/those page(s) shouldn't still be there'

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