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by cgranade 17y ago
I promoted this article not because I think that he's correct, but because I think this article is a brilliant example of a highly intelligent person getting something dead 180° wrong. Ebert is obviously quite intelligent, and a damn fine w
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by cgranade 17y ago
I agree wholeheartedly save for that I would have picked other examples for good suspenseful games, such as Silent Hill or Parasite Eve. More recently, I would add Heavy Rain to that list, though it's a completely different genre-- I've sel
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by cgranade 17y ago
Yes, and if your "ballot" had only had those two options, I would hope that you choose the former, as horrendous as it is. What's really objectionable, though, is that the political system in the US effectively presents you with a narrow se
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by cgranade 17y ago
No extensive footnoting is needed for saying that the sky is blue. The evidence of Palin's incompetence is easily available to anyone with an actual interest.
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by cgranade 17y ago
You almost had a point here, but your unfortunate choice of terms demonstrates a lot of what's wrong with US politics. Rather than referring to the pro-choice movement as such, you've adopted a label, pro-abortion, that is simply misleading
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's part of the whole motivation for mixed economic policies in the first place-- to correct market failures. Monopolies, trusts and other such anti-competitive behavior can undermine any good that comes out of the free market, to say no
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by cgranade 17y ago
In some sense, the shift in debate came as soon as DRM became acceptable to most people. Apple has capitalized on this shifted ground, to be sure, but I think that the iPad debates are reflective of a much more general struggle and debate.
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by cgranade 17y ago
I'm of very mixed minds about this idea, but I'm glad to see it being put out there for discussion and development. I kind of get the feeling that something like this will happen anyway, and so starting a dialogue now is a great idea.
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by cgranade 17y ago
It saddens me that so few PC manufacturers feel like challenging Apple on battery life.
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They should, or else they'll lose developers to a platform run by a company that does.
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by cgranade 17y ago
That may certainly be true, but what I was referring to is the behavior of Google as a whole company, under the influence of shareholders as well. I have a lot of respect for Page and Brin, and don't mean to malign them at all.
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by cgranade 17y ago
This cannot be emphasized enough-- Google does not want a future where their entire business model can be effectively turned off by another company. This is why they fight for openness in platforms, and for net neutrality. For Google, playi
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by cgranade 17y ago
If they actually had a coherent policy position to disagree with, that'd be one thing. I will happily be dismissive of a group that has no coherent stance on any issue. That's not being dismissive of disagreement, that's being dismissive of
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by cgranade 17y ago
Given that "teabaggers" is a moniker that the Tea Party adopted for themselves, it's not "tarring" anyone. Moreover, the Tea Party astroturf group clearly does not command anywhere near half of a country. I don't think that neonfunk in any
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by cgranade 17y ago
How is it good for users? The quality argument is bunk, and the net effect of these new rules is to restrict choice for developers. When developer choice is restricted, does that not also restrict choice for users?
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by cgranade 17y ago
This is a good demonstration of why the whole "private APIs" distinction is harmful. It allows Apple to continually be several steps ahead in application development, and it also makes the already capricious and arbitrary App Store approval
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by cgranade 17y ago
I hope this becomes an example for other companies in the future-- if you make your platform more closed than it needs to be, you will have things like custom firmwares, jailbreaking and other such attacks made by customers looking to utili
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by cgranade 17y ago
Hey, Figlet is an awesome library. I'm glad to see your work getting used!
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I agree, but that's a different problem. Consumers need to get angry with carriers and manufacturers that drop the device at the first sign of obsolescence. That carriers are jerks says nothing about the platform itself, but rather that Goo
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by cgranade 17y ago
I've tried replacing parts inside Apple devices before, and they're not built for that generally. Does Apple go so far as to embed "booby traps" like those seen in the PlayStation 2 which attempt to punish people who self-repair by breaking
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by cgranade 17y ago
No one is trying to say that it's anything like a religion. Rather, the statements being made are about the long-term effects on the consumer. For instance, we are getting scarily close to Stallman's Right To Read scenario. As long as close
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by cgranade 17y ago
I must second this. I use Locale on my ADP1 (better known as the G1), and it's one of the most impressive things I've ever seen on a phone. I never have to worry again with my cell going off in class, as it knows when my classes are and whe
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by cgranade 17y ago
Speaking as a happy Android Dev Phone 1 owner, yes, I have looked at the apps on the marketplace. No, it's not perfectly consistent, but it's rather damn good for the most part. Moreover, it's improving all the time as Google improves the n
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by cgranade 17y ago
As for the fabrication charge, that's at best an unfortunate choice of phrasing. His point is that when an iPad battery fails (it will-- all batteries do fail), you have no choice but to throw away the device or to send it back to Apple for
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by cgranade 17y ago
That's a rather tall claim-- what evidence has he omitted here, or more to the point, what data did he make up?
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I'm also looking forward to the momentum from the iPad giving courage to Google's hardware partners, but I wish that just once one of them would take the lead. Google has obviously been ready for tablets for a while what with Android's earl
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by cgranade 17y ago
If Doctrow sounds like a broken record, I can't hold it against him. These are points that need to be made repeatedly and loudly-- voices that oppose these kinds of closed platforms are sorely missing, by and large.
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by cgranade 17y ago
But there isn't an Eeebuntu box with multitouch input and other slick hardware features-- having open source software is a wonderful first step, but until non-Apple manufacturers start to realize that they really need to make damn good hard
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by cgranade 17y ago
It's not an April Fool Joke per se, but http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/april-fool/ has to be the funniest thing I've seen in quite a few Aprils.

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