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by brisance 10y ago
>>Ya I wouldn't make the mistake of saying that it's the death-knell of the smart phone. I just think we'll be seeing a significant contraction of the market that has driven the insane profits apple has had for the past
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by brisance 10y ago
>Increasing their market share relative to android in any significant way seems incredibly unlikely to me at this point. As technology stagnates (as is happening with smart phones), the premium products lose cachet and the lower-end prod
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by brisance 10y ago
Apple is not even close to the #1 selling smartphone in China or India, both with the largest populations on Earth. So I don't follow why this is a bearish case for Apple. At the macro level, yes there are economic headwinds but compar
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by brisance 10y ago
Article is back up. He accidentally deleted his 9 years' worth of posts. https://twitter.com/gassee/status/732368830190620673
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by brisance 10y ago
No affiliation to Slash. Just a user but surprised that a tech-savvy crowd here could've missed it.
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by brisance 10y ago
Surprised that no one has mentioned Slash keyboard which has been out much longer and has more features. They even won Product Hunt product of the year. They also have an Android app. http://tapslash.com/
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by brisance 10y ago
>>The strangest thing to me is not that MySQL is more popular than Postgres, but that anyone uses Microsoft or Oracle at all. Not only do they cost a lot, but from a purely technical standpoint they are worse. A lot of decisions are m
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by brisance 10y ago
Not true. A company can definitely take itself private by using its own money. It's already happening when a company is buying back its shares. i.e. reduction in equity by using cash, one on each side of the balance sheet. The shares a
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by brisance 10y ago
Why not? If Apple's management and investors believe that the market is not pricing AAPL fairly, it makes perfect sense to go private.
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by brisance 10y ago
BitTorrent Sync has had a similar feature for a while now. http://help.getsync.com/hc/en-us/articles/204754669-What-is-...
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by brisance 10y ago
You know what is Apple's #2 source of revenue? Services, which was $6 billion. This was more than Facebook's Q1 revenue.
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by brisance 10y ago
Even with such results the iPhone sells much better than "1% of the industry's total revenue".
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by brisance 11y ago
Only problem is that a lot of research has been done that show that M&A deals typically leads to destruction of shareholder value. [1] http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2012-01-24/large-mergers... [2] http:&#
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by brisance 11y ago
Spotify isn't listed so any form of derivative contract is not standardized and is thus subject to liquidity and counterparty risks.
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by brisance 11y ago
But the FBI reports to Obama and Obama being an ex-law professor surely would've told them that their plan would be doomed to failure. Unless Obama wanted them to fail…?
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by brisance 11y ago
Considered in isolation, it isn't relevant. But the basis of this decision will serve as a precedent to get Apple to unlock a multitude of phones. And that's not Apple's business. Apple, or any other company, is not a branch
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by brisance 11y ago
Seems like the fix is in for Apple. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-26/apple-lose...
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Mathematica Online Now in Full Release(blog.wolfram.com)
3 points by brisance 11y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 11y ago
Before that Apple had to move from Motorola 68K ISA to PPC.
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by brisance 11y ago
The obvious way to make it reload is to quit and re-launch the app. What may seem insane to you may make perfect sense to someone else. Engineering is about tradeoffs after all. In this case I suppose they wanted the flexibility to vary the
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Study Reveals Forensic Facial Examiners Can Be Near Perfect(nist.gov)
9 points by brisance 11y ago|1 comments
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by brisance 11y ago
How is this not a bait-and-switch? And thus fail the implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose?
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by brisance 11y ago
Hold on. It seems that the other manufacturers don't have this problem.
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Chinese Cybercriminals Breached Google Play to Infect 'Up to 1M' Androids(forbes.com)
2 points by brisance 11y ago|0 comments
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NIST Physicists Show ‘Molecules’ Made of Light May Be Possible(nist.gov)
77 points by brisance 11y ago|17 comments
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Determining the Age of Fingerprints(nist.gov)
10 points by brisance 11y ago|0 comments
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by brisance 11y ago
Drove the 991 911 and it was very safe. Had all the electronics turned off and had to step on the throttle real hard to provoke it to slide on a skid pan. I was not really impressed with how it drove compared to my wife's E92 M3. The C
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by brisance 11y ago
Agreed. Another factor for the transition to water-cooled was because horsepower sells cars. Put simply it's thermodynamics: there's only so much heat an air-cooled engine can dissipate before it self-destructs.
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by brisance 11y ago
I might be missing something; isn't the machine named gopher but it is using HTTP to access it on port 70?
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by brisance 11y ago
Does this work with spoofed caller IDs?

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