bogomips

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by bogomips 16y ago
QuickTime is terribly obsolete, joining the ranks of products like RealPlayer. It has no reason to exist in the modern platform. http://www.apple.com/ipad/guided-tours/ On h264/Ogg/webM capable browsers, I'm told to download and install Q
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by bogomips 16y ago
it's also worth remembering that for google you are the product (clicks) as well as the customer. There aren't many exceptions to this. It is certainly true of Apple, where you are a consumer of their platform, and a conduit of their paym
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by bogomips 16y ago
Especially in the case you've brought up here. Microsoft's financial might in the 90's was all about strategic relationships, three dimensional chess and out-maneuvering their competition, definitely not creating value for users. Microsof
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by bogomips 16y ago
Apple makes massive profit margins by doing right by the customer (as they see it). Sure, and so does Microsoft. That argument works for any company. The problem is that many of Apple's transparent positions aren't held on their merit, bu
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by bogomips 16y ago
No silly holy wars or sanctimonious proclamations. I'm really torn trying to figure out which parts of your post is sarcasm. Because if you're really claiming that Apple hasn't pursued almost every initiative with "sanctimonious proclamat
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by bogomips 16y ago
? Not a fan of Flash, but video-playback is a very, very small part of the Flash platform (and even then it's often producer-friendly in the form of supporting extensive DRM for the illusion of content control), while it is virtually all of
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by bogomips 16y ago
I don't disagree with your observations about a pre-Gingerbread device, however it is remarkable how much 2.3 has improved. It is very competitive with the iPhone now from a spit and polish perspective, even on older hardware. So imagine th
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by bogomips 16y ago
In Sicily you fit perfectly in a category called "cowards" Weak. I read HN occasionally but haven't contributed in many months. I do pay attention to database theory / NoSQL stories, and I have noticed that you always appear always moving
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by bogomips 16y ago
While much is made about passwords being sent across the open net, almost every site short of banks allow you to reset a password with an email, which is a close to identical problem.
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by bogomips 16y ago
http://code.google.com/p/redis/ "Redis - A persistent key-value database" http://redis.io/ "Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store" I'm not sure what sort of extended commentary you expected about Redis - it isn't quite as im