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by bsphil 14y ago
Also, the evolution time of tech is remarkably fast. 10-20 years (I'm not sure how long these patents are valid) is an incredibly long time in computing to hold a patent on a small feature. Look at where tech devices/interfaces were 20 ye
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by bsphil 14y ago
The actual case covered far more phones than this ban list, they seem to only be interested in banning the top selling phones. Though that'll just drive more sales to the Galaxy S3, I assume.
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by bsphil 14y ago
>low quality high volume manufacturer Wait til you find out that Samsung is one of Apple's main suppliers for the parts of the iPhone, you're gonna feel so silly.
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by bsphil 14y ago
>Alexia's articles are so consistently pure garbage. It was even posted to HN by Garbage!
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by bsphil 14y ago
>Siri like technology belongs in all cars And it won't if Apple's lawyers have any say in the matter.
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by bsphil 14y ago
I think the point was that when women played games more, that didn't result in an additional problem or conflict in the relationship.
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by bsphil 14y ago
I think you'd be surprised at how many people don't want to shoulder that risk.
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by bsphil 14y ago
Try not to lose perspective of the less technically inclined end-users. We might not be the target audience of an article like this, but perhaps the layperson surfing the Internet wouldn't realize how relatively dangerous browsing a religi
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by bsphil 14y ago
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge [...]" - Charles Darwin One of my favorite quotes.
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by bsphil 14y ago
The more you know, the more you realize you don't know. That would be a great book though.
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by bsphil 14y ago
>live in New York City MYSTERY SOLVED. Of course you don't want to own a car in NYC.
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by bsphil 14y ago
>If you can afford little, you might as well have as much fun as you can, especially if your prospects for making more money in the near future aren't that good. Not enough people understand this concept, and it's been documented from a
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by bsphil 14y ago
What annoys me the most about DLC is the cost relative to the value added. $5 DLC for a $50 game is adding another 10% of the base cost of the game itself, but you don't add remotely that much enjoyment/value/playtime.
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by bsphil 14y ago
I like the Costco free sample comparison, haven't thought of it that way before.
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by bsphil 14y ago
Sorry, wasn't able to find that from the original link. I take back my last comment. I guess it boils down to how many of those pirates you think were ever potential customers. Assuming piracy was theoretically impossible, how many would'
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by bsphil 14y ago
Which is also a completely unsourced number.
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by bsphil 14y ago
Aside from the number being pulled from their asses, Ubisoft is continuously one of the worst publishers in terms of utilizing harsh DRM. I wouldn't be shocked that people go out of their way to pirate Ubisoft games. I know I haven't bough
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by bsphil 14y ago
It's intuitive because of the rooting reflex.
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by bsphil 14y ago
I did. It serves me very well on my Windows machine.
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by bsphil 14y ago
I run a Linux VM in Windows on my desktop actually, but it's my gaming machine too. Last time I gave it a shot as a full install, I couldn't for the life of me get a brand new USB wifi adapter to work in Ubuntu. All the searching on the t
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by bsphil 14y ago
No youtube video is worth that amount of time and energy. EDIT: That's probably why I can't convince myself to put Linux on my desktop as the primary OS. I just don't want to take the time to compile github scripts or scour the Internet f
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by bsphil 14y ago
That's almost exclusively what people actually use Bitcoins for, outside of Silk Road stuff. There are so few BTC stores that it's hard to justify the value of it as a currency. It's like having a wallet filled with $100 bills at a row of
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by bsphil 14y ago
As someone who doesn't really fit into HN (not really interested in startups, but like web design/development), I'd have to agree with the overall assertion. It feels a lot like an echo chamber, and I find myself often thinking "the rest o
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by bsphil 14y ago
Those... really don't look as close as you seem to think. Certainly not carbon copies.
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by bsphil 14y ago
>You know what I do during my lunch time? Trying to re-prove Fermat's Last Theorem The people who are genuinely interested in math would still be doing that. We've tried teaching computation but the retention rate just isn't there, and
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by bsphil 14y ago
>A system where pieces of data don't have unique identifier is going to be serious drag at some point Reminds me of trying to organize/tag my mp3 library. Those fringe cases of imperfect tagging get so cumbersome to manage. Also, with
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by bsphil 14y ago
How would this file system work for the non-technical user? I'm sure there will be plenty more people chiming in on the inefficiency and inferiority of the folder structure, but how about the average user? Genuinely curious. The more I th
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by bsphil 14y ago
No. Metro is just an interface. Curious, how would an OS work with no folders? All the system files just have a "system" tag? Personally, I've learned folders. Now I have trouble thinking about a filesystem that wouldn't have them. How
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by bsphil 14y ago
It's either Google the MAFIAA. Neither are great choices. Hopefully this cuts into the number of bogus claims made?
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by bsphil 14y ago
As a dirty non-vim-using heathen trying to correct the error of my ways, I'm having trouble adjusting. Is there a good reason to use hjkl for moving the cursor that I'm not aware of by virtue of knowing nothing else? Why not jkl; or ijkl?

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